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The ‘Golan Heights’ was part and parcel of the  “Palestinian Mandate Territory” and not part of Syria! _ _The 'Palestine Mandate' was ***igned to Great Britain at the San-Remo Conference in 1920, and later confirmed by the then [League of Nations] on July 1922&****ip;_ _The borders of this ‘Palestine Mandate’ were internationally agreed upon, because they corresponded with those of the “Historical and Geographical Land of Eretz Israel”. And, were intentionally delineated as a basis for the RECONSTITUTION of the Jewish National Home._ _The Golan Heights was illegally given away to the ‘French Mandate Powers’ of the Levant (Syria -Lebanon) on March 1923. This territorial transfer was surreptitiously made in a capricious and arbitrary fashion by the British whose sole interest was to secure Mosul's oil fields to Iraq (The Mandate for Mesopotamia), and reduce the constant friction with the French Mandatory Powers in Syria-Lebanon, which had designs on these oil fields. The Golan Heights became part of Syria upon the termination of the French Mandate in 1944._ _The Syrians held the Golan Heights from day one of their Independence in 1946 until they lost it to the IDF in 1967 a total of 21 years&****ip; Israel has regained/liberated the Golan Heights in 1967 [after it was illegally given away to the French Mandatory Powers (Syria-Lebanon in 1923)] to this year 2007 it totaled 40 years in Israel hands... So by sheer power of ac***ulated years the "Golan Height" seem to have been restored to Israel's sovereignty. _ _A Mandate is a Trust, according to ART. 80 of the UN Charter&****ip; Israel's decision to impose its Laws on the Golan Heights on December 14, 1981, had in reality, RIGHTED the WRONG that was committed by the British in March 1923. __Mr. Meridor and others should learn basics... do not cavalierly dispense of what is now part of the Jewish Patrimony.

Dear Margaret,

Thank you so much for your beautiful comments.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get a copy of your great aunt's photos of Israel before l948 and anything she might have written about the Palestinian territory at that time. That would be so important to publish in our newsletter.

If you would be willing to scan them and email them to us it would be a real blessing. Then we could work together determining how to caption them and how we should phrase our descriptions. It will be very exciting to send them out to many of our readers who would be very interested.

Please let me know what you think.

Again, many thanks for writing to us.

Wishing you a very happy Christmas.

Esther

Salomon, this is a WONDERFUL resource! Also to be included soon on our landing page! Thank you for this!

This is a wonderful point, Davidka! We will surely include it on our http://uc4i.org/sanremo landing page right away! Thank you for this!

This is an amazing discovery for me! The fact that Hezbollah, Hamas, members of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, IRAN and AL QAEDA all met together IN THE EARLY 90's in President Umar al-Bashir's Sudan is completely new to me.

We can see how all the terrorists have been actually working together - with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood together in the middle of it all.

Incidentally this is the SAME Bashir, tyrant for many years, is known as the "Butcher of Darfur" who has been accused of “intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property.”

Yaffah,

How wonderful to hear from you after all these years! You were the one who, at our very first meeting in Washington DC, moderated and officially brought our original 70 organizations together - which soon numbered over 200! You were so wonderful!

Our first meeting in the Mansfield room - with Sen. Bob Dole, Sen. Grassley, Rep. Jane Harmon and others - was the beginning of Voices United for Israel, now the Unity Coalition for Israel.

I'm so glad you contacted me and now I don't want to lose track of you!

Our feelings exactly. May we use your comment in an Action Alert? Would you help us with others??? Please write back and tell us something about yourself. Please put TO: Esther, personal in the subject line.

Thanks so much for your helpful comment.

Esther

Beverly, you have given a very clear and reasonable response. Thank you so much for sending this.
May we quote from this in an Action Alert? Please write back and let me know who you are and if you would be willing to help with other succinct messages in the future.

When you reply please put TO Esther, personal in the subject.

Thanks again,
Esther (Levens)

This is a really psychotic culture. It is chilling that such barbaric behavior can be inbred and exist in today's world. It seems that this must be completely hopeless and totally resistant to any change.

Rodger, thank you so much for this beautiful tribute. I appreciate you and your kind words more than I can possibly express!

We are considering a new project that I would like to discuss with you.

With sincere appreciation for all you do,
Esther