In the name of 'peace'Nov. 18, 2008
(Photo caption: Metulla Mayor Jacob Katz points to the massive Golan Heights in the distance. The Golan overlooks all of the Galilee and produces some great Israeli wine, I might add.)
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Syria already knows that Israel will return the strategic Golan Heights, captured during the 1967 war, in order to attain peace. Never mind that doing so would give Syria and friends (Iran and Hizballah) a sniper's view into the heart of Israel.
"Egypt made peace with Israel, and so did Jordan and they got back all the territory. Syria knows that if it will make peace it will get the same," Peres said today during state visit to Britain.
Making peace with Syria is contingent on Damascus cutting ties with Iranian-backed Hizballah based in Lebanon.
Peres told BBC Radio: "If Syria will understand that they can't have the Golan Heights and keep Lebanon as a base for the Iranians, then the decision will be clear. But if she wants the Golan Heights back and keeps her bases in Lebanon - which are really controlled and financed by the Iranians - no Israeli will agree to have Iranians on our borders."
But they'll agree to Syrians? And can Syria stop the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from coming through their borders? Or is Israel bargaining for a military base in Syria on Iran's border? Now that would be interesting.
Meanwhile, more peace: A Palestinian man was caught with pipe-bomb at checkpoint outside Nablus on Tuesday morning.
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