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The Golan and the coming troubles
Riccardo Dugulin
Published: 11.03.13, 18:20
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1. The un Should Have Marching Orders Now
(03.11.13)
Invade syria, apprehend assad, throw him in jail in genva (hague), dismantle al-queda rebels, EXPELL hizbullah terrorists and persian arab terrorists AND DO YOUR FRICKEN JOB! Or Someone Else Will Do It For You, you have no say when this happens!
2. No ifs or buts
Get Real ,   UK   (03.11.13)
Israel cannot be expected to wait for the medium term.Neither can there be any (short term) sustainable periods. Any attacks from whom whatsoever against Israel from across the border need to be met with an immediate and harsh response. It falls to any Syrian regime to maintain calm,if it fails to do so it can be held accountable for terrorism emanating from its territory just as Lebanon and Gaza are for the terrorism of Hezbollah and Hamas. Unless Israel makes this clear from the beginning it will have a third terror entity facing its borders.
3. lets not forget
(03.11.13)
Fact: Assad will eventually be replaced by very well-armed and experienced jihadists who have already declared they want to attack Israel. Fact: there was nothing Israel could do to prevent this. Fact: fortunately, to attack across the natural borders of the Golan is almost impossible. They will try, but fail. Fact: the Left, including Barak, Livni, Olmerd, Peres, Yehimovitch and Mofaz (even Lapid in 2010), were doing their best to make sure Israel did not control the Golan. Fact: we had a lucky escape. Can someone explain why Israelis still support the Left?
4. REMIND ME.....
ALAN ,   USA   (03.11.13)
WHY WAS THE UN THERE?
5. #4. Even the UN has forgotten why they WERE there.
Harry Wright ,   UK   (03.11.13)
They only know why they are no longer there. Good question though.
6. Unreadable, meaningless, pandering, poor writing/thinking
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.12.13)
7. Purpose of UN till now
shrinkDave ,   miami usa   (03.12.13)
was to get wined and dined by Hezbollah who could then manipulate UN troops to give strategic information to Hezbollah or to make sure UN troops are looking the other way while Hez takes delivery of hardware. UN troops are better than nothing. Not by much, though.
8. How long till Meretz & olmert want a peace treaty with syria
zionist forever   (03.12.13)
In the last 20 years every PM other than Bibi ( second time round ) and Sharon have all been desperate to give up the Golan in exchange for a a treaty to be signing on the White House lawn. The one thing we have to be grateful to Obama for is he was focussed on getting a peace deal with the palestinians rather than Syria so there has been no pressure on Bibi. If the left had got their way we would have signed a treaty with Assad, nobel prizes would have been handed out and then one day something like this civil war would have happened and the strong man with his army would be toppled and the Syrian controlled Golan would become a launch pad for firing rockets deep into Israel. Its also evidence why nobody should arm the rebels which the Europeans are currently considering. All it takes is the rebels to shoot down a single aircraft or fire modern western missiles into Israel and we will have a full scale war on our hands to destabilise the region a little more.
9. #4,#5,#7
Get Real ,   UK   (03.12.13)
The question now is what is the UN going to do about the military violation on the Syrian side of the border that UNDOF has monitored
10. # 3
Jules   (03.12.13)
The Left have a lot of money and therefore can fool anyone at the elections.
11. ? WHAT NEW INFO IS OFFERED HERE ??
Rafi ,   US   (03.13.13)
12. #6, Benassi, that pretty much sums up all your posts
Jake   (03.13.13)
13. What difference does it make if Hezbollah is on the Golan?
Thomas the Doubter ,   USA   (03.13.13)
What could they do there that they can't already do from south Lebanon? I've been to both the Lebanon border area and to the Israeli Golan and it seems that there are many more targets for Hezbollah to shoot at from Lebanon than there are up on the Golan plateau. Be more worried about al-Qaeda I would say because those guys are massively battle hardened from going up against the US Army and Marines every day for years in Iraq, and they seem to have a lot of boldness and very little fear, unlike Hezbollah.
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