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War voyeurs: Israeli tourists watch Syria battles from safe distance (PHOTOS)

July 25, 2012 15:00

Armed with binoculars and cameras, tourists in Israel are flocking to the Golan Heights in the hope of seeing the bloody conflict in neighboring Syria, sparking a trend among tour operators.

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Yerpaherp (unregistered) 18.11.2012 01:20

Most of the comments on here are disgusting, I have to say. There is no such thing as Zionist 'filth', Jewish 'filth', Muslim 'filth', Palestinian 'filth' or anything like that. All these people are just people and are as good or bad as anyone else. Seriously, criticise Israel's military and political actions all you want (and I'd say you should because there's a lot to criticise), but saying stuff like Israelis are Satan worshippers is absurd and gets us nowhere. Most of these people are just regular folks trying to get on with their lives, same goes for Muslims, Palestinians, Syrians, whatever. Learn that all people deserve respect and love. Hate is just stupid.

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Sixgun_Symphony (unregistered) 12.11.2012 12:30

Isaac Galili (unregistered) wrote in #6
This article is absurd and offensive.  As a resident of northern Israel, I am not a tourist if I take a half hour drive to the Syrian border to see what is happening just a few miles from my house.  This is not "voyeurism" or a substitute for "whale watching."  It is a recognition that somehow what is happening nearby could somehow get us caught up in a war, with our sons and daughters in the front line of combat.  RT should be ashamed of itself for its sucker punch Israel bashing.

Shut your kyke hole you f_cking coward. Enjoy your handiwork while you can still sit on your hands. It's a fact that the jihaddists are done there but expect to pay a price for your involvement.
Don' t think blaming it on Satanyajoo is going to help you avoid it either.

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Isaac Galili (unregistered) 04.08.2012 17:11

This article is absurd and offensive.  As a resident of northern Israel, I am not a tourist if I take a half hour drive to the Syrian border to see what is happening just a few miles from my house.  This is not "voyeurism" or a substitute for "whale watching."  It is a recognition that somehow what is happening nearby could somehow get us caught up in a war, with our sons and daughters in the front line of combat.  RT should be ashamed of itself for its sucker punch Israel bashing.

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RayTay (unregistered) 30.07.2012 03:50

"the" Syrians, "the" British, "the" Jews, "the" Americans, "the" Muslims, ... these are all the same. Labels. Labels designed to control how we feel. Labels designed to bring out fear and hatred.  They are all people who are being kept fighting using the old ideas of skin colour, and differences in how we fall down to the stories of our fathers about imaginary old men in the sky.Luckily, our great-grandchildren will know these labels have no power; our great-grandchildren will know that we are all people; our great-grandchildren will live in peace because they won't fear, they won't hate.  They will have already removed the leaders of their country because they are the ones who lie with these labels.If you want to hate, hate the leader of your country: they are the one who is lying to you.And don't let your children hate other people!

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One Eye Jacked (unregistered) 30.07.2012 02:39

Norway (unregistered) wrote in #3
Israel is at no threat from the crisis in Syria. Syria itself has never been a problem for Israel. Syria isn't strong enough to take on the powerful IDF) And if they try anytime soon they will loose another war like, 48, 67, 73 and 82'!  Please don't insult the Israelis and or the Syrians intelligence! There is not a threat unless the Big Powers decides. The Germans were at no  threat from the Jews (remember) . The Jews weren't strong enough to take on the powerful Werchmacht! And sadly when they try (in Varsovia)  , it was a massacre! So don't spread the same Western Interests that today favour one country against the others. Wind always change directions, we agree ? So today, those who profits from the "Room with a View" on the  sufferance of other Human Beings might  enjoy the touristic bad image of the  Syrian Conflict but the israeli people instead  go home  and pray God that it's not happening to them or their relatives! 1948 war was a British Betrayal... 1967 was a good honest war (?) in the old fashion battle won by the Israelis... 1973 was a close call and avoided the use of Nuclear Arms (!?)... And 1982 was a false victory of Afghanistan style , where a lot of life were lost, specially on the Palestinians side which w'll try to avoid the disturbing details... Today it's a little bit different... now you'r are challenging, directly the Russians and the hall World , and this is very dangerous , because after that there is no where to hide...

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Brazilian Self-Appointed Pathologist (unregistered) 29.07.2012 22:00

This MUST be PTSD ! These people need psychological HELP, they must be diagnosed, confronted and treated for their own sake !  These people have serious pathological condition and they neeed our helkp for our sake as well as theirs ! Alll peoples in such conditions too .  Particularly their victims .  I wish i could fund a palestinian and a Zionist child and leave that land empty for centuries .  The children could become happy, non-mimitarized healed-by-the-tropic s party-going humans I am sure .  Militarized livez are no lives, they are pathology .  Only professional military people should exist .  The least possible for the own sake of the families of the professional military, never an entire country .  Let alone an entire people´s mind-set.

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Liberate 29.07.2012 11:56

Barry (unregistered) wrote in #14 you Jew haters are amazing. the people shown here are all Druze, not Jews. If you are going to hate Jews, hate them for the right reasons: they made your parents not love you; they made you lose your job; they made your spouse leave you; they caused your business to fail. but please, leave the poor Druze alone. Yes I am a Jew hater, not for any of the reasons you spuoted above, no I hate Jews because the have become the modern day Natzi's. They have become the most secular and selfish people on the planet, still assuming the world own them a debt of gratitude forever. They have corrupted western goverments into supporting their ethnic cleansing of the Palastinian people through starvation and contaminating their water supplies.Their armed malitia daily abuse innocent Palastinians at daily check points. Before any of comment on my background I will give you a few clues. 1) I am not Muslim or a Muslim sympathiser. 2)I Live in UK and within a large Jewish community and see for myself how these Jews refuse to support local buisnesses in the community by never buying from the local shops.They are a total discrace as a race of people.3)Just one more point for the Jews to think about, if Jesus was the "King of the Jews" before his crucifiction,how come when he came back to earth he became a Christian?..says it all you Evil scum!!!!

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Let's_See (unregistered) 28.07.2012 18:29

Let's see Bi Bi Netanhayu swinging on the end of a rope.
That would be the real thing to watch.

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Baz (unregistered) 28.07.2012 18:13

Disgusting.

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ross (unregistered) 28.07.2012 15:10

bob (unregistered) wrote in #19
Soon they won't need binoculars.
H opefully the world needs to use a telescope to see alien-conflicts one day.

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bob (unregistered) 28.07.2012 13:34

Soon they won't need binoculars.

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tricky (unregistered) 28.07.2012 11:54

Well this sums up their decaying society quite well.

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Aryan (unregistered) 28.07.2012 11:37

@Nick
You can't demand of them to listen to you,as some people have been conditioned through years of listening and watching misinformation,aired by CNN,Fox,BBC and such.A great leader once said the followings; Our world is overpopulated by the misguided and one should not expect all to see the light or hear the truth.Facts of life.You do your bit by informing and educating them,but be careful,not to dictate nor demand.Once eyes opened on their own and in their own time,then they will remain open for life.Dr Ahmadinejad.(2008-Te hran Uni)

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phukzionterrorists (unregistered) 28.07.2012 10:51

If Israeli's want to see this kind of stuff, why don't they just go to the ghettos they have stuffed the Palestinians in?

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Nick (unregistered) 28.07.2012 07:45

                                TO ALL AT RT

You don't get off lightly either, you have a responsibility to all of us, to start to see some sense.
Instead of playing one side against another, start to bring us all together; fail in this and you will loose all for good.
Succeed in this and you will gain millions!

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Nick (unregistered) 28.07.2012 07:40

Wait and think for a minute about yourself, before you make a big mistake. This is to all posters.

I watched three satellite channels during the gulf war, I couldn't get enough of the damn war. I am sure you all did the same and most probably would do the same if (God forbid) it happened again. Would you go out with your binoculars if it was only a few miles away? I am sure that in those days I would have done.
Sure would be nice to stop war altogether, but we will never do that with our silly governments in charge, and that includes every single one.
This is what we have to fight, not each other!

It is governments who want us to reduce our numbers as 'useless eaters', ordinary people can live side by side with each other in peace with no problems for years.

                        May your day be sunny ;-)

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Johnny (unregistered) 28.07.2012 07:34

Re: Paying Attention (unregistered) July 26, 2012, 09:39
A very good comment. I learned that fact just a few years ago. In swedish school I only learned that Hitler was crazy and hated the jews for no reason at all because. Not only did the Jews declare war on Germany on March 24 1933, on November 7 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat (right), five times. That event triggered The Kristllnacht when 91 Jews were murdered, 26000 arrested and 177 synagogues were destryed.
The "Holycaust" religion has two purposes, one to create guilt among Gentiles and another to create unity among the Jews so there political leaders are needed to protect them. That is how I understands it.

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Damascus (unregistered) 26.07.2012 05:40

silly anti Israel ignorance... (unregistered) wrote in #17
pre 1967, if you were born in the west bank you were Jordanian, which is the country that ruled that area, and if you were born in the gaza strip, you were Egpytian, which is the country that ruled that area, only after both countries suffered humiliating defeats in a offensive war did the local arabs start referring to themselves as "palestinians", led by Arafat(born in Egpyt) and the group he created the PLO(created by the KGB). There is no difference between a Egyptian, jordanian or a palestinan, it's simply used as a weapon against Israel.

Y ou're actually stupid if you believe that. Who were the natives Isreali's expelled from their land when they came from Europe? They were natives of Palestine that people from Europe feel were a problem for their colonial dreams of establishing a country. Do me a favour look at the map of the Middle East. Does it make sense that Europeans are surrounded by Arab countries? Was one country always so different from its neighbours. A blind man could see that Palestinians are native to this land.

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