The chaos in Syria has underscored Israel’s long-held determination to hold onto the strategic plateau, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War and formally annexed in 1981.
Last week Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a symbolic cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights, for the first time, and used the opportunity to declare that “the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
But after a closed Security Council discussion Tuesday the council’s president, Liu Jieyi of China, told reporters that council members “expressed their deep concern over recent Israeli statements about the Golan, and stressed that the status of the Golan remains unchanged.”
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A bit of history here..
ReplyDelete"The Syrian army used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria’s attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, forcing children living on kibbutzim in the Huleh Valley to sleep in bomb shelters. Israel repeatedly protested the Syrian bombardments to the UN Mixed Armistice Commission, which was charged with policing the cease-fire, but the UN did nothing to stop Syria’s aggression."
In the 1967 war with Syria, Egypt, and Jordan that followed, Israel captured the Golan heights.
It would be foolish for them to relinquish it to those who would do the same to them again.
Thank you, 11:46. You hit the nail on the head.
ReplyDeleteThe Golan Heights belong to Israel. Get over it, Syria. You lost it when you tried to take Israel by force almost fifty years ago. You were ill-prepared then and you're doubly ill-prepared now.
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