Tuesday, September 14, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Michael J. Totten: Above the Killing Fields of the Galilee - 'Before the Six Day War in June of 1967, the Syrian army built fortified bunkers on the ridge of the Golan Heights and fired sniper rifles, mortars, and artillery cannons at Israeli civilians below. The cities, farms, and kibbutzim on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and in the wider region around it, were perilous places to live or even to visit when Syria commanded those heights. "If they saw tractors down there," Hadar Sela said after leading me to one of the bunkers, "or anything moving at all--even a child walking to the store to get milk--they opened fire. There were bunkers like this along the entire ridge of the Golan." Israelis control the ridge now, and they have since they seized it in 1967 during the war against the combined Arab armies of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. "Syria lost it fair and square," she said...'