War Tourism in the Golan Heights: The War Next Door (Part 3)

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9 жыл бұрын

In August, al Nusra Front jihadists took control of Syria’s side of the border crossing with Israel and kidnapped over 40 United Nations peacekeepers - who have since been released.
But al Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-affiliate, isn’t Israel’s only threat from Syria. President Bashar al-Assad’s military, in a possible effort to bait Israel into its civil war to shore up Arab sympathies, has been lobbing mortars across the border. Just a few weeks ago, the Israeli military shot down a Syrian plane flying over the Golan Heights - the first time it has done so since the 1980s.
In part three of a five-part series, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visits the top tourist destination in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Up here, tourists and UN observers stand side by side as they enjoy the great vantage of volcanic hills, sprawling vineyards, and Syria's civil war.
Watch Part 1 - bit.ly/1AuJhp5
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Read "New Evidence Suggests Israel Is Helping Syrian Rebels in the Golan Heights" - bit.ly/1BroztZ
Read "Syria and Iran Condemn Israeli Airstrikes Near Damascus" - bit.ly/1IK7sWh
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@John_Jim 9 жыл бұрын

I don't believe tourists come there mainly to watch the war, but for its beautyful nature and historical sites. I've been there myself.

@VICENews 9 жыл бұрын

In part three of a five-part series, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visits the top tourist destination in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Up here, tourists and UN observers stand side by side as they enjoy the great vantage of volcanic hills, sprawling vineyards, and Syria's civil war. Watch Part 1 - bit.ly/1AuJhp5 Watch Part 2 - bit.ly/1C3kXyE

@Gaz-1 9 жыл бұрын

Put Arabic translation

@ToOmAnYBLUNTS420 9 жыл бұрын

Or just learn English

@Borat911 8 жыл бұрын

+Abdul Taha The other side is to busy chopping of heads

@fludblud 9 жыл бұрын

This is nothing new, for thousands of years civilians have flocked to battles happening nearby to either watch or cheer their side on. During the First Battle of Bull Run thousands of civilians from Washington turned up with their families to picnic and watch what was supposed to be an easy Union victory... Until the Union forces lost, then it turned into massed panic. Such overt war tourism waned when the range of weapons and the size of battlefields became too large to watch in safety, however the advent of massed media and the internet has made all the gory horrors of war viewable from the comfort of your homes. Only in rare cases such as this where a war is happening right across a border where neither side would dare to cross can civilians spectate the fighting in person and in relative safety.

@MM-gv9jk 9 жыл бұрын

Very interesting comment, thank you, i'll have to look up the Battle of Bull Run, i want to read more about it.

@garywhite3255 9 жыл бұрын

Bull Run was the first thing I thought of. Great minds do think alike.

@10196248 9 жыл бұрын

God bless israel

@sally_8606 8 жыл бұрын

May this horrible fighting stop, it breaks my heart, we are all equal. Syria was an amazing place and everyone was happy and now look at this civil war, ruining life's of all. May god bless all and keep everybody safe.

@wizzzer1337 9 жыл бұрын

if Syria controlled the Golan heights you wouldn't see any on those lush green plains, no tourists, no horses, no nothing. it would have been a barren wasteland of toxic apocalyptic warzone.

@MM-gv9jk 9 жыл бұрын

brokenbrainz1 i

@therightway7484 9 жыл бұрын

Mea Maa ur gov who bring destruction look at US history many wars for their sake or goal US is the biggest crimes they had

@MM-gv9jk 9 жыл бұрын

the right way mu

@therightway7484 9 жыл бұрын

why u got angry cuz it is true if ISIS barbaric then u gov is more worst then ISIS did

@MM-gv9jk 9 жыл бұрын

the right way Yo

@alimpansasmal5783 9 жыл бұрын

Please upload all the parts in youtube.....i always prefer youtube to watch all the VICE NEWS its easy.....BTW keep up the awesome work....totally a big fan of VICE NEWS.... :)

@FM_Official_2012 2 ай бұрын

“thank God we don’t have ISIS here” Duhhhh, YOU CREATED IT!!

@nickmoore7598 4 күн бұрын

They even let al Nusra front inside to be hospitalized

@Vandoren333 9 жыл бұрын

Actually, place in Golan called Mount Bental and it famous cuz was largest tank batle in 20 century since Kursk batle of 1943.I was there as tourist long before war in Sirya began it was even then popular touristic place.

@ricardosilva-cy3xe 5 жыл бұрын

1:10 - Mount Bental lookout, around 3km west of Quneitra...for those who like me were curious about.

@zackottoman9450 9 жыл бұрын

my favorite vice reporter!

@Rowow 9 жыл бұрын

Can we just not have Simon... "they must be embarrassed that they lost their checkpoint" how the fuck did you get that conclusion... "They are scared of me" no they dont want to be bothered with questions... agian HOW THE FUCK DID YOU COME TO THAT CONCLUSION???

@DOGMA1138 9 жыл бұрын

Since Simon has an Israeli citizenship it's easy for VICE to send him there, sadly no one in Israel's ministry of interior revoked his citizenship as of yet, heck according to several reports it was the Israeli diplomatic mission to Moscow that got him off the hook when he got snatched while covering Ukraine. Simon is one of many Russians that immigrated to Israel after the fall of the USSR got the immigration package then packed his shit and moved the Canada the first chance he got since from the mid 90's to the mid 2000's(and even now to some extent) several countries including Israel got preferential treatment for immigration requests into Canada. Heck with the exception of commonwealth nations, the US and refugee status holders an Israeli citizenship is still probably one of the easiest ways of getting into the bloody paw...

@CeoLogJM 9 жыл бұрын

Its obvious he's fucking with them. He's not a moron, he knows why they didnt answer him.

@buffalobison7483 9 жыл бұрын

I like Simon. Those comments were just little attempts at comedy lololol

@buffalobison7483 9 жыл бұрын

At least it's not Danny Gold. That guys reporting makes me cringe with his extreme biased reporting

@Rowow 9 жыл бұрын

CeoLogJM This is not the first time he made this little joke, such as the russian roulet (even though it was in ukraine) he made ridiculous jokes that makes no sense, and conclusions (when he was away from everyone in the car) that makes no sense. Not only that but its not funny, and this is a very serious topic. When the situation is ok to make a joke (such as the end) he acts very mature and asks serious questions, without a joke anywhere.

@NelaLazarevic 9 жыл бұрын

so many things wrong about this, i wouldn't know where to start from..

@pittiesplus4108 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I watch to see what the government wants us to think.

@jordanlewis9101 9 жыл бұрын

Great video

@LacyBeee 9 жыл бұрын

lol i know im not the only one who seen those MSK tags in the video?

@elihu217qd5150 9 жыл бұрын

I like Simon's sense of humor

@maavet2351 7 ай бұрын

I went there to see snow, the bus driver said "this is as far as I go" and we went on foot

@ForeverRepublic 8 жыл бұрын

Israel will never leave the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights belong to Israel now and that's not going to change.

@ONEWHOKNOWS. 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody in the world has ever recognized this, including the U.N.! Golan Heights was STOLEN from Syrians during the Six Day War and illegally occupied and annexed since then, like Palestinian territories and Sinai decades ago! No defined borders, no Constitution, Zionists are NOT legitimate!

@deadpoolx2378 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@DeenAnmol Ай бұрын

U illigaly taken it..moran. It belong to syria

@ForeverRepublic Ай бұрын

@DeenAnmol We won the war, so it's ours. That's how the world works.

@nickmoore7598 4 күн бұрын

@@DeenAnmol this is colonial logic 101

@vaibhavkumar8133 8 ай бұрын

Heard the girl next door. Now hearing the war next door!

@bel-gal3239 7 жыл бұрын

you filmed a very small part of the israeli golan . you forgot the badoees village close to marom golan

@mkozlov8 9 жыл бұрын

where is part 4?

@tomthebomb09 9 жыл бұрын

Was in the Golan in the summer, good memory's

@ttylbodydark 9 жыл бұрын

I loved how he said they must be embarrassed that they lost their post and he scared them off I would love to see him taken hostage not knowing if he's going to live

@fox100cool 9 жыл бұрын

He already was taken hostage in Ukraine you piece of shit

@EddiePticek 9 жыл бұрын

He was held in russia

@ttylbodydark 9 жыл бұрын

***** if he was I would think he would have a better understanding but that's just me

@DaHuntsman1 9 жыл бұрын

ttylbodydark Honestly the UN peacekeepers should have the balls to go do their job, and if their scared of a journalist, they are setting a bad example for the rest of the UN Peacekeepers

@Exrightpwns 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you VICE for these awesome documentaries!

@MrBradfordbiker 9 жыл бұрын

There's literally no point in the restaurant manager wearing a helmet that's not strapped up on that horse,by the time his head hits the floor the helmet will be elsewhere,primarily not fucking close to his head!

@viperpm 9 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite reporter

@John-mf6ky 5 жыл бұрын

0:30 Is that an MSK crew tag? From Los Angeles all the way to the Golan heights 😂

@SUomiist 6 жыл бұрын

The guy was not confused, you are !!!

@samanthakwait8782 9 жыл бұрын

Simon cracks me up

@MrWilliamshakespear 9 жыл бұрын

Wow he cant get the interview so he insults them way to go, very diplomatic.

@joesmith4922 9 жыл бұрын

I feel pretty bad about the UN peace keepers.

@CeoLogJM 9 жыл бұрын

Why are people so pissed off at people looking at this? ITS A WAR, ITS FASCINATING. They are not looking at some Syrian kid from 2 feet away and hoping that something will happen. They go there because, this is probably something they will never see again. They will probably never see a real war in front of them, so of course its interesting. They arent going there to count how many explosions they heard in a minute.

@nightrider8954 3 жыл бұрын

Isreal will see plenty of wars

@nickmoore7598 4 күн бұрын

😂

@avitruitt1706 7 жыл бұрын

Vice, please pay a visit to Netiv Haasara while you're here

@culito540 9 жыл бұрын

People claim the civilized the State of Israel should be ashamed of yourself

@tomerza 9 жыл бұрын

Hey guys i have a friend that was in the I.D.F. and he saw people on the other side Egypt crying for food and water and my friends as a soldier went to help them... and guess what??? he was murdered b/c he was a Jew... we try to help every one... in Turkey we used to help in earthquakes, we offered help in pakistan, we were the first and the only one out of 2 hospitals that we built in the Bahamas after the huriccane, i have a friend that went to help in the far east after the title wave... by the way i never hear about the much richer countries around us like Qatar help them, even though i know they buy football clubs in the millions and support terror and build amazing buildings

@anedgyegyptian9678 8 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro, needs some dragons n shit

@shellyminor6083 9 жыл бұрын

I love Simon as a journalist. One of my fav. being the interviews on N.K. Labor camps in Russia. That's all I got.

@Menchjah 9 жыл бұрын

Been here :)

@pensgator 9 жыл бұрын

Why is it peaceful on one side and hell on the other??

@NorthCitySider 9 жыл бұрын

Because one country is engaged in a civil war and the other is not. Pretty simple answer.

@chochopav 8 жыл бұрын

+Young Lion I think he meant you to read between the lines...

@aj0331 6 жыл бұрын

pensgator Because israel 🇮🇱 is the paradise nice food, fresh water, good wine, beautiful and peaceful people like always. And syria on the other side kill thousands of civilians including childrens because they worship satan and Hellfire in the name of their scam god Allah.

@ibrahim-jo3uu 4 жыл бұрын

Golan heights are Syrian land🇸🇾🇸🇾 and Israel occupied it..

@itay8408 4 жыл бұрын

next time think before you attack your neighbors

@purpleblastoise Жыл бұрын

@@itay8408 "Israel" is a genocidal settler colonial project and an illegitimate European satellite state! #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 Golan Heights is Syria 🇸🇾

@sosososososo4148 5 ай бұрын

@@purpleblastoiseStop coping and accept the reality

@brianwingo6472 4 жыл бұрын

As mentioned below people watching wars is nothing new. During the Mexican Revolution people on the American side of the border regularly watched Pancho Via and his troops fight the government troops.

@obiedkhan8080 8 жыл бұрын

it is occupied area, how you say it is a disputed border

@TheNelevitin 9 жыл бұрын

I WAS HERE LAST WEEK!!!

@user-kp5ps7gj8b 9 жыл бұрын

This is just fucking amazing.. War spectacle.. !!!! This is the first time I have heard it...

@general1490 9 жыл бұрын

Its not called Israel. Its called invaded Palestine

@thesalandarian3314 3 жыл бұрын

Mujahid Jaan it’s israel

@kajmetz5215 9 жыл бұрын

Saying Nusra, but showing FSA vids? Simon, you are a great reporter. I love your Ukraine dispatches, but you made a big mistake. If you have observed this conflict on this front, you would know it's FSA (Southern Front) + Nusra + some IF against SAA/NDF backed by Hezbollah.

@mwmurrell 9 жыл бұрын

I tend to like the journalists that contribute to vice however this guy is quite unimpressive and very annoying.

@arkhitekton1 9 жыл бұрын

wow simon, nice shit-talking those observers lol

@nubemuffin 9 жыл бұрын

Where were those peacekeepers from? Simon called them "Fugeans" or something.

@seanolaocha940 9 жыл бұрын

What's this eejit on about? Of course UNDOF still have checkpoints and positions, there are 130 Irish troops patrolling there right now along with various other nations.

@purpleblastoise 8 ай бұрын

Soon the Golan heights will be liberated by SAA, this is Syrian land! 🇸🇾🇵🇸

@MartinBlomqvist 9 жыл бұрын

The Golan heights isn't a part of Israel. Its occupied!

@jonathanmccain8646 5 жыл бұрын

It's just as Israeli as the rest of Israel

@zainhanif9217 2 жыл бұрын

that's disgusting one the colonists aspect two people come to watch the war

@georgerobin1474 9 жыл бұрын

War tourism in Eastern Ukraine sound more fun.

@2cansam838 9 жыл бұрын

So, Simon Ostrovsky is covering this conflict now. What's happened to the Ukraine??

@UnFMacca 9 жыл бұрын

The Irish Defence forces still man there bases in golan heights and rescues UN peacekeepers when they get captured there basically the QRF for the UN

@ONEWHOKNOWS. 2 жыл бұрын

😍😎💪✊👀

@ebrowne369 9 жыл бұрын

2:45-2:50 I lol'd

@MikeUnhinged 6 жыл бұрын

2:58 They're scared of you because you're an English speaking member of the Tribe of the Chosen People filming in The Promised Land. I'm surprised they didn't kiss your feet.

@turnerburner75 9 жыл бұрын

Maybe simon should go and man the post against i.s. and see how tough he is!

@obiedkhan8080 8 жыл бұрын

why these people travel to the occupied land.......

@tresbobsterbob7143 3 жыл бұрын

Grow up

@Gryfder 5 жыл бұрын

May Israel and Assad's Syria live long, and be together forever. Media has been sabotaging these two parties.

@lisasingh5088 3 жыл бұрын

Medias are rooting for the us funded "freedom fighters" aka terrorists to win.

@nevokrien95 4 жыл бұрын

Omg u butered my languge

@MrAbdlwahed 9 жыл бұрын

Your time has come Israel, remember when we told you your time is soon u start mocking now prepare necks

@MrAbdlwahed 9 жыл бұрын

i don't speak with juhalaa

@bigge1495 9 жыл бұрын

Lol you're just gonna get rekt m8. #IWI #Tavor

@keepmoving.3043 2 жыл бұрын

Golan heights, a Jewish name for an ancient Jewish land, recovered by the brave IDF from the arabs invaders, nowadays.

@MrArgilius 9 жыл бұрын

good critical comment on UN observing Simon,))

@Sshooter444 9 жыл бұрын

Cool, but whats happening in Ukraine?. I guess Simon needed a break...

@MuchTooStress 8 жыл бұрын

Lol if they are scared of me no wonder they don't have their checkpoint anymore

@tomer95tk 9 жыл бұрын

When definitions blurred the only sane thing to do is to stick to old and well known moral codes and beliefs,Even if it is insane.

@Isaaxz123 9 жыл бұрын

or abandon them and seek new beliefs to deal with our modern world.

@tomer95tk 9 жыл бұрын

Isaaxz123 That is just as insane as anything else. Because you cant afford failing with your new attempts when it comes to matter as big and important as life itself can you?

@mastermill79 7 жыл бұрын

Reporting and showing the situation is one thing but a bunch Iif people that come to watch the war like it's a football game just feels dirty.

@elmamboitaliano1346 6 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha isis is ~50 miles from israel and they never attacked them You know why.... Because israel is the creator of isis (and the golan height is occupied)

@yosefcobersy7239 4 жыл бұрын

Isis won’t attack Israel because they are cowards. And Syria lost the golan heights when they attacked, legally it belongs to israel.

@anycolouryoulike8567 3 жыл бұрын

@ابو عمر المقدسي but ISIS carries out attacks all over the world, in Europe, in the US, in the Arab world etc, many of which are complex and requiring, and yet Israel is a few kilometers away and yet they have NEVER fired a bullet at Israel's direction. Your analogy doesn't make any sense.

@anycolouryoulike8567 3 жыл бұрын

@ابو عمر المقدسي does the Syrian army carry out far reaching attacks over multiple continents like ISIS does?

@anycolouryoulike8567 3 жыл бұрын

@ابو عمر المقدسي why didn't ISIS at least ATTEMPT to infiltrate or attack? You're telling me that ISIS has the ability to infiltrate European States and the UK but can't try to carry out an attack on a country that is like 20 minutes away from its borders?

@antoniussamuelson3748 3 жыл бұрын

@ابو عمر المقدسي if syrian army fired a bullet, Israel will give them a death wish. That's why they are coward to shoot israel.

@luigialfetta4564 9 жыл бұрын

4:52 ... Allowa snackbar !

@Killerbabyseal 9 жыл бұрын

KZfaq comments just make me depressed

@mohammedgolani2251 4 жыл бұрын

⁦🇸🇾⁩⁦🇸🇾⁩💪💪 The Golan, a Syrian land, 5000 years ago

@MrJdouble1998 4 жыл бұрын

LOL, "Fijian U.N. observers." Yeah........

@brelamich 9 жыл бұрын

Drive soundtrack 1:55

@limonov01 9 жыл бұрын

soon Islamic fascism vs jewsh fascism.

@limonov01 9 жыл бұрын

***** rly?

@limonov01 9 жыл бұрын

Dump fuck

@omegazthebadass 9 жыл бұрын

limonov01 it was meant against that redcatracho sorry lol

@limonov01 9 жыл бұрын

Lol np

@amirinho4 9 жыл бұрын

israel leaves on the sadness of people

@kkingcombo12345 9 жыл бұрын

Nothing new but it is still shitt of people to make money off of war... Oh well.

@gregthayer8964 9 жыл бұрын

6:55 @normwillrise

@wanzek78 9 жыл бұрын

Wtf Ftw

@FresnoJoe2 4 жыл бұрын

Praying For Israel And Her Beloved IDF~!

@mazenawar6101 2 жыл бұрын

And her destruction

@Sartorius988 9 жыл бұрын

First!

@yungjoemighty879 3 жыл бұрын

the inhumanity of iraeli is disgusting

@OmmerSyssel 2 жыл бұрын

Islam is a pest ruining whatever it gets in contact with! 🇮🇱STAND WITH ISRAEL🇪🇺

@davestonehill6177 9 жыл бұрын

ISRAEL SHOULD ANNEX THE GOLAN HEIGHTS! IT BELONGS TO ISRAEL. LONG LIVE ISRAEL.

@wabblum99 8 жыл бұрын

Its not that simple it is a disputed land just like northern ireland

@davestonehill6177 8 жыл бұрын

wabblum99 Big difference. There are only about 40 thousand people that live in the Golan Heights (half are Jews). Northern Ireland has a much larger population of mostly Protestant Irish and Scotch Irish so that issue is not so easily resolved.

@wabblum99 8 жыл бұрын

Dave Stonehill northern ireland is roughly 60% to 40% its not as if the catholic irish people only make up single digit percentages. It is the same thing it is a disputed region and those are the only two i can think off right now please let me know if you know of any other

@davestonehill6177 8 жыл бұрын

wabblum99 Regardless of the breakdown, Northern Ireland has a much larger population than the Golan Heights. I think that makes it a more difficult situation to resolve. The Golan Heights with its tiny population is easy to resolve. Israel should annex The Golan Heights and make it part of Israel. When I move to Israel, I shall be advocating just that.

@wabblum99 8 жыл бұрын

Dave Stonehill but what makes it part of israel just because it has a small population doesn't make israel's claim to it legite

@ManiDominik 9 жыл бұрын

Didn't like the fact that he put the Fijian peacekeepers on the spot whose main duty was to preserve peace. The main reason why the UN has been there was to make sure that there was peace between Israel and Syria. The only reason why the Fijian soldiers got captured was because they were outnumbered 6 to 1 . They didn't want to coz conflicts between the Syrian rebels and the UN detachment that already had a good relationship with them. Which the UNs main goal was to preserve peace and not engage in civil warfare which was already happening in Syria. The journalist was hypocritical in calling them out not knowing that they were faraway from home in observing protocols and peace between two countries. C'mon your better then this stop being biased and focusing on one side of the issue when your supposed to be focsuing on both side. The Fijians have been in the middle east for decades sacrificing their lives to make sure that there is peace in the region. Not forgetting that they have the largest detachment out there.

@ianroberts2426 9 жыл бұрын

Tourist......Smh do something to help instead of taking selfies posting them on facebook.

@ridwanomar5351 9 жыл бұрын

right.

@flipKumar 9 жыл бұрын

Disrespecting UN Soldiers is a norm for this presenter. They are just doing their duty... What does he think of himself ?. Superhero presenter ???? Humility and unbiased opinion are virtues of a good presenter. I don't see both in this Guy. VICE should get rid of him.