The Golan Heights - Valley of Tears

As part of my best class this semester, "Middle East: Coexistence and Rapproachement," our Professor took us on a field trip to the Golan Heights, but not in the usual "taste the wine and stay far away from the borders" sense of a school trip. No sir, not us; we definitely drove to the Israeli-Jordanian, Israeli-Syrian, and Israeli-Lebanese borders all in one day, while at the same time seeing everything else in between in the Golan Heights region.

This short video captures some of the audio from a kiosk located at a memorial in the Valley of Tears. This region saw some of the fiercest fighting during the 1973 October/Yom Kippur War, and the memorial you can see is to those Israeli tank crewmen who died in battle. The ruined tank is a Soviet-built Syrian T-56 main battle tank. And, as the voice-over from the kiosk informs, the city in the distance is one of the new Syrian cities built since the war.

Since it was too windy for most of the day to get any additional video, go check out the photographs I took, here:
http://exploratorius.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/the-golan-heights/

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[amazingdany]

Can we pick strawberries on the Golan? :)