Long Overdue: Congress Wants Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights

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While the Democrats have become the party and the face of the new antisemitism, the Republicans are doing what is right, rational and righteous.

The Golan is  critical to Israel’s security. This key territory could help Israel defend itself from attacks by Iranian forces and others operating in Syria. Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel in the June 1967 war — when the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria attacked the tiny Jewish state.

Iran’s vow to annihilate the Jewish state and the continuing political turmoil in the Muslim world and its accompanying Jew-hatred only reinforce Israel’s need for long-term defensible borders.

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Israeli Control of the Golan Heights: High Strategic and Moral Ground for Israel

MAP 1: Northern Israel


Security Needs

The Golan Heights is a sloping plateau, ascending from 300 meters on its west end to 1,000 meters on its east end, and covering a total area
of 1,800 km (695 sq. mi.). The Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee (part of the Syrian-African Rift) mark its western border, the Yarmuk River demarcates its southern perimeter, and the hills along the watershed line and the Rokad River bound it on the east. The 2,814 meter-high Hermon Mountain (partially in Israeli territory) marks the northern boundary of the Heights (see Map 1 and 2). The Hermon provides an excellent vantage point for the entire region – up to Damascus, only some 60 kilometers to the east, and over to the Haifa Bay, on the Mediterranean to the west (see Map 2). The Golan Heights dominate the Jordan River valley, the Israeli Galilee to its west, and the area leading to Damascus to its east.

Map 2: Mount Hermon Overlooks Damascus and Haifa (A North to South Perspective)

Militarily, withdrawal from the Golan Heights would be extremely problematic. Control of this area gives Israel several important advantages, including those that were crucial in repelling the surprise Syrian military onslaught in October 1973, and has enabled Israel to maintain stability along this border. Indeed, despite the absence of a peace treaty, and despite regional tensions that eventually led to violent clashes between Israel and Arab actors, the border between Israel and Syria has remained quiet since 1974. Even the military confrontation between Israeli and Syrian units in 1982, in the Lebanese arena, did not extend to the Golan Heights.

The current border along the watershed line – the hills in the Eastern part of the plateau – is the best defense line against a conventional
military attack from the east. Such an attack must overcome the topographical superiority of the defensive force, as the

terrain requires the attacking side to channel its forces in between the hills. These natural terrain bottlenecks allow a small defending force to repel an attack and bring in reinforcements if needed. In the 1973 October War, the Golan’s topography enabled 177 defending tanks to stop approximately 1,500 Syrian tanks and gave the IDF the critical time to call up and deploy its reserve formations.6 An armored attack can hardly be successful and cannot be sustained for long without taking the hills that Israel presently controls.

No other line on the plateau can confer such defensive advantages as the current border is based on the watershed line and the whole terrain west of this line descends toward the eastern cliffs on the Jordan River. A withdrawal from the Golan would place Israeli troops at its bottom, about 200 meters below sea level, with a very steep gradient toward the plateau at about 300 meters above sea level, making recapturing this territory in a crisis a very complicated military operation (see Topographical Cross-Section on Map 1 and Map 3).

Map 3: The Golan Heights

Control over the Golan Heights enhances the safety of the strategic Haifa Bay area on the Mediterranean Coast by increasing its distance from Syrian positions to almost 90 kilometers. The Bay area is an important industrial hub, houses one of two main Israeli ports, and forms part of the strategically vital triangle, alongside Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, that holds most of the country’s infrastructure and population.

Israeli military presence in the Golan Heights also prevents the formation of an indefensible pocket in the narrow strip (about 7 kilometers wide and 26 kilometers long) of the Upper Galilee, the northernmost part of Israel, an area sandwiched between Hizballah- controlled southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights (see Map 4).

Tens of thousands of Israeli citizens in this “Finger of the Galilee” could be easily disconnected from Israel and taken hostage in the case of a coordinated attack by Syria, if it controlled the Golan, and an Iranian-inspired Hizballah.7 The capacity of this organization to inflict damage upon Israel has grown considerably since the end of the 2006 Lebanon War.

Map 4: “Finger of the Galilee”

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Congress Wants Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights

Despite failed bid, hearing will press Trump admin to support Israeli ownership of contested land

By Adam Kredo, Free Beacon, July 15, 2018:

Congress is renewing efforts to press the Trump administration into recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the contested Golan Heights region on Israel’s northern border with Syria, bucking efforts by GOP leadership to kill the effort, according to conversations with lawmakers.

The House’s National Security Subcommittee, led by chairman Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) will hold a hearing Tuesday to examine how recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the territory could bolster U.S. national security efforts to stem the flow of terrorists in the Jewish state and elsewhere in the region by giving the Jewish state unilateral control over the Syrian territory, where Iranian-backed fighters and other jihadists have been spotted since the start of a bloody civil war.

The push to have the Trump administration formally recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territory comes following a Monday afternoon press conference between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladamir Putin, where the two leaders discussed efforts to decrease tension in Syria.

When DeSantis and other Republicans pushed a congressional resolution recognizing Israeli control over the Golan Heights in May, it was nixed by GOP leadership who were seeking to prevent such a vote on the heels of the Trump administration’s successful effort to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The resolution had won support from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and others.

DeSantis expressed disappointment at the time in comments to the Free Beacon.

“I don’t know why my Golan Heights amendment was not made in order and thus denied a vote,” DeSantis said. “It was a germane amendment that would have provided the House with a chance to add clarity to the broader U.S. policy vis-a-vis Syria.  How could we even contemplate supporting anything other than the application of Israeli sovereignty to such a strategically significant area, especially given the plethora of malevolent forces that undermine security in the region?”

DeSantis, who will chair Tuesday’s hearing, told the Washington Free Beacon he will not stand down despite opposition by some to formally recognizing Israeli control over the territory, which Israel annexed in 1981.

“U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights is overdue and I hope this hearing demonstrates that the time is right for the Trump administration to do so,” DeSantis told the Free Beacon. “As we’ve seen with the successful relocation of our American embassy to Jerusalem, when the U.S. leads with purpose and conviction good things happen.”

The United States has declined for decades to take a position on the status of this territory, but lawmakers such as DeSantis argue the time is right for this effort, particularly in light of the chaos in Syria and the threat it poses to Israeli and U.S. security assets in the region.

sraeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have supported such efforts and also have requested the Trump administration move to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory. Public calls for the recognition increased after the Free Beacon first reported on the now-dead congressional resolution on the matter.

The Tuesday hearing will focus on Iran’s destabilizing efforts in Syria and how it has impacted regional security, according to information viewed by the Free Beacon.

Congressional officials and other supporters argue that U.S. recognition of Israeli control of the Golan Heights could thwart Russia and Iran’s growing influence in Syria and also send a powerful message that the United States sides with the Jewish state’s security interests as regional tensions grow.

The United States, under numerous governments, has assured the Israeli government that it supports Israel’s annexation of the territory, but has declined to go as far as backing a full recognition of sovereignty. The area remains a key territory that could help Israel defend itself from attacks by Iranian forces and others operating in Syria, supporters argue.

Iranian militants who are still operating freely in Syria as they defend embattled President Bashar al-Assad have used the Golan Heights and areas near it to target Israel.

In February, for instance, Israel intercepted an armed Iranian drone that had entered its airspace via Syria.

In May, Iranian forces in Syria fired at least 20 rockets at Israeli military personnel stationed in the Golan Heights, leading the Trump White House to issue public statements supporting Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of such attacks.

Witnesses testifying at the Tuesday hearing include Dore Gold, a veteran Israeli official who most recently served as director general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2016; Michael Doran, a former senior director of the White House’s the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration; Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America; and Eugene Kontorovich, a Northwestern University professor of law who has studied Israel’s legal claims to the Golan Heights.

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Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
5 years ago

From a military standpoint, never give up the high ground. The Golan Heights IS part of Israel via the spoils of war. Has been since the 67 war. Also the US should recognize the Gaza Strip belongs to Israel. Clearing out both areas of terrorists and those who support them would greatly enhance Israel’s security.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago

What needs to happen is the release of the State Department report proving no such thing as a “palestinian” and making all Gaza, Golan, Judea & Samaria Israel.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Nothing needs to happen. The Golan Heights was annexed by Israel. Israel is a sovereign nation. Do we need soddy barbaria’s “recognition” to make Iowa a part of the United States of America? Or, do we need turkeyland to acknowledge New York?

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago

It is important for Israels allies to recognize the facts on the ground. There are no disputed Territories, it is all Israel.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

I fully agree. However, whether the US, the EU, or any nation “recognizes” the fact that the Golan Heights is a part of Israel or not … It IS a part of Israel.

Dan Rose
Dan Rose
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Quite right there are no disputed territories. They are illegally occupied territories. Israel’s military occupation has lasted over 50 years as the continue to ignore international law.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Rose

There is no UN charter for palestinian arabs, UN Resolution 242 claims a Jewish Homeland, it is the Arab Landsquaters/Invaders that need to go, and the State Department report proving no such thing as a palestinian arab must be released to the public.

Time to end the charade of an indigenous arab population, never has been and never will be, just other Arabs from other parts of Arabia trying to continue their colonial conquest for world domination.

Dennis Durkop
Dennis Durkop
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

I pray that China, Russia, India and US defeat the violent oppressive false pagan death rape cult of Islam’s sharia!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

What should be recognized is that the Arab Muslims out of Arabia, in 636AD invaded that land and descendants of the original inhabitants, most but not all of whom in 70AD had been driven out by the Romans, eventually returned to claim what is rightfully theirs. All over the world the Arab Muslims captured and have held territory that was not theirs – in the process murdering more than 250 people – but now a people, the Jews, have returned and in part taken away from the Arabs what the Arabs took from the Jews and Byzantines, so to hell with the Arabs and their disgusting supporters.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Rose

No, Goland Heights is NOT “illegally” occupied.
Wars happen and this was conquered by Israel. BTW do you know how TINY Israel is? International Law was NOT “ignored”. Your goal is to have NO Israel! You fool no one with lies. Do you ever let up with JEW hate? What’s it like to be consumed with HATE and live in a bubble of lies?

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Rose

International law determined by whom? The now Muslim country dominated U.N. that has not a modicum of interest in justice? When after the Arab – Israeli War in 1948, Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan occupied Israeli territory for 19 years, the U.N. and international community did not consider as ‘occupied territory’ the territory Israel had lost to Arab countries, but as soon as in 1967 Israel recovered its lost territory the wondrous U.N. and international community called this “occupied territory”. This manifestly biased and unjust attitude should not take even a liberal/leftist to recognize what is so evident and unjust. The international community cares about lost territory only when Israel captures it, but couldn’t give a damn when Israel loses it to Arabs. So to hell with the United Nations, International community, this supposed “international law” and Americans who so unfairly side with them,

dhd123
dhd123
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Rose

You fools who believe that Israel is an occupier fail to recognize history. First, there is no such thing as a “Palestinian” or “Palestine”.
Palestine is what Rome called the area when they occupied it

“Scholars believe the first human settlements in Jerusalem took place during the Early Bronze Age—somewhere around 3500 B.C. In 1000 B.C., King David conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of the Jewish kingdom. His son, Solomon, built the first holy Temple about 40 years later.”

“The name “Judea” was derived from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE.”

“Judea or Judæa (/dʒuːˈdiːə/;[1] from Hebrew: יהודה‎, Standard Yəhuda, Tiberian Yəhûḏāh, Greek: Ἰουδαία, Ioudaía; Latin: Iūdaea, Arabic: يهودا‎, Yahudia) is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of the region of Palestine. The name originates from the Hebrew name “Yehudah”, a son of the Jewish patriarch Jacob/Israel, and Yehudah’s progeny forming the biblical Israelite tribe of Judah (Yehudah) and later the associated Kingdom of Judah, which the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia dates from 934 until 586 BCE.[2] The name of the region continued to be incorporated through the Babylonian conquest, Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods as Yehud, Yehud Medinata, Hasmonean Judea, and consequently Herodian Judea and Roman Judea, respectively.

As a consequence of the Bar Kokhba revolt, in 135 CE the region was renamed and merged with Roman Syria to form Syria Palaestina by the victorious Roman Emperor Hadrian.

“the Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, which certain scholars conclude was an attempt to remove the relationship of the Jewish people to the region”

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  dhd123

Bak Kokhba was a brave man, but he should’ve more accurately assessed Rome’s military resources as well as their willingness to employ nearly all of them against Israel.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Rose

What international statute(s) are you claiming, dani? That area was controlled by the turkeys of turkeyland, until after WWI. When did that land become a nation, that is “illegally” occupied?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Syria, Jordan and Egypt are sore losers and will not acknowledge they LOST this land during the Six Day War.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

As muslums come to dominate the dying atheist West such recognition can easily be reversed. Israel shouldn’t put any trust in the dying atheist West.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

I agree! That would explode the heads of BDS supporters but that won’t help with Golan Heights too much since Syria lays claim to it. Muslims believe the Golan is part of Syria and Israel illegally occupies it since 1967. As a result of the Six Day War, Israel captured territory that tripled the size of the nation – the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Apparently the Six Day War never happened! LOL! These same countries, Egypt, Jordan and Syria want the land back.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Once the Palestinian myth is busted, the Hashemite Kingdom can return to Saudi Arabia and take those arabs in Judea & Samaria, Gaza, and Golan along with them. Finally the arabs can have what the Jews had for so long, a true birthright, to return home to the Arabian Peninsula.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Egypt got the Sinai back from Israel not once, but twice (in ’56’ Israel captured the Sinai).

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Agree. Its long overdue. Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !

Time to kick out Turkey from NATO after they turned Hagia sofia into mosque and their known support , funding of ISIS. Without turkey support ISIS would have no means to get new recruits from EU/America nor could they have sold oil for cash

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Obama made sure a HARDLINER headed Turkey. Turkey used to be an ally.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago

Agree on the Golan.

As for Gaza, why on earth would Israel want it? Just make it very clear that their interests lie in, at very least, a “cold peace” with Israel.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

They should come to an agreement, maybe sign a peace treaty of some kind or at least a non-aggression pact.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Yes yet another meaningless hudna treaty.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Do you think they could possibly sign a peace treaty of some kind?

Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
5 years ago

I’ve been to the Golan heights. You stand up there and the area that the syrians used to bombard Israeli farmers from, still stands. Bunkers. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. That is the arab, the muslim way of course. And for them to try to destroy Israel, they lost that piece of territory. Go… stand there and see how completely insane it would be to give them an inch of that land back.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

Okay I am a tad jealous. We always wanted to see Israel but most likely that will not happen. From what I have read, it is the northern most and highest point that serves to be a look out point for Israel. It is critical that they keep this land.

Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Go… you see it for yourself. You won’t believe how easy it was for the syrians to murder and torment jews was just standing on the bumper sites where they shot them like fish in a barrel. Go, see for yourself. See all of Israel. Go, see the christian areas, and make up your own mind. You will see for yourself.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

“… but then again all the world’s religions are pagan cults!”

No wonder you will NEVER understand why it is important!
You have no passion for anyone but yourself.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

“… but then again all the world’s religions are pagan cults!”

No wonder you will NEVER understand why it is important!
You have no passion for anyone but yourself.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

No “brain washing” here. History the Bible and archaeology back up the FACT that the land belongs to the Jews. FACTS and EVIDENCE matter!

Again, WHY is it that Jerusalem is NEVER mentioned in the Quran and history and archaeology indicate it belongs to the Jews?

Friend, YOU are the one that has been “brain washed”. You also reject authority, God. No matter what happens I have peace in my life and I can look forward to eternity and being united with loved ones. What do you have to look forward to?

My life has been filled with challenges and then there are times I can’t explain where the outcome was guided by Someone bigger than me. I would never want to be dependent on imperfect reasoning for decisions as you are …. I call high and direct to Perfection for that. You life is a CHOICE and your CHOICES define who you are….in your case, you are an atheist.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

You are a very confused person.
A fence sitter is the most cowardly position to take. Facts and evidence back Judaism and Christianity. Ignore it at your peril.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Definition of agnostic

1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

2 : a person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something

political agnostics

agnosticism play -tə-ˌsi-zəm noun

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

I used Webster’s. That is a source accepted in court. I do not believe that dictionary. com is. What’s a definition of “atheist” doing in a definition of “agnostic”?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

I used Merriam Webster’s definition, verbatim. When did you earn your juris doctorate? I received mine, from the University of Iowa College of Law, in 1978. I did not state, in any way, shape, or form, that agnosticism is the same as atheism. You were SUPPOSEDLY (special emphasis added) posting a definition of agnosticism. Atheism was referenced in your post, with no segue or break.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I agree with your comments about Islam and its rotten beliefs, not least about women and Muslims disgusting treatment of them, but then you accuse others of being “brainwashed”, more than adequately demonstrate how “brainwashed” you are and then talk about “facts” and “truth” while denying the truthful reality of God and facts about his creation. In my opinion you are are more than a little screwed up in your thinking.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

I honestly don’t understand how anyone can ignore history that the BIBLE backs up. I can’t understand how anyone can ignore archaeology that backs up history and the Bible. God is the Author of HIStory !

Lastly, how can anyone deny that the human body could not possibly be created through random chance or over time through evolution! You need ALL the parts working at the same time! Deniers never have an answer for that…

Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

you said it best in your last statement. If you understand your own words then that is something indeed to fight against. That is something to consider, if you value your freedom, and anyone else’s. I prefer not to be blasé’ and indifferent as you seem to be.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

How many Jews died fighting for the Golan Hts. in ’67’ and ’73’? It would dishonor their memory to give it back to the muslum hawse holes.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

What carp. Why the f*ck should Putin and/or Trump have any say whatsoever over what Israel does to secure her borders? It’s not like the f’ing muslum vermin are lobbing rockets and mortar rounds into their countries. Handing one’s border checkpoints over the f’ing muslums isn’t in any way “securing” Israel’s borders. Not now, not ever.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
5 years ago

You have to understand that the US sides with Israel and Jordan. Russia with Iran and Assad. The Israeli AF is piggybacking USAF flights. The whole are is a tinder box. Right now there is fighting with Gaza. Israel is the size of NJ.
https://www.debka.com/quneitra-falls-to-syrian-army-damascus-1974-accord-permits-syrian-air-flights-over-israels-golan-border/

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-Strikes-terror-targets-in-Gaza-563027

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

Too bad Eretz Israel isn’t a reality. Jordan, like any muslum pig’s anus state, is the all-too-typical totalitarian, fascist, anti-Semitic, islamic, religious apartheid state. Jordan’s constitution specifically forbids Jews from being citizens:

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-jews-cannot-become-citizens-of.html

Commieobamie
Commieobamie
5 years ago

Yes.

Kat Mandu
Kat Mandu
5 years ago

Congress has no right or authroity to do that.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Of course the Golan is Israel
– Qazrin, the main town, is right beside ancient Qazrin
– complete with ancient synagogue
– lots of very old synagogues on the Golan
– besides, Israel won the Golan fair and square
– shed a lot of Israeli blood to win it
– and it is a vital strategic area
– should the USA give back Guam? Why?
– this should be 100% an internal matter for Israel
– they should NOT have to ‘ask’ the US
– or anyone else

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

And by the way those ancient synagogues on the Golan
– are more than just interesting ruins
– they tell a vitally important story about the Israelites:
– The Isrealites Never Left!
– the Bible and other ancient histories
– give misleading accounts of the Diaspora
– example: “The Romans defeated the Jews and took them to Rome in chains”
– well yes, they took many, BUT NOT all
– there appear to have been Jews in Israel since Abraham
– many left, or were uprooted, but not all
– it was just technically impossible to round up a conquered people
– and take them all away
– because when the army came, many people ran for hills
– and when the armies left, they came back
– the Crusaders found many Jews in Jerusalem in 1000 AD
– this means that all of Israel [including the Golan]
– has been continuously inhabited by the Israelites
– at least since Moses
– and the archeology proves that

Dennis Durkop
Dennis Durkop
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

All Jewish and Christian tribes were destroyed by Islam in Saudi Arabia centuries ago and some of the other Islamic nations also which continues to this day and now they are in process of invading Europe in force using a tactic of stealth immigration jihad!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis Durkop

Yes and no
– certainly all invaded peoples were forced to submit
– and pay a heavy ‘unbeliever tax’ [Jizya]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
– but Jews and Christians lived among Muslims
– in many places
– eg: Muslims conquered Constantinople
– and subjugated the Greeks for 400 years
– Greek Christians eventually regained Independence in the 1800’s
– eg 2: “Saphardim” means “Spanish Jews”
– who lived in Spain under Muslim rule

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Conquered peoples were usually given 3 choices:
– covert to Islam
– pay the Jizya
– or die

Mr Paul Middleton
Mr Paul Middleton
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I like those two comments of yours, and they are very clear.

But …you say, “Of course the Golan is Israel”, and, “-they [Israel] should not have to ask the US”, but no one, and not this article, which is why we came here in the first place, is suggesting that. Just a small reminder since some comments here may cause people think otherwise, friend, but a few commenters seem to have thought this, for some reason!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Well I am glad that you do not think that the US must approve of every one of Isreal’s actions

– my comments refer to the opinions of some Israelis
– they sometimes think they have to please the US
– but even when Obama treated Israel badly
– Israel still did fine

Mr Paul Middleton
Mr Paul Middleton
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Fine. As you say, I do not think the US must approve of every one of Israel’s actions, but I like it when they – and others, do! God bless Israel. God bless Trump.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

yeah me too

Dennis Durkop
Dennis Durkop
5 years ago

The US Government has much more important pressing matters than this especially protecting our own borders from invaders! Plus really does not matter as it is Israel’s business as throughout history “might is right” just like China in Tibet and South China Sea along with when the time is right Taiwan as sovereignty has nothing to do with it when there were tribesmen on the island who were not Han Chinese for thousands of years before mass Chinese immigration began!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis Durkop

Dennis, as an atheist, you will never understand why this is important.

From your other reply here:
“… but then again all the world’s religions are pagan cults!”

If “might was right” Jerusalem would be in Muslim hands. Notice Israel has never been the aggressor. Israel will defend itself and when possible take back land that has ALWAYS belonged to them. In the King James version of the Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned 810 times (661 in the Old Testament and 149 in the New Testament). Jerusalem is NEVER mentioned in the Quran.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The Temple Mount is in muslum hands.

Dennis Durkop
Dennis Durkop
5 years ago

The Temple was actually located south of there! Several videos on Youtube show the archeological evidence!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis Durkop

Hmmm, the muslums digging up the Temple Mount like the rats they are have unearthed Jewish religious artifacts that were only discovered by sifting thru the detritus of their diggings.

dhd123
dhd123
5 years ago

Obama wanted Israel to go back to the 1967 borders, that was asinine.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  dhd123

Obama IS a closet Muslim. He HATES Jews with a passion as well as Christians, “people of the book”.

April
April
5 years ago

Thats where the oil is. If there was no oil in the ME would anyone give a sh1t

GRA
GRA
5 years ago

Yes indeed I agree this is long, long overdue. Not like those there are paying a lot of taxes to the bordering Arab governments anyway.

Scott Smith
Scott Smith
5 years ago

Throw in the West Bank while you are at it and the next time the muslim Trolglodytes decide to invade Israel annex all their land as well.

Mr. GFYAD
Mr. GFYAD
5 years ago

Syria and Jordan lost the Golan Heights due to their of Israel. My advice, accept the loss and go pound sand.

Patriotic Dave
Patriotic Dave
5 years ago

After what Israel has done for the entire world but especially the USA in exposing Iran’s nuclear weapons efforts by such heroic means recently & continually stopping them in their nuclear development by bombing efforts in Iran as well, the least we can do is let Israel formally have the Golan Heights! The Palestinians declared themselves citizens of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1948 & Syria tried to invade Israel in 1967 which as an unstable State now full of Jihadis should be grateful Israel possess Golan Heights not Jihadis! There shouldn’t be any debate on this from us Americans let alone Republicans!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Maybe Israel and Syria could sign a peace treaty of some kind.

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