Posted in Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Syria on June 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just returned from DC and an invigorating few days with Brit Tzedek v’Shalom’s Advocacy Days on Capitol Hill. Anyone who supports a Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace policy should take heart in knowing that more than 150 activists from all over the country devoted themselves to in-depth briefings and advocacy training before fanning across the Hill to [...]
Posted in Iran, Israel, Peace, Politics, Politics/Middle East, Syria on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Could there be something in the air between Israel and Syria? We’ve receiving reports that the two countries have been back channeling with the help of Turkey for some time - and now Syrian President Assad has told a Qatar newspaper that Turkish involvement had yielded an Israeli offer to withdraw from the Golan [...]
Posted in Current Events, Israel, Politics/Middle East, Syria on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
That’s me (left) and JRC’s cantor Howard Friedland posing against the Upper Galilee on Mitzpe Gadot, on the Golan Heights. We spent the day today largely touring the Golan - when we weren’t sampling the local beer and wine, we learned a great deal about the history of this region and spent some time in [...]
Posted in Israel, Politics/Middle East, Syria on January 17, 2007 | No Comments »
The journalistic bombshell of the week is Tuesday’s report in Ha’aretz that Israelis and Syrians formulated a series of “understandings for a peace agreement” in a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006.
According to the article, the agreement would include:
- Israel’s withdrawal from the Golan Heights to the Pre-1967 lines.
- [...]
Posted in Israel, Politics/Middle East, Syria on October 23, 2006 | 2 Comments »
What harm is there in talking? I’m sure experts on the fine art of diplomacy would offer all kinds of complicated answers to this question, but for this non-expert, the question still remains. What harm is there in just talking? What, exactly, is the down side?
At the moment, Israel’s government is debating this very issue [...]
