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Visit the Golan Heights

Golan Heights, located on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, is named after the ancient city of Golan. Golan Heights, the highest elevation is 2724 meters, with an average elevation of 1000 meters. Looking down from the height of the Golan Heights, we can see the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The Golan Heights has been a battleground for military strategists for thousands of years, a powder keg for Israel and Syria, and the most sensitive place for Arabia and Israel.

The length of the Golan Heights is 7 1km from north to south, and the widest point in the middle is about 43 km, with an area of 1.800 square kilometers. Israel controls 1200 square kilometers, accounting for two-thirds of the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights is not only a strategic military area, but also rich in fresh water resources in the Middle East, which is extremely scarce. The Golan Heights is also known as the "water tower in the Middle East". Water from the Golan Heights flows into the Jordan River and Lake Galilee. Lake Galilee is the largest fresh water supplier in Israel, and one third of the water in Lake Galilee comes from the Golan Heights.

Lake Galilee is located in northern Israel, embedded in the valley between Mount Galilee and Golan Heights. It is a freshwater lake, 20 kilometers long from north to south and 12 kilometers long from east to west. It is called "Chennai Sea" in the Old Testament, which means harp in Hebrew. Lake Galilee is called "the water of life". Lake Galilee has beautiful scenery and clear water, with a maximum depth of 48 meters and an altitude of 2 13 meters. It is the lowest freshwater lake on earth. The story of Jesus in Lake Galilee in the Bible casts a mysterious color on Lake Galilee and attracts many tourists every year.

At the pier of Lake Galilee, according to the Bible, we boarded the ancient wooden boat of the local people that was salvaged that year, and imitated the wooden boat that Jesus took when he preached in Lake Galilee to visit Lake Galilee. When the wooden boat slowly pulled out, a crew member took out a five-star red flag. As the march of the volunteers sounded, the bright five-star red flag Ran Ran rose to the mast. At this moment, I was moved by the friendliness of the Israeli people towards China.

After visiting Lake Galilee, we drove to Mount Bental in the Palestinian Golan Heights. Along the way are patches of grassland, flocks of cattle and sheep, and villages. There is no smoke of war in the quiet Golan Heights, and Jewish settlements, barracks, fortifications, tanks, barbed wire and so on appear from time to time not far from both sides of the road. In addition, I also saw a UN peacekeeping vehicle with the words UN printed on it. About 1 hour's drive, we arrived at Bental Mountain in the Golan Heights.

Bentar Mountain is located in the commanding heights of the Golan Heights, and it is an outpost on the border between Israel and Syria. Its strategic position is very important and it is a battleground for military strategists. On Mount Bentar, you can see Syria in the east and Mount Hermon in the north. At the foot of the mountain are the Israeli-Syrian border and the Valley of Tears. The Valley of Tears was the main battlefield of the Fourth Middle East War.

On the top of Bental Mountain in the Golan Heights, there is a small clearing with bunkers and bunkers built of rocks, surrounded by some trenches left over from the past wars, which have been well preserved so far. There are some dummies standing or squatting in the trenches, including soldiers with guns and officers with binoculars, creating a battlefield atmosphere for the summit of Bentar Mountain. Here, the roar of tanks has disappeared, the sound of gunfire and rain has stopped, and the valley of tears is so calm at this time. However, there is a United Nations ceasefire observer post at the top of Bentar Mountain, and the United Nations ceasefire observers are still here.

There are many military facilities around Mount Bental in the Golan Heights. There are barbed wire and warning signs on many sides of the road, and mines left over from war have not been completely removed. There are traces of war in many places, trenches, bunkers and abandoned tanks. Trenches and bomb shelters at the top of the mountain are still in use. Once the two armies exchange fire, these are all military positions, reminding us that we are already in the military control zone.

On the vacant lot at the top of Bentar Mountain, a road sign was erected, and a direction sign more than 3 meters high stood. Signs with different place names and mileage are marked above punctuation marks in different directions. The place names include Jerusalem, Tiberias, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Amman, Baghdad and Damascus. It is 240 kilometers from Jerusalem, 50 kilometers from Tiberias, 85 kilometers from Haifa, 800 kilometers from Baghdad and 60 kilometers from Damascus. ...

Looking eastward from Bentar Peak, the place east of Green is the flat land of Syria, and behind the distant peak is Damascus, the capital of Syria, only 60 kilometers away. To my surprise, there is a coffee shop with unique architectural style-Coffee Anan.

1At 7: 45 a.m. on June 5, 967, Israel dispatched all its air forces to launch a large-scale surprise attack on Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and other Arab countries. When the Third Middle East War broke out, Israel occupied most of the Golan Heights.

197365438+1On October 6th, the fourth Middle East war broke out. Because 65438+10.6 is the Yom Kippur Day in Judaism, it is also called the Yom Kippur War. We chose Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday, to wage war because Israel was a national holiday at that time. Yom Kippur is the most important festival for Jews in a year. On this day, Jews will fast and avoid using weapons. Many soldiers leave their posts and go home for the holidays on this day. Israel is in the most fragile state of readiness in a year, especially it is difficult to mobilize the national soldiers urgently.

Egypt chose Syria's Yom Kippur Day to raid Israel, Egypt attacked Sinai Peninsula and Syria attacked Golan Heights. Egypt's 65438+100,000 troops crossed the river on the afternoon of the 6th, and killed them in two ways with 1 100 tanks. The Israeli army 190 armored battalion at the front launched a deadly counterattack against the Egyptian army, which was almost completely annihilated. The Syrian army launched an attack at 2 pm on June 6, 65438/KLOC-0. 600 artillery pieces intensively bombed Israel's forward positions in the Golan Heights. Syria dispatched 50,000 men, 1200 tanks and armored vehicles, and launched a large-scale attack under the air cover of fighter planes. Israel sent the 7th armored brigade and 188 armored brigade to fight back in the Golan Heights, but was defeated by the number of Syrian troops, and the Israeli defense line quickly collapsed.

The Arab world heard that Egypt and Syria fought well. Jordan, Iraq, Algeria and Tunisia declared war and laid siege to Israel. Hundreds of tanks and fighter planes rushed in, and Israel was on the verge of national extinction for the second time after its founding 25 years ago. However, at this moment, after the victory of the first battle of the Egyptian-Syrian Coalition forces, the attack suddenly stopped. Maybe it's because they fought so well that they were afraid of being ambushed by the Israeli army and didn't dare to rush in. In this limited time, Israel quickly mobilized more than 200,000 reserve soldiers across the country, quickly threw themselves into the battlefield and launched a Jedi counterattack. All the soldiers exerted human willpower to the limit and finally won the battle. In this war, the United States and the Soviet Union also began to continuously deliver materials to both sides of the war. The Soviet Union stood on the side of the Arabs and delivered weapons with all its strength, while the United States sent all its strength to help, which soon gave Israel the upper hand.

It is said that in the tank battle of the Fourth Middle East War, the Israeli army invested 100 tanks, while the Syrian army owned 500 tanks and armored vehicles. At the beginning of the war, the Egyptian-Syrian alliance gained the upper hand, and the Syrian army launched several offensives, once breaking through the Israeli defense line. Finally, with the support of the air force, the Israeli army successfully turned the tide, but it paid a painful price. There are only nine tanks left in the Israeli army, and almost all Syrian tanks and armored vehicles have been destroyed. It is said that the tanks of the Syrian army got stuck in the trench while passing through the Israeli anti-tank trench, and then Israeli soldiers destroyed those tanks like shooting targets. Later, the tank battle in the Golan Heights became a classic example in the world military history.

There is a narrow valley with a length of 2km and a width of 1.2km between Bental Mountain and several other hills in the Golan Heights, which is the main battlefield of the thrilling battle between Israel and Syria in the Fourth Middle East War. Since then, people have called the valley here "the valley of tears", and now the smoke of war here is not diffuse.

Sun Keqin writes articles and photographs.