DAMASCUS: Hundreds of Syrians living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights began a five-day visit to Syria on Thursday, most of them for the first time in more than 40 years, official media reported.
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There's more of this stuff that goes on than is kept low-keyed. There is the issue of the annual 10,000 tons of Golan-grown apples that Syria has been importing from Israel since 6 years. Syria explains this by saying that the imported apples provide work for the Golan Druze that work on Israeli apple orchards. A month or so back, Israel permitted Golan Druze elders to attend a Druze general meeting in Beirut for the first time since the occupation began. We're only getting bits and pieces.
ReplyDelete<span>There's more of this stuff that goes on that is kept low-keyed. There is the issue of the annual 10,000 tons of Golan-grown apples that Syria has been importing from Israel since 6 years. Syria explains this by saying that the imported apples provide work for the Golan Druze that work on Israeli apple orchards. A month or so back, Israel permitted Golan Druze elders to attend a Druze general meeting in Beirut for the first time since the occupation began. We're only getting bits and pieces.</span>
ReplyDeleteYes Walid I'm aware of what's going on but only to a certain extent as everyone, I imagine..
ReplyDeleteI am told the Golan Heights are very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteNo problems here..(Unlike the Golan Heights occupied by the land hungry expansionist colonists from Europe and beyond..)
ReplyDeleteNo more toxicity. Cool.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Golan Heights, I have read articles claiming the settlers there are not of the extremist kind.
Yes I've heard they're rather "entrepreneurs"..Maybe because the Golan is not "biblical Israel" or similar nonsense..Either way they're as much in the lucrative business of land theft as everybody else in their country..BTW, 250,000 Syrian were thrown out of their lands when Israel occupied the plateau..
ReplyDelete<span>Yes I've heard they're rather "entrepreneurs"..Maybe because the Golan is not "biblical Israel" or similar nonsense..Either way they're as much in the lucrative business of land theft as everybody else in their country..BTW, 130,000 Syrians were thrown out of their lands when Israel occupied the plateau..</span>
ReplyDeleteThe Disinherited: Syria’s 130,000 Golan Height Refugees
http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-07-30/the-disinherited-syrias-130000-golan-height-refugees/
<span><span>Yes I've heard they're rather "entrepreneurs"..Maybe because the Golan is not "biblical Israel" or similar nonsense..Either way they're as much in the lucrative business of land theft as everybody else in their country..BTW, 130,000 Syrians were thrown out of their lands when Israel occupied the plateau..</span> </span>
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The Disinherited: Syria’s 130,000 Golan Height Refugees
http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-07-30/the-disinherited-syrias-130000-golan-height-refugees/</span>
The Golan is lush with greenery and wall-to-wall water and the source of about 25% of the water consumed in Israel. It was the kibbutz sttlers that pressured the tractor-stunt man, Dayan to go for the land grab and the dust hadn't yet settled from the 67 invasion when the Jewish settlers crossed into it and started setting up settlements. They moved into the vacated homes, rounded up the cattle and sheep abandoned by the fleeing Syrians and took over the farms and plantations that had been already established. Israel disproved the notion that that crime does not pay.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think I have read this article. Very sad. All of those poor people simply made to leave their homes forever.I wonder why Israel made an exception of some of the Druze and Circassian villages and allowed them to remain?
ReplyDeleteIn order to not upset the local Druze communities in Israel..
ReplyDelete<span>In order to not upset the local Druze communities in Israel..Also hoping that they'd collaborate and wouldn't cause major issues..
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A visit that has nothing to do with Syria but interesting nevertheless. It's a follow up to a Haaretz story on the same subject from a few weeks back:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/16/palestinian-women-smuggled-israeli-beaches