Put basically, while the United States' government voted in favor of the 1947 United Nations partition of Palestine that mandated the creation of two separate states - one Jewish and one Palestinian- every administration since has paid mere lip service to this guiding principle, and after 1967, while financing Israel's military and its illegal occupation and settlement of land that is supposed to be the Palestinian state. (counterpunch.org)
Quite apart from Israel's nuclear arsenal of some 200 warheads, some of them deliverable by its Dolphin class submarines, the American-supplied Israeli Air Force is by far the most powerful in the region, able to attack targets up to 1,500 miles away with air-to-ground missiles and "bunker-buster" GBU-28 bombs. (joshualandis.com)
As is well-known, the United States has pledged to maintain Israel's "qualitative military edge" over any combination of Arab states, and never to acknowledge Israel's nuclear military capability in any public statement. (joshualandis.com)
Today 130 sovereign governments recognize the State of Israel but they only recognize Israel's right to rule the land of their 1949-1967 borders. (blogspot.com)
For instance, in 2015, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reported a brain-drain of 1,360 higher-education Israelis, ignoring the 14,870 higher-education Olim, who arrived in 2015, 48% of whom possessed graduate degrees and PhDs. (theettingerreport.com)
In the current situation, the truth entails acknowledgement of Israel's nuclear arsenal and its and our only faintly veiled campaign of cyber-attacks against Iran and assassinations of its nuclear scientists. (vickigray.org)
It is high time to end the hypocrisy about Israel's "nuclear opacity" and to end the decades-long word games - still perpetuated by Mr. Netanyahu - that Israel "will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. (vickigray.org)
Would it be so far-fetched to acknowledge Israel's nuclear capability and to use it to begin negotiations aimed at a nuclear-free Middle East with Iran and others like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who might be tempted to develop their own nuclear weapons programs if Iran did? (vickigray.org)
The former terror organization now has far more rockets than it had before the 2006 war, and the latter one is rapidly rebuilding its strength since Cast Lead and has already obtained Iranian Fajr-4 rockets-Hamas's longest-range model yet, capable of reaching Tel Aviv and Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona. (blogspot.com)
Several months later, Syria disclosed that it maintained a ricin chemical weapons program, which the Syrian government claims has fallen into the hands of Syrian Opposition forces in the east of the country. (wikipedia.org)
The following month Syria, further disclosed that it had 4 more previously hidden chemical weapons production sites. (wikipedia.org)
Syria sought to develop nuclear weapons with help from North Korea, but its plutonium production reactor was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in 2007 (see Operation Orchard). (wikipedia.org)
The Syria file at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remains open, amid Syria's failure to respond to the IAEA's questions about the destroyed facility, that the IAEA concluded was "very likely" a nuclear reactor, including the whereabouts of the reactor's nuclear fuel. (wikipedia.org)
In January 2015, it was reported that the Syrian government is suspected to be building a nuclear plant in Al-Qusayr, Syria. (wikipedia.org)
Syria first acquired chemical weapons from Egypt in 1973 as a military deterrent against Israel before launching the Yom Kippur War. (wikipedia.org)
It is likely Syria imported dual-use chemical weapon precursors and production equipment from West Europe, China and North Korea. (wikipedia.org)
On 23 July 2012 Syria implicitly confirmed it possessed a stockpile of chemical weapons which it says are reserved for national defense against foreign countries. (wikipedia.org)
Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-1980s. (wikipedia.org)
Prior to September 2013 Syria was one of a handful of states which had not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention, and had not publicly admitted to possessing chemical weapons, although Western intelligence services believed it to hold a massive stockpile. (wikipedia.org)
After international condemnation of the August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack, for which Western states held the Syrian government responsible (whilst Syria and Russia held the Syrian rebels of the Syrian civil war responsible), in September 2013 Syria joined the Convention (formally acceding on 14 October), as part of its agreement to the destruction of its chemical weapons under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. (wikipedia.org)
In short, the US is asking that Syria cede to Israel the Golan Heights, which it occupied in 1967. (joshualandis.com)
The war began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria crossing the cease-fire lines in the Sinai and Golan Heights, respectively, which had been captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
The Israelis had also captured roughly half of the Golan Heights from Syria. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
During the Six-Day War Israel attacked first, crushing the Arab militaries and seizing the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza (from Egypt), the Golan Heights (from Syria) and the West Bank (from Jordan). (theintercept.com)
They have remained out of the fight for the most part, but have hit back hard when fighting spills into the Israeli Golan Heights - land Israel took from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. (blogspot.com)
Would you give up the Golan Heights to make a deal with Syria? (blogspot.com)
In order not to anger the West, Syria is likely to restricted its Russian purchases to defensive weapons systems, as it has done for some time. (joshualandis.com)
The swift Israeli reaction on Thursday and Friday to the launching of four rockets from Syria at the Galilee and Golan shows how deep is the Israeli intelligence penetration of Iran's military. (blogspot.com)
Gen. Qassen Sulimanie, one of the most influential officials in Iran, already has a forward command post on the Syria side of the Golan. (blogspot.com)
Netanyahu also addressed his previous government's coordination with Russia in Syria, where Russian forces are on the ground - and where Israeli military units have often targeted Iranian and Syrian facilities and weapons transfers. (blogspot.com)
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This also applies to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and (until it was returned to Egypt) the Sinai Peninsula. (blogspot.com)
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During the eighteen months between the Oslo Accord and March 1995, forty-nine civilians and twenty-two soldiers have been killed in such attacks in Israel, as defined by its pre-1967 borders. (nybooks.com)
On the same day Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, delivered a speech in Tel Aviv where he declared that Jordan is indeed the state of the Palestinians, the Argentinean government also made a declaration , it said it recognized a Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. (tundratabloids.com)
Defense Minister Ehud] Barak gave a very crazy proposal to go back to the 1967 borders. (blogspot.com)
The Israeli intelligence community believes the Syrian government retains several tons of chemical weapons. (wikipedia.org)
Following the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War, and South Lebanon in 1978, the Syrian government has regarded Israeli military power as a threat to Syrian security. (wikipedia.org)
Despite the fact that Syrian officials did not explicitly declare the chemical weapons capability, they implied it through speeches and in addition warned of retaliations. (wikipedia.org)
Internal Syrian chemical weapons capability may have been developed with indirect Russian, German, Chinese technical and logistical support. (wikipedia.org)
In 1997, security analyst Zuhair Diab, who worked for the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat from 1981 to 1985, wrote that Israeli nuclear weapons were a primary motivation for the Syrian chemical weapons program. (wikipedia.org)
During the Syrian Civil War, in August 2012, the Syrian military restarted chemical weapons testing at a base on the outskirts of Aleppo. (wikipedia.org)
Chemical weapons were a major point of discussion between the Syrian government and world leaders, with military intervention being considered by the West as a potential consequence of the use of such weapons. (wikipedia.org)
In the July 2007 Syrian arms depot explosion, there were suggestions that the incident involved a secret chemical weapons facility. (wikipedia.org)
On 16 October 2013, the OPCW and the United Nations formally established a joint mission to oversee the elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons program by mid-2014, which was declared completed in January 2016. (wikipedia.org)
When Israel seized the Heights, it forced some 100,000 Syrian inhabitants to evacuate their homes and abandon their villages. (joshualandis.com)
Even [Syrian] President Bashar al-Assad says that even if he receives the Golan Heights, he will continue his ties with Iran. (blogspot.com)
They were expecting some sort of an attack against Israel from the Syrian Golan and prepared themselves for the eventuality. (blogspot.com)
Some argue that Iran is using its proxies to avenge the killing of an Iranian general a few months ago by an alleged Israeli air strike on the Syrian side of the Golan border. (blogspot.com)
In the security sphere, the Olmert government will go down in history with two important achievements to its name: the bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor in September 2007 and (though Israel officially denies responsibility) the assassination of master-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus in February 2008. (blogspot.com)
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Israel succumbed to this temptation in 1967. (lobelog.com)
Israel annexed the Golan in 1981, which the UN condemned in resolution 497 . (joshualandis.com)
Although Washington recognizes these acts as illegal, neither Clinton nor Obama has mentioned that Israel is obliged to give up the Golan. (joshualandis.com)
Syrians can only conclude that Washington's true policy is to help Israel keep the Golan for eternity. (joshualandis.com)
In the years following that war, Israel erected lines of fortification in both the Sinai and the Golan Heights. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
They both occupy land that is not theirs, they both attack Arabs, they both want to expand their empires (Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates,), they both expel opponents, they both extend their influence to Africa, they both are working on or have nuclear weapons, Jews are still grateful for Persians giving them rights in Jerusalem 2500 years ago, and both are religious-based states. (blogspot.com)
Even after establishing relations with Israel, and being fully aware of the war between Israel and its Arab neighbor states and the continuous hostilities that followed, the United States nevertheless imposed an arms embargo on Israel, preventing it from acquiring certain defensive weapons, also from NATO depots in Europe. (arenajournal.org.il)
He states that the leaders of Israel are determined to hold on to the land gained in 1967. (blogspot.com)
The earthquake occurred long ago, but I believe this is a double prophecy with the earthquake also being the one at the end of Ezekiel 38 when Russia invades Israel with the remnant of Islam. (revelationsexplained.com)
This story combined so many elements of exceptional military heroism, political treachery, and success against all odds that if the Liberty had been attacked by any nation on earth except Israel, the inspirational events of June 8, 1967 might have become the basis for several big-budget, Oscar-nominated movies as well as a regular staple of television documentaries. (usslibertyveterans.blog)
Israelis say the work in the Muslim Quarter merely restored a building wrecked during 19 years of Arab control before Israel captured the Old City in 1967. (blogspot.com)
You might at least have thought that Remnick, a Jew, would appreciate such Trump achievements as the Abraham Accords and the recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel - especially given the stark contrast with Obama's palpable hostility to Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
Everyone knows - as Micah Zenko made clear this week in a Council of Foreign Relations blog and John Cassidy did in the New Yorker - that Israel possesses over 200 nuclear weapons and a panoply of sophisticated strategic delivery systems. (vickigray.org)
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What McCain believed was an example of America's shining goodness and generosity during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 was actually gruesome realpolitik. (theintercept.com)
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The decision was kept a closely-guarded secret within Israeli government circles and the offer was withdrawn in October, 1967. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
The war grew out of a previous Arab-Israeli conflict, the Six-Day War, in 1967. (theintercept.com)
The Israeli government quickly claimed that the attack had been accidental, a consequence of mistaken identification and the fog of war, but none of the survivors ever believed that story, nor did many of America's top political and military leaders, notably Secretary of State Dean Rusk, CIA Director Richard Helms, and numerous top officers, including a later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (usslibertyveterans.blog)
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Ballistic missiles, long- range aircraft, and weapons of mass destruction have made the security offered by national boundaries even more illusory. (gdrc.org)
But he added that Syria's "continuing support for terrorist organizations and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States. (joshualandis.com)
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As for Iran, it faces a constant - and publicly stated - threat of attack on its nuclear sites. (joshualandis.com)
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Needless to say such contentions are condemned by those who believe Jews are a people unique and entirely apart from others (and this includes many who profess Christianity) who can trace their unbroken genealogy back to the biblical patriarchs, and who would never abandon their sacred ancestral religion for another, or deny a seamless heritage as Jews. (counterpunch.org)
The Balfour Declaration was accepted by the British Mandate in 1917, which then became subject to a White Paper that many believe reneged on it's earlier promise, that being a commitment to allowing Jews a homeland. (tundratabloids.com)
Because the Jews, as it is said in the Quran, believe only in the body, not in the spirit. (blogspot.com)
The Jews, according to our religion, believe only in the body. (blogspot.com)
a) "laid their hands on buildings" actually, it's Jewish property from the past few centuries (people like this Annie would never have you believe that Jews lived in the country before modern-day Zionism or that there was never really an "Palestine") and in most cases, the property was repurchased. (blogspot.com)
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This question is crucial at this most sensitive time when Tehran waits for the US Congress to approve the nuclear deal and pave the way for lifting the sanctions, which is clearly Iran's ultimate goal. (blogspot.com)
In his March 5 convention speech, AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr invoked the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis as an analogy to the current saber-rattling surrounding Iran's nuclear program, suggesting that, fifty years on, the former might contain lessons for our handling of the latter. (vickigray.org)
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I'm not exactly sure when I first heard of the Liberty incident of 1967. (usslibertyveterans.blog)
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Faced not with some future would-be "capability" of a third-rate power to build a primitive proto-type weapon but, rather, the surprise deployment of dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles ninety miles from our homeland by a superpower capable of destroying us, President Kennedy chose not a pre-emptive airstrike - a "Pearl Harbor in reverse" his brother called it - but a temporizing naval quarantine and diplomacy. (vickigray.org)
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The bodies of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Frenkel, 16, and Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, were found in the Hebron region of the West Bank, not far from where they were believed to have been abducted. (blogspot.com)
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Most obviously, there were the weapons: dreadnoughts and aircraft carriers, rockets and missiles, poison gas, and atomic bombs - the list is a long one. (lobelog.com)
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On 14 September 2013, the United States and Russia announced an agreement for the elimination of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles by June 2014. (wikipedia.org)
In October 2013, the OPCW-UN Joint Mission destroyed all of Syria's declared chemical weapons manufacturing and mixing equipment. (wikipedia.org)
They do not mention that the Golan issue is at the root of Syria's support for resistance organizations and they do not link the two. (joshualandis.com)
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The Soviet missiles were removed in return for an American pledge never to invade Cuba…and the subsequent soto voce removal of our nuclear-tipped Jupiter missiles from Turkey, ninety miles from the Soviet homeland. (vickigray.org)
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I don't see why we must give up the Golan Heights. (blogspot.com)
Meanwhile He offers peace and eternal security to all who accept the Gospel message that Messiah / Christ died for our sins and rose again from the dead to give eternal life to all who believe. (messiahfactor.com)
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There can be no hope of victory in a nuclear war, the two sides would be united in suffering and destruction. (gdrc.org)
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On the Shalit issue, however, Olmert believed that Hamas-apprehensive of the incoming Netanyahu government-would also, for its part, be anxious to get the best deal still available. (blogspot.com)
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The Bible even tells us the reason why they scoff and make fun of us who believe. (lastdaysprophecy.org)
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I don't believe he retweeted Torres to educate people, but because he supports the congressman's anti-Palestinian misrepresentations. (electronicintifada.net)
There are no simple answers to these questions, but the Commission believes it is time to re- examine prevailing ideas of how to preserve peace and ensure the security of people, and of how to develop more effective means of preserving peaceful relations among states. (gdrc.org)
The world has become too small and too crowded, its people too intermingled and too interdependent, its weapons too lethal. (gdrc.org)
So many people deny, mock and refuse to believe the warning signs of the end of the age. (lastdaysprophecy.org)
Note: Most people believe to find the Arabs and Islam in the Bible, you look for Ishmael. (revelationsexplained.com)
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But more curiously, in this request to the world court, they are attempting to invent what they believe to be a new, curious international status of prolonged occupation. (blogspot.com)
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He had believed America had made a tragic mistake and done a terrible injustice by going to Vietnam, and he still did. (theintercept.com)
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After US refusal to negotiate and threats, an agreement has been finally been reached even with north Korea, after the latter went nuclear. (boloji.com)