Israel Anxiously Monitors Protests In Syria

from National Public Radio
May 18, 2011

Over the weekend, Syria gave Israel reason to worry. Palestinians inside Syria appeared near the border of the Golan Heights, which is Israeli-held territory. Israeli troops fired on protesters trying to cross the line into Israel. Moshe Ma'oz, a Middle East scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, talks to Steve Inskeep about how Israelis are interpreting this incident.

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