People of Ghajar Speak Out

The village of Ghajar is located in the Golan on the border with Lebanon. Israel plans to build a wall that will divide the village to a northern part under Lebanese rule and a southern part under illegal Israeli occupation. The people of Ghajar have fiercely protested against the Israeli proposal and the result has been clashes between the natives and the Israeli authorities. In regards to this issue a resident of Ghajar said: "the issue for us is a matter of life or death. We are the guardians of this land and we will never give it up till the day of liberation...the people of Ghajar have lived here for 900 years, they are Syrian and there is documentation to prove that these lands belong to the province of Quniatera, Syria. Before the Israeli occupation we never felt that there was a border that separates us from our Lebanese neighbors, here you are in Syria and two meters away you will find yourself in Lebanon!"

62 Illegal Settler Families

After Israel finally withdrew from the Gaza Strip (although they still control access into and out of the strip and the air, sea and water resources), some settler families decided to move to another illegally occupied land, the Golan. Any settlement in the Golan, West Bank or ANY occupied territory is illegal under international law and violates the Geneva conventions but this is not new to zionism. These settlers deliberately chose to move from an illegal settlement in Gaza to another illegal settlement in the Golan. Will the Israeli government that is praised in the US as the the only democracy in Middle East do anything about this? Answer: not as long as it embraces zionism.