![]() "You have the Syrian army taking over a village, then a week later you will have another faction take it back. Spellman has seen Quneitra descend from a relatively prosperous if rugged frontier town to a battered shell sat amidst a devastated no man's land. ![]() Read More: Israel Tried to Derail Syria Ceasefire at Secret Meetings With U.S. Since Syria's Arab Spring-inspired revolution began its descent into war in 2012, Israelis have watched rebel fighters being transported to and from the frontline in pickup trucks. Spelman has lived in the Ein Zivan Kibbutz since the end of the 1967 Six Day War, during which Israel seized the Golan from Syria. It is, he says, like being "in the eye of the storm." ![]() His home in the Golan Heights is just two miles from the Syrian town of Quneitra, across Israel's heavily-fortified border. For the past six years David Spelman has had a front row seat at the bloody and protracted spectacle that is Syria's civil war.
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