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A Golan Heights Scenario
North Miami Beach, Florida 1-3-2000 Aaron H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
then. Opinions pro or con are welcome.
A GOLAN HEIGHTS SCENARIO
The negotiations are ongoing about the future of the Golan Heights, a
geographical entity seized by Israel after Syria, the former owner, attacked
Israel from that position. The plan of Israel's enemies was simply to drive
Israel into the Mediterranean Sea. There is an outcry by many nations that
Israel was not playing fair in its own defense by appropriating the staging
grounds for attacks on her territory. There are some that think that Israel
should keep the Golan in order to guarantee her security.
So, the negotiations between Israel and Syria are being monitored and
supported by the United States in West Virginia this very day. Syria wants
the Golan back. Israel wants guarantees that if the Golan is returned to
Syria it will not be used in a future attack on Israel. It is unlikely this
meeting between two warring states will end in friendship.
Here is a scenario about a way to insure that peace will finally come to
this sector of the world. Israel will give the Golan back to Syria. By
doing so it will assure the Israeli people that attacks will no longer come
from there. Israeli settlers in the Golan and businesses started there will
remain and teach the Syrians how they succeeded in making this area
productive. In addition, Syria will clean up the mess in Lebanon by driving
out the terrorists who use that "client state" of Syria as a base to attack
Israel. Lebanon will be given control over its own territory and Syrian
troops will be withdrawn. The United States and the UN will monitor the
return of the Golan and the neutralization of Lebanon.
This picture is incomplete. Knowing the Syrian intransigence in its enmity
towards Israel, the Israelis have insured their security by leaking this
information: During the blackest nights in the years of their owning the
Golan, Israeli miners dug deeply into the earth directly towards Damascus,
the Capitol of Syria. The Israelis created a tunnel at the end of which,
near Damascus, they installed an atomic device. The control over that
device lies in a safe in the Prime Minister's office in Israel's Parliament.
Carol's Evaluation: "This is a dumb scenario."
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