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Golan Heights: From annexation to recognition
Zvi Hauser
Published: 18.12.16, 20:54
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1. TO THE US EMBASSY !
FO ,   Belgium   (12.19.16)
To the USA Embassy : Concerning the Golan Heights. Please transmit following text to President Elect Donald Trump and his team. An American “Center for Security Policy” was created in 1988 with the goal “To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American Security, and to act promptly to ensure they are the subject of focused national examination and effective action”. This Center made a detailed study about the GOLAN HEIGHTS by a team involving the following persons: General John Foss, General Al Gray, Lieutenant Bernard Schriever, Admiral Carl Trost, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Assistant and Deputy Assistants Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, Douglas J. Feith, Frank Gaffney Jr, Henry S. Rowen and last but not least, Eugene Rostow Author of UNSC RESOLUTION 242. Some excerpts of this Special Report: “The Palestine Mandate as granted to Great Britain at the San Remo Conference of 1920, and confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922… The borders of this Mandate were internationally agreed upon because they corresponded with those of the Historical and Geographical Land of Eretz Israel and were intentionally delineated as basis for the RECONSTITUTION of the Jewish National Home… The Golan Heights were illegally given away to the French Mandate of Syria-Lebanon on March 1923. This territorial transfer was made surreptitiously in a capricious and arbitrary fashion by the British whose sole interest was to secure Mosul’s oil fields to Iraq… A Mandate is a Trust, according to ART. 80 of the UN Charter. Israel’s decision to impose its Laws on the Golan Heights on December 14, 1981, has eventually RIGHTED the WRONG that was committed by the British in March 1923… The Golan Heights as they are known today were never part of Syrian real estate but part of the Palestine Mandate”.
2. Israel need to reclaim our lands we foolishly abandoned
Chaim ,   Israel   (12.19.16)
The Golan is Israeli forever. Israel needs to abandon the lunatic policy of retreat and reclaim our lands we foolishly abandoned. Only suffers endless wars, terror and rockets from South Lebanon and Gaza solely because of our mad retreats from those places. We need to totally reverse the policy of retreat.
3. Golan is Syria, says the UN, Geneva, and all international l
blu   (12.20.16)
Wet Dreams - the Golan is Syria and the entire UN and Obama adminitration knows it
4. obamas half way out of the door
BUILD BABY BUILD !!   (12.20.16)
He was an anti semitic anti Israeli nightmare.
Thank G-d he and his female henchman are both gone.
5. New ME Borders Are Needed
MadDad ,   Johannesburg RSA   (12.21.16)
Trump needs to define the borders of a new ME that takes into account the aspirations of the following peoples:
1. Kurds
2. Druze
3. Sunni
4. Shia
5. Jews

The counties affected are:
1. Syria
2. Iraq
3. Turkey
4. Iran
5. Israel

The countries that will no longer exists are:
1. Syria
2. Iraq

The new countries that will emerge are:
1. Sunni-stan
2. Shia-ville
3. Kurdistan
4. Gaza-pore

While the details still need to be defined by Trump - the only thing that is DEFINITELY clear is that Israel WILL have the Golan.
Also Gaza should get recognition as an independent state.
6. Golan and Westbank sovereignty
Gershon ,   Launceston   (12.23.16)
Golan was part of mandatory Palestine all of which was to be made into Israel by decision of the League of Nations, predecessor of the UN. In 1941 or 1942 the UK illegally gave Golan to Syria. Most of the Golan was privately owned by Jews, who transferred their title to the JNF, who in turn, if I recall correctly, assigned it to the Israeli gov't. The so called Westbank historically has always been Jewish. It was Jordan that renamed Judea and Samaria the Westbank after it invaded Israel in 1948.
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