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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.668299
American Hostage Held in Syria: Nusra Front Vows to Capture the Golan Heights
(Ha'aretz) Danna Harman - Theo Padnos, 46, an American writer and reporter, was handed over to UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights by the Nusra Front after nearly two years in captivity in Syria, charged with spying. Padnos found that while his captors proclaimed hatred for Israel and the Jews, that was nothing compared to their hatred for Assad and his supporters. They would tell Padnos: "Go back to America and tell them we have something worse than the Jews here." "They were always telling me, 'We could attack Israel. We could take care of them now. But Israel is for later. We need to concentrate on Bashar.'...One of the big Nusra chants is: 'Oh Bashar, oh you coward, we want to go to the Golan!'" Of course, Padnos notes, capturing the Golan is just a start. "As they see it, this whole country, all the way to the sea, belongs to the Palestinians - the Arabs."