Since the fall of Assad, the Israeli military has been bombing Syria, and Israel's prime minister

says he'll double the size of settlements in the Golan Heights.

In many ways, he's flexing his muscle.

I'm Marka Werman.

We'll hear more about the volatile Golan along the Israeli-Syrian border.

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That and more coming up today on the world.

I'm Marco Wurman. This is the world. Thanks for being with us this Monday. We begin in the Golan Heights,

the rocky mountainous region near the borders of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Israel claims the

Golan Heights as its territory. The international community,

with the exception of the U.S., disagrees. Over the weekend, Israel's government approved a plan to

double the Israeli population in the Golan Heights. The Israeli military has also sent troops from the

Golan Heights across the border and into Syrian territory, all of this in the days after the Assad regime fell in Syria.

Joshua Landis is with the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

ISMY Israel is taking these actions now.

They're doing it because Syria is extraordinarily weak, and this is a real moment of opportunity for Israel.

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