(Hudson Institute-New York) Khaled Abu Toameh - Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is now trying to direct the heat toward Israel. Facing growing protests in his country, Assad has decided to send Palestinians living in Syria to march on the border with Israel, even if that means that some of them could get killed or wounded by land mines or gunfire. Assad, of course, has never cared about the Palestinians. Assad wants the international community and media to focus their attention on the Israel-Syria border and not on the daily massacres that his regime has been perpetrating against Syrians.
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