Israeli Sinister Schemes in the Occupied Golan
The Israeli occupation forces, unfortunately, exploited some disappointing Arab , regional, and international conditions, in order to take the void and null decision to annex the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
On the Arab level, the disagreement on Arab policy, the involvement of Iraq in its futile war with Iran, the support of the Arab Gulf states given to this war, and Egypt ‘s absence from the Arab front were among the main factors that enabled Israel to carry out its annexation decision.
On the international level, the strategic cooperation agreement between Israel and the USA, the hesitant European policy and the weakness of the United Nations enabled Israel to act obstinately and arrogantly , in disregard for all international laws and conventions.
On 14/12/1981, the Israeli government led by Menahem Begin announced the annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan heights and the Israeli Parliament ” Knesset” approved a draft resolution to this effect at a majority of 63 votes against 24.
The world community at large denounced such a null decision. Almost all countries, including those who are allied with Israel, denounced the Israeli decision and denounced its challenge of the whole international community. All the socialist countries as well as the West European countries: France, Britain, Spain, Holland, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece and Austria and the then European Economic community, the Italian labor Union and parties of the ruling coalition in West Germany, including the social Democratic Party and the Democratic Liberal party condemned the Israeli decision .
The Israeli decision was also denounced by Iran, India, Japan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Afghanistan, South and North Koreas in Asia, the Niger, the Senegal, Mali, Nigeria and the Cameroon in Africa and Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Chile in America, in addition to a number of prominent non Zionist Jewish figures and organizations in the United States and Australia.
International organizations also participated in expressing dissatisfaction anger, and criticism regarding the annexation decision and they considered it as the most hostile decision issued by one country against another , after the Second World War.
Kurt Waldheim, former secretary general of the Un expressed his strong anxiety over the Israeli decision.
The decision was also categorically rejected by Afro-Asian Solidarity Organization, the World ‘s Journalists Union, the International Union of Students , the World Peace Council, the peace Council in the GDR, the Soviet Committee of Defense of peace and the Hungarian peace council.
Four days after Israel ‘s announcement of its decision on 18/1/ 1981, the UN Security Council held a meeting and called on the Israeli entity to rescind its decision to annex the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The UN Security Council decided on Tuesday 5/1/ 1985 to hold unofficial consultations with its members and then adopted a resolution, calling for ceasing arm supplies to Israel, severing commercial and diplomatic relations with Israel. But, as was expected, the USA vetoed the draft resolution, which had won an absolute majority- which was nine votes against one, and five abstentions . Thus, the USA again stressed its hostile attitude towards Arabs and revealed that it encourages the usurpation of the land of others by force.
Immediately, after announcing its decision of annexing the Golan, it tried again to impose Israeli identity cards on Syrian Arab citizens.
Therefore, a meeting was held by our people in the village of Majdal Shams, which is one of the Golan ‘s most important villages. The meeting was also attended by the Golan ‘s sheikhs and men of religion who called for a three-day general strike in all the villages of the Golan, in protest against the imposition of the Israeli identity cards on Arab citizens and to stress the Arab identity of the Golan ‘s citizens , as well as their loyalty to and belonging to their motherland, the Syrian Arab Republic.
All the people of the Golan, without exception, had favorably responded to that call. But as a reaction to the Israeli Government ‘s obstinacy and refusal to comply with UN resolutions and international principles which prohibit the making of changes in the status of occupied territories by force. The meeting held in Majdal Shams had decided to continue to categorically reject Israeli identity cards. An inevitable requirement of justice for the Arab rights which are supported by the international law, the Syrian Arab Republic, which, before and after the American veto, had drawn the attention of all Arab and the World public opinion to the dangers attendant on the Israeli stand regarding peace and security to this part of the world. Syria had announced that it reserved its right to take appropriate measures against this flagrant violation of the UN Charter and resolutions, including the UN security council resolution no. 338 and it considers the Israeli decisions of annexing the Golan as a declaration of war against Syria, as a cancellation of the cease-fire and of the disengagement agreement.
Indeed, as the late President Hafez Al-Assad underscored in one of his speeches which followed the Israeli decision of annexing the Syrian Golan and the American veto in the Security Council , ”the Golan was not occupied by a law enacted by Israel, and its liberation will not be decided by the existence of such a law.” The Israeli occupied Golan is but the Syrian Arab land, which is definitely to be restored to the bosom of the motherland.
Tomader Fateh