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	The Quneitra Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Oh -- so it turns out that the razing of Quneitra is just something that Syria "maintains" and that Israel "disputes." That must come as news to those who rely on the news columns of the Times for their information.
		Here is how a New York Times news article from Damascus on May 7, 2001, described Quneitra: "a city on the Golan Heights that was captured by Israel during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war and destroyed just before the area was returned under a 1974 agreement.
		If the Times news department is going to pass along these groundless Syrian allegations of Israeli brutality and aggression, the least it could do is be as fair as the editorial writer (which is to say, minimally) and report that Israel disputes them.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /Facts/quneitra.shtml (355 words)

	Syrian dynamism
		Quneitra was the capital of the Syrian province of Golan.
		The fact that the Pope chose to include Quneitra in his itinerary was a recognition of the suffering of the people of the city.
		A short distance from Quneitra are the Golan Heights, the return of which is Syria's main condition for peace with Israel.
	www.thehindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1811/18110550.htm (1750 words)

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		But now there is talk of rebuilding Quneitra, of transforming it into a tangible symbol that Syria no longer believes its claim to the occupied Golan Heights will be settled through war.
		They consider it a means for the young president, Bashar al-Assad, to signal that he is not slavishly following the intransigence of his late father, without abandoning the near-sacred policy that all of the Golan, conquered by Israel in the 1967 war, must revert to Syria.
		Quneitra, a city straddling the cease-fire line from the October 1973 war, its main arteries interrupted by tangles of barbed wire, has been left largely untouched since the Israelis withdrew.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/DED42054C5BC6647C1256FDD003404B0?OpenDocument (1305 words)

	Pope's Syria Trip Stirs Passions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quneitra was captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and returned to Syria in ruins in 1974.
		Syria has left Quneitra's shattered homes, shops, churches and mosques as they were in 1974, calling them monuments to what it contends was Israel's deliberate and systematic destruction of the city.
		It is clear some Syrians want the pope to condemn Israel while in Quneitra, but he is scheduled only to hold a prayer for peace in a crumbling, abandoned Greek Orthodox church in the town.
	www.mccw-usa.org /news/article16.html (658 words)

	Prayer for Peace
		One of the most significant events during the Papal visit to Syria was a Prayer for Peace held in the ruined city of Quneitra, few kilometers away from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
		Quneitra was the capital of the Golan Heights before Israel occupied the region in 1967.
		In 1974, Israel had to withdraw from Quneitra according to a disengagement agreement with Syria.
	www.damascus-online.com /golan/prayer.htm (477 words)

	The Hindu : Syrians air grievances before Pope
		Pope John Paul II offered a prayer for peace and forgiveness on Monday in the rubble of a town Syrians say was destroyed by Israel, as the papal visit became an opportunity for Arabs to tell the world about their bitterness.
		Syria refuses to rebuild Quneitra or let most of its residents return, saying it should stand as a monument to Israeli ``crimes'' until the entire Golan, seized by Israel in the 1967 war, is back in Syrian hands.
		He was among a contingent of Syrian clergy in Quneitra to greet the Pope.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/05/08/stories/03080008.htm (689 words)

	CBC News:Pope visits town ruined by Arab-Israeli conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quneitra was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
		Quneitra is a scene of levelled buildings, destroyed churches and mosques.
		Syria preserves it as a symbol of Israeli aggression, refusing to rebuild Quneitra until all of the Golan Heights is returned.
	www.cbc.ca /storyview/CBC/2001/05/07/pope_pmc_010507 (534 words)

	CAMERA: CAMERA Column: Syria’s Quneitra Hoax
		On his recent visit to Syria, the Pope was the most recent in a long line of prominent guests ushered by the government to the demolished town of Quneitra, there to personally witness in the rubble of flattened buildings evidence of alleged Israeli brutality.
		Quneitra, in the Golan Heights, was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, suffering heavy damage in the process.
		Thus, a BBC web report claimed that Quneitra was “destroyed by the Israelis before being handed back to Syria in 1974.”; CNN’s Jim Bittermann informed viewers that Quneitra “was captured by the Israelis during the Golan Heights battles during the 1967 war.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=5&x_outlet=35&x_article=49 (692 words)

	Quneitra, Syria
		Quneitra, in the Golan Heights, (also called Al Koneytra or Kuneitra) was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, suffering heavy damage in the process.
		At the outbreak of the 1973 war, Quneitra was a major target for Syria's opening assault on Israeli troops.
		Quneitra was repeatedly shelled by artillery and tanks belonging to Syria and her Arab allies.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1967to1991_quneitra.php (612 words)

	Pope's Visit To Syria - May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The destroyed Greek Orthodox Church in Quneitra was the center of world media attention yesterday when the Pope John Paul II kneeled among its rumbles and prayed for love and peace.
		Quneitra was handed back to Syria after the October 1973 war against Israel.
		In addition to the Pope’s prayer in Quneitra, he will hold a mass at the Abbasids stadium expected to be attended by more than 50,000 participants.
	www.syrialive.net /Media/news/2001/pope_visit.htm (1134 words)

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		We got to Quneitra and the man with our passports got out and handed our passports over to a twenty something man who got into the service with us; he turned out to be our guide.
		According to the Syrians, the Israelis destroyed Quneitra, stripping the buildings of everything of value before leaving under a negotiated cease-fire in 1974; the Israelis dispute this, of course, but the UN confirmed Syrianâ€™s beliefs in a report.
		The Syrian government has left Quneitra as it was when it was handed over, a town of completely destroyed buildings and rubble of houses, as a reminder that Syrian land is still occupied.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9710038&postID=111300375450113944 (697 words)

	CAMERA: New York Times Quneitra Claims Contradicted by Times Own Reporting
		For the last 30 years, the Syrians have used this flattened provincial capital as an open-air monument to Israeli perfidy, hauling virtually every visiting foreign dignitary through the ruins to hear their traditional lament about how the Zionists leveled the city when they withdrew under the 1974 cease-fire terms...
		Heavily armed convoys patrolled the debris-covered streets,” and “Life was at a virtual standstill, with all shops closed or wrecked.” This damage, obviously the result of the just-concluded war, occurred a full seven years before Israel’s supposed spiteful bulldozing of the town.
		In fact, the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel mandated that Syria allow its residents to return to Quneitra; Syria has been in violation of that agreement ever since it was signed.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=791 (845 words)

	Golan Heights Town Tells Tale of Israeli - Arab War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		QUNEITRA, Golan Heights (Reuters) - When Pope John Paul visited this frontline town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Monday, his Syrian hosts did not have to say anything.
		Quneitra, sandwiched between Mount Hermon and rolling green fields with cypress trees, looks like a localized earthquake.
		From the battered Greek Orthodox church in Quneitra from where the Pope made his prayer for peace, the Pontiff could see the Israeli military positions and radar posts on the other side of the Western Golan which the Jewish state captured in the six-Day War of 1967 and still occupies.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/qunitr.htm (744 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Pope visits a 'museum' of brutality
		--> QUNEITRA, Syria - Pouring water on a potted olive tree, Pope John Paul II prayed Monday for peace and forgiveness in the Middle East as he visited a shattered city on the Golan Heights that is mainly a symbol of irreconcilable conflict.
		The pocked streets surrounding the church where he prayed were crowded with thousands of Syrians brought by bus to greet the pope.
		Quneitra is in the portion that was returned in a 1974 agreement brokered by the United States.
	www.caller2.com /2001/may/08/today/national/25562.html (499 words)

	Syria's Quneitra Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quneitra is a town in the Golan Heights which was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, suffering heavy damage in the process.
		And during the 1973 war, Quneitra was repeatedly attacked by Arab forces.
		As part of the disengagement agreement that followed the 1973 war, control of Quneitra was on June 7, 1974 handed over to Syria, which has ever since wrongly charged that Israel maliciously destroyed the town with bulldozers and dynamite just before the hand over.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /Facts/camera6.shtml (792 words)

	Quneitra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quneitra, city in southwestern Syria, Golan region, and capital of the Quneitra Governorate.
		Circassians settled in the region in the early 20th century, and made Quneitra their cultural center.
		After the October War (1973) and the War of Attrition (early 1974) Syria and Israel signed a disengagement agreement under which Quneitra was returned to Syria in June 1974.
	www.damascus-online.com /se/geo/quneitra.htm (141 words)

	Whatever happened to the Golan Heights
		Eleven months ago my wife and I stood close to the UN flag in the Syrian ghost town of Quneitra, and looked across the closed borders of Syria and Israel to the green and pleasant landscape of the Golan Heights.
		The Israelis overran the Golan Heights and Quneitra in 1967, but after the Yom Kippur war in 1973 they agreed to vacate Quneitra and to withdraw a short distance.
		Apart from their house, a visitor centre and the military post, the only structures more than a few metres high were the graffiti covered, bullet riddled ruins of the hospital, a shattered mosque and the spire of a Christian church - poignant symbols of a more tolerant past.
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Palestine/050603_whatever_happened_to_the_golan_h.htm (892 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He prayed for peace in the rubble of Quneitra, a town Syrians claim was destroyed by Israel.
		Quneitra was once home to about 50,000 people, but for the Pope`s trip the Syrian government bused in thousands of former Quneitra residents for the day.
		Syria refuses to rebuild Quneitra or let most of its residents return, saying it should stand as a monument to Israeli "crimes" until the entire Golan, seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, is back in Syrian hands.
	u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=6542 (310 words)

	Quneitra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quneitra or Al Qunaytirah' (Arabic القنيطرة;) is a city of southwestern Syria that is now largely abandoned.
		At the beginning of June 1974, the witness had visited the city of Quneitra, where he saw a large number of Israeli bulldozers destroying the town and the surrounding areas.
		Israel claims that the town was destroyed by Syrian artillery during and before the Yom Kippur War.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Q/Quneitra.htm (475 words)

	Syria - Aleppo / Hama / Maluula / Quneitra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Syria - Aleppo / Hama / Maluula / Quneitra
		Today, Quneitra in a UN controlled demilitarised zone serving as a bitter reminder of the conflict.
		Next to the ruined town barbed wire and minefields mark the border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied territory of the Golan hights.
	n.ethz.ch /student/bstump/travel/countries/syria.html (433 words)

	TCM Breaking News - 2001/05/07: Pope’s prayers for peace
		Syria refuses to rebuild Quneitra or let most of its residents return, saying it should stand as a monument to Israeli ‘‘crimes’’ until the entire Golan - seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war - is back in Syrian hands.
		Mohammed Anis Hussein, a Damascus civil servant who was among those taken to Quneitra, said reports of the papal visit would show the world ‘‘there are people under occupation and moved from their land’’.
		A wooden altar stand had been erected on the broken stone floor of the church where John Paul was to pray.
	archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2001/05/07/story11979.asp (565 words)

	Sometimes showing up is enough
		In effect, the visit to Quneitra, 40 miles outside Damascus, handed an enormous propaganda victory to critics of Israeli policies in the Middle East.
		Israeli troops pulled out of Quneitra, then a city of 53,000, as part of a peace deal in 1973.
		The visit to Quneitra built on John Paul’s remarks the day before at the Damascus airport, where he said peace in the Middle East must be based in respect for United Nations resolutions.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/051801/051801g.htm (672 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the upcoming visit, the Pope will pray in the Syrian "martyr" town of Quneitra, 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of the Syrian capital, which was occupied and destroyed by Israel in the 1967 war, giving Damascus a golden opportunity to express before the world media its views on the conflict with its arch-foe.
		In Quneitra on May 7th, the Pope will pray and plant an olive tree in the "martyr town" evacuated by Israeli troops in 1974, officials said.
		Battica said that the former residents of Quneitra were expected to join the pope for the visit during which the pontiff will pray for peace at the destitute St. George Greek Orthodox Church.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2001-05/02/article10.shtml (1005 words)

	Pope John Paul in Quneitra prays for peace, plants olive tree
		Pope John Paul II on Monday in the Syrian liberated city of Quneitra held a large mass to pray for peace in the Middle East region.
		Following the mass, a girl from the occupied Syrian Golan gave his Holiness a book about Quneitra and expressed happiness with the visit of the Pontiff and told him that her parents told her how happy the life in Quneitra before the brutal Israeli aggression on the city.
		Worthy mentioning is that Quneitra is the capital of the Syrian Golan and it was destroyed not by war activities but by the Israeli forces few days prior to their pullout from it.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/010508/2001050812.html (831 words)

	syrians.htm in Business Recorder on June 07, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		QUNEITRA, (Syria): Syrians driven from the Golan Heights in the 1967, Six-Day War mark 30 years of Israeli occupation this week with their hopes of returning home at an all-time low.
		But all the Syrians have to show for the 30 years which have elapsed is Quneitra, returned under a disengagement accord in 1974.
		This amounted to 663 square kilometres (265 square miles) out of a total of 1,860 square kilometres (745 square miles) occupied by Israel, and Mokbel complained it was "pasture land, unlike the more fertile land" kept by the Jewish state.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/Jun/7/syrians.htm (498 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Pope visits Golan Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The pontiff led prayers at an abandoned church in the Syrian-held ghost town of Quneitra, calling upon the peoples of the Middle East to "tear down the walls of hostility and division".
		Thousands of former Quneitra residents were bussed in for the Pope's visit, during which he also planted an olive tree as a symbol of peace.
		The BBC's David Willey says that, while the pontiff is likely to be well aware of the propaganda value to Syria of the Quneitra visit, he believes the town to be a fitting place to underline his calls for Middle East peace.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1315000/1315453.stm (590 words)

	CNN.com - Pope urges peace in Golan Heights - May 7, 2001
		QUNEITRA, Syria -- Pope John Paul II has again called for peace and forgiveness in the rubble of a town Syrians say was destroyed by Israel.
		The pope's visit to Quneitra, a once-thriving town on the much-disputed Golan Heights, comes a day after he became the first Roman Catholic leader to enter a mosque and pray in a Muslim place of worship.
		Applause broke out on Monday as John Paul II entered a Greek Orthodox church that was, like the rest of Quneitra, in ruins.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/meast/05/07/pope.syria (681 words)

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