Why was the Isreali Annexation in the 80s considered illegal? When dis we arrive at the proposition that land taken in a defensive war had to be returned to the perpretrator.

Modern warfare does not negate the strategic advantage of holding the heights. You really need to look at a topograhical map to see why the Heights is a stategic asset.

The Golan Heights is not the principal source of agitation between Syria and Israel. The Israelis have offered to give the Heights back in the past, in return for a peace treaty. Syria always refused to sign a peace treaty.

I would imagine though, with the current Israeli government, they are as likely as not to pull out of the Heights as a gesture of good faith. Whereupon the Syrians will take over without a peace treaty and hand over it over to Hezbollah.

to a question I keep asking: what happened on September 6, 2007? Israel attacked a Syrian nuclear reactor built by the North Koreans:

CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based …..

is this the same CIA who sold us on the Weapons of Mass Destruction?

RMC1618 on April 23, 2008 at 2:03 PM

Yep-and the CIA was headed at the time by a Clinton appointee, George Tenet. All Bush’s fault, indeed…

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The Golan Heights was originally part of the Palestine mandate. The Brits illegally transferred it to French Syria in 1922.

Israel is a small country and the Golan Heights overlooks a large part of the country. Handing back the heights is a strategic mistake.

(1) They will share the technology;

(2) They will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East leading to the desire by other countries to acquire weapons;

(3) We will have nuclear material in unsecure hands leading to the possibility of terror groups who are NOT deterred by massive retaliation acquiring the material.

Take the Iranian facilities out President McCain.

davod on April 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Strange, they haven’t listed the United Kingdom as an Islamic country…yet.

On yet another topic: who is funding the destructive environmental movement undermining our nation’s capacity for energy independence? I have no doubt there are tens of millions being funneled into the environmental movement including Algore’s own coffers by the Islamic nations.

Charles Martel on April 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM

I had not thought of that and you are probably right. I was thinking that it was the George Soros types.

The agreement itself doesn’t take effect until the DPRK meets its obligations. This looks like a shot across Kim’s bow,…

In that case, it’s a shot fired from a BB-gun. US Korea policy has been effectively captured by State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, which is far more interested in keeping our “partners” happy and in maintaining “dialog” than in pursuing American national interests. US policy towards North Korea in the second Bush term has been utterly feckless, making excuses for each North Korean violation of prior agreements and pretending that, this time, we’re going to get tough with them.

Bah.

On another topic. If Iran strikes Israel, Israel should respond by destroying every single major Islamic city in the Middle East. Contrary to the Hildabeast’s statement, there will be NO necessity for the USA to intervene. Time for Israel to get serious and disclose her nuclear capability and precisely what she will do should she be struck by WMD’s.

Here’s the thing: Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons. Everyone knows what the Israelis will do if threatened with imminent destruction. The Israelis have a legendary policy referred to as the Samson option which simply stated is that if they are threatened with destruction, they will nuke every major Arab city in the Middle East. So technically they already have that policy that you suggest.
So why should the Israelis acknowledge what everyone already knows? That is not the Israeli modus operandi, it never has been, it never will be. Unlike lots of other governments/governmental organizations, the Israelis know when to keep their traps shut…

joewm315 on April 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM

It has been 30 years since the Vela Incident and the CIA still can’t make up their minds if it was a nuclear test or not. Good luck getting the CIA to give a thumbs up, thumbs down analysis on this Syrian incident. It will be like the NIE, maybe yes, maybe no.

I have no faith that the CIA is competent. The entire organization needs to be taken over by the DIA. I trust our West Pointers much more then the Yale and Columbia crowd.

Israel was doing ISRAEL’S work first, as well she should.

On another topic. If Iran strikes Israel, Israel should respond by destroying every single major Islamic city in the Middle East. Contrary to the Hildabeast’s statement, there will be NO necessity for the USA to intervene. Time for Israel to get serious and disclose her nuclear capability and precisely what she will do should she be struck by WMD’s.

Gloves should come off in the Middle East.

On yet another topic: who is funding the destructive environmental movement undermining our nation’s capacity for energy independence? I have no doubt there are tens of millions being funneled into the environmental movement including Algore’s own coffers by the Islamic nations.

I picture some CIA egghead, who, everytime his supervisor gives him a secret briefing, trips all over himself sprinting to the phone to call his media pimp. I wish the CIA was even remotely capable of accomplishing half of the nefarious deeds attributed to it by the left. It’s a badly broken organization riddled with incompetents and borderline trators..

Axis of Evil.

mattyj86 on April 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM

Remember when everyone mocked President Bush for calling these countries part of the Axis of Evil? Yeah, he was right.

Where are the people who say that a preventative action like the one undertaken by the IAF solves nothing??? Oh, that’s right, still complaining that technically this solves nothing.

And Saddam’s WMD material is in Syria. It’s pretty much conventional wisdom over there that that’s where it is.

Other reports had Saddam’s nuclear technicians working in Libya to develop “the Arab bomb.” Khaddafy gave up the project after we took over Iraq.