"Syrian media sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Sunday 24 protesters who gathered on the Syrian side of the border of the Israeli occupied Golan Heights marking the Naksa Day, while at least 350 were injured.
Thousands of Palestinian refugees and supporters marched near the border marking the Naksa, the day Israel the illegally arrested the rest of Palestine in 1967.
The protesters were demanding their right to return to their homeland when the Israeli forces opened fire at them. At least eight of the wounded are in serious conditions." Salem News
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The original source for the news in this story appears to be the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency." (JTA)
It has to be noted that the Syrian government has killed at least 1,500 Syrians in its current campaign of repression
Nevertheless, the willingness of Bibi's government to have its infantry use ball ammunition against unarmed Palestinian marchers is reprehensible. They are climbing the Golan border fences? OK Round them up and send them back at the Quneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. 22 killed? Maybe.
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"At a march organized by a number of Israeli center-left groups, around 5,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Tel Aviv Saturday night calling for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
Participants in the march and rally included non-governmental organizations Peace Now and Gush Shalom, and political parties Meretz, Labor and the Derech faction of the Kadima party." Salem News
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This is the bigger story. 5,000? Really? What will the Israeli government do if this happens again? Will they use the gray uniformed Border Police. This force is heavily Druze. They are often used against Palestinian demonstrators since this Arabic speaking minority does not identify with the other Palestinians and does not hesitate to beat and shoot them. pl
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june062011/palestine-uprising.php
I have always wondered this: in the past 50 years, who killed more Americans -- the PLO or the Israelis?
Posted by: charlie | 06 June 2011 at 11:53 AM
Does the USA haveany credibility with the Palestinians?
What is their exact population?
What is USA aslyum policy on Palestinians?
Posted by: William R. Cumming | 06 June 2011 at 12:23 PM
charlie,
that one is easy, the Israelis have killed (murdered) more Americans than the Palestinians ever thought of. what is not ordinarily 'included' in the Israeli murdered Americans are the Beirut barracks bombing where the Israeli mossad intentionally withheld the critical intel of the impending truck bombing, the intel was withheld on the direct orders of the head of the mossad at the time. Israel's murder of the USS Liberty crew-members coupled with their murder of the u.s. military personnel in the Beirut barracks bombing, coupled with other Americans murdered by the idf etc. (don't forget their latest assassination their cold-blooded murder of a 19yr old American kid on the Gaza flotilla).
Posted by: J | 06 June 2011 at 01:13 PM
This force is heavily Druze. They are often used against Palestinian demonstrators since this Arabic speaking minority does not identify with the other Palestinians and does not hesitate to beat and shoot them. pl
Could it just possibly be, that your"Noble Palestians"would do the exact same thing to the Druze, if the shoe were on the other foot?
I imagine the Druze are fully cognizant of Palestinian feelings.
Posted by: highlander | 06 June 2011 at 02:32 PM
highlander
I never said the Palestinians were "noble." The Druze in geographi Palestine opted for full Israeli citizenship in 1948 as did the two villages of Chechens. They did that because they had been imported to the area by the Ottomans to use against the people we now call Palestinians and there has never been a friendly relationship among these groups. I will say again that I have no interest in any of thse groups including the Israeli Jews except as they affect the US. pl pl
Posted by: Patrick Lang | 06 June 2011 at 02:38 PM
WRC,
Why should the US accept asylum for Palestinean refugees - from a land they lived in for centuries that has been taken over by Israel?
Posted by: Fred | 06 June 2011 at 03:49 PM
Fred! Good question! My question, however, dealt with US policy position not its merits!
Posted by: William R. Cumming | 06 June 2011 at 07:26 PM
I know a Palestinian in the US whose 13-year student visa has gone bad because she can't pay her school bills. She is from Haifa. So Israel has revoked her citizenship since she has been gone for 7 years and I guess she is stateless. I am curious as to where we would possibly deport her to?
Posted by: Mary | 06 June 2011 at 07:31 PM
Pat: I know you spent some time in Turkey and have an cultural, military, and political interest in the entire middle east. Would you offer your opinion on Turkey's interests in the recent Syrian unrest. Thanks
Bill Roche
Posted by: bill roche | 09 June 2011 at 08:47 PM
bill R.
IMO the Turks would like to see the present government replaced by a multi-party parliamentary form. The Assad governments have made a habit of causing trouble in Turkey by encouraging dissident Kurds. the Turks have long memories. Should the opportunity arise in a collapsed Syria for border "adjustments, that would be considered. pl
Posted by: Patrick Lang | 10 June 2011 at 08:05 AM
listen to what Assad has to say about his government & Syria
2006: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/484
2010:
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11029
Posted by: Fiorangela | 10 June 2011 at 08:45 AM