Today: future Middle East borders

this morning (thursday 13th), 6.46-6.51am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by sarah montague) includes (as part of the BBC News Syria Days) …

“Our Correspondent Kevin Connolly has been to the Druze village of Majd el Shams in the Golan Heights where a line of separation divides Syria from Israeli-occupied territory to see what the future looks like from there.”

including interviews with …

• tal pelter of the pelter winery
• druze community leader tysea moray

“I see … a very big Arab country that will exist in this area”

• former head of mossad ephraim halevy from jerusalem

“… a dwindling Christian minority in Lebanon, with all that that means. We have to talk by the way about Lebanon and Syria together – I don’t think that Lebanon will either emerge in the end intact (although at the moment they still are formally a state, and performing as a state),”