Guy Bechor
Photo: Yariv Katz
A million hungry souls
Brutal transfer committed by Syrian regime finally recognized by UN
Syria
can no longer hide the immense transfer it has embarked on in respect to more than one million of its miserable citizens, after a UN report two weeks ago exposed the bitter truth successfully concealed thus far: More than 300,000 Syrian families have been uprooted by authorities from their homes in eastern Syria and abandoned in the country’s major cities without any means of making a living. The reason: An illogical policy of forced agricultural in the east of the country that included forcing residents to grow water-hungry corps such as cotton and wheat; this prompted water wells to dry up completely and led to deep hunger.
This is the greatest transfer operation undertaken in the Middle East in dozens of years and Syria tried as much as possible to hide it, as it cannot admit to such grave economic failure while also admitting that it is no different than hunger and drought stricken African nations. Now everyone also understand how deeply desperate Syria was to get its hands on our Sea of Galilee, in order to dry it up completely by transferring water in pipes to eastern Syria, to the arid and no longer inhabitable areas.
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Syria also prefers to bow down to Turkey, so that the latter perhaps hand over more water from the Euphrates. The issue of water involving Syria, Turkey, and Iraq is grave and severe, yet everyone tries to hide it as much as is possible. I already wrote in the past about the Syrian plot to take over the Sea of Galilee in order to resolve its water crisis, and now we got the official proof in the form of the UN report.
Our Golan buffer
What would have happened had Israel handed over the Golan to Syria? Where would the Syrians deliberately and immediately relocate their million uprooted citizens to, in order to take over the area and be kept away from the major cities? The answer is clear – the Golan Heights; there is water there. Bashar Assad dreams of filling the Golan with one million Syrians, and then northern Israel will be in his hands; when he wishes to do so, he will prompt “resistance” and then roll his eyes to the heavens and declare that he doesn’t know who did it.
Given that the ethnic rule in Syria is artificial – that is, the small 7% Alawite minority rules over the other hostile 93% of citizens – a civil war is merely a matter of time. In Iraq, a Sunni minority ruled over a Shiite majority, yet the Middle East is mostly Sunni. Alawites can only be found in Syria. Should this happen, and the Golan will be deliberately inhabited by Syrian citizens, the terrible ethnic war will also immediately boil over to our Galilee. There will be neither stability nor peace; it will only open the door for much worse trouble.
The Syrian regime has made a reputation of forced transfers of its oppressed citizens: It already transferred about one million Syrian citizens to Lebanon in order to take over its economy, and now another one million Syrians were transferred from the east of the country, under terrible conditions of coercion and brutality. This, of course, does not stop the Syrian regime from raising a hue and cry in respect to Israel’s “horrific acts” in Gaza.
Fortunately, we have the Golan in order to isolate us from the civil war that will be raging in Syria, as happened in its neighboring country, Iraq. The Golan also serves as a buffer in the face of the brutal Syrian regime; it is doubtful whether the US president knew what the regime is doing to more than one million of its own miserable citizens when he decided to renew diplomatic ties with Damascus. It is the very same Syria whose regime is still the only suspect in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
After reading this article, no Israeli would again be able to claim: I didn’t know. Should the Golan Heights be handed over to Syria, the plateau will be filled with people incited against us and deliberately used to target northern Israel, in an organized and unorganized manner. In a world of lies, deception, and concealment of the truth, this article is a warning.
