[knighthawk]

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[AussieLeftie]

``With our blood and soul, we sacrifice ourselves for the Golan.''

Somehow I don't think they're going to give it up.

[SJackson]

After its 1967 capture, Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 and populated it with settlers. In all, about 18,000 Israelis live there along with some 17,000 Arabs, who follow the Druse religion, an offshoot of Islam.

If Israel were to give up the Golan, would those 18,000 Israelis be allowed to stay, as the Druse have?

[woollyone]

OK...what's wrong with these two thoughts, when taken together?...

...Israel should buy the disputed Golan Heights from Syria...
...which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War."

To the victor go the spoils. Is somebody missing the obvious here?

[NevadaY]

Hmmm.... wonder where they'll get the money...... I suppose if they let us store nuke waste or something there we'd be willing to help them out.....

[ml/nj]

Israel's justice minister on Tuesday said Israel should buy the disputed Golan Heights from Syria as a way of keeping hold of the strategic plateau.

The guy is an idiot.

He is implicitly saying that the Golan is Syria's to sell, or not sell. It is not. It is part of Israel

ML/NJ

[hangin' chad]

Only if Israel can get it at "wholesale" prices...never pay retail for a piece of strategic land.

[rebdov]

Israel bought the Golan Heights with Jewish blood. Before 1967 the Muslim barbarians were constantly lobbing shells on Jewish communities from the heights and it was almost impossible to defend against their attacks. Miraculously the Jews took the Golan in '67 and paid for them in blood. The Jews owe the Arabs nothing.

[crystalk]

Golan an integral part of Israel. It was conquered in 1967 in quite a costly and difficult struggle. Israel holds this area, biblically known as Bashan, partly upon its biblical status as part of the Israel patrimony:

--and partly by the same right that the United States holds many of its own territories-- the right of conquest.

[RightWhale]

They should buy everything. West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon. Maybe Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Buy it all.

[SJackson]

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At this point "buy" it from who could become an issue. Having already annexed the Golan, suggesting a purchase merely delegitimizes the annexation.

[bert]

Is not the question moot?

Since the Syria of the last war no longer really exists and is failing, why bother?

The status quo is that the territory is de facto Israeli at present

[PapaBear3625]

Israel might be able to buy the Golan Heights from Assad, paid for with ammo and supplies for his beleaguered army.

But if Syria falls to ISIS, the new ISIS government would repudiate the sale, and Israel would be back where they started.

[patriot torch]

There shouldn’t be any dispute over land ownership. God granted Title and Deed to Israel 4,000 years ago and recorded it in the best Registrar of Deeds known to man:

Genesis 15:18

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

That same Title was transferred through Isaac by promise. Not Ishmael!