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Israel Offers Golan Heights To Syria
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-9-2007 | Charles Levinson

Posted on 06/08/2007 7:24:49 PM PDT by blam

Israel offers the Golan Heights to Syria

By Charles Levinson in Katzrin, Israel
Last Updated: 2:16am BST 09/06/2007

The Israeli prime minister has offered to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, the nation's press reported yesterday.

Israelis tour a military bunker in the Golan Heights. The strategic highlands could be returned to Syria in exchange for peace

In a secret communique, Ehud Olmert demanded that in exchange for the return of the strategic highlands, Syria dissolve its alliances with Iran, Hezbollah and Palestinian militant factions who maintain headquarters in Damascus.

Syria, under the regime of Bashar al Assad, is a key supporter of the Lebanese Shia Hizbollah militia, who battled Israel to a standstill last summer. Many of the anti-tank rockets that wreaked havoc on Israeli ground forces originated in Syria, a crucial conduit for the Iranian Katyushas and other rockets that rained down on Israeli cities throughout the 34-day war.

Were Syria to abandon its Shia allies in Lebanon and Iran in exchange for peace with the Jewish state, it would seriously weaken Israel's most potent foes.

"I am your partner for making peace between our countries," Mr Olmert told Damascus through German and Turkish mediators, Israel's Yediot Ahranot newspaper reported. "I know that a peace agreement with Syria requires me to return the Golan Heights to Syrian sovereignty. I am willing to fulfil my part in this deal."

Mr Olmert reached out to Syria only after America's president George W Bush gave the green light in an hour-long phone conversation last month. The prime minister's office would neither confirm nor deny the reports.

Israel and Syria participated in arduous peace talks throughout much of the 1990s. But those efforts collapsed in 2000 amid disagreement over sovereignty of a narrow strip of land near the eastern shore of Lake Kinneret.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: golanheights; israel; olmertsellout; peace; syria; treason
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1 posted on 06/08/2007 7:24:51 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Olmert seems to fall for the Syrians,like President Bush falls for the Mexicans.

Neither problem will be solved by either of these people.


2 posted on 06/08/2007 7:29:04 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: blam
Olmert demanded that in exchange for the return of the strategic highlands, Syria dissolve its alliances with Iran, Hezbollah and Palestinian militant factions

Okay, that's not going to happen. So what's the purpose of this leaked "secret" communique?

3 posted on 06/08/2007 7:29:21 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: sgtbono2002
Olmert seems to fall for the Syrians,like President Bush falls for the Mexicans.

Olmert is as suicidal as the Senate Republican leadership and Jorge Kennedy Bush.

Once again hope triumphs over experience. Bibi Bibi Bibi . . .

4 posted on 06/08/2007 7:32:56 PM PDT by Maynerd (Bush is the Herbert Hoover of border security)
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To: blam

you have to be s. me

so in 10 years will they be offering beach front property


5 posted on 06/08/2007 7:33:00 PM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: Flavius
"you have to be s. me"

Meanwhile, the media is still covering the Paris Hilton story.

This world is getting real scary.

6 posted on 06/08/2007 7:35:46 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Suicide. I pray that the Israelis run this idiot out of office before it is too late.


7 posted on 06/08/2007 7:37:28 PM PDT by coon2000
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To: blam
Mr Olmert reached out to Syria only after America's president George W Bush gave the green light in an hour-long phone conversation last month. The prime minister's office would neither confirm nor deny the reports.

Yet another reason to be disappointed in our "great" leader. How he thinks appeasement will really result in peace is beyond me. That goes for Israel and US. Sigh......

8 posted on 06/08/2007 7:39:03 PM PDT by rbg81 (1)
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To: coon2000

Keep giving land away and the Moooslems while have gained their objective, no more Israel.


9 posted on 06/08/2007 7:40:14 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam
Surely not.

10 posted on 06/08/2007 7:46:13 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: siunevada
So what's the purpose of this leaked "secret" communique?

Making Syria the bad guy (as if they weren't already).

11 posted on 06/08/2007 7:48:39 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: blam

Bashar al Assad believes that the Golan Heights belong to Syria. I don’t think he is going to accept any deal with strings attached.

This will give Israel the justification She seems to think She needs to wipe out the forces Syria is amassing on her border.

But then, I always tend to be an optimist.


12 posted on 06/08/2007 7:49:10 PM PDT by Lost Dutchman (If you’re going to call Islam a religion can we now call Auschwitz a theme park?)
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To: blam; Yehuda; dennisw; Alouette; Lijahsbubbe

Compare the sign to the direction in which the weapons are aimed. Kind of sums it up.


13 posted on 06/08/2007 7:49:27 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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and the Atomic A man from Iran said the Iran will cease to exist

who’d funk it the guy was right

they chipping it apart piece meal


14 posted on 06/08/2007 7:50:24 PM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: rbg81

Both Pres. Bush & Olmert have so much in common right now. Both are polling lower among their respective countrymen then any other leader in history. I suggest the reasons why are, 1.) they are allowing military lawyers run the wars instead of the warriors, and 2.) they are giving away the sovereignty of both countries, each in their own way. One to Mexico & SPP & the other with land for peace.


15 posted on 06/08/2007 7:55:04 PM PDT by Rottweilerson (If you want a friend...Feed any animal.)
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To: blam
It may ultimately be seen as a tragedy that George Bush did not press his advantage and neutralize Syria when he had a chnace, shortly after the taking of Baghdad. The Syrians were shaking in their boots, assuming they would be next. They weren't. Bush did nothing. And now they have regained the initiative against Israel, and still Bush has done nothing.

Brutus warned him: “There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

George Bush is destined to grind out the rest of his administration in the shallows and the miseries, and Israel will likewise pay the price.

16 posted on 06/08/2007 7:55:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: blam

We’re living an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” I keep hoping that I’m going to wake up from this nightmare.


17 posted on 06/08/2007 7:58:55 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: sgtbono2002

Gosh … Isn’t Olmert a lawyer … nuff said.


18 posted on 06/08/2007 8:00:20 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam

Bad idea — why would anyone trust the Syrians to make good on any deal?


19 posted on 06/08/2007 8:14:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: sgtbono2002
Olmert seems to fall for the Syrians,like President Bush falls for the Mexicans.

And their job approval numbers are comparable as well.

20 posted on 06/08/2007 8:23:28 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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