Haaretz Kapo Ari Shavit admits he was wrong in trying to give away the Golan

[Dan193]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158754
Left-Wing Journalist Regrets Golan Stance
A reporter for Haaretz regrets his stance on the Golan. ‘The world jihad would have been in Ein Gav.’
Maayana Miskin
8/9/2012
 
Left-wing commentator and reporter Ari Shavit admitted Thursday that he was wrong about giving the Golan region to Syria. Shavit revealed his change of heart in an opinion column in Haaretz.

“No one likes to admit they were wrong. I don’t, either,” Shavit began. “But sometimes you have no choice.”

If Israel had given the Golan to Syria, he said, “then today we’d already have bloodshed. If we had gone to bed with Assad a decade ago, today we’d be waking up with jihad.”

Shavit traced his change of heart back to a trip to the Golan. “I couldn’t help but think what would be happening today if the ideological position I supported – peace for the Golan - had gained acceptance,” he said. “I had to admit, that if the worldview I believed in had been implemented, brigades of the World Jihad would be stationed next to Ein Gav, and Al-Qaeda camps would be on the shore of the Kinneret.”

Shavit explained that he once believed that peace with Syria would prevent war, isolate Iran and limit its power, and lead to the disarmament of hostile forces threatening northern Israel. He believed peace with Syria “would be stable, like the peace with Egypt,” he added.

He recalled his efforts to promote the Golan withdrawal, including TV appearances. He thought his opponents’ position was “unreasonable and immoral,” he said, and he thought history would prove them wrong.

Instead, he said, the opposite occurred. Looking at the situation now, he said, he believes that his opponents were right. If the Golan had been traded for a declaration of peace in 2000, he said, today there would be frequent shooting attacks, terrorism targeting Israeli towns, and attempts to poison Israeli water sources. The Golan would be more dangerous than the Sinai, he added.

Shavit reassured his readers that he has not joined the political right, and still believes Israel has a moral obligation to try to make peace with its enemies. He still seeks to “end the occupation,” he said – but carefully, with weight given to the warnings from the political right.
 

[Dan193]

Proof Golan is historically Israels. Brilliant article
http://xrl.us/bmfrf

Syria controlled the Golan for only 21 years, half the period it has been under Israeli rule. Almost half of its territory has been purchased by Rothschild and later robbed by the Syrian government in 1946. Jews settled in the Golan as early as 1886 but they were expelled and massacred in 46 by the Arabs.

The Golan Heights was part of the British Mandate borders of 1917 that was supposed to go to Israel. .
The Golan was never part of Syria before 1946.
 
The Golan Has Been Jewish for Centuries. These rotten Arab colonialists have stolen lands from Kurds, Berbers, Copts, Babylonians, Chaldeans and they want to steal Jewish lands as well. The Golan was part of ancient and modern Israel for centuries, while it was under Syrian occupation for a mere 21 years!! The archaeology of the Golan is proof that the Golan is Jewish. I personally helped dig up a Talmudic era synagogue in Katzrin which is now has a visitor centre. The only Arab land is (Saudi) Arabia. The Arabs can go back there!! 
 
The Golan is where the tribes of Dan and Menashe settled, and Israeli kings ranging from Saul to Herod ruled there. The Golan saw consecutive Jewish settlement for 800 years; 300 Jewish communities from the time of the Mishna and Talmudwere discovered there, along with the remnants of 27 synagogues. Later, 1,000 years of desolation followed, until the Jews returned. The Golan belongs to us because it is the estate of our forefathers.

[Khan Krum]

Who even reads Haaretz? I knew plenty Ukrainians (not Jewish) who looked at it, and they were disgusted.