HaYom Kulam Yod'im She'Kahane Tzadak!
The Golan Heights was among the first lands to be liberated by The Jews after The Exodus from Egypt. During the last year of the 40 years in The Wilderness, what is now considered to be The Golan Heights together with Mount Hermon was taken from Og, King of The Bashan in Parashat Chukat. It became the territory of half of The Tribe of Menashe. Additionaly, all of Syria up to The Euphrates River is part of The Greater Land of Israel as stated in Deuteronomy 11:22-25. After the defeat of The Ottomans in World War I, The Golan Heights became part of The British Mandate. The British violated The Balfour Declaration and transfered The Golan Heights to The French Mandate of Syria in 1923. Following Syrian indepdenence in 1945, it came under Syrian occupation. Syria conquered additional land from Israel during The War of Independence. Syria used The Golan Heights to attack Northern Israel. Israel liberated the entire Golan Heights and Mount Hermon on June 10, 1967, the last day of The Six Day War. Syria attempted to re-occupy The Golan Heights in October, 1973 during The Yom Kippur War. Israel was able to hold back the Syrian forces and liberated additional areas in Syria almost up to Damascus. After the war, Israel signed The Agreement on Disengagement with Syria on May 31, 1974, which surrendered all the land liberated in The Yom Kippur War as well as some land liberated in The Six Day War including Kuneitra with the latter becomin a UN buffer zone. This brought peace to The Golan Heights until The Syrian Civil War when some violence spilled over the border. It was the most succesful agreement Israel ever had with an Arab country bringing not only peace but the ability to strike targets in Syria which a peace agreement would prohibit.
Over the years, the Hafez al-Assad regime would threaten Israel making clear that they didn't want peace including in November, 1996 when Syria threatened to conquer The Golan Heights and moved its troops to Mount Hermon, almost starting a war with Israel. Israel also moved its troops to Mount Hermon. Under the rule of Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar al-Assad, Syria was making weapons to be used on Israel including chemical weapon, nuclear weapons, and missiles capable of reaching points in Israel. Israel destroyed Syria's nuclear program at Al Kibar in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria on September 6, 2007 and struck other targets in Syria over the years.
During "The Peace Process", The Labor Party threatened to give The Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a "peace agreement". The worst of the threats was when Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa and Bill Clinton in West Virginia in December, 1999 but thank G-d that He created the Syrian Muslim Nazis even dumber than the self-hating Jews and Syria rejected the Israeli offer of surrender. If Syria had accepted it, there would have been ISIS terrorists in The Golan Heights sending missles on Israel during the Syrian Civil War. Baruch Hashem, Hafez al-Assad died on June 10, 2000. His death caused instability in Syria, and The Syrians were too busy fighting each other than to steal The Golan Heights. Also Assad's son, Bashar, could have been overthrown for making a "peace" deal with Israel. Thank G-d that the Assad regime was eventually overthrown in December, 2024 and Israel liberated the land surrendered in 1974 that was the UN buffer zone as well as the Syrian side of Mount Hermon including its highest peak, now the highest peak in Israel, as well as additional land. All these lands should be annexed and made part of The Golan Heights under Israeli civilian rule.
Here are some pictures having to do with Syria.
This is a picture of Syria taken from The Observation Point at Kuneitra, in The Northern Golan Heights.
This is a picture of the late Hafez al-Assad, who died on June 10, 2000. His death came on the 33rd solar anniversary of the liberation of The Golan Heights, a territory occupied by his country from 1945 to 1967, and which he wanted to steal back. It is not a coincidence that these two great things in Jewish History happened on the same day. It was also Shabbat and Shavuot in The Diaspora. Assad ranks along with Yasser Arafat and Gamal Abdul Nasser as one of the 3 biggest Jew killers since Adolf Hitler. For this reason, his death was a time of great celebration and rejoicing for Jews all over The World, for The Holy One, blessed be He, brings miracles every single day. His death caused instability in Syria, and The Syrians were too busy fighting each other than to steal The Golan Heights. Also Assad's son, Bashar, could have be overthrown for making a "peace" deal with Israel. For this, we thank God, for the death of Hafez al-Assad, and we pray that Assad's name and memory be erased forever and ever.
This is a picture of Bashar al-Assad, Hafez al-Assad's son, his successor to The Presidency of Syria.
This is a picture of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new President of Syria. He is a Muslim Nazi terrorist who overthrew the Assad regime.
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