A lire le très bon article dans Newsweek de Nour Samaha sur les stratégies de consolidation de l’annexion du Golan syrien par Israël à la faveur de la guerre en Syrie :
▻http://newsweekme.com/blurred-future
“The crisis has given Israel an opportunity to work on the new generation; telling them to bring their relatives from Syria because they’re cutting heads [there] and the situation is getting worse,” said Safadi. “Those who have taken the citizenship say it is because they’re not getting anything from Syria, that they want to travel and live their lives.”
Zahwa believes that by opening up the economy and boosting the tourism industry, Israel is attempting to draw a more attractive future for Golan residents compared to what Syria can offer.
“Israel is trying to make a new alternative, a political, economic and social alternative, because of the situation in Syria,” she said.
At the same time, Israeli officials have gone into overdrive with their naturalization campaign and have rejected any notion of reviving peace negotiations with Syria.
Naftali Bennett, a senior Israeli official and leader of the right-wing party The Jewish Home, said it was high time the world recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan.
“I want to challenge the entire world… I want to give the international community an opportunity to demonstrate their ethics.
Recognize the Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” he said at a conference in June last year. “Who do they want us to give the Golan to? To Assad? Today, it is clear that if we listened to the world we would give up the Golan and [Daesh] would be swimming in the Sea of Galilee.”
