{"id":74,"date":"2009-10-17T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onemideast.org\/room\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-05-20T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:16:44","slug":"in-historic-perspective-the-golan-is-more-israeli-than-syrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Historically speaking, the Golan is more Israeli than Syrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Golan contains numerous Jewish landmarks which are about 2,000 years old. The Golan featured prominently in the Jewish struggle for independence against the Romans.<\/p>\n<p>The international border between the English and French mandate was set arbitrarily between these two world power in the case of Syria and Palestine (later Israel) as much as it was set arbitrarily everywhere else. Therefore, it should not form the basis for a long term border between the Israeli and Syrian nations. Even the Syrians are insisting on a different line&#8212;the armistice line of 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Syria is insisting on getting a piece of land which historically been connected very strongly to the Jewish people, and which it has controlled for only about 20 years, while Israel has controlled the area for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrians should recognize that both in the distant past and in the recent past, Israel&#8217;s claim to the Golan is stronger than the Syrian claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golan contains numerous Jewish landmarks which are about 2,000 years old. The Golan featured prominently in the Jewish struggle for independence against the Romans. The international border between the English and French mandate was set arbitrarily between these two world power in the case of Syria and Palestine (later Israel) as much as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onemideast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}