Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Sorry there Adrian , are you trying to say that the shelling starting in '64 was not directed at workers on the water scheme ?
The 'water scheme' was designed to stop the Israelis setting up irrigation on their side of the demilitarised zone by diverting the river, nothing more. Adrian is correct. The Syrians would fire at farmers, their homes and farms on a daily basis. There were violations, and sometimes the Israelis would provoke the Syrians into shooting by having the farmers go out into the demilitarised zone, but the Syrians are not the puppy-kissing blameless virgins you try to make them out to be.

Check out "Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East" by Jeremy Bowen, it's pretty good.