(Ha'aretz) Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel - The protesters across the Syrian border last Sunday had raised the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Escalating clashes like those that occurred this week on the Golan are warm-ups for the main event in September. Unlike what happened on May 15, the IDF Northern Command was well prepared and prevented a mass infiltration of the border. The international media hardly devoted a day to the events, despite the fact that 22 people were killed on Sunday. Compared with the 300 people who were killed in Syria itself last week alone, the number does not seem as dramatic. On the Syrian side of the border, residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp have accused Palestinian faction heads of leading their sons to slaughter at the hands of the IDF in order to serve Assad's interests. When Ahmad Jibril, the leader of the PFLP-GC, arrived at the camp, he was attacked by an angry mob, and his bodyguards immediately opened fire. 14 Palestinians were thus killed by Palestinian gunfire, as part of a disagreement about a clash with Israel.
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