naturalfeature:golan heights

  • Netanyahu seeks war with Iran so he can ethnically cleanse the West Bank - Moshe Machover
    http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/netanyahu-seeks-war-with-iran-so-he-can-ethnically-cleanse-the-west-bank

    You see there is a Zionist version of what in America was called “manifest destiny”. The Zionist leadership regards the various accords, for example their agreement to the Partition of Palestine in 1947— they regard it in the exactly the same spirit as the US regarded the Indian treaties. They have just made it explicit with the Levy commission. The Levy Commission actually submitted a report that is going to be problematic, because you see the Zionists want Palestinian land but they don’t want Palestinians. The reason why they have not annexed the bulk of the West Bank with the exception of Jerusalem, where there is a Jewish majority— the reason why they have not annexed, is they want to get rid of the population first.

    People forget, they annexed not only East Jerusalem but the Syrian Golan Heights, but first they did a massive ethnic cleansing there. People who are focused on the Palestinian aspect forget about the Golan Heights because it is not Palestine. The occupied territories include also the Golan Heights. What happened in 1967, when the guns were still smoking, Israel executed a massive ethnic cleansing of most of the population of the Golan Heights, more than 100,000 people, with the exception of part of the Druze community whom the Zionists don’t consider Arabs. So some Druze were allowed to remain, and Israel annexed it.

  • Israel: Government urged to allow all from Syria seeking refuge to enter Golan Heights
    http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/043/2012/en/e3b40ee4-b90f-47d7-acc2-c142ffbe8af4/mde150432012en.html

    Amnesty International has written to the Israeli Minister of Defence Ehud Barak raising concerns about quotes which appeared in media reports on 19 July attributed to the Minister, stating his intention to prevent refugees fleeing increasing violence and wide-spread human right abuses in Syria, from entering Israel via the Israeli-occupied area of the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights - home to tens of thousands of Israeli nationals – was occupied by Israel in 1967 though it is internationally recognized as Syrian territory.

  • لجان التنسيق المحلية في سوريا
    دمشق : الحجر الاسود : خروج مظاهرة لابناء الجولان المحتل في شارع الثورة تتف للمدن المنكوبة وتطالب باسقاط النظام
    Damascus : Hajar Al-Aswad : Occupied Golan Heights residents set out in a demonstration along Al-Thawra Street and chanted in solidarity with the disaster-stricken cities and demanded the regime’s ouste

  • The Plot Thickens: Ghalyoun’s “Ill-Conceived” Statements in the WSJ Interview
    http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3398/the-plot-thickens_ghalyouns-“ill-conceived”-statem

    Leaving the problematic statements about Iran and Hizballah aside, in who’s interest is it for the head of the Syrian National Council (SNC) to talk about how the (possible) future Syrian leadership will or will not pursue its right for restoring it’s occupied Golan Heights territory from Israel? Is this what occupies the minds of protesters who are being shot daily by the Syrian regime? Is this something that will give them an edge in their pursuit of their basic political and other rights inside Syria? Even if statements about the Golan are appropriate, why should such declarations let aggressors off the hook so prematurely, so unnecessarily, so irresponsibly, and so recklessly, by emphasizing ill-conceived “liberal” and “feel-good” language? And where did all this positivity suddenly emerge about Syrian-Western relations? 

    Most importantly, why should the strategies of a potentially democratic Syrian government be announced before the appropriate conditions for such a representative leadership are at hand? What if most Syrian citizens want to keep all options on the table for restoring their land and other rights in the future? On both related counts, Ghalyoun (can we still say “poor Ghalyoun?”) and the Syrian National Council sound very much like the Syrian regime: They are both (practically, in the case of the Syrian regime) giving up certain options for restoring occupied Syrian land, and they are both less concerned with the democratic process. Even the enemies of the Syrian people and Syrian rights are baffled, if pleased, at this seeming “political immaturity,” to use a euphemism.

  • Nobel Peace Prize-winning global campaign strongly condemns Israel’s new use of land mines - International Campaign to Ban Landmines
    http://www.icbl.org/index.php/icbl/Library/News-Articles/Condemnation_Israel_mine_use

    Humanitarian campaigners fighting for a mine-free world have strongly condemned Israel’s planting of new antipersonnel mines along the Syrian border with the Golan Heights.

    Recent reports have indicated that the mines are being laid to prevent the movement of protestors from Syria into the Golan Heights.

    “There can be absolutely no justification for the use of these indiscriminate weapons, and to hear that these mines are aimed at civilians is particularly shocking,” said Kasia Derlicka, Director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).

  • AFP: US ’deeply troubled’ at killings on Israel-Syria border
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jC45l8HDoehBzmJkO34PdSuOoBlA?docId=CNG.7e8c9b730d578a188e3f19c677e0e59

    “We are deeply troubled by events that took place earlier today in the Golan Heights resulting in injuries and the loss of life,” the State Department said in a statement.
    “We call for all sides to exercise restraint. Provocative actions like this should be avoided.”
    The US statement emphasized that “Israel, like any sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself.”

    Oui, Ghandi, les manifestations non-violentes, tout ça, hein...

  • Septembre 2006, les criminels de guerre font le point sur la guerre contre le Liban.

    19.09.2006 : ISRAELI CT OFFICIALS DISCUSS ISRAEL-HIZBALLAH WAR, U.S.-ISRAEL CT COOPERATION - Nyheter - Wikileaks - Aftenposten.no
    http://www.aftenposten.no/spesial/wikileaksdokumenter/article4025286.ece

    Israeli counterterrorism (CT) officials were anxious to convince visiting S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer that Israel´s 34-day war with Hizballah in July and August had weakened the terrorist group and given Lebanese PM Siniora greater political will to take on Hizballah, but Israeli NSC CT Coordinator General Danny Arditi was candid about his fears that Siniora would be assassinated and that “even the Golan Heights would be insufficient to wean Syria away from Iran.” Israeli MFA CT officials urged increased U.S. pressure on Syria to ensure compliance with UNSCR 1559 and UNSCR 1373´s provisions on terrorist safe haven, but offered no concrete suggestions for how to do so. They acknowledged that efforts to have Europeans designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization would probably be unsuccessful “at least through 2007.” They agreed that S/CT would host the next (CT) Joint Working Group in February 2007.

    À noter, cet « effort » pour que les Européens placent le Hezbollah sur la liste des organisations terroristes.

    #Liban #Israël #Hezbollah #cablegate