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Reader comment on item: [Dennis Ross on] Strange Twists in Syrian-Israeli Diplomacy

Submitted by john w mcginley (United States), Aug 7, 2004 at 22:26

Thanks for the research and analysis. But to get to the substance of this whole matter let me say the following. The Golan should simply be annexed by Israel. Begin should have done this way back when he extended the rule of Israeli Law to the Golan. It was taken over in a war of self-defense and Israel, in the abstract, has a legal right to it. More importantly, what is Syria? It's a country given over to state-supported terror. It is the vehicle by which Iran funnels money and arms to the Hezbollah. Syria maintains Lebanon in a state of feudal subservience to it. Also it is a credible hypothesis that the chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction (Iraq did not have nuclear capability) were shipped to Iran in 98 coffins to Iran (under the guise of returning the remains of Iranian soldiers killed in the Iraq/Iran War of the late eighties) about six weaks before the outbreak of hostilities in Iraq. Much of these stockpiles of chemical and biological agents were shipped by Iran to Syria and from there into the hands of Hezbollah. Syria is an enemy to peace both in general and especially with regard to Israel. Israel should annex it so that more Israelis would live there no longer being afraid that their homes would have to be given up as the price of a peace-treaty with Syria. Israel will have to act unilaterally in its own self-interest. It will be fifty years at least before any of its Arab enemies will negotiate in good faith with Israel. John W. McGinley

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