Golan Heights to June 4, 1967 Should be Liberated
The Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights is an Arab Land since time immemorial. The Arameans inhabited the Golan Heights since the 2nd Millenium BC. The Arameans, whose capital was Damascus, established several kingdoms stretching to the southern part of Damascus and Yarmuk; then the Golan became part of the Assyrian and Chaldean. After that, the Golan came under the rule of the fifth Persian State during Kursh era; in the year 106 AD , the Golan was part of the Arab State during the Roman Age.
By the end of the Nabateans kingdoms, Arab armies gathered at ‘ Al-Yaqousa’ village in the Golan Heights and defeated the Byzantines in the famous Al-Yarmuk Battle in the year 636. In 1118 the Crusaders occupied the Golan Heights save its fortified forts like ‘ Al-Ssibaya’ Fort near Banyas and ‘ Al-Hosson’ near Fiq village before Saladin Al-Ayoubbi liberated it in Hittin Battle near Tiberias.
Afterwards, the Golan came under attacks by the Moguls, and then ruled by the Ottoman occupation, then the French occupation. On June 5, 1967, Israeli occupation forces occupied this dear part of Syria. I do remember that very day, which is ever alive within me!
On July 10, 2001, the late Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon in a visit to Katsarin settlement in the Golan Heights, called in provocative statements for the expansion of Jewish settlements in the Syrian Golan Heights as to turn ‘’ the settlements of the Golan to a reality that cannot be reversed,’’. He, as Netanyahu of today, claimed that “the Golan was part of the Israeli historic land, ‘’ archaeologists, even though the Israeli archaeological excavations works and surveys carried out in the Golan are illegal in contradiction with international laws and regulations, including Geneva Conventions, UN Charter and UNESCO regulations which ban excavation in occupied territories, have unearthed ‘findings’-fabricated and falsified- related to the Israeli existence and deep-rooted Jewish existence in this land!!!
Today, the Syrians remind Netanyahu, he probably convened today’s meetings and issued such fabricated lies at the orders of his affiliates among the backers of terrorism, as to be sure that the only fact, which can never be reversed is the Syrian Arab Identity of our Golan.
This very identity is internationally recognized by the world community and legitimacy through the tens of issued resolutions, especially 242, 338, 476, and 497 of the UN Security Council not to mention ten others by the General Assembly and other international organizations, fora and summits. You can never change the realities of geography and history; as long as the Sun rises from east as sets in west, the Golan is ours. Mr. Netanyahu, you should very well know that the Syrian Golan Heights does have brave men as those of Hizbollah freedom fighters, who, heroically liberated the South of Lebanon. The Syrian valiant Army, after years of the fight against all terrorists of the world, including against those backed and armed by you, would consider the liberation of the Syrian Golan Heights but a picnic!
Before today’s Israeli Cabinet assembly, in affiliation and direct coordination with the Wahabbis, Ottomans and terrorists nearby, Israeli Bibi should have read the Torah well and considered some previous official Israeli statements including those of the extremist Rabbi, Ovadia Youssef, who described Arabs as snakes to be killed. Youssef, who once backed the then Israeli premier, Barak’s decision as to withdraw from the Syrian Heights, said ‘’ The Golan is a Syrian territory and will be returned to Syria in any settlement and we have to admit that and not waste time’’ ‘’ The Golan doesn’t form part of the land of Israel.’’. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak himself admitted on Feb.28th, 2000, as Israel Radio reported on this very day, that former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had deposited with the Americans a pledge of withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to June 4, 1967 border lines for security arrangements. Barak indicated that the US administration conveyed this pledge in due time to Syria.
Even the Torah never mentioned any hints considering Netanyahu’s fabricated lies; the Torah spoke of the Arameans supremacy in defending Damascus against enemies citing the battle of AFiq,( Fiq) the Syrian village in the Golan, where Ben-hadad, the Aramean King heroically defended the capital Damascus‘’ Once the wrath of God intensified on Israel, He pushed them into the hands of Hazza’el, the King of Aram, and then to the hands of his son Ben-hadad,’’.
Such Israeli statements would but reinforce Syrians’ pledge as to restore the Golan Heights recalling the late President Hafez Assad’s saying that we would make the Golan in the middle of Syria. If it was a matter of few meters as president Bashar said why don’t the Israelis withdraw from the Golan ‘in implementation for related international resolutions, and give us some few meters on the Western side of Tiberias; which is of course an occupied Arab piece of land.
Netanyahu’s hawkish and war mongering statements and practices on the ground would never bring security but the opposite! Wars could never put an end for a single dispute along history.Let peace loving forces have a say in the region affairs. You were given more than a chance to conclude the last chapter of your blood-tainted book differently; you have missed every single opportunity; a leopard can never change its skin. In the ongoing crisis in Syria, Israel foolishly is collaborating with the forces of wahabbism, darkness and ignorance which aim but at its destruction!
The Syrians, as their own hero president, H.E. Bashar Al-Assad, stated on August 1, 2011, ” will remain free in our national decision-making and sovereign in our international relations and our resistant course to achieve just and comprehensive peace according to international legitimacy resolutions that stipulate for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab lands up to the June 4th 1967 line… those who bet on other than that are delusional… hardships make us more resilient, conspiracies make us stronger, and pressure causes it to adhere more to our standards and rights that cannot be liquidated or marginalized.”
Indeed Mr. Bibi, “the time has come for the international community to recognize reality,”; yes the reality, internationally recognized, is what is : the Golan Heights is occupied by Israel. Mr. Netanyahu once decision as to change border, you have no saying whatsoever in the globe of today! Yes, “the time has come after 40 years for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights” will but be returned to its owners. It is for sure that once the decision is taken to restore the Golan Heights by force, hopefully through the diplomatic and peaceful means of the resumption of the peace talks, which achieved more than 90 percent, Israel will have no saying, neither allies hence the Wahabbi Monarchy only represents itself but not all Arabs.
Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim
alibrahim56@hotmail.com
