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2026-07-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria's Sharaa: Working on security pact with Israel, could lead to comprehensive peace deal

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Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-27 2026-07-27 02:50|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [264 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria/HTS

1 You are NOT getting the Golan Heights, Ahmed

My Daughter, are you Crying or Laughing...?
When visiting the Golan Heights, and standing on one of the Syrian Bunkers overlooking the Israeli Kibbutzim below, I like to read this song to the people I guide there. This song, written shortly after the Six-Day-War, when the Israel Defence Forces managed to ascend the steep slopes and through the never-ending minefields of the Golan, and take control of these horrifying Syrian positions, that continousely fired on the civilian Israeli population below, forcing my generation of children, who were born in Northern Galilee in the 1950ies & 1960ies to grow-up in Bomb-Shelters. I remember listening to this song over and over again, played on my fathers tape-recorder. I was deeply impressed by this description of a girl my age, not knowing how to react to the distruction of her home, but also to the end of this horror, when the Israelis managed to remove the Syrian Canons from the Golan.

Words: Yovav Katz
Lyrics: David Kribushey
Performed by: Hava Alberstein
Translated by: Benayah Blum

A last Canon-Ball exploded and then became quit
Silence engulfed the Valley
A girl in Gadot went out of a Bomb-Shelter,
And there are no more houses in the Kibbutz.

Mommy, we had a green house
With Daddy and Dolly and a loquat-tree...
The house is gone, and Dad is far away,
My Mother, are you crying or laughing?!

Look up, my Daughter, to the mountain,
The mountain that became a Monster...
There are still Canons, my Child, on the mountain,
But they now threaten Damascus!

Look up, my Daughter, to the Golan
There are Soldiers there, but from now on -
Their Flag has the colors of Blue and White
Also Daddy cries and laughs there!

We will have a green house, my Child,
With Daddy and Dolly and a loquat-tree...
And no more Fear, My Child, my Child,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

Sunsets in Red und sunrises in Gold
Meet the Green and the Water.
And without Canons of an Enemy on the Mountain
The Valley shall be twice as green!

The Jordan flows, winding like a Drunk,
The Flowering is kissing the Valley.
And no-one shall turn its waters back,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

The Jordan flows, passing between banks (=Gadot)
The Flowering is kissing the Valley
And no-one shall turn its waters back,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing?
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-07-27 17:08|| 2026-07-27 17:08|| Front Page Top

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