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Israeli PM: The battle is over Israel’s existence

The Columbian
Published: June 4, 2011, 5:00pm

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says attempts by pro-Palestinian protesters to breach the Israeli frontier show that Israel’s very existence is at the center of the Mideast conflict.

Benjamin Netanyahu says the protesters are not interested in a state alongside Israel. “The argument is over the fact of the establishment of the state of Israel,” he told reporters.

The border was quiet Monday after Syrian police stopped protesters from reaching the fence.

On Sunday, hundreds of protesters from Syria, most of them Palestinian refugees, surged pasts Syrian checkpoints toward the Israeli line on the Golan Heights, breaching barbed wire and sparking clashes with Israeli soldiers.

A Syrian government official said 23 people were killed. The number could not be independently verified.

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