‘NYT’ grants Israel the occupied Golan (and paragraph 3, to say, We shot at their feet)

Beginning with its headline saying that Israel clashed with protesters on the “Syrian border,” New York Times coverage of the protest in the occupied Golan Heights today refuses to describe the territory as occupied. No, Israel captured it in 1967, it is “Israeli-controlled.” And the border between the Golan and the rest of Syria is described–by Israeli reporter Isabel Kershner–as the Syrian border, and from the west, the same border is described as the Israeli border. The piece also grants prominence to an Israeli government spokesperson who gets the third paragraph to explain that Israelis had no choice but to fire at the protesters’ feet. But as Kershner herself reports, Syrian sources say that at least two were shot in head and chest. And accounts say a couple of hundred were wounded. Why credit the claim, We shot at their feet?