Israel Today:  The mass Arab march on Israeli borders scheduled for Sunday was largely a dud, but nearly two dozen Syrians were reportedly killed while trying to infiltrate the Golan Heights, reported Syrian media.  It was apparently more difficult than expected to convince the Arab masses to gather and assault Israel's borders.  According to the Syrian opposition, the regime in Damascus paid poor farmers $1,000 to cross into Israeli territory and harass the Israeli army.  Any who were killed in the stunt were promised $25,000 to their families.  The Reform Party of Syria wrote on its official website that Syrian farmers make less than $200 a month, so many were tempted by the offer.  And if Syrian government media is to be believed, at least 23 paid with their lives for accepting the bribe.  Israeli army officials noted that very few of the Syrian demonstrators were actually injured or killed by Israeli gunfire and most were the victims of the minefields stretching along the border region.  The minefields are clearly marked.  The Reform Party of Syria was furious with the regime of dictator Bashar Assad for sending the poor farmers to their deaths and accused the government of trying to create a diversion to take international focus off of the bloody pro-democracy uprising taking place in Syria.  Thousands of Syrians demanding democratic freedoms have been massacred by government forces.  
 


 
 My Comments:  Syria is one of the Arab nations that Barack Obama and leaders of the other G8 nations want to give $40 billion dollars to; yes $40 billion.  Okay, this is the way it is: America is bankrupt and our president wants to pitch in to help give $40 billion dollars to Syria and other Arab nations that are terrorizing Israel (and who want to terrorize America).  I suppose they figure the governments need help passing out those 1-25K bonuses to the poor impoverished people in those countries willing to give their very lives to terrorize the people they hate, Israel (America too, if they get the chance).