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ISRAEL - SYRIA - GOLAN HEIGHTS - UNDOF EVACUATION IMMINENT

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /> </span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMajAiZmn-NmzB3xsoXgu92UOwKZN9NEoS4_yQyOkGW4KX_Qe-QhhfgGwvGqP4359OC4z5Vkqfkxj-PEBDAXZXmtgIcULBEGQj85o83hUUk_o8xzPwb84MmZvt_Qj5u8xQsUIs6M1elqyx/s1600/057671f94c74be987493dfab7166.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMajAiZmn-NmzB3xsoXgu92UOwKZN9NEoS4_yQyOkGW4KX_Qe-QhhfgGwvGqP4359OC4z5Vkqfkxj-PEBDAXZXmtgIcULBEGQj85o83hUUk_o8xzPwb84MmZvt_Qj5u8xQsUIs6M1elqyx/s400/057671f94c74be987493dfab7166.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"C Gate" UNDOF Checkpoint and only crossing point between ISRAEL and SYRIA</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GOLAN HEIGHTS, UNDOF TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES, READY TO EVACUATE TO ISRAEL</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">via DEBKA<i>file </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i> </i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The flight of hundreds of UNITED NATIONS  Disengagement and Observers Force (UNDOF) soldiers - INDIAN, AUSTRIAN and FILIPINO - in trucks and APCs from the SYRIAN side of Golan into ISRAEL was in full swing early Monday, March 11. debkafile quotes them as telling ISRAELI officers manning the ISRAELI side of the enclave that their commanders urged them to get out when they could because “We can no longer vouch for your safety.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKd1Ul6TPew1C9HlRXrHtbMerLOUtcjzHcotmXSGi_9kDKXAnM3d3w7VneZ6JmMx1mtXMzjdWjzGzj2I0piPKJf2T7b7Df4WBqsTj8xx4fcpGgKxpQKIAvCt_9WByf3dyXj3u5XlqhyphenhyphenOH/s1600/GolanHights-UNDOF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKd1Ul6TPew1C9HlRXrHtbMerLOUtcjzHcotmXSGi_9kDKXAnM3d3w7VneZ6JmMx1mtXMzjdWjzGzj2I0piPKJf2T7b7Df4WBqsTj8xx4fcpGgKxpQKIAvCt_9WByf3dyXj3u5XlqhyphenhyphenOH/s640/GolanHights-UNDOF.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BREAKUP OF THE 1,000-STRONG UNDOF WHICH FOR 39 YEARS MANNED THE 8 SQ. KM SEPARATION ZONE BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many more UN troops are expected to make their way during the day to refuge in IDF camps across the border. Their officers, they said, had already placed their belongings aboard waiting vehicles ready to move across as soon as they received permission from their governments in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vienna, New Delhi</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manila</b> or the UN Secretariat in New York.<br />Our military sources report that this mass exit signals the breakup of the 1,000-strong UNDOF which for 39 years manned the 8 sq. km separation zone between SYRIA and ISRAEL. It was set up in 1974 to end the war of attrition fought  in the sequel to the Yom Kippur War between the IDF and CUBAN armored brigades flown in from ANGOLA by the SOVIET UNION to support the SYRIAN army.<br />The UN force’s collapse began with the CROATIAN government’s recall of its 100 troops last week.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the peacemakers flee, RUSSIA is today hardly likely to interfere with who gets to control the Golan separation zone which was split between SYRIA and ISRAEL.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsYki3V10EVP-j0abnAyX0rftbiQR58cBOYugyREQ7RANfF-XhLUNjgv_6iYVu98MbbeyRwSipcbgoO9ABRd2Wsm_EikWCqt9hyphenhyphenfXdz8FI_nu9NkavKIy91HiqZ61LQkAb2vMUXNhyphenhyphenwye/s1600/20080129-1201592556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsYki3V10EVP-j0abnAyX0rftbiQR58cBOYugyREQ7RANfF-XhLUNjgv_6iYVu98MbbeyRwSipcbgoO9ABRd2Wsm_EikWCqt9hyphenhyphenfXdz8FI_nu9NkavKIy91HiqZ61LQkAb2vMUXNhyphenhyphenwye/s320/20080129-1201592556.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arms Disengagement zone between ISRAEL and SYRIA</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile reports three potential candidates are eying the sliver of land for different reasons:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. The Martyrs of Yarmuk Islamist militia force of the SYRIAN rebel movement, which staked its claim last week by kidnapping 21 blue-and-white helmeted Filipino observers on the Golan and later releasing them in JORDAN.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is feared in Washington, Jerusalem and Amman, that Al Qaeda-associated forces will waste no time in overrunning the highly strategic patch of Golan borderland, armed with chemical weapons and even Scud D missiles captured from SYRIAN army bases. They may even be plotting an attack during President Barack Obama’s visits to Jerusalem and Amman, starting March 20.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile’s military sources report that in sync with the UN observers’ escape, ISRAELI military reinforcements are massing on the Golan SYRIAN border.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />2.  US, JORDAN and/or ISRAEL may step in to keep the Islamists out, using either large Special Forces units for ground raids or a swarm of armed drones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.  Hizballah militia units were spotted Sunday night on the move from south LEBANON toward the LEBANESE-SYRIAN border areas abutting on the Golan separation zone.</span></div>

ISRAEL - SYRIA - GOLAN HEIGHTS - UNDOF EVACUATION IMMINENT

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