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If you can see it in person, though, the military perspective from the golan heights looking into the galille in israel gives you an enormous military advantage from that perspective. israel says it does not want to give the golan heights back to syria. now you get to the big sticking point and that is jerusalem. east jerusalem is where the palestinians want to set up their capitol city. that would also include the old city of jerusalem that involved the ancient four quarters of jerusalem, you've got the temple mount there, the western wall, so these two areas, jerusalem and the golan heights ...

this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. >> reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path that the regime continues to take seems pretty clear. they are aiming to clear. a voice yells off ca...

Is all israel. this over here is the west bank. it refers to the west bank of the jordan river. and this over here, this little slice of land bordering egypt and israel is the gaza strip. an impoverished area with millions of people in it. jerusalem is right here in this crook. this is jerusalem. and this is a disputed area. generally speaking, jews live in israel, although there are lots of arab who is live in israel. and the arabs live in the west bank and in gaza. now, israel's birth by war in 1948 spawned a palestinian refugee crisis that has not been resolved to this day. the palestinian ...

Arab-israeli conflict is that this is a conflict over land this is the mediterranean. this is the area in question. this is israel this is the west bank and gaza. between the first and second world wars, western powers allied themselves with a nationalist movement called zionism. that called on the world's jews to immigrate to palestine inand set up a jewish state in the middle of palestine. it came into deadly conflict with the people already living there. palestinians are both muslim and christian. if you add to that, the regional power who is resisted the idea of a jewish state in their bac...

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