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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Skunk, I still think you are wrong regarding disarmament, not only on the "this country vs. that country" issue, but also on the fact that we are discussing very different WMD-style disarmaments. I still feel Israel is responsible, where as Syria is not.
However, I wholly agree that if Israel occupies parts of Syria (I admit I have not seen or investigated whether or not this is true) it needs to GET OUT, just as it needs to get out of occupied territories in Palestinian lands.
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No problem - I'm trying very hard to be as impartial as I can in this thread.
I looked for a map of the Syrian land that Israel is currently occupying that did not carry any political baggage and found one on a travel site here:
http://www.1uptravel.com/worldmaps/israel12.html
The occupation was a result of the 1967 war and I don't want to get into that because the important issue is the here and now and how it affects relations.
No matter how responsible Israel is or whether it is indeed the original injured party, the occupation of the land will always be a source of anger (and fear for national survival) to Syrians - even if one is to accept that they were the guilty party in the original dispute that led to the occupation.