George Ajjan |
Political TV pundit
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United States |
May 18th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Often times, colleagues will invite me, as an American citizen of Syrian origin, to expatiate my views of the Middle East Peace Process, particularly as it pertains to land disputes between Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic. Of course I reply that nothing could bring me greater pleasure than to bear witness to a resolution […]
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SimoHurtta |
Information Technology
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Finland |
May 21st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Now, 40 years after a successful war, but also after 40 years of occupation and numerous conflicts, your country is at a crossroads. Either you can continue the policy of the last decades, or begin a real serious process to build a lasting peace with the Palestinians and your other neighbours. Despite of the speeches […]
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Camille Alexandre |
Founder of Creativesyria
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Canada |
May 21st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Some of the most popular reasons for opposing peace talks with Syria that I read in the comments section of every Syria related article in my favorite Israeli newspaper, Haaretz: 1) Syria attacked Israel in 1967 and it deserves to pay a price (The Golan) There are numerous reliable sources that explain what really happened […]
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Zenobia Baalbaki |
Doctoral candidate
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United States |
May 21st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
I have been asked to write about the reasons why Israel should engage in negotiations with Syria, which would result in the return of the Golan Heights to Syria. In thinking about this subject what came to mind was an article written a few months ago by Giora Eiland for the journal Strategic Assessment that […]
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Naim Nazha |
M.D.
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United States |
May 21st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
The Golan has been under Israeli occupation for forty long years, during which mistrust between Israel and Syria has increased, but this trend can be reversed. During these forty years many wars took place, and Israel won all of them to varying degrees. Yet peace is no closer today for the people of Israel than […]
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Farrah Hassen |
Writer/Grad Student
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United States |
May 21st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Shalom/Salam, I write to you as a Syrian-American, a Muslim, a student, and for full disclosure, a practical idealist. Four years ago, in the ghost town of Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, I stood inches away from your country’s side of the border, separated only by barbed wire covered with an […]
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Mazen Salhi |
Engineer
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Canada |
May 22nd, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Last summer, in the days following the cease-fire of Israel’s latest war on Lebanon, I made it a daily routine to read some of the Israeli newspapers online, and (especially) the readers’ commentary. The subject of the day was the possibility of the war extending to Syria. The tone of many articles and commentary was, […]
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Ayman S. |
Consultant, Business Integration
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United States |
May 23rd, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
The sirens of war sounded and our basement apartment filled with frantic neighbors from the apartments above. The war had officially started and these sirens erased from my mind all the meaningless comparatively mundane, memories that I have acquired in the previous nine years of my existence. The sirens kept on sounding for twenty days […]
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Bridget Palmer |
Syria Blogger
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United States |
May 23rd, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
The Golan means a lot of things to a lot of people, but here’s what it means to me. First, it’s the home of Majdal Shams, where separated family members talk to each other across the Israeli/Syrian divide by megaphones. If my own husband hadn’t witnessed this and shown me pictures of it, I donâ??t […]
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Munif Atassi |
IT manager
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United States |
May 24th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Dear Israel, On May 14, 1948, the last day of the British Mandate of Palestine, the chief secretary of the His Majesty’s British administration, Sir Henry Gurney, called a press conference in his office in Jerusalem. He dazzled reporters with a listing of achievements of His Majesty’s government in Palestine but regretted the “unhappy” circumstances […]
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Ghayth Armanazi |
Syrian Media Center
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United Kingdom |
May 24th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
The Golan: Ending Occupation, Establishing Peace Next month the war of June 1967 reaches its fortieth anniversary. The occasion is certain to evoke painful memories but also astonishment that four decades have passed since those fateful days and the embers of that conflict continue to burn and risk becoming more explosive than ever. Of course […]
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Basil Hakki |
Ph.D. Engineer
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United States |
May 26th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Forty years have passed since Israel conquered Syria’s Golan Heights. Israel’s arguments for keeping the heights for security reasons have become tenuous. Syria has meticulously adhered by the agreements it signed with Israel and the border has been peaceful and quiet. There is no reason to assume that future agreements will be any different. The […]
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Tarek Barakat |
Fashion Industry
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Dubai |
May 27th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Most of the Israelis I have met admitted with some struggle that it’s better to “give up” the Golan in exchange for peace with Syria. I hate to begin with such an aggressive tone. But even this notion is flawed from the get go. Because like it or not the Golan is NOT Israel’s to […]
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Habib Zaarour |
Political scientist
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Canada |
May 27th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
At the 40th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of the Golan Heights, I would like to ask our Israeli neighbors some pertinent questions: Why do you need to obtain US approval to have talks with Syria if such talks can produce for you greater security, stability and prosperity? Why you are prejudging negotiationsâ?? nature […]
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The Syrian Brit |
MD
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United Kingdom |
May 30th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights’
Greetings, Alex, a very intelligent, articulate and highly educated cyber-friend, has suggested, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the loss of the Golan Heights to Israel, that we Syrians should try and put our case to you Israelis, on why your Country/Government/People should hand back the Golan Heights to Syriaâ?¦ This proposal was […]
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