I seriously doubt Ms. Barbara Slavin that Israelis want to put people on the Golan Heights, it is SO dangerous to do so. I think they want people on the settlements down below the heights, along the sea of Galilee. that area is mostly agricultural, with small towns popping up, and guess what, LARGE settlements of Arab Israelis already living there. So hold your indignation. The Israelis are getting "nervous" want to balance out this factor.

its probably mostly for moving to the Galilee. Israelis really want people to live in some of the areas there, just like they want people to start to move into the Negev desert.

However, having been in the Golan, it's not that dangerous. Israelis go there all the time for tourism and the wine industry is booming there. It's beautiful up there.

As another commenter wrote, Golan is Syrian. Syrians were killing Israelis with rockets, mortars and sniper fire. Israel took it over in a defensive move. What would you do, if after you moved in, your neighbor kept throwing stuff at you like grenades, Molotov cocktails, rocks, spears, anything else he had on hand, trying to kill you and your family, and to destroy your house? Call the police? What would you do if the police told you to handle it yourself?

Really very wonderful post you wrote here and comment as well.
what a observation of GDRIVER. There is good platform to discuss i am here via comment RSS.
Home Automation

"What would you do, if after you moved in, your neighbor kept throwing stuff at you like grenades, Molotov cocktails, rocks, spears, anything else he had on hand, trying to kill you and your family, and to destroy your house?"

Seriously? Go over to the neighbor's house, knock on the door and ask to speak to the thrower-in-question. Like any person over the age of 5.

Your neighbor hates you? On what grounds? Because he thinks you're the stereotype he was taught to believe? Sounds familiar.

Go introduce yourself. Bring a pie. What are the chances he's just a guy who was taught to hate and bought it hook, line and sinker because he's never come into contact with "another" who hasn't filled that stereotypical bill.

Be the exception. Put on some big boy pants and reach out.

We teach our children to do it, yet somehow adult circumstances negate the effectiveness? No, they don't. Think politics and sanctions are going to mend human relationships? They won't.

Follow the money trail. Who does Jews v. Muslims and Israel v. Palestine benefit.

You know who. And you know the issue is too large to tackle as is. Got to start small, with a knock and a friendly smile.

"You claim that before 1923, the borders between Syria and Israel were not defined."

I am talking about Mandate Palestine that later became Israel, dipshit. And yes, before 1923, the borders between the British Mandate and the French Mandate were NOT defined. Neither Syria existed as an independent state nor did Israel or just about any other middle eastern state.

"Arab land in the West Bank and Jerusalem are springing like wild grass. New filthy Zionist faithful are flooding the occupied territories to claim stolen Palestinian land."

Arab homes are also springing up all over the west bank. Both legally and illegally. Take a look at a map. "Occupied" by arabs that is. For some reason those lands weren't "occupied" when the Egyptians and Jordanians controlled them for 20 years, but now suddenly when Jews have them, they are "occupied." Stolen Palestinian land? Tell me, from which Palesitnian state did they take it from? Oh, that's right, there never was one! Let them fight for the land occupied by the Hashemites from Saudi Arabia. Yes, Jordan, whose land came from the Palestine mandate and was handed over to some petty kings.

Oh and speaking of Haiti, the Israelis were the only ones to send a real medical unit team with top of the line technology to save lives. Even CNN did a report on it.

The "arabs" can go back to Arabia. They are no more rightful occupiers than the romans or crusaders were.

For proving once again you, Israel, the Likud party, and the way you digress into insulting everyone if they challenge or defy you are all the ugly face of Judaism.

Go back to your hasbara institute in your capital of Tel Aviv. Your ilk are not wanted here or anywhere. You just to stupid to realize it.

Your every response shows us just how ugly jews, israel, and you are.

Keep it up.

and antisemite. also, thanks for never responding with facts. It makes debating a lot easier.

rent cabins up there, tour there, and they are turning it into huge wine making area. Having just been there, I can assure you that the national sentiment towards the Golan is very very strong. More so than many other places.

Arizona, and New Mexico? Maybe we should return them to Mexico? I am not sure, what is the American sentiment towards California? Is that yavol, nazi like? Silly cunt.

Islike inviting China to become an undisputed Hegemon(sp?) of the part of the world between the International Date Line and Central Asia.

The U.S. was a huge mistake to Mexico and the Native Americans and countless other nations. I guess its too bad that people's subjective opinions on what nations should or should not exist make no difference in reality. Frankly I don't think the Israelis, Taiwanese, or a any other people really care about what you think from your comfortable living room on stolen native american land.

dipshit cumbag. That 14k comes from private sources. With only $50 from that 14k, I could pay to fuck your wife a few times.

For proving once again you, Israel, the Likud party, and the way you digress into insulting everyone if they challenge or defy you are all the ugly face of Judaism.

Go back to your hasbara institute in your capital of Tel Aviv. Your ilk are not wanted here or anywhere. You just to stupid to realize it.

Your every response shows us just how ugly jews, israel, and you are.

Keep it up.

Agreed

bulwark, stemming the tide of radical Islamic fanaticism. Once they move past Israel, it's on to andalusia and the gates of vienna.

bin laden, the taliban, nuclear weapons, and a security service overrun by islamic fanatics. Same with Saudi Arabia a country teaming with insane fanatics.

You are just jealous khan that the "joos" are such good fighters. They survive the onslaught of waves of arab and muslim attacks, boycotts, and propaganda.

Khan, go back to driving your taxi you islamic faggot.

Arabs are among the most backwards people on the planet. Do you really want to set your bar at their level?

sheltered Muslim bosnians during the balkan wars. Yes, Israel was one of the few countries to give asylum and shelter to bosnian muslims.

Also, dont forget the muslim SS Nazi Hanjar Division that was responsible for some of the genocide in europe of jews, gypsies, and partisans. Don't forget that Shiek Hussaini, the Palestinian leader was sending nazi propaganda from berlin to the middle east and broadcasting daily nazi propaganda via the radio in berlin. The arabs even tried to create a nazi allied government in iraq.

Night has come and gone since I was last here. I knew what I wrote would make a ruckus because any debate touching upon Israel does so regardless if it be an attack, a defence, or simply, in my case, proffering of the fact that there were people occupying that area before the Israelites, as one may tell from the those versions of their origins that can be verified by archaeology and comparison with earlier Mesopotamian and Egyptian texts. Nor were those people all unsettled nomads since the eponymous lifestyle for which the city of Sodom is renowned suggests an affluent and leisured existence.

What is both true and remarkable is that Jews appear to have attracted exceptional levels of vilification through history, a phenomenon which one may detect as early as the story of the Exodus where, in spite of subsequent spin applied to the details, it is fairly clear that they were chased from Egypt by Pharaoh and the priests, more than probably as persistent adherents to the short-lived monotheist religion which was being so aggressively dismantled in favour of the panoply of ancient gods. Tacitus, in his Historia 5 (v), is uncharacteristically virulent, and other Roman writers express confused distaste. Leaping the tumults of the Middle Ages, it is hardly likely that the archetype that gave rise to Shylock and the Jew of Malta can have been inventions of Shakespeare or Marlowe. Then, I am old enough to recall when Jews were not permitted entry to many US social clubs and gatherings. It is hardly necessary to rehearse the horrors of the holocaust, but now there seems to be a new impatience burgeoning in places from Scandinavia to the antipodes. What can be the reason for all this?

It may be I have had a sheltered life but I have never heard any gentile express unqualified love for the Jewish people, a circumstance I find immeasurably sad.

I have often heard individuals declare they love the Americans, or French, or Italians or whatever, but I have never heard a gentile express such affection for the Jews collectively. And, indeed, rational research might usefully be undertaken to identify why this phenomenon persists since there exists nothing else quite like it, and it (that is to say the phenomenon NOT the Jewish people) is a thorn in the bosom of humanity.

al jazeera and go to their socialist workers of the world meetings.

agree with it. Oh, and here we go with the "nazi" analogy! Only morons make such simplistic childish, emotional analogies.

that "Zionists lie so much because they control the media and Congress and they can always get away with their deception."

Yeah, here is my comment "go fuck your mother you antisemitic pig." How's that? This is an ancient lie that non-jews tell "jewish world dominance" that has caused so many jews to die in europe and elsewhere. You can't even respond with facts, so you respond with stupid attacks that Jews control the world or the media. Grow up baby.

because he can't debate, he calls me a Zionist agent with "handlers." Is that how you debate everyone? I don't think that wins you many points in debate class. "you are wrong, because you are a zionist murderer agent." Yeah, right......

True tell has never been to Israel or palestinian territories. He just thinks he knows a lot from reading "betzelem" reports, which are considered a joke among Israelis and most other analysts. Yep and a few quotes out of context too, to show how much the jews control the world. Maybe they control you! And you are a double agent! They are soo powerful. Maybe they will use their amazing powers to shut down your computer. Be careful you loon.

in Palestine and other "arab" lands since the time of mohamed. The jews were continually killed, murdered, and raped by Arab muslims who called the jews "dhimmi" or lesser beings. Now they cry when someone does not treat them as superior.