I'm curious just to how much of the land you were looking at then looks like it was being used for something. Israel proper was basically a sparsely used desert when it was under the Turkish Caliphate before World War I.
Posted on 11/14/2011 9:30:12 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Israel paid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s grand-uncle $100 million for the Golan Heights before the Six-Day War in 1967, says a former close friend to assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
Dr. Mahmoud Jame’ said Sadat was briefed on the deal, according to the Jordanian-based Albawaba website.
Jame’, a member of the first Consultative Council in Egypt, said, “One morning Sadat took me with him in private and without a guard to the (Syrian part of the) Golan Heights, and I swear by the Almighty G-d that he put his hand on my shoulder and as we were standing on the Golan Heights, he told me literally, ‘Look, Mahmoud, this is the Golan. Can any power seize it so easily, even if it is Israel?”
Sadat’s friend replied, “This is impossible,” and Sadat replied, “I will tell you a dangerous secret – the Golan Heights were purchased by Israel for $100 million. The check was received by both Hafez and Rifa'at al-Assad and deposited in their accounts in a Swiss bank.”
In return, Hafez Assad, order the Syrian forces to withdraw immediately from the Golan Heights in the June 1967 war without firing a single shot and handing it over to Israel, Jame’ continued.
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should be a cancelled check somewhere and a receipt....
Rationalization for defeat. BTW, how did Sadat get there from Egypt? He didn’t walk. The story doesn’t pass the sniff test. It’s BS.
I visited the Golan 5 months after the war..it was littered with Syrian tanks and APCs...I don’t have the time now to look up the battle history, but the outnumbered Israeli brigades that turned back the Syrians paid a horrific price in killed, wounded, and destroyed tanks. It’s one of the finest examples of superior leadership and training, and highly motivated troops, overcoming a tremendous enemy advantage in equipment and manpower.
This is just to play into the arab narrative of Jews and money.
and NOT SO fine print stating: "NO REFUNDS".
anyways, it was not just purchased with money if that is the case, but with lots and lots of blood.
Sounds like someone’s trying to help bring down the Syrian government with this “revelation.”
Well, if that’s true, then the neighboring countries can’t really demand that Israel ‘give back the land it stole’ can they? ;o)
One thing is certain. If Israel bought it, it was paid for by the US taxpayers.
The Syrian battle plan was questionable. They split their forces...the northernmost push was designed to draw in most of the Israeli force, while the main thrust was to be to the south...where they hoped to split the country and drive to the Mediterranean..Syrians hoped to link up insde Israel..
I thought as much. And this is yet another example of Arab rhetorical flourishes acting as an alternative to reality and facts.
Not that I'm complaining. I'd rather see them get it instead of the muslims.
Just cover to hide the fact they got their asses kicked.
The berbers claim they beat us in Sinai, too.
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The Syrians fired a shot or two, not too effectively.
Does this piece of disinformation just happen to come out at this time, as the Arab league is sanctioning the Assad regime and trying to undermine it in the eyes of the Arab world? What better way than to portray the Assad family as what would amount to treasonous (sell outs to Jews) in the eyes of Arabs everywhere.
That it was being used in indisputable. It was used onstantly to shell Israeli settlements below.
By the way, that's a great map of the local area in question. A very useful keeper!
I don't know why you would present this gratuitous observation, but I do know, that as a taxpayer who worked for 47 years, 90% of my income tax payments were spent on absurdly irrational subsidies to koranimals who have wanted to kill us as well as Israel since at least 1975, when the 'palestinians' were invented.
I keep hoping I live to see the day when, rather than having no say whatsoever in this collosal waste, every working taxpaying citizen will be ble to designate where his money may be spent, regardles of how the elected criminals manipulate the tax rates.
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"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, March 31, 1977
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