Israel & Syria: Defensible Borders on the Golan Heights

Israeli-Syrian negotiations in 1999-2000 discussed security arrangements to compensate Israel for the loss of the Golan Heights. The idea was to guarantee that in case of war, IDF forces could quickly return to the...

Israel Needs the Golan Heights to Maintain Security

In the years 1999-2000, Israeli-Syrian negotiations reached the stage of discussion over details that included security arrangements intended to compensate Israel for the loss of the Golan Heights. When indirect Israeli-Syrian negotiations were renewed in 2008 under...

ahmadinejad: In Iran, freedom is absolute.

" September 23, 2008. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York this week to address the United Nations General Assembly. He sat down at the Grand Hyatt hotel with Times'...

Syrian paper urges Livni to show desire for peace

" © AP 2008-09-20 15:53:03 - DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A Syrian government newspaper expressed hopes Saturday that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would show real desire to make peace with Syria as new...

Israel: Defensible Borders?

With all the talk about "secret" negotiations between Israel & Syria, maybe it pays to go back and take a look at what some experts consider "defensible borders" for the state of Israel.  Take a look at...

Golan Heights residents not phased by Annapolis

Here is the latest news about the reaction on the Golan Heights to the attendance of the Syrian deputy foreign minister at the Annapolis conference: a new leisure resort park has been established near the Amir Junction, the new B’not Yaakov bridge has been completed, work...

Shortage of gas masks in Israel

With ever increasing instability in the Middle East the Israeli government is redistributing funds amongst its massive defense establishment. With the latest shuffle in funds one of the items which is to be...

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