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Category: Jewish History

Are We Gaining Ground?

The Israeli people are now facing the question, "The Golan or Peace?" The very idea of surrendering the strategic Golan Heights to those who used them to rain down missiles on the Galilee below, condemning one generation to spend most of its childhood in underground bomb shelters, was once unthinkable.

In the last ten years, however, the above question has become more and more of a political consideration. During this time there have been those who have presented the counter-question: "Why not ‘Peace With the Golan’?"

It is the idealistic hope of the Barak government that if Israel can draw Syria and its vassal state Lebanon into a peace agreement, this would result in a cessation of hostility on all Israel’s borders. This is indeed a longing of every Israeli’s heart, as expressed in Naomi Shemer’s well-known song written at the time of the Yom Kippur war in 1973: "My God, please preserve and keep us from this endless war!"

Families that have had grandfathers, fathers and sons killed in wars launched at us by our neighbors for the past fifty-plus years are desperately hoping not to see their grandchildren suffer the same fate. They are therefore prepared to make great sacrifices and pay a huge price for peace. Prime Minister Barak is no doubt counting on this as he pushes the deadline for a decision on withdrawal from the Golan. There are many, however, who remember the enormous price paid with the lives of hundreds of our sons in regaining the Golan Heights in the 1967. As has been the case in each and every battle for the establishment of the modern nation of Israel, there are also many accounts of the God of Israel’s miraculous intervention that has brought about her victories. His hand was literally seen and acknowledged, even by Syrian prisoners of war, during the tank battles for the Golan in 1967.

The Golan and Security

In 1992 the late Prime Minister, Yi...

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