Aaron Cantú visits Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights and interviews Wael Tarabieh, who led a cultural center that became a center of local support for the Syrian revolution in 2011, and Kamara Abu Saleh, who works at the anti-occupation human rights group Al-Marsad. They discuss the changing understandings of Druze identity in Israel and the impact of the Syrian civil war on the Golan Heights.
Syria will not be stabilized, and ISIS will not be defeated, until Israel returns the Golan Heights and refugees are resettled on their lands
New York Times reporter Jodi Rudoren neglects to explain the Golan Heights are occupied territory in a story about Israel shooting down a Syrian fighter jet.
Jim Lobe reports at InterPress on another provocation from Israel, in league with American rightwingers.…
Immediately after the Israeli military reportedly killed a number of unarmed demonstrators in the occupied-Golan…