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Rebels in Syria take border villages near Israel-held areas

Posted: Nov 15, 2012

By Tia Goldenberg

| ASSOCIATED PRESS

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

ARIEL SCHALIT/AP PHOTO

A UN armored vehicle drove toward the Syrian village of Bariqa, close the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights Nov. 13.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Syrian rebels control almost all the villages near the frontier with the Israel-held Golan Heights, the Israeli defense minister said Wednesday, bringing the conflict dangerously close to the Jewish state and raising the possibility of an armed clash with the region’s strongest power.

During a tour of the Golan Heights, Defense Minister Ehud Barak gave a scathing assessment of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and said Israel will remain ‘‘vigilant and alert.’’

‘‘Almost all of the villages, from the foot of this ridge to the very top, are already in the hands of the Syrian rebels,’’ said Barak, who was accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ‘‘The Syrian army is displaying ever-diminishing efficiency.’’

The civil war in Syria has renewed tensions over the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in 1967. Despite hostility between the two countries, Syria has been careful to keep the border quiet since the 1973 Mideast war.

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