Should Israel give up the Golan heights?

Question

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One of the many bones of contention with the Middle East regarding Israel, is the Golan Heights. Should Israel give them up? Will it make any difference if they do?

Answer 1

Umm yeah...Israel does not have the right to exist.  

Answer 2

Yes, and all the land that that they stole from the Palestinians should be handed back.

If this outrage had been carried out by any country in the world other than Israel the Americans would have sent their fleet in armed to the teeth ordering that country to retreat to within its own border.

But as they subsidise Israel for political reasons that we are not permitted to refer to within the public arena nothing will ever change.

Answer 3

Israel Has handed back the Golan Heights before but there was not the promised peace, and there will never be because although most of the population would like there to be peace there is still the hatred section that do not think Israel or Jews have a right to live, if Israel disappeared tomorrow there would still not be peace because the mentality is still dictated by fanatics that hate each other besides all of us other infidels.  They want the world to be Muslim and would still be blowing each other up hoping for that better life in the next world

Answer 4

Yes!Providing it has every confidence that Syria will not take advantage of the situation and start shelling Israel!

Answer 5

If they get a cast iron guarantee that they will not be used to shell Israel as they were previously.

Answer 6

No.

Give them an inch and they will take a mile.

If they do it will be like committing suicide.

The muslim hoards will take the whole lot.

The so-called palestinians walked out in 1948 and could have remained if they wished.

Anyway God and the United Nations gave Israel back again to the jews.

If you are anti jewish you are anti God and his gift of the promised land.

This means that allah is not the real God but the Devil Satan.

Answer 7

No, this area is land purchased by Israelis, temporarily taken by Syria and retaken by Israel.

Answer 8

yes, Israel should give up the Golan heights and return to their 1967 borders.

especially as around 80% of Jews are Asheknazi - descendents of the Khazars (Russian) a tribe which converted to Judaism in the 10th century and therefore have no true historical link to the so called holy Land.

Answer 9

Eventually if  they can be assured that the Palestinians pose no threat to their national security.

Answer 10

Yes, if it would give a permanent peace around that area

Answer 11

They should give it back, it isn't theirs.  The only reason they don't want to give it back is because it is a beautiful place, that is great for skiing, and holidaying in, and most importantly it generates MONEY.  They are selfish people who just want what they want, and even though they should understand suffering, they don't seem to mind inflicting it on others.  They should give back all the land they have stolen, and they should try to live peacefully with the Arabs.  They have no interest in peace, every time there is a peace deal in the offing, they do something to s***w it up.  They don't want peace, they just want to land grab, and force the Palestinians out of their homeland.  I am getting fed up to the back teeth of listening to settlers (even children) with thick American New York accents going on and on about how it is THEIR land, and that they want the Arabs who have lived there for centuries off THEIR land, even though they have only been there for like 5 minutes.  So yes, they should give it back, and take their holidays some where else.

Geoff, you are a dillusional idiot, what a stupid, racist, and bigtotted thing to say.  Jews are not God!  Get over yourself, you Zionist jerk

Answer 12

Yes and they should retreat to their 1967 borders. If they do all this, I think it will show ppl that they are serious about peace. Hamas have even said if Israel moves bk to the 1967 borders they would like a unlimited truce.

Answer 13

Israel should give back and not up the Golan heights as well as a all occupied territories.

Answer 14

The Stops of the Golán and Hizbulah, are key points of the negotiation The Israeli retirement of the Stops of the Golán and Lebanese the Syria Palestinian organization support like Hamas or like Hizbulah are the bones of contention in the negotiations of peace that have initiated Syria and Israel, with the mediation of Turkey. The negotiations, that will follow the principle restored in the Conference of Madrid, of 1991, of " peace by territorios" , they have on the table the strategic plateau of the Golán, occupied by Israel in the war of the Six annexed Days of 1967 and in 1981. The Stops of the Golán, a basaltic plateau of 1,158 kilometers square are located in the Syria province of Kuneitra, to 50 kilometers of Damascus, and are located in the border between Syria, Israel, the Lebanon and Jordan. They are lived by about 18,000 Jews, distributed in 32 establishments, and 17,000 drusos. The agriculture and, mainly, the culture of the apple, are their main source of wealth. Although the first encounter between Israelis and Syrians took place in October of 1991 under the Israeli government of Isaac Shamir, was the Government Labour Party member of Isaac Rabin (1992-1995) first in approaching a possible crease of the plateau. Nevertheless, the approach to the Syria regime of Hafez Asad, father of the present president, was suspended with the murder of Rabin and the later arrival to the Hebrew Executive of the rightist Benjamin Netanyahu (1996-1999). The arrival of the Labour Party member Edhud Barak to the government in 1999 seemed to give back the hope to the Syrians, although it was never gotten to reach a commitment by no of the parts. With the later Israeli governments they either did not prosper the negotiations, that were interrupted in January of 2000. The other contentious one between both countries concentrates in supported by Syria to Palestinian and Lebanese organizations like Hamas, the Yihad Islámica or Hizbulah that political offices in Damascus have and to that Israel describes as " terroristas" and Syria it denominates " groups of resistencia". The crisis and consequence been military that untied in July of 2006 between Israel and the Lebanon, that brought about bombings of the Israeli artillery against the country of the cedars in replaced to the kidnapping by Hizbulah of two soldiers, splashed to Syria, defendant of being the last person in charge of the capture of the soldiers and to try to transfer them to Syria territory. By that reason, Israel bombed the highway that unites Damascus with Beirut. In January of 2007 the Israeli newspaper ' Haaretz' it revealed that representing of Israel and Syria they met privily between September of 2004 and July of the 2006, and that arrived at " entendimiento" in order to seal bilateral La Paz, which was denied on both sides. The tension between Syria and Israel became serious the 7 of September of 2007 when Israeli huntings returned to violate the Syria airspace to attack supposed nuclear power plants. In April of 2008 president Bachar to Asad kept awake to a qatarí newspaper that its country maintained contacts with Israel for the return of the Golán in exchange for a peace accord with Damascus. Between the points in that agreement they would be included, according to Israel, the cease of the endorsement by Damascus to the Lebanese militia chií Hizbulah that maintains an open warfare with Israel and to the Palestinian group Hamas. Israel also would try to deactivate the support that quick Syria to Iran in the development of its nuclear program, which supposes a still greater threat.  

Answer 15

Israel is a terrorist state the Romans killed the Hebrew so who are these we changed religion Khazar's fooling claiming they have a right to the middle eastern lands. Think about this if Jews are from Israel why are they white its because being a Jew is now not a race but religion its as idiotic as thinking the Irish have a right to Rome because they are now catholics