The language of this story has changed, since yesterday, I caution. Try to find the early version where it cited Syrian activists or Syrian opposition figures, or something like that. So Israeli and Zionist propaganda are now running with the story. In its first version, you read the story to only discover later on that it is attributed to, yet another Syrian in Washington, DC: this time Farid Ghadri (an exile version of Sa`d Haddad--according to Syrian opposition figures--I want to use the documentation of Zionist media now). "Protestors for hire? Demonstrators along the Syria-Israel border were paid thousands of dollars by President Bashar Assad's regime to take part in Sunday's riots, Syrian opposition activists charge. Israeli officials later reinforced the claims, accusing the Syrian regime of encouraging protests along the northern border." (thanks Farah)