It is known that the international community views the Golan Heights, which was liberated in the June 1967 Six Day War as “occupied” but that does not change the fact that in 1981, Israel passed the Golan Law which extended Israeli law and sovereignty to the Golan.
Today, with the international community increasing its pressure on Israel to make territorial compromise, the mainstream Israeli media can be counted upon to do its job to assist that cause as Ynet in its report on Sunday, 18 Iyar 5773 refers to the Golan Heights as the “Israeli-occupied Golan Heights”.
The excerpt from the Ynet English report reads:
“This is the new reality on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, for 40 years the quietest of Israel’s front lines, a place of hiking trails, bird-watching, skiing and winery tour. The military predicts all that will soon change as it prepares for the worst – a power vacuum in Syria in which rogue groups could get their hands of the country’s large stockpile of chemical weapons.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The media is the enemy from with in that we Jews have to lookout for
Actually Ynet is technically correct. The Golan law did not use the word “annexation” and neither did Prime Minister Begin at the time the law was enacted. It basically established *de facto* Israeli sovereignty, not *de jure* sovereignty.
They are their own worst enemy! Example is calling cities “settlements.” USE THE WORD CITIES! Give yourselves some legitimacy!