Title: Secrets of the Golan - Rothschild
 

SECRETS OF THE GOLAN

by Barry Chamish

20th December 1999    
In January 1996, the business magazine section of the Tel Aviv-based
daily newspaper Globes published a four part series revealing a profoundly
important fact that was unexplainably ignored: Israel has legal title over a
large chunk of the Golan Heights and Western Syria.
In the 1890s, Baron Rothschild purchased 20,000 acres of Syrian land
owned by the Ottoman empire. In 1942, the Syrian government illegally
confiscated the land. The Baron transferred the deeds to the Jewish National
Fund (JNF) in 1957. In 1992, the deeds were moved to the Prime Minister's
Office where they are stored today.
After I read the series, I called a contact in the JNF, Bunny Alexandroni
of the public relations department. She said she'd look into the matter and
called me back. She informed me that she couldn't comment on the Globes
series but asked me to meet her at her office. An appointment was made and
she told me that her boss, the director of her department, would talk to me
if I agreed not to publish his name.
After so agreeing, I entered his office and he invited me to be seated.
He explained, "The Globes articles were essentially correct. They were a bit
off on the location of the Rothschild land. Some of it is in the Golan but
most is in the Horan, in Syria itself. I informed the government that the
deeds are an excellent bargaining chip with the Syrians but the government
refuses to play it. My hands are tied. I've been instructed not to pursue
the matter."
And that is the biggest secret of the Golan: the Israeli government is
holding onto legal title to land in the Golan and beyond and is hiding the
fact from the public. Of course, the first question would be, why?
What follows is a chronological explanation of how the current
Israeli-Syrian "peace" talks came to be. For those who are unable to
dramatically readjust their sense of reality, it is advised to simply stop
reading and make do with the knowledge of the land titles. They are more than enough to
assure that Israel remains atop the Golan Heights. For those willing to
accept a drastic switch in point of view, keep reading.

December 1990 - President George Bush invites Syria to join his coalition of
forces to fight Iraq. The only offer Syria will respond to is a promise that
America will use its power to remove Israel from the Golan Heights. Bush's
administration has already secretly transferred $5.5 billion to Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein and is in constant contact with him. Before the
first shot of the Persian Gulf War is fired, Hussein agrees to bombard
Israel with Scud missiles. In return, he is promised that no matter what the
outcome of the war, he will not be brought down, nor will Israel respond to
the attacks.
Bush promises Syria a bombardment that will prove to the Israeli people
that territory will not protect them in the age of missiles. Later America
will put the squeeze on the Shamir government to relinquish the Heights.
Syria accepts the terms and joins the coalition.

Summer 1991 - Bush organizes a conference in Madrid to put international
pressure on the Shamir government to leave the Golan. Shamir refuses to
budge. Bush meets Syrian President Assad in Geneva. There Assad says he's
running out of patience with Bush and threatens to take matters into his own
hands before the upcoming American elections. Bush promises that he will use
all his power to remove Shamir from office and bring in a more compliant
government.

June 23, 1992 - Bush's strategy of withholding loan guarantees and
demonizing Shamir succeeds and Yitzhak Rabin becomes Israeli Prime Minister.
Bush demands an immediate Golan withdrawal and Rabin explains that it is
politically out of the question for him.

September 10, 1992 - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meets French President
Mitterand and Foreign Minister Roland Dumas in Paris and agreed to promote a
total Golan withdrawal. He wants to meet with Syrian FM Farouk Shara
immediately. Peres returns to Israel and Rabin meets him at Ben Gurion
Airport. He orders Peres to stay away from the French, loudly calling them,
"the biggest bastards." Too late for Rabin. Two days later Dumas began a
shuttle between Damscus and Cairo to coordinate Peres's Golan withdrawal.

September 17, 1992 - Rabin is called to Kennebunkport, Maine where an
agitated Bush lays down the law. He must neutralize Peres's French track and
"prepare the Israeli people for painful withdrawals," first from the Golan
and then the West Bank and Gaza. He demands that the Golan withdrawal be
coordinated with a compliant military leader, IDF Chief Of Staff Ehud Barak.
Rabin returns to Israel and announces his Syria First peace program.

September 23, 1993 - Syria is put on the back burner by the new Clinton
administration, while negotiations with the PLO are taking place. Once Rabin
inks a deal with Arafat, the White House begins its campaign for a Golan
treaty. A meeting is set up between Chief Of Staff Ehud Barak and VP Al Gore
to get the track going.

November 12, 1993 - An international race is on to see who can get Israel
off the Golan first. On the same day that Rabin is in Washington,
accompanied secretly by Ariel Sharon, Peres is in France meeting with his
French counterpart Alain Juppe. The Washington meetings go badly. The
biggest sticking point is Syria's demand that as part of a peace deal,
Israel give up its nuclear weapons program. While Rabin and Sharon refuse to
accede, Peres shows no such compunctions.

December 6, 1993 - Secretary of State Warren Christopher flies to Damascus
for a meeting with Syrian VP Hassan Habibi and most telling, with Jordanian
Hamas leader Ibrahim Rusha. Syria lays down the law. The French have made a
better offer and unless America moves Rabin in the same direction, Syria
will promote a Hamas overthrow of the PLO regime in Gaza and the West Bank.
Syria offers Hamas's violent talents for a terror campaign to remove Rabin
from power in favor of Peres. Christopher relayed the threats to Clinton and
a summit between Assad and the American president was arranged for the
following month.

January, 1994 - Clinton and Assad meet in Geneva. Arafat, apprised of the
plot against him, rushed to Geneva where the Swiss authorities refused to
grant him an entrance visa. Clinton promised Assad a total Golan retreat and
Rabin reacted with furor. He announced that any Golan deal would now be
subject to a public referendum and appointed his Deputy Defence Minister,
Motta Gur, to introduce a referendum bill in the Knesset.

May, 1994 - Peres orders his Foreign Ministry staff to prepare a plan for
the evacuation of Jewish residents of the Golan and presents it to Mitterand
with a request for an immediate meeting with the Syrians. The Syrians now
want Rabin out and Peres in and plan a strategy to achieve the goal.

July, 1994 - Assad finally takes matters in his own hands and orders the
bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. Over a hundred Jews die.
Syria's responsibility is traced conclusively by two Argentinian
journalists. The suicide bomb vehicle is rented with currency traced to
Damascus. Rabin is ordered by his American bosses to cover up Syria's role
in the atrocity and Israel shifts blame to Iran.

October 17, 1994 - The repercussions of Buenos Aires did not budge Rabin, so
Syria ordered a strike closer to home. A bus explodes in Tel Aviv killing
23. The same day, Palestinian radio station in Damascus gave full detail's
of the blast's methodology, two days before Israel police confirmed the
accuracy of the report.

November, 1994 - With Syria living up to its threats to remove Rabin,
Clinton initiated a Damascus-Jerusalem shuttle. Rathered than softened by
the slaughter of Jews, Rabin was furious and his position on Syria hardened.
Clinton finally relented and agreed to replace Rabin with a more compliant
candidate, Ehud Barak.

December, 1994 - Peres took a major step towards realizing his Golan plan
and invited Germany and Japan to place troops on the Heights after
withdrawal went into effect.

January, 1995 - Ehud Barak quits his post as Chief Of Staff. A month later
he meets with Warren Christopher in Jerusalem to plan his future.

March - June, 1995 - Barak flies to Washington and immediately begins
negotiations with the Syrian peace-talks delegation. He promises a total
Golan withdrawal if he becomes Prime Minister. He spends the rest of his
trip planning his accession to power and understanding his role as
envisioned by the Council On Foreign Relations. He holds meetings with CFR
executives Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Tisch and Edgar Bronfman. They vow to
finance his campaign. Barak announces that the triumvirate agreed to finance
his new "business" career to the tune of $30 million.

July, 1995 - Barak returns to Israel and Rabin appoints him Interior
Minister. Motta Gur is dead, supposedly of a suicide caused by depression
over his cancer. His physician says that can't be, his disease was in total
regression and he had everything to live for.

October 20, 1995 - The CFR has gotten wind of a French plot to murder Rabin
and replace him with Peres. They decide to give Rabin a last chance. At the
UN's 50th anniversary ceremony, Christopher and special advisor Dennis Ross
remind Rabin that he promised a withdrawal to the shores of Lake Kinneret.
They want him to meet with Shara and live up to his commitment. Rabin loses
his cool and lets loose a loud and ugly rant against both of them. He shouts
that he made the Kinneret comment sarcastically and they knew it. He
threatens to pull out of the whole peace process. One by one, CFR members
like Bronfman, Kissinger and Clinton try to sway Rabin. He gives his answer
on the UN podium the next day, telling the assembled that he comes from
Jerusalem, the undivided capital of Israel and that the real problem in his
region wasn't Israel's stubbornness, it was Arab terrorism. The next day he
flew to Washington and oversaw the passage of two Congressional bills which
effectively neutralized the Oslo process. One bill declared that Jerusalem
would never be divided, the other cut off American aid to the PLO if it
declared a state. The Americans decided to keep Rabin ignorant of the French
plot against him. Peres had to be next in line anyway before Barak could
replace him.

Nov. 7, 1995 - The leaders of the Anglo-American and European regimes
descended on Rabin's funeral. With Rabin safely entombed, the squeeze began
to neutralize the French victory. John Major and Prince Charles arranged a
meeting at Orient House for Peres to negotiate directly with Assad by phone.
He turned the meeting down. However, he did promise Clinton an immediate
withdrawal from the South Lebanon security zone and without an ounce of
sentiment for Rabin's mourning period, the president sent Ross shuttling
between Assad and Peres. Assad turned down Peres's limited offer and Clinton
demanded a major concession: Peres agreed to appoint his bitter rival,
Barak, as his Foreign Minister and campaign manager for the next national
elections.

January, 1996 - Rabin's most precious Golan secret, was leaked in detail to
the business newspaper Globes. Israel had legal title to 20,000 acres of
Syrian territory, some of it on the Golan Heights. The media was instructed
to bury the story.

February - May, 1995 - Barak and the Americans sabotaged Peres's election
campaign through a combination of deliberate incompetence, suicide bombers
and a mini-war in Lebanon which cost Peres the Arab vote. Peres lost and
millions of dollars were funnelled to Barak's successful campaign to take
over the leadership of the Labor Party. The price was Netanyahu's victory
and immediately a campaign of scandal mongering began to force him from
power. Netanyahu survived the scandals, and froze the Golan withdrawal until
the Americans invested their money and talents to assuring Barak's election
in May, 1999.

November, 1999 - On the fourth anniversary of Rabin's murder, the public
demanded to know how he really died. Indisputable proof that the convicted
assassin could not have shot the fatal bullets was in the hands of tens of
thousands of people. My book with the documents within was number three of
the bestseller list. Rabin's wife and two children demanded a new
investigation of his assassination. 65% of the public supported their
demand. A huge issue was needed to quell the fast-spreading public campaign
to reinvestigate Rabin's demise. The truth would explode the whole peace
process and incriminate the current leadership in atrocious crimes. A
replacement murder scandal involving publisher Ofir Nimrodi worked for a
week but something far more lasting and devastating was required. An
impending withdrawal from the Golan Heights did the trick.

the end and it could be!

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