This July, Pete Buttigieg, who for reasons I fail to grasp, has been described as one of the most pro-Israel candidates in the Democratic field, signaled that on Israel, he had moved farther to the left. He tweeted: “The occupation has to end.” Anti-Israel groups were ecstatic. What we have here is a failure by […]
Pete Buttigieg on the Golan Heights and “the Occupation [that] Must End” (Part 1)
Pete Buttigieg doesn’t think President Trump was right to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The disturbing story is here: Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 election, denounced Tuesday US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Washington Recognizes the Golan as Part of Israel (Part Three)
If there is little military threat from Syria at present, is there a political threat from other Arabs who want Syria to get back the Golan? Are those Arabs infuriated with the American decision to recognize Israel’s annexation of the Golan? Not at all. They no longer support Bashar al-Assad or Syria. The ruthlessness of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Washington Recognizes the Golan as Part of Israel (Part Two)
In 1967, President Johnson asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to study what territorial adjustments would be necessary to meet Israel’s minimum defense needs. They duly presented their military assessment of what, for Israel, would constitute “secure and defensible borders.” Here is a small excerpt, about the Golan, contained in their Memorandum: MEMORANDUM FOR THE […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Washington Recognizes the Golan as Part of Israel (Part One)
In June 1967, Israel was forced to fight a three-front war of self-defense against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. It managed to defeat all three of its enemies within six days. In its victory, it took the Sinai from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. It is the Golan that […]
Canada rejects Israel’s need to defend itself, does not recognize its control over Golan Heights
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to the White House witnessed President Trump sign a proclamation that the U.S. officially recognizes the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. This was no different from the situation of many […]
Trump signs recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Golan; Netanyahu: “Israel never had a better friend than you”
This is one of the reasons why the Left hates Trump so much: he is indeed the strongest supporter of Israel, which they hate and defame, who has ever occupied the Oval Office. He recognizes the virulence of the jihad Israel faces and doesn’t fall for “Palestinian” victimhood propaganda. Trump signs official recognition of Israeli […]
Trump: “After 52 years it is time for the US to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights”
Trump is right. The Golan Heights is indeed “of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!” Syrian soldiers used to stand on the heights and shoot down at Israeli farmers below. Only Israel is denied the right of conquest that has been universally recognized throughout human history: when a […]
U.S. opposes anti-Israel UN resolution calling upon Israel to surrender the Golan Heights
The U.S. has opposed “an annual draft resolution at the United Nations calling on Israel to rescind its authority over the occupied Golan Heights, drawing praise from Israeli officials.” The jihadist goal has been since 1948 and remains to obliterate Israel. For Israel to surrender the strategically important Golan Heights would aid the jihadists in […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps fires rockets into Golan Heights, Israel hits Iranian military in Syria
Anyone who thinks the Iran nuclear deal would have prevented the Islamic Republic of Iran from ultimately striking Israel is naive or self-deluded beyond redemption. This rocket fire into Israel, however, is likely to strengthen European dhimmi leaders’ resolve to keep the nuclear deal alive and appease the Iranian mullahs at all costs — not […]
Israel spots “unusual activity” from Iran, readies troops for imminent attack
On the heels of Trump’s announcement of the highest level of “powerful” sanctions against Iran and that the Iran nuclear deal is off: Local authorities in the Israeli-held Golan Heights have been ordered to “unlock and ready [bomb] shelters” in anticipation of an imminent attack. The first media question asked after Trump’s announcement of the […]
Islamic State jihadis open fire on Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights
Prediction: if the Islamic State gets into a position to threaten Israel in any serious way, we will start seeing the mainstream media grow markedly sympathetic to it, with a spate of articles hailing the new “maturity” and “moderation” of the Islamic State. “ISIS Fighters Killed by Israeli Airstrikes After Opening Fire on IDF Soldiers […]
French retailers ordered to label products that come from Israeli “settlements”
Boycott Jewish goods. We have seen this before in Europe. “Diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said they were puzzled as to why France chose this present moment in time to publish the directive, since the EU guidelines have existed for over a year but so far have not been implemented.” Probably to appease France’s growing Muslim […]
UN adopts 6 resolutions condemning Israel — no mention of “Palestinian” jihad incitement or knife attacks
A patriotic American administration that was a reliable ally of Israel, and recognized the importance of Israel as the only free republic in the Middle East, would withdraw funding from the United Nations and expel it from New York. It has strayed far from its original mission and is now little more than a propaganda […]
Islamic State approaches Israel
Prediction: if the Islamic State gets into a position to threaten Israel in any serious way, we will start seeing the mainstream media grow markedly sympathetic to it, with a spate of articles hailing the new “maturity” and “moderation” of the Islamic State. “ISIS Approaches Israel: Islamic State Loyalists Thwarted By Syrian Rebels Along Golan […]
Islamic State fighters spotted near Golan Heights
The Islamic State has released a lengthy e-book, Black Flags from Palestine, detailing how it plans to conquer Israel. I discuss it at length in my forthcoming book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS. Suffice it to say now that this Islamic State presence near the Golan Heights is a portent of a great deal […]
Two rockets from Syria strike Israeli Golan
This is likely part of the promised retaliation for Israel’s “air strike on a Hezbollah convoy near the Golan Heights on Jan 18,” in which “an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general, Mohammed Allahdadi, was killed along with a Hezbollah commander and the son of the group’s late military leader, Imad Moughniyeh.” “Two rockets from Syria strike […]