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WND: Red Cross to help flood Golan Heights with Syrians? |
2006-09-29 |
JERUSALEM – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday issued a decree urging his citizens to move to the Golan Heights, claiming the International Committee of the Red Assad's decree urges Syrian officials, humanitarian workers, public service providers and their families to move to the Golan with the help of the International Committee of the Red Israel officially annexed the Golan in 1981 and controls the territory. A United Nations contingent monitors border zones. The IC The Red The Heights has a population of about 35,000 – approximately 18,000 Jewish residents and 17,000 Arabs, mostly Druze. The Arab residents retain their Syrian citizenship but under Israeli law can also sue for Israeli citizenship. Dorothia Krimitsas, a spokeswoman for the IC Some Israeli military officials accused Red Assad's decree for Syrians to move to the Golan follows a recent WND report that top members of Assad's Baath Party were advised in a private briefing to purchase real estate in the Golan Heights because, they were told, the strategic territory will "very soon" be returned to Syria. Previously, WND broke the story Syria is in the process of forming what a Baath Party official called the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a new "resistance" group that models itself after Hezbollah. The official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory. Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 125-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms. The Baath official told WND the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group currently consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June. One week after the WND story, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights. The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of "hundreds" of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria. Sept.12, Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence for the Israeli Defense Forces, announced the Jewish state has indications Syria is in the initial stages of forming a Hezbollah copycat group to attack Israeli positions in the Golan. |
Posted by:Super Hose |
#14 LOL, Thoth. :) |
Posted by: eLarson 2006-09-29 13:12 |
#13 Assadyou fool! That's what Mexicans are for! /Mexican, and I approve of this message. |
Posted by: Thoth 2006-09-29 11:07 |
#12 The ICRC has been nothing more than a leftist, anti-American, anti-Isreal front, masquerading as a humanitarian organization I think we need to demand the cross be removed. It no longer has any right to bear it. |
Posted by: anon 2006-09-29 11:03 |
#11 For quite some time now, The ICRC has been nothing more than a leftist, anti-American, anti-Isreal front, masquerading as a humanitarian organization. The shocker is that folks would be surprised by this. |
Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-29 10:28 |
#10 Fight an incompetent war, reap the harvest. |
Posted by: Perfesser 2006-09-29 09:43 |
#9 Funny, that after so many years, the Palestinians living in the Golan Heights are not considered Syrians. |
Posted by: TMH 2006-09-29 09:22 |
#8 Why? |
Posted by: 3dc 2006-09-29 09:18 |
#7 The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms. MSM reality engineering. |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-29 08:45 |
#6 Nope. Glan now is a permanent part of Israel. Too tactical. Sorry asshat. |
Posted by: newc 2006-09-29 06:55 |
#5 "The moment a Hezbollah fighter is injured, he is considered a non-combatant, so we must take care of him," So this means the ambulance staff forces an injured combatant to abandon any weapons he might have before transporting him to hospital, right? [waits for hysterical laughter to die down] If not, Israel should begin a program of monitoring all ICRC ambualnce activity. Mandatory inspection stops should occur and any injured combatants in possession of weapons must be detained as prisoners of war. Any ambulance vehicles found carrying weapons should be commandeered and if there is a persistent pattern of abetting Hezbollah terrorists, the ambulances should be declared fair targets. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-29 05:35 |
#4 It's not a dumb move - the ICRC hates Israel and has been publicly humiliated over the use of their ambulances by terror attackers. They would be thrilled, I suspect, to facilitate this. |
Posted by: lotp 2006-09-29 05:12 |
#3 I still think this jackass looks like Al Bundy (Bashar al-Bundy, anyone??) after listening to half an hour of Peg's ordering him to rub her tooshie... |
Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-09-29 01:45 |
#2 Assad might just be dumb enough to give this the green light. |
Posted by: phil_b 2006-09-29 01:40 |
#1 Is SadAss asking for a whupass? |
Posted by: twobyfour 2006-09-29 00:48 |