Squashing the rebellion where it began.

Mixed messages could lead to war.

A spurious pretext for fighting Israel.

As civil war rages in Syria, social pressure among Druze fades.

Bashar al-Assad was never capable of taking a different path.

A not-unprecedented trip to the Golan and a stop at a legal settlement.

It could have belonged to the mysterious Geshurites.

There’s still no stability in the Syrian Golan.

The mysterious civilization centuries before Abraham.

In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.

“King David might have walked on these very cobblestones.”

How Amos Ben-Gal held the line.

And contradict every legal claim made on behalf of the Palestinians.

It never secured for its population either freedom or prosperity.