Posted on 12/08/2016 5:41:37 AM PST by Kaslin
The Azerbaijani leadership and its Baku-controlled media have remained completely silent on multiple declarations, beginning this past April, regarding the state of Israel's intent to officially annex the Golan Heights and surrounding areas. Baku should be deeply concerned because the arguments Israel uses to support such annexation pale in contrast with those already in place on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian-inhabited region that lies between the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Golan Heights
Israel claims Greater Golan was part of ancient Israel, repeats refrains of “we will never give it bac,” “the world must get used to the new reality,” and “who do we give it back to?” None of these hold water in diplomatic circles. However, the reality is that the Golan Heights was captured from Syria in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and its inhabitants and settlers are subject to Israeli civil and military laws; yet, most importantly, it has remained relatively peaceful.
Negotiations, reported as secret, have taken place between Syria and Israel over the status of the Golan Heights, the latest being sometime in 2010. Negotiations were cut off when Syria plunged into civil war. Israel was willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in “exchange for specific security guarantees, including a demonstration that the Assad government would stop acting as an Iranian proxy.” This is significant because it demonstrates that Israel captured Golan, kept it under its jurisdiction, and would indeed return it for strategic security reasons. It is unknown what the fate of its Jewish population will be; perhaps they would return to Israel. Conversely today, a full annexation of Golan, Israel argues, also secures its northeastern border.
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I can’t see the Israelis giving up the high ground. They remember their farmers getting shot up from there pre-’67. A farmer on a tractor is good gunnery exercise for a tank crew, and in the Middle East, how do you know the people in charge in X years will maintain old agreements?
I suspect this is talk for talks sake. Which has its place from a diplomacy perspective.
This would be nuts. Israel must never give up the Golan. "Security guarantees" are only so good as the whims of the current Muslim government. Would ISIS or their like honor such a guarantee?
By his way of thinking, a US declaration of independence would never be accepted by international law. We would always be “separatists”.
NK was historically Armenian, and it is still Armenian. The people there don’t want to be ruled by Azeris, and they are prepared to fight to remain free of Azeri rule.
That, and only that, is what gives them “legal” right to be free.
If the Azeris succeed in conquering them, they will base their legal claim on a soviet administrative ruling, from when they were both ruled by the soviets, an entity that doesn’t exist any more.
A bit concerning in that Israel supplies Azerbaijan with so much military technology...
I thought Begin annexed the Golan Heights?
Yep. The Golan is fully under Israeli civilian law since about this date in 1981. It is not under any military authority such as in Judea and Samaria.
No way Israel should give up the Golan Heights simply because of the wineries located there.
With todays weapons for Israel to give up the Golan would be suicide. It would make all of northern Isreal fish in an islamic barrel, a very shallow barrel.
Isn’t it amazing how China gets a complete pass on TIBET, despite TWO Security Council resolutions in the 1960s demanding they withdraw? Only tiny Israel gets the clubbing in the alley treatment.
Tibet and East Turkestan were sovereign and independant nations that were invaded by Red China. No one remembers
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