Articles for June, 2007

Hind Kabawat | Proud Syrian Syria
June 1st, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights

To my dear Israeli friend: Back in February 2002, in Tigne, France, we ended up in the same group together taking ski lessons. That was when our friendship began. We had all been introduced by our first names, and then off we went with our instructor and five others to ski in the beautiful Alps. […]

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Sami Moubayed | Political analyst Syria
June 2nd, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights

To understand the war of 1967 one must understand the personality of its “champion,” President Gamal Abdul-Nasser of Egypt. Contrary to the image that stuck in peopleā??s mind after 1956 and 1967, the man was not anti-Isareli all the way. Right after coming to power in 1952, he authorized secret talks between an Israeli diplomat […]

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Rime Allaf | Chatham House United Kingdom
June 7th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights

The time has come to rain on the love parade. Observing a 40th anniversary not of peace, but of war, reminds us that there is clearly one party which is a big winner and another a big loser, a victor and a victim, an aggressor and an aggressed. A wrong, and a right. A strong […]

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Alon Ben-Meir | Journalist and Author United States
June 8th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights

Perhaps more than anything else, the fortieth anniversary of the 1967 Six Days War has shown a spotlight on the present crisis of leadership in the Middle East. Israel is now being led by a government paralyzed by self-inflicted wounds, a government that lost its compass in the wake of the war with Hezbollah along […]

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Hammam Yousef | Architect/Designer Czech Republic
June 25th, 2007 | Re: ‘Syria's Occupied Golan Heights

Why should Israel return the Golan to Syria? The answer is so obvious and simple, that it is confusing to the mind to have that question in the first place! What would be the alternative to the simple answer, i.e. returning the Golan to its rightful owners. I believe it would be a state of […]

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