Posted by
InchDeep on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:15:26 PM
From www.imemc.org
After a preliminary meeting took place last week between Israeli and
Syrian leaders, several Israeli Knesset (Parliament) members have
stated publicly that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should be
put to death if he agrees to give the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
back to Syria
MK Arieh Eldad, a member of the right-wing National
Union-National Religious Party, stated Monday that according to one
definition of the state's Penal Code, anyone who acts to “remove lands
from the State's territories and from its control will be sentenced to
death”. His statement conspicuously omitted the fact that the Golan
Heights was a part of the sovereign state of Syria until Israel invaded
and seized the territory in 1967 to make it part of Israel.
And Eldad left out nothing. Israel
got attacked. They took the Golan Heights and hold it to
protect themselves. Ask yourself this. Would Israel
be holding the Golan Heights had they not been attacked?
Once taking the Golan Heights it only makes sense to
stay in order to deny their enemy the high ground. This is just common sense.
If there were true peace in the region Syria
could have it back. Until Syria
can guarantee the Golan Heights won't be used as a
launching point for attacks on Israel,
Israel needs to
keep control of that area. So anyone who would give that kind of military
advantage to ones enemy is committing treason and should be executed.
The statement came during a special meeting of lobbyists on the Golan Heights issue.
Eldad's
statement was reiterated by MK Effie Eitam, who is a resident of the
Israeli settlement of Moshav Nov in the Golan. Eitam added that "we
must make it clear that we are talking about death by a court of law”,
according to Israeli sources.
MK Eldad sent a letter to
Israel's Attorney General on Monday night after the meeting demanding
an inquiry into the Prime Minister's negotiations with Syria on the
question of the Golan Heights, and stating that the Prime Minister
should be tried for treason if he has engaged in any diplomacy with
Syria on the issue. In his letter, Eldad stated, "The Golan Heights Law
from 1981 applies the Israeli law on the Golan Heights as it is a
sovereign part of the State of Israel. The Israeli Penal Code from 1977
defines in clause 97B the term 'treason': A person who caused a
territory to be removed from the State's sovereignty or enter the
sovereignty of a foreign country, an act which could lead to a death
sentence or life imprisonment."
Former Israeli Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also in attendance at Monday's meeting,
and he stated, "the late Rabin said in 1992 that whoever withdraws from
the Golan Heights would be endangering Israel's security. This
statement was true then, it is true today, and it will be true tomorrow
as well."
The remarks drew criticism from more moderate
Knesset members. MK Shlomo Molla (Kadima) stated, "the leaders of the
extreme Right have learned nothing from the Rabin murder. [Eldad] must
immediately take back what he said."