Syria seen stoking Golan unrest to mask crackdown
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DUBAI — Syria has tried to deflect attention from two months of protests threatening its autocratic regime by stoking protests that have breached its long-quiet border with Israel, analysts said.
Thousands of people on Sunday rallied on Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the Gaza Strip and West Bank to mark the anniversary of the Jewish state’s creation in 1948, known in Arabic as “Nakba” or “catastrophe.”
Hundreds of protesters from Syria entered the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, prompting a volley of fire from the Israeli army that left four people dead and hundreds injured, Syria’s official SANA news agency said.
It was one of the most violent incidents since Israel and Syria signed an armistice in 1974..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110518com6.html
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