Syria and Hezbollah paid the locals to infiltrate Israel’s borders

Syrian rioters try to cut the Israeli border fence

These two bastions of international justice and mercy have so much confidence in their ideology that they had to bribe the local residents to protest and invade Israel’s borders, both on “Naqba Day” 3 weeks ago, and yesterday on “Naqsa Day”.

Elder of Ziyon reports that the information came, astonishingly, from that famed Zionist organ, the Guardian. (Now how did I miss that?)

The village of Maroun al-Ras was the scene of widespread violence on 15 May when up to 10 demonstrators were shot dead as they rallied near the fence that separates Lebanon and Israel. Up to 1,000 demonstrators arrived at the area in buses to mark “Nakba day”, the Palestinian name for the day Israel was formed in 1948.

One demonstrator who was wounded that day told the Guardian the Lebanese militia Hezbollah had given him $50 to turn up at the border and $900 to have his gunshot wounds treated by physicians. He said he had been planning to return to Maroun al-Ras yesterday until the rally was cancelled.

Now why did they sit on this news for almost 4 weeks?

CiFWatch reports (via the Reform Party of Syria) that

The Reform Party of Syria has learned today, from intelligence sources close to the Assad regime in Lebanon, that Syrians storming through the Golan Height next to the Quneitra crossing are Syrian farmers who have migrated in recent years from the drought-stricken northeast Syria to the south. Estimates put the number at 250,000 impoverished migrants.

Information received cite the regime has paid hundreds of these farmers $1,000 each to show-up and $10,000 to their families should any of them succumb to Israeli fire. In Syria, an average salary is about $200 a month and to these impoverished farmers, such a one-time sum can keep them economically afloat for six months.

Such a tactic was used in the past by another defunct Ba’ath Party in Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, to pay Intifada-driven Palestinians the sum of $25,000 to their next-of-kin should they die throwing stones. That measure had a worldwide impact and it seems the Assad regime is using the same play from a twin playbook.

It’s funny that in the eyes of the Guardian and other like-minded “progressives”, The Reform Party of Syria are the great heroes of the Syrian uprising (and so they are) – but when their opinion comes to defend Israel all you hear is silence.

However, I must give credit where it is due. In that same Guardian article they do quote analysts who give at least the benefit of the doubt to Israel and question the Assad regime’s motives:

But as the Syrian government’s brutal crackdown on protests show, protesters are only allowed to gather when the state allows them. The Golan area of Syria is off-limits without state permission.

Analysts in Damascus say that while Israel may be culpable for opening fire, they view events on both days as deliberate antagonism of Israel by the Syrian regime. Rami Makhlouf, the president’s cousin and a member of the regime’s inner circle, last month told the New York Times: “If there is no stability here, there’s no way there will be stability in Israel.”

“There is no question the regime organised this to say it’s us or chaos,” Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist in exile in the US, said. One Syrian activist tweeted: “So Bashar sends army and tanks to crush peaceful protests, and sends a few dozen Palestinian refugees to liberate the Golan?”