The Golan Heights and the Syrian-Israeli Negotiations

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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 of 8 to 1 in favor of Syria). Should Syria’s considerable missile forces be used to delay Israel’s reserve mobilization, then the importance of the Golan terrain will increase as Israel’s small standing army will have

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Israel Never Pledged Full Withdrawal from Golan

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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 for direct negotiations to begin before publicizing news of renewed contact, but Syria had wanted the talks to be made public.

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Why Didn’t Giving Up the Golan Cause A Political Debate?

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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 no political leaders are quoted because the news has been greeted with virtual silence. In fact the only fringe political opposition has come from Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, as he declared that turning the Golan to Syria is tantamount to

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The Syrians lie again

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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 must face the consequences of their aggressive barbaric 7th century warring nature. The intended destruction of Israel has been frenetic since 1947 and is still going on, 60+ years later. The results of each defeated act

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Who owns the Golan Heights?

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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.” It has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands. It has been under Israeli sovereignty for 26 years. It has neither a foreign people nor a demographic problem. The

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For Israel, There Was No Peace Before The Land

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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 spent four decades trying to undo its consequences. The real anniversary of the war should be now, three weeks earlier. On May 16, 1967, Egyptian

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Syrian guerillas ‘to launch resistance within months’

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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 Israel and Syria (for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan), the Committees will begin attacks,” said the official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld during an in-person interview with WND and with the G. Gordon Liddy national American radio show.

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