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Uri Heitner

Uri Heitner is a publicist and educator; a senior researcher at the Shamir Institute for Research, a state-funded research and development center, and think tank located in the Golan Heights; and a member of Kibbutz Ortal.

In all the years since, Israel has never asked the United States to recognize its sovereignty on the Golan because such a request never had a chance. The disintegration of Syria changed the picture.
Had the nightmare scenario played out, commissions of inquiries would have called for heads to roll. In reality, the opposite has happened. It turns out the supposedly dismissive treatment of the problem stemmed from operational considerations of field security.
Israel’s deterrent value continues to erode. Time after time, we agree to a quasi-ceasefire that is followed by yet another round of fighting.
It wasn’t the murder that destroyed the chance for peace between Israelis and Palestinians; it was our “partners” in Ramallah.