Influential Syrian rebel Kamal al-Labwani’s comments today have raised the prospect of even further splintering the rebels, as he offered to “trade” the Golan Heights to Israel in return for cash and military aid for the rebellion.
Israel occupied the Golan Heights during 1967, and the prospect of returning the heights as part of an overall peace deal with Syria has been repeatedly broached, most recently in 2008.
Labwani suggested that instead, an agreement by the rebels to sign over claims to the Golan in perpetuity could be had for cash concessions as well as an Israeli-imposed “no-fly zone” across southern Syria.
Labwani’s comments are just another effort to get a foreign power sucked into the civil war on the rebels’ side, and such a promise would likely not be honored by the Islamist rebels that dominate the civil war at any rate.
The trouble is that the Zionists are so hungry for friends, they just might take the deal with the devil.
Why would it be a case of being hungry when it was the zionist who hired the rebels first to destroy Libya then redirected to be "local" rebels in Syria. Why would Israel accept what is already a completed deal. The zionist will never leave the Golan heights unless they leave like Lebanon were they were losing too many men. One can take land but not always able to hold.
These people already sold their brothers and sisters, some of them even their mothers, so giving away part of the country, dealing with the devil himself is what they have left.
they will massacre people left and right if they win, so giving up the Golan,…. no big deal.
The comedy of the absurd is definitely in full swing when a terrorist group and its leader who are not even Syrians, offer to gift the Israeli's with land they do not own (Israel having already annexed the land they conquered in an illegal war of aggression in 1967 and hardly need this terrorist group to give them the Golan) in return for money and military support in various forms. Treasonous scum like them, need to be eliminated root and branch.
The Golan does not belong to Israel or the rebels who are murderers, cannibals and criminals, trained by CIA and supported by Israel that Lieberman for years has been threatening to use against Assad.
This is another of pathetic bashar's tactics. Labwani, who lives in sweden, is as much of a rebel as bashar is a president of syria! He miraculously survived basha's al Asshead's torture camps, comes out and gives Golan height to Israel, seriously!
Yes, that´s a great precedence to set, then the KKK can sell Alabama to Mexico and the Cuban Americans can sell Florida to a reforming Cuba.
I thought a big new offensive was about to be launched in the south of Syria from Jordan that would sweep Assad from power. Has it been defeated already?
Seriously, the real rebels will travel all the way to sweden to shove his head in to his ass in front of his family. He must be kidding!
ha, some one should inform this rebel that his action over the past two years already ensured isreal will hold on to the Golan and possibly gain more of it.
A phony deed to the Golan Heights sure beats no deed at all but, of course, the US Congress would recognize it as valid.