By Dore Gold 1) Israeli negotiators will quickly discover three core areas in their discussions with the Syrians that they will not resolve easily: delineation of an agreed boundary, security arrangements, and the Syrian-Iranian alliance.2) Just prior to the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Syria deployed 1,400 tanks along the border against a total Israeli force of 177 tanks (a force ratio...
Israel Never Pledged Full Withdrawal from Golan
Get your facts right, Syria, and quit your stinking mendacity. From Israel Never Pledged Full Withdrawal from Golan: Israel never pledged to withdraw from the Golan Heights and return to the 1967 borders as part of peace negotiations with Syria, despite declarations of officials in Damascus, Israeli sources told Israel Channel 10 Thursday. The sources said Israel had initially intended to wait...
Why Didn’t Giving Up the Golan Cause A Political Debate?
Via OneJerusalem: One press report about Olmert’s offer to return the Golan Heights to Syria started with a headline declaring that this news caused a firestorm in Israel. Unforunately it did not. This news report includes a quote from a former, albeit distingusied, Israeli offical who expressed strong opposition to handing over the strategicly Golan Heights to Israel’s enemies. But...
The Syrians lie again
What bullshit. The lying Syrians claim that Golan never belonged to Israel. Guess what. There is no negotiation over the withdrawal of the Golan Heights in UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Syria already turned down Israel’s offer to return all the Golan Heights in exchange for peace. The warring Arabs lost the Golan Heights because they attacked Israel. Arabs chose war. Arabs...
Who owns the Golan Heights?
The Golan is Israeli. From The Golan Is Israeli: It is almost politically incorrect, practically heresy, to claim today that the Golan is not Syrian in the least nor a deposit or bargaining chip for negotiations. But it is precisely time to say so to the Israeli leaders who are trying to blunt the public’s awareness. The Golan is a lot more “Israeli” than “Syrian.”...
For Israel, There Was No Peace Before The Land
From the great Charles Krauthammer: There has hardly been an Arab peace plan in the past 40 years — including the current Saudi version — that does not demand a return to the status quo of June 4, 1967. Why is that date so sacred? Because it was the day before the outbreak of the Six Day War in which Israel scored one of the most stunning victories of the 20th century. The Arabs have...
Syrian guerillas ‘to launch resistance within months’
If Israel does not vacate the Golan Heights within months, a guerilla organization allegedly formed in Syria will soon launch “resistance operations” against Israeli positions and Jewish communities in the Golan, an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Baath party told WND in an exclusive interview. “If in the coming months an agreement is not forged between...
Syria wants Golan in return for helping US in war in Iraq
The British newspaper, The Sunday Times of London is reporting that Syria is willing to help the Americans in their quest to resolve the situation in Iraq only in exchange for the Americans securing the return of the Golan Heights to Syria which was conquered by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.