GOLAN HEIGHTS PART -3 BY SALEM SIRRIEH TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY IBRAHIN EBEID

 GOLAN HEIGHTS   PART -3

BY SALEM SIRRIEH

TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH BY IBRAHIN EBEID

LAST PART

5- Judaization:

First – The stages of Zionist settlement in the Golan (14)(15)(16)(17 )(18):
Immediately after completing its military control over the Golan Heights following the June 1967 war, Israel began working to bring about several geographical and demographic changes in all areas. All over the plateau, it hastened to establish Zionist settlements on the ruins of destroyed Syrian Arab villages, to create material facts on the ground that would prevent their return to Syrian sovereignty on the one hand and serve the expansionist settlement project on the other hand. It also supplied these settlements with several Jewish immigrants it began to bring from different countries.
Among these projects is the revival of settlement plans in the Golan after they had been suspended since 1998. The occupation government announced its intention to raise the number of settlers in the Golan from 20,000 currently to 250,000 by 2030 by establishing dozens of new settlements and expanding existing settlements. We can also mention that elections were imposed for local councils in the occupied Golan for the first time in 2018, which were rejected entirely by the residents of the Golan (less than 1% of the population voted). Obliging residents to register their lands with the Israeli “taboo,” establishing a new, colossal border strip along the ceasefire line, and establishing a further military point west of Majdal Shams.
After Israel achieved one of its most crucial settlement goals in obtaining the largest area of land in exchange for the smallest population, intensive work began in the corridors of the institutions of the occupying state to obliterate the features of the Arab identity of the people of the Golan. So it began imposing its educational curricula on students, and we mention here that the occupying state has three educational curricula: The first is the academic curriculum for Jewish students, then the educational curriculum for Arab students, and finally, the educational curriculum for Druze students. According to Israel’s vision and aspirations, the Druze are not Arabs, and work must be done to separate them from their Arab surroundings in preparation for transforming their religious doctrine into a personal identity that makes them separated from their Arab depth and at the same time They are safe in the embrace of Israel, which began to introduce the idea that it was not hostile to them and that it deliberately refrained from displacing them after stealing the educational curriculum. Israel appointed sectarian religious councils and local councils, whose primary function was implementing the occupation policy, and it controlled the majority of water sources. The villages of the Golan were connected to the Israeli electricity networks, and all economic transactions were transferred to the Israeli currency. In other words, the Israelis worked to cut off possible ties to preserve the people of the Golan in their Arab identity.

 References:

‎1- Master’s thesis entitled – Zionist settlement in the Syrian Golan Heights 1967 AD – 2000 AD / analytical historical study prepared by the name of the author, Maarouf Shahwan – An-Najah National University, Faculty of Graduate Studies 2010 AD‎
‎2- Golan Heights 1967-1984_Abdul Sattar Qasem-Department of Political Science, Al-Najah University-Palestine-Dar Al-Ummah Publishing Beirut-1984 ‎‎https://tinyurl.com/3bdbsckx‎
‎3- The forgotten Syrian Golan and its location in Syria The Future – Hermon Center for Contemporary Studies Group of Researchers – Dar Maysaloon for Printing and Publishing – 1st Edition – 2017‎
‎4. The Golan, 10 May 2006‎‎, “The late Sheikh Kamal Asaad King Abu Saleh”, Ayman Abu Jabal‎
http://www.jawlan.org/openions/read_article.asp….
‎5. The Golan, 15 March 2006, “Golan Facts and Figures”, Ayman Abu Jabal‎
http://www.jawlan.org/openions/read_article.asp…
‎-6 Previous source (1-) Asmaa Shahwan – Master’s thesis.‎
‎7- Isaac, Memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin, Dar Al-Jalil, Amman, Jordan, 2 volumes,‎
‎1993, vol. 1, pp. 184 et seq.‎
‎8- Previous source – (3) The forgotten Golan – several authors.‎
‎9- Asma Shahwan, previous source‎
‎10- Nazih Brik – Source No. (3)‎
‎11- Previous source – Asma Shahwan‎
‎12- The Syrian Golan in the Fans of the Occupation – Medal of Honor‎
https://metras.co/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9…
‎13- Antiquities in the Golan (Quneitra Governorate) by Abdullah Marei Al-Sayed. Publish Date: 01/01/2007Publisher: Ministry of Culture Publications‎
‎14- Asma Shahwan – the entire master’s thesis on settlement – previous source‎
‎15- Erasure and deportation in the occupied Syrian Golan – Amer Ibrahim ‎‎https://tinyurl.com/2d8fk4ez‎
‎16- Druze Golan – a national rise in the face of annexation – Walid Jaafari ‎‎https://library.palestine-studies.org/…/opac-detail.pl‎‎…‎
https://tinyurl.com/34878aad
‎17- Identity and colonialism in the occupied Golan: Notes on the dialectic of consciousness and domination – Munir Fakhr al-Din – Hermon Center for Contemporary Studies‎
‎18 – Golan in the face of occupation 1967- 1986_Nawaf Nimr Al-Bathaish field study. Union Press‎
https://tinyurl.com/pe6xpr3p
**OTHER REFERENCES:
http://golan1982.info/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D9%86%D8%AF%D8…/