MKs FROM RIGHT AND LEFT: WE ARE STAYING ON THE GOLAN
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz -Dozens of MKs and Golan Heights community leaders participated in an emergency meeting of the Knesset Golan Lobby on Monday. The session was convened in the wake of last week's announcements by Syrian officials and by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that negotiations were already underway with the Ba'athist dictatorship.
MKs from parties in the coalition and in the opposition were represented at
the meeting, including one cabinet minister.
Minister
Eitan added an up-to-date geostrategic perspective on the issue.
Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad (National Union-National Religious Party) provoked a storm of controversy when he said that relinquishing sovereign Israeli territory to Syria would constitute a crime which entails the death penalty. MKs from both the political right and left called on Eldad to take back his statements, but the legislator has refused to do so, saying he was merely quoting the Israeli Penal Code. He subsequently went further and requested that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz order a police investigation of Prime Minister Olmert for the crime of treason