In the Footsteps of Jesus - Exploring Israel's Christian Heritage

The Golan Levels is formerly section of Syria and it has been occupied by Israel because 1967 following the Six Day War. It was taken since it is geostrategic location, it is just a situtated on a really fertile volcanic airplane and produces wine and meat for the Israeli market. It's main significance can be as a vital source of water for Israel. Not all of the Golan Heights was entertained - about 30% of the terrain remains section of Syria and includes approximately 40 Syrian towns.

Israel transferred the Golan Levels Law on 14th December 1981 which applied Israeli "laws, jurisdiction and administration" to the Golan Heights. This activity was condemned by UN Security Council Quality 242 which emphasised the inadmissibility of the exchange of place by conflict and further offered that the just and sustained peace expected the withdrawal of Israeli armed allows from areas entertained in the recent conflict. UN Resolution 497 stated that the Golan Levels Law 1981 was null and void. The Golan Levels place is currently governed by international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conferences and customary global law.

In 1967 many individuals were displaced and villages were depopulated generally after the preventing had ceased. Whole villages were destroyed and the Israelis developed new settlements on top of the old villages. Between 80,000 and 130,000 Arab Druze and Circassians fled and 7,000 stayed in the Israeli occupied territory. Israel has prohibited former residents to return quoting security reasons. That is unlike the terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Report 147 proivdes "the unlawful deportation /transfer of an individual and the appropriation of property isn't validated unless by military necessity. Article 23(g) of the Hague Regulations provides it is forbidden to destroy/seize the enemy's property until such destruction or seizure be imperatively needed by the needs ofעסקים בגולן .

Successive Israeli Governments have considered an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan inturn for the normalisation of relations with Syria. The US brokered negotiations between the two in 1999-2000 but didn't achieve a resolution. The problem arose again in 2006 conflict where Iranian supported Hezbollah guerrillas needed portion in the Lebanese war. In May 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Israel would not stop trying the Golan since when it became Iran's entrance line then this will threaten the whole state of Israel.