Assad paid Syrian protesters $1,000 each
Sorry it took me so long to get back online. I landed about six hours ago, and have been busy ever since with unpacking and things like that.Syrian opposition groups say that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad paid 'protesters' $1,000 each to 'protest' at Israel's borders. To put that in perspective, the average Syrian earned $242 per month in 2009. So Assad was offering more than four months' salary (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
Demonstrators along the Syria-Israel border were paid thousands of dollars by President Bashar Assad's regime to take part in Sunday's riots, Syrian opposition activists charge.The most interesting thing about this is that the source of the story is the Syrian opposition. Maybe they're hoping that Israel will help them out. Hmmm.
Israeli officials later reinforced the claims, accusing the Syrian regime of encouraging protests along the northern border.
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Washington-based members of the Reform Party of Syria said intelligence sources close to the Syrian government in Lebanon informed them that the protesters on the Syrian side of the Druze community of Majdal Shams were in fact poverty-stricken farmers paid by the Assad regime.
According to the sources, the farmers migrated over the last few years from drought-stricken northeast Syria to the south. They reached the Israel-Syria border on Sunday in the aims of reenact "Nakba Day" events, the sources said.
The Syrian opposition group claimed that each farmer was promised $1,000 for showing up at the rally and $10,000 to their families if they are killed by IDF fire.
According to the report, the average salary of a Syrian citizen is about $200 per month, meaning that participation in Sunday's demonstration could provide a protester and his family with five months worth of financial relief.
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Opposition activists noted that such tactics were previously used by Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein when the Ba'ath Party leader offered a $25,000 reward to the families of Palestinians who died while hurling stones at Israelis during the Intifada.
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The opposition group stressed that while it believes that the Golan Heights belong to Syria, it wishes to return the land through peaceful negotiations.
"If Assad really wanted the Golan Heights, he would walk the same peaceful path Anwar Sadat walked long before him," the group said in a statement.
By the way, Israel Radio reports this morning that the Golan Heights is a closed military zone and that only residents are being allowed to enter. if that continues, it will kill the tourist trade here this summer.
Labels: Golan Heights, Majdal Shams, Syrian border breach
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:43 AM
8 Comments:
Hmmm. So I think we need a vocab revision. A "protestor", paid 4 mos salary for one day's work, plus the "suicide by law enforcement" life insurance policy... that makes them members of the Syrian military, not hippie dippy "protestors". So, according to the Geneva conventions, which Israel is clubbed with incessantly, military people are supposed to wear identifiable uniforms in order for the "rules of war" to be implemented. So the whole thing is a warcrime on Syria's part.
Because, when you get right down to it, what are these "protestors" and the ones in Egypt protesting? They are fighting for the right to get into positions where they can kill Jews! The inalienable human right that they are fighting for is the right to do what was done to the Fogel's on a grander scale. "Protestors"? No. That sounds like nice people, which these are not.
it dos not change the fact that these farmers like you said had no weapons on them and the Geneva convention you are talking about forbids shooting live ammunition at unarmed civilians. Bottom line Israel was a terrorist state and will always be as long as the international community falls for the propaganda that if you say something wrong about Israel you are antisemitic. Not EVERY JEW IS ISRAELI AND ISRAEL DOES NOT REPRESENT MY RELIGION. It represent the interest of the Zionist and he states behind them.
Hope it was worth it, Syrians.
Thanks for dropping by. Come again!
Yes, the goal of the Al Nasqa campaign is to reverse the outcome of the June 1967 war when, on the Syrian front, Israel took the Golan and, existentially, Israel survived.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/06/syria-there-is-no-place-for-israel-in-our-natural-future/#more-756845
If the "protestors" had carried AK47s out in the open, ah, then they would have been called "activists".
The media has reported that Lebanon and Jordan are preventing people from storming the Israeli border. But is the simple truth just that they're not paying them?
BTW, Brocker is incorrect about the GC not allowing the shooting of unarmed civilians breaching the sovereignty of another nation.
Incorrect about what my friend?
Protocol 1
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Article 49:
The provisions of this Protocol with respect to attacks apply to all attacks in whatever territory conducted, including the national territory belonging to a Party to the conflict but under the control of an adverse Party.
Article 51
.....The civilian population and individual civilians shall enjoy general protection against dangers arising from military operations. To give effect to this protection, the following rules, which are additional to other applicable rules of international law, shall be observed in all circumstances.
The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.
Attacks against the civilian population or civilians by way of reprisals are prohibited.
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anyway its too long for me to copy and past in a comment. in a nutshell if an illegal alien is in you territory, and has no weapons you can't shoot him, you either send him back to his country or send him to the court. Suprised that Israel is a terrorist state? try saying that it's no a jewish state while you are their, they have passed a law that makes this a criminal offense. oh and one more thing, have you heard of the global peace index?. Israel was ranked 145 out of 153 you tell us how how could they be any worst.
Thank you for that valuable information, Brocker.
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