Posted on 03/26/2019 7:32:32 AM PDT by Amerisraelhere
The United States has formally recognized Israel’s sovereign control over the Golan Heights. In a White House ceremony today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump once again aligned American policy with reality – and the geostrategic interests of the United States.
After all, having the high ground and aquifers of the Golan firmly in Israel’s hands means that such assets cannot be weaponized by her Syrian, Iranian and Hezbollah enemies – and ours. Doing otherwise would be a sure-fire formula for regional war, or worse.
So, will President Trump apply the same logic to the West Bank, another territory with high ground and water resources vital to Israel’s survival? His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly is recommending a so-called “peace plan” that would recklessly require the surrender of much of that area to Palestinians seeking Israel’s destruction.
Don’t go there, Mr. President.
This makes sense.
Either way it’s no win.
Uhhh...unlike the Golan, Israel has never annexed the West Bank, except for East Jerusalem.
I think the Israelis would like nothing better than to leave the hell-hole of the West Bank but only stay because of their own security.
No. Israel has occupied all of the West Bank before. It did not go well and it will not go well now.
Two of the main differences between the Golan Heights and the West Bank are (a) the numbers and density of the Arab populations are very different, with the population in the Golan very small, and (b) the level and sophistication of Arab separatist political organization in the two areas is very different, with that organization in the Golan is minimal.
A better peace plan for the West Bank would be (a) an Israeli-Jordanian agreement on a division of the West Bank between them, (b) with that agreement folding the Jordanian section back into the formal territory of Jordan, and (c) that agreement extending the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty terms to the portion of the West Bank re-annexed by Jordan.
The same sort of joint-agreement should be made between Israel and Egypt concerning Gaza.
With those two agreements, the politics of the West Bank and Gaza will come under the political control of Jordan and Egypt, with whom Israel already has peace treaties. It will be up to Jordan and Egypt to take down the political-gangster outfits known as Hamas and Fatah (Fatah is the main gangsters in the PLO).
What we call the west bank The Bible refers to as the mountains of Israel and include all the areas promised to the patriarchs. I don’t think they just want to give it up.
Golan is one thing. West Bank’s integration would stir up every hornet’s nest on the planet.
Nice photo.
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