Reaction to my recent article, The Secrets Of The Golan (below) has been gratifying. My explanation of the Anglo-American/French race to be the first to force Israel off the strategically vital Golan Heights, which ultimately led to the Rabin assassination, was widely accepted. I was gratified to see the piece translated into Hebrew within two days and then widely disseminated in Israel through major Internet sites, including that of the Golan residents themselves.

However, many readers were left with one question that I did not answer: why is there such an international push to pressure Israel off the Heights and thus leave its northern flank exposed to a relatively easy attack?

The most important explanation, by far, follows. Let us begin with an event which occurred this week and is less distantly relevant than one might think. A few days ago, Regional Affairs Minister Shimon Peres was the driving force behind an agreement between Egypt and Israel to build a natural gas pipeline over the Sinai to supply a high percentage his country's future energy requirements. The chief financial benefactor was an engineering company with longterm ties to Peres called Merhav, and that is no coincidence since Peres has a strong attachment to pipelines.

In 1985 Iran blockaded the Persian Gulf and Iraq could not transport its oil exports by ship. At the same time, Syria blocked its overland route to the Mediterranean. Since 80% of Iraq's GNP came from its oil exports, the situation was dire, costing the Iraqis some $80 billion annually. To overcome the Iran/Syrian chokehold, Iraq sought to build a pipeline to the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. The Bechtel Corporation in America was contracted to construct the multi-billion dollar project but would not take the risk unless the pipe would remain secure even in war. So Bechtel contacted Attorney-General Edwin Meeese to bribe Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

Eventually, Peres agreed to sign an agreement commiting Israel never to attack the pipeline, even in a war between Jordan or Iraq. The price was a generous $70 million a year for ten years, to be deposited in the accounts of the Israeli Labor Party. When word of this expensive insurance policy cum bribe was leaked in Washington, Meese was forced to resign as Attorney-General. But, as usual, in Israel, scandal escaped Peres.

With this pipeline blocked, Iraq still found itself totally dependant on Syria and Iran to secure safe passage for its oil.

But there was an alternative route, and a most practical and lucrative one at that. However, ultimately it could only be opened if Israel left the Golan Heights for good. Within six years, Iraq was launching SCUD missiles at Israel to this end.

Still, the Iraqis are just a minor element in the Golan squeeze. The major elements are the Bechtel Corporation and the French government.

First Bechtel. This is a huge engineering corporation which long ago decided that its most profitable strategy was to combine earnings with global politics. In order to secure the lushest building contracts the world had to offer, it was deemed essential that the American government have free access to any part of the globe where leaders could be compromised and natural resources could be looted. Thus Bechtel has always been a vocal supporter of the rubric, "free trade," which in essence means American and European corporations are free to drive local companies out of business worldwide.

For the first half-century, Bechtel VP Cordell Hull was assigned the task to selling, first The League Of Nations and then the UN to the American people. Needless to say, his unfortunate legacy lives on. As does Bechtel influence over American foreign policy.

The means to this end is a 3000 member think tank in Manhattan called The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), which has sent the majority of Presidents and Secretaries Of State to Washington for the past two generations. Some recent examples: Caspar Weinberger was a VP at the Bechtel Power Corporation, while George Shultz served for a time as president of the company. When Bechtel is short of executives to directly run American policy, it recruits them with promises of wealth. For instance, when Henry Kissinger left public service for the private sector, Bechtel became one his first and most munificent clients.

Now we step back in time to the Cordell Hull era. In 1917, British forces overcame the Ottoman Turks and took over their empire.

In 1923, the British divvied up the Middle East, giving its ally the French some leftovers. After surveying Syria and finding oil only in the northern Mosul region, Britain ceded the "worthless" Golan Heights to the French. Had they employed some geological foresight, the Brits would have been far more reluctant to give away such a valuable prize.

We jump to 1942 and with the prompting of Hull and Bechtel, Roosevelt draws America into World War Two. It takes a lot of oil to win a war and for the past decade American and European surveyors had discovered that as much as half the world's reserves were buried under the sands surrounding the Persian Gulf, with the lion's share situated in Saudi Arabia.

With the Nazis threatening the Suez Canal and, supertankers unthought of, getting this oil to the Allies in Europe was a risky business in the extreme. But Hull had a solution: build a Trans-Arabian pipeline from the Gulf to the Mediterranean and half the world's oil would flow cheaply and securely to Europe.

And who better to build the pipe than his own company, Bechtel? With unusual haste, even for wartime, ARAMCO hired Bechtel to build the pipe. There was one obstacle in the way of complete control over the flow of Gulf oil: the French.

To get the oil to the Mediterranean, the ideal route was to the Golan Heights and then gravitationally to sea level. However, the French had legal hegemony over the Golan and ARAMCO and Bechtel had no choice but to cut them in on the profits. This agreement was upheld as part and parcel of the French departure from Syria in 1946, the very year when the pipeline was finished.

Then came the Six Day War of 1967, which saw Israel liberate the Golan Heights and the Arab states shut off the tap to the pipeline until the day when no more Jews set foot on the land.

Initially, American policy took advantage of Israel's hold on the newly won Suez Canal and Golan Heights by profiting heavily in the supertanker business but the longterm policy was to get Israel out of both spots, no matter what her security concerns.

Bechtel's CFR member, Weinberger manipulated Israel out of the Sinai for President Carter, while President Bush's Bechtel CFR member, George Shultz was charged with getting Israel out of the Golan.

In my previous article, I detailed how the Persian Gulf War was created with this in mind. In short, Syria joined the Bush fighting coalition in return for a promise that America would press Israel off the Golan, while Iraq softened the country up with missile attacks, proving territory means little in the age of SCUDS.

With Israeli Prime Minister Shamir refusing to budge on Bush's postwar Golan withdrawal demands, Bush used all the powers of his government to oust him and replace him with a more compliant client, Yitzhak Rabin.

Yet Rabin's rise to power was also a windfall for the French, whose longterm factotem Shimon Peres was now second in command as Foreign Minister. By September of 1992, Peres had promised the French that he would arrange Israel's descent from the Heights. This promise spurred a shuttle between Cairo and Damascus by French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, much to the open disgust of Rabin.

In my previous article I detailed the race between the French and Anglo-Americans to get Israel off the Golan Heights but I did not state that the primary reason was to get the Bechtel oil flowing from the Saudi, Gulf and Iraqi fields to the Mediterranean. This is not a minor diplomatic consideration: with Gulf oil flowing undeterred to the Mediterranean, those with their fingers on the nozzles would be in a position to undercut, thus control, the world's petroleum supply.

There are no Israeli heroes in the sad sellout of the Golan but it must be remarked that Rabin displayed great courage in holding out for a compromise that would have left Israeli troops in place on a strategic axis of the Heights. That cost him his life.

With Peres willing to sell out every inch of Israel's northern security, the French decided to earn their percentage of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline profits by placing him in power. Unfortunately for them, a bungled assassination has been exposed and it is threatening, not merely their cut of the oil profits, but the political future of Peres and of the entire Labor Zionist movement.

A cutthroat coverup is taking place in Israel to save the plotters but it is relentlessly crumbling. Did the French act alone to remove Rabin? So far, the trail to France is overwhelming. To name but two connections, the head of the Israeli secret services, Carmi Gillon was in Paris the night of the murder and the fatal rally where Rabin fell was organized and paid for by Peres's French ally, the media tycoon Jean Friedman.

But one must not forget that Bechtel and the Americans benefitted greatly by the sudden departure of the recalcitrant Rabin, and by the eventual ascendency of their client Ehud Barak. At a minimum, the evidence so far indicates that they did not stand in the way of the murder. Rabin refused to budge for Bechtel and he had to go. Now no Israeli political leader stands in the way of the secret sellout of the Golan Heights.

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SECRETS OF THE GOLAN by Barry Chamish 24 December 2004 http://thetruthonly.narod.ru/Barry_Golan_01.htm

In January 1996, the business magazine section of the Tel Aviv-based daily newspaper Globes published a four part series revealing a profoundly important fact that was unexplainably ignored: Israel has legal title over a large chunk of the Golan Heights and Western Syria. In the 1890s, Baron Rothschild purchased 20,000 acres of Syrian land owned by the Ottoman empire. In 1942, the Syrian government illegally confiscated the land. The Baron transferred the deeds to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in 1957. In 1992, the deeds were moved to the Prime Minister's Office where they are stored today. After I read the series, I called a contact in the JNF, Bunny Alexandroni of the public relations department. She said she'd look into the matter and called me back. She informed me that she couldn't comment on the Globes series but asked me to meet her at her office. An appointment was made and she told me that her boss, the director of her department, would talk to me if I agreed not to publish his name. After so agreeing, I entered his office and he invited me to be seated. He explained, "The Globes articles were essentially correct. They were a bit off on the location of the Rothschild land. Some of it is in the Golan but most is in the Horan, in Syria itself. I informed the government that the deeds are an excellent bargaining chip with the Syrians but the government refuses to play it. My hands are tied. I've been instructed not to pursue the matter." And that is the biggest secret of the Golan: the Israeli government is holding onto legal title to land in the Golan and beyond and is hiding the fact from the public. Of course, the first question would be, why? What follows is a chronological explanation of how the current Israeli-Syrian "peace" talks came to be. For those who are unable to dramatically readjust their sense of reality, it is advised to simply stop reading and make do with the knowledge of the land titles. They are more than enough to assure that Israel remains atop the Golan Heights. For those willing to accept a drastic switch in point of view, keep reading.

December 1990 - President George Bush invites Syria to join his coalition of forces to fight Iraq. The only offer Syria will respond to is a promise that America will use its power to remove Israel from the Golan Heights. Bush's administration has already secretly transferred $5.5 billion to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is in constant contact with him. Before the first shot of the Persian Gulf War is fired, Hussein agrees to bombard Israel with Scud missiles. In return, he is promised that no matter what the outcome of the war, he will not be brought down, nor will Israel respond to the attacks. Bush promises Syria a bombardment that will prove to the Israeli people that territory will not protect them in the age of missiles. Later America will put the squeeze on the Shamir government to relinquish the Heights. Syria accepts the terms and joins the coalition.

Summer 1991 - Bush organizes a conference in Madrid to put international pressure on the Shamir government to leave the Golan. Shamir refuses to budge. Bush meets Syrian President Assad in Geneva. There Assad says he's running out of patience with Bush and threatens to take matters into his own hands before the upcoming American elections. Bush promises that he will use all his power to remove Shamir from office and bring in a more compliant government.

June 23, 1992 - Bush's strategy of withholding loan guarantees and demonizing Shamir succeeds and Yitzhak Rabin becomes Israeli Prime Minister. Bush demands an immediate Golan withdrawal and Rabin explains that it is politically out of the question for him.

September 10, 1992 - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meets French President Mitterand and Foreign Minister Roland Dumas in Paris and agrees to promote a total Golan withdrawal. He wants to meet with Syrian FM Farouk Shara immediately. Peres returns to Israel and Rabin meets him at Ben Gurion Airport. He orders Peres to stay away from the French, loudly calling them, "the biggest bastards." Too late for Rabin. Two days later Dumas begins a shuttle between Damscus and Cairo to coordinate Peres's Golan withdrawal.

September 17, 1992 - Rabin is called to Kennebunkport, Maine where an agitated Bush lays down the law. He must neutralize Peres's French track and "prepare the Israeli people for painful withdrawals," first from the Golan and then the West Bank and Gaza. He demands that the Golan withdrawal be coordinated with a compliant military leader, IDF Chief Of Staff Ehud Barak. Rabin returns to Israel and announces his Syria First peace program.

September 23, 1993 - Syria is put on the back burner by the new Clinton administration, while negotiations with the PLO are taking place. Once Rabin inks a deal with Arafat, the White House begins its campaign for a Golan treaty. A meeting is set up between Chief Of Staff Ehud Barak and VP Al Gore to get the track going.

November 12, 1993 - An international race is on to see who can get Israel off the Golan first. On the same day that Rabin is in Washington, accompanied secretly by Ariel Sharon, Peres is in France meeting with his French counterpart Alain Juppe. The Washington meetings go badly. The biggest sticking point is Syria's demand that as part of a peace deal, Israel give up its nuclear weapons program. While Rabin and Sharon refuse to accede, Peres shows no such compunctions.

December 6, 1993 - Secretary of State Warren Christopher flies to Damascus for a meeting with Syrian VP Hassan Habibi and most telling, with Jordanian Hamas leader Ibrahim Rusha. Syria lays down the law. The French have made a better offer and unless America moves Rabin in the same direction, Syria will promote a Hamas overthrow of the PLO regime in Gaza and the West Bank. Syria offers Hamas's violent talents for a terror campaign to remove Rabin from power in favor of Peres. Christopher relays the threats to Clinton and a summit between Assad and the American president is arranged for the following month.

January, 1994 - Clinton and Assad meet in Geneva. Arafat, apprised of the plot against him, rushes to Geneva where the Swiss authorities refused to grant him an entrance visa. Clinton promises Assad a total Golan retreat and Rabin reacts with furor. He announces that any Golan deal would now be subject to a public referendum and appoints his Deputy Defence Minister, Motta Gur, to introduce a referendum bill in the Knesset.

May, 1994 - Peres orders his Foreign Ministry staff to prepare a plan for the evacuation of Jewish residents of the Golan and presents it to Mitterand with a request for an immediate meeting with the Syrians. The Syrians now want Rabin out and Peres in and plan a strategy to achieve the goal.

July, 1994 - Assad finally takes matters in his own hands and orders the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. Over a hundred Jews die. Syria's responsibility is traced conclusively by two Argentinian journalists. The suicide bomb vehicle is rented with currency traced to Damascus. Rabin is ordered by his American bosses to cover up Syria's role in the atrocity and Israel shifts blame to Iran.

October 17, 1994 - The repercussions of Buenos Aires does not budge Rabin, so Syria orders a strike closer to home. A bus explodes in Tel Aviv killing 23. The same day, Palestinian radio station in Damascus gives full detail's of the blast's methodology, two days before Israel police confirmed the accuracy of the report.

November, 1994 - With Syria living up to its threats to remove Rabin, Clinton initiates a Damascus-Jerusalem shuttle. Rathered than softened by the slaughter of Jews, Rabin was furious and his position on Syria hardened. Clinton finally relents and agreed to replace Rabin with a more compliant candidate, Ehud Barak.

December, 1994 - Peres takes a major step towards realizing his Golan plan and invited Germany and Japan to place troops on the Heights after withdrawal went into effect.

January, 1995 - Ehud Barak quits his post as Chief Of Staff. A month later he meets with Warren Christopher in Jerusalem to plan his future.

March - June, 1995 - Barak flies to Washington and immediately begins negotiations with the Syrian peace-talks delegation. He promises a total Golan withdrawal if he becomes Prime Minister. He spends the rest of his trip planning his accession to power and understanding his role as envisioned by the Council On Foreign Relations. He holds meetings with CFR executives Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Tisch and Edgar Bronfman. They vow to finance his campaign. Barak announces that the triumvirate agreed to finance his new "business" career to the tune of $30 million.

July, 1995 - Barak returns to Israel and Rabin appoints him Interior Minister. Motta Gur is dead, supposedly of a suicide caused by depression over his cancer. His physician says that can't be, his disease was in total regression and he had everything to live for.

October 20, 1995 - The CFR has gotten wind of a French plot to murder Rabin and replace him with Peres. They decide to give Rabin a last chance. At the UN's 50th anniversary ceremony, Christopher and special advisor Dennis Ross remind Rabin that he promised a withdrawal to the shores of Lake Kinneret. They want him to meet with Shara and live up to his commitment. Rabin loses his cool and lets loose a loud and ugly rant against both of them. He shouts that he made the Kinneret comment sarcastically and they knew it. He threatens to pull out of the whole peace process. One by one, CFR members like Bronfman, Kissinger and Clinton try to sway Rabin. He gives his answer on the UN podium the next day, telling the assembled that he comes from Jerusalem, the undivided capital of Israel and that the real problem in his region wasn't Israel's stubbornness, it was Arab terrorism. The next day he flew to Washington and oversaw the passage of two Congressional bills which effectively neutralized the Oslo process. One bill declared that Jerusalem would never be divided, the other cut off American aid to the PLO if it declared a state. The Americans decided to keep Rabin ignorant of the French plot against him. Peres had to be next in line anyway before Barak could replace him.

Nov. 7, 1995 - The leaders of the Anglo-American and European regimes descended on Rabin's funeral. With Rabin safely entombed, the squeeze began to neutralize the French victory. John Major and Prince Charles arrange a meeting at Orient House for Peres to negotiate directly with Assad by phone. He turns the meeting down. However, he did promise Clinton an immediate withdrawal from the South Lebanon security zone and without an ounce of sentiment for Rabin's mourning period, the president sends Ross shuttling between Assad and Peres. Assad turns down Peres's limited offer and Clinton demands a major concession: Peres agrees to appoint his bitter rival, Barak, as his Foreign Minister and campaign manager for the next national elections.

January, 1996 - Rabin's most precious Golan secret was leaked in detail to the business newspaper Globes. Israel had legal title to 20,000 acres of Syrian territory, some of it on the Golan Heights. The media is instructed to bury the story.

February - May, 1995 - Barak and the Americans sabotage Peres's election campaign through a combination of deliberate incompetence, suicide bombers and a mini-war in Lebanon which cost Peres the Arab vote. Peres loses and millions of dollars are funnelled to Barak's successful campaign to take over the leadership of the Labor Party. The price was Netanyahu's victory and immediately a campaign of scandal mongering begins to force him from power. Netanyahu survives the scandals, and freezes the Golan withdrawal, until the Americans invest their money and talents to assuring Barak's election in May, 1999.

November, 1999 - On the fourth anniversary of Rabin's murder, the public demands to know how he really died. Indisputable proof that the convicted assassin could not have shot the fatal bullets was in the hands of tens of thousands of people. My book with the documents within is number three on the bestseller list. Rabin's wife and two children demand a new investigation of his assassination. 65% of the public support their demand. A huge issue was needed to quell the fast-spreading public campaign to reinvestigate Rabin's demise. The truth would explode the whole peace process and incriminate the current leadership in atrocious crimes. A replacement murder scandal involving publisher Ofir Nimrodi works for a week but something far more lasting and devastating was required. An impending withdrawal from the Golan Heights does the trick.
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