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There is an editor called "Nableezy" who constantly tries to impose a misleading version to this article. There are good resources on this article showing that this is in fact an Israeli organization - Its founders voluntarily registered it as an Israeli non-profit. The Israeli authorities accepted the registration, and it is an Israeli corporation for any legal purpose, locally and internationally. It seems that Nableezy tries to censor the fact that the people of Majdal Shams have free access to the Israeli authorities and they can act as Israeli citizens, including incorporation according to Israeli law.
84.111.108.30 (
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18:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)reply
That is not what I am doing. What I am doing is ensuring that the material in this article is cited to reliable third party secondary sources. I will continue to do so. If you continue to make edits that either conflict with the cited sources or do not cite sources themselves you will continue to be reverted. Continuing to write that is only self-defined as an independent human rights group ignores the third party source that says that they are an independent human rights group. Your
original research is evident when looking at sentences such as Despite its official registration in Israel, the organisation does not define itself as Israeli, and refers to its location as "Majdal Shams, in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights". You also repeatedly cite material to the organization itself with the apparent aim of removing the third party sources that back the material in the text so that you can place according to the organization or the organization claims for things that reliable sources, which you have repeatedly removed, report as fact. You also removed the material on the organization the removal of the native Syrian Arabs from the Golan. It seems that you are trying to censor the fact that this organization aims to inform the public about the actions Israel has committed in the occupied Golan (see what I did there ;)) nableezy -
18:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)reply
removal of occupied
Can somebody explain why two accounts are removing the term "Israeli-occupied" from the article and why such tendentious edits are being re-reverted without any discussion? nableezy -
14:52, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
The article already contains the words "internationally recognized as Syrian territory occupied by Israel", which you removed and I re-added. I don't see the point of being repetitive in such a short article, especially since the second occurrence is a more neutral and precise description.
Marokwitz (
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18:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
I removed that template because it is unnecessary here. The second occurrence is neither "more neutral" or more "precise", as it had, prior to my edit of the template, not included a link to
Israeli-occupied territories and further disregards that the sources say that al-Marsad monitors violations committed by the occupation, not just that it operates in the Golan. This is an organization that has as its explicit aim to document abuses of international law made by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian Arabs of the Golan. That should be made clear in the text. nableezy -
19:17, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
The article contains a reference to "Israeli-occupied territories" twice in this short, two paragraphs article. I really cannot see the value of additional repetition. In my opinion, your changes were a degradation, since they removed background information crucial for readers unfamiliar with the topic.
Marokwitz (
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12:02, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
And in my opinion your changes are a degradation. You choose to edit-war out material that had been in this article for over a year without dispute. No matter, when people start making edits like
this it is obvious the motivation. Ill include more from the sources, such as One of the abuses would concern the ethnic cleansing of Syrian Arabs of the Golan carried out by Israel or While Israel did not immediately “transfer” the residents of the simultaneously occupied West Bank and Gaza, it did force 95 percent of the Golani population (along with several thousand Palestinian refugees from 1948) across the border into mainland Syria. Some villages were almost totally obliterated by the Israeli military machine, and just a few crumbled walls remain. Others, like Al Ramathania, stand on the plains like ghost townsnableezy -
13:31, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Interesting accusation, I made only one reversion, after you removed reliable sourced material that was on this page since December 3 2010. You are the one edit warring, aren't you?
Marokwitz (
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15:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
More correctly, you re-reverted an edit that besides reinserting a template that you yourself just removed from the article als removed material that had been in this article pretty much from its creation. To call the template "reliably sourced" when it cites a source from the 70s in an article on an organization founded in the 2000s is just funny. Also funny is the idea that re-reverting without any discussion at all to insert a favored version in by sheer force of numbers is somehow not edit-warring. nableezy -
15:28, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Accusing me of edit warring must mean you are desperate, since clearly I did not engage in edit warring, and you did. The content of the template is still here, I just transcluded it into the article. The cited source is about the legal status of the Golan heights, presented as background material, and it is perfectly acceptable. There is nothing controversial about that sentence.
Marokwitz (
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15:48, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
What nonsense. Again, your revert did much more than reinsert your favorite template, it also removed content that had been in this article nearly since its creation. That is, despite having made no comment on the talk page, you saw fit to re-revert material that had been in this article for over a year. Had you simply reinserted the template there would have been no issue, but you did much more than that. That you say I am edit-warring for attempting to reinsert consensus material is laughable. But, again, based on your edit which laughably claim is for "NPOV", I dont see much of a reason to attempt to reason with you. Ill just keep expanding this article with reliable sources. Off to look for Arabic ones, toodles. nableezy -
16:02, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
if someone (nableezy?) can find a source, great. please help. also, need help with the recently added sources. and, most importantly, their website doesn't work anymore. maybe they don't exist anymore?
Soosim (
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11:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)reply
A deadlink is not cause for removing information, it is cause for inserting a {{deadlink}} template. Stop removing material without cause. One of the sources currently in the article says The centre's explicit aim is to "draw up an inventory of the serious violations made by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian Arabs of the Golan," in order to both bring to the international community's attention and encourage intervention. One of the abuses is the "ethnic cleansing" of Syrian Arabs of the Golan carried out by Israel. Al-Marsad, founded in October 2003 "by a group of lawyers and professional people" is an independent, non-profit organization. Please self-revert. Edit-warring out material without cause is disruptive. nableezy -
15:08, 15 November 2012 (UTC)reply
i would not take 'syria' off the info box, since they themselves feel very strongly that they serve (former) syrians living in now israel golan heights. fine. but the item says "area served" - they do not serve syria!
Soosim (
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16:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Just because it is registered in Israel does not mean the area it serves is Israel. Reading their own material it is clear that they are in the Golan heights and not in Israel. One could not argue that they have absolutely nothing to do with Syria, as they are located in internationally recognized Syria, in the Syrian village of Majdal Shams and its operated by Syrians. They are not serving former Syrians in Israel, they are serving Syrians in occupied Golan, which is internationally recognized as Syria. There is still no evidence that the area they serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
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16:22, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
They operate in the Golan, full stop. So the area served can say the Golan. And Soosim, they arent former Syrians, the vast majority refused Israeli citizenship. And it isnt in israel nor is it the now israel golan heights. nableezy -
18:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
It should read: Area served:
Golan Heights/
Israel/
Syria. Territorial dominion is hotly disputed and the names are merely reflective of stances in that dispute. As an encyclopedia, we are here to provide information to the reader; we are not here to endorse a point of view.
Bus stop (
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06:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Why? Why should it say Israel at all? What part of Israel does the organization serve? If it only operates in the Golan, why should it say anything other than that? That wasnt an argument, it was a declaration made without basis. Please provide the basis. nableezy -
14:32, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
it certainly doesn't serve syria....there are no relations - formal or otherwise - between israel and syria, and that includes its citizens and organizations. it is based in israel (or occupied syria if you like, etc.) but it is not in syria. it is 100% israeli.
Soosim (
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17:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
If it serves the Golan the area served is Syria. Your claim that it is 100% Israeli is backed by nothing but your own imagination. nableezy -
19:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
They are registered with Israel's registrar of non-profit entities. To call them Israeli however is not in keeping with their own description or the sources. I've reverted your edit, and also the nonsense in Area served. They only work in the Golan, that is sufficient. And it doesnt say Country registered, it says area served, and the Golan is not in Israel. nableezy -
14:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
they can call themselves swedish or japanese, but the fact, proven with RS, is that they are israeli. sorry to disappoint you. please revert back.
Soosim (
talk)
15:07, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
No they are not, they're Syrians. "Population estimate: 20,000 Israeli settlers, 20,000 Syrians "
[1]. And you still have not provided one single valid argument that the area Marsad serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
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15:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
You provided two what? I have never seen any RS saying they are Israeli, the detailed sources I have seen say only around 10% have accepted Israeli citizenship. Concerning this discussion, still not one single valid argument has been provided that the area they serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
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16:21, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
The 'Israeli law in Golan Heights' is extremely important as it is a sign of annexation/de facto annexation under international law, which is one of Al-Marsad's campaigns. Why are you removing one of the organisation's campaigns? — Preceding
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There is an editor called "Nableezy" who constantly tries to impose a misleading version to this article. There are good resources on this article showing that this is in fact an Israeli organization - Its founders voluntarily registered it as an Israeli non-profit. The Israeli authorities accepted the registration, and it is an Israeli corporation for any legal purpose, locally and internationally. It seems that Nableezy tries to censor the fact that the people of Majdal Shams have free access to the Israeli authorities and they can act as Israeli citizens, including incorporation according to Israeli law.
84.111.108.30 (
talk)
18:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)reply
That is not what I am doing. What I am doing is ensuring that the material in this article is cited to reliable third party secondary sources. I will continue to do so. If you continue to make edits that either conflict with the cited sources or do not cite sources themselves you will continue to be reverted. Continuing to write that is only self-defined as an independent human rights group ignores the third party source that says that they are an independent human rights group. Your
original research is evident when looking at sentences such as Despite its official registration in Israel, the organisation does not define itself as Israeli, and refers to its location as "Majdal Shams, in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights". You also repeatedly cite material to the organization itself with the apparent aim of removing the third party sources that back the material in the text so that you can place according to the organization or the organization claims for things that reliable sources, which you have repeatedly removed, report as fact. You also removed the material on the organization the removal of the native Syrian Arabs from the Golan. It seems that you are trying to censor the fact that this organization aims to inform the public about the actions Israel has committed in the occupied Golan (see what I did there ;)) nableezy -
18:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)reply
removal of occupied
Can somebody explain why two accounts are removing the term "Israeli-occupied" from the article and why such tendentious edits are being re-reverted without any discussion? nableezy -
14:52, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
The article already contains the words "internationally recognized as Syrian territory occupied by Israel", which you removed and I re-added. I don't see the point of being repetitive in such a short article, especially since the second occurrence is a more neutral and precise description.
Marokwitz (
talk)
18:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
I removed that template because it is unnecessary here. The second occurrence is neither "more neutral" or more "precise", as it had, prior to my edit of the template, not included a link to
Israeli-occupied territories and further disregards that the sources say that al-Marsad monitors violations committed by the occupation, not just that it operates in the Golan. This is an organization that has as its explicit aim to document abuses of international law made by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian Arabs of the Golan. That should be made clear in the text. nableezy -
19:17, 9 November 2011 (UTC)reply
The article contains a reference to "Israeli-occupied territories" twice in this short, two paragraphs article. I really cannot see the value of additional repetition. In my opinion, your changes were a degradation, since they removed background information crucial for readers unfamiliar with the topic.
Marokwitz (
talk)
12:02, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
And in my opinion your changes are a degradation. You choose to edit-war out material that had been in this article for over a year without dispute. No matter, when people start making edits like
this it is obvious the motivation. Ill include more from the sources, such as One of the abuses would concern the ethnic cleansing of Syrian Arabs of the Golan carried out by Israel or While Israel did not immediately “transfer” the residents of the simultaneously occupied West Bank and Gaza, it did force 95 percent of the Golani population (along with several thousand Palestinian refugees from 1948) across the border into mainland Syria. Some villages were almost totally obliterated by the Israeli military machine, and just a few crumbled walls remain. Others, like Al Ramathania, stand on the plains like ghost townsnableezy -
13:31, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Interesting accusation, I made only one reversion, after you removed reliable sourced material that was on this page since December 3 2010. You are the one edit warring, aren't you?
Marokwitz (
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15:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
More correctly, you re-reverted an edit that besides reinserting a template that you yourself just removed from the article als removed material that had been in this article pretty much from its creation. To call the template "reliably sourced" when it cites a source from the 70s in an article on an organization founded in the 2000s is just funny. Also funny is the idea that re-reverting without any discussion at all to insert a favored version in by sheer force of numbers is somehow not edit-warring. nableezy -
15:28, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Accusing me of edit warring must mean you are desperate, since clearly I did not engage in edit warring, and you did. The content of the template is still here, I just transcluded it into the article. The cited source is about the legal status of the Golan heights, presented as background material, and it is perfectly acceptable. There is nothing controversial about that sentence.
Marokwitz (
talk)
15:48, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
What nonsense. Again, your revert did much more than reinsert your favorite template, it also removed content that had been in this article nearly since its creation. That is, despite having made no comment on the talk page, you saw fit to re-revert material that had been in this article for over a year. Had you simply reinserted the template there would have been no issue, but you did much more than that. That you say I am edit-warring for attempting to reinsert consensus material is laughable. But, again, based on your edit which laughably claim is for "NPOV", I dont see much of a reason to attempt to reason with you. Ill just keep expanding this article with reliable sources. Off to look for Arabic ones, toodles. nableezy -
16:02, 10 November 2011 (UTC)reply
if someone (nableezy?) can find a source, great. please help. also, need help with the recently added sources. and, most importantly, their website doesn't work anymore. maybe they don't exist anymore?
Soosim (
talk)
11:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)reply
A deadlink is not cause for removing information, it is cause for inserting a {{deadlink}} template. Stop removing material without cause. One of the sources currently in the article says The centre's explicit aim is to "draw up an inventory of the serious violations made by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian Arabs of the Golan," in order to both bring to the international community's attention and encourage intervention. One of the abuses is the "ethnic cleansing" of Syrian Arabs of the Golan carried out by Israel. Al-Marsad, founded in October 2003 "by a group of lawyers and professional people" is an independent, non-profit organization. Please self-revert. Edit-warring out material without cause is disruptive. nableezy -
15:08, 15 November 2012 (UTC)reply
i would not take 'syria' off the info box, since they themselves feel very strongly that they serve (former) syrians living in now israel golan heights. fine. but the item says "area served" - they do not serve syria!
Soosim (
talk)
16:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Just because it is registered in Israel does not mean the area it serves is Israel. Reading their own material it is clear that they are in the Golan heights and not in Israel. One could not argue that they have absolutely nothing to do with Syria, as they are located in internationally recognized Syria, in the Syrian village of Majdal Shams and its operated by Syrians. They are not serving former Syrians in Israel, they are serving Syrians in occupied Golan, which is internationally recognized as Syria. There is still no evidence that the area they serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
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16:22, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
They operate in the Golan, full stop. So the area served can say the Golan. And Soosim, they arent former Syrians, the vast majority refused Israeli citizenship. And it isnt in israel nor is it the now israel golan heights. nableezy -
18:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)reply
It should read: Area served:
Golan Heights/
Israel/
Syria. Territorial dominion is hotly disputed and the names are merely reflective of stances in that dispute. As an encyclopedia, we are here to provide information to the reader; we are not here to endorse a point of view.
Bus stop (
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06:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Why? Why should it say Israel at all? What part of Israel does the organization serve? If it only operates in the Golan, why should it say anything other than that? That wasnt an argument, it was a declaration made without basis. Please provide the basis. nableezy -
14:32, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
it certainly doesn't serve syria....there are no relations - formal or otherwise - between israel and syria, and that includes its citizens and organizations. it is based in israel (or occupied syria if you like, etc.) but it is not in syria. it is 100% israeli.
Soosim (
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17:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
If it serves the Golan the area served is Syria. Your claim that it is 100% Israeli is backed by nothing but your own imagination. nableezy -
19:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)reply
They are registered with Israel's registrar of non-profit entities. To call them Israeli however is not in keeping with their own description or the sources. I've reverted your edit, and also the nonsense in Area served. They only work in the Golan, that is sufficient. And it doesnt say Country registered, it says area served, and the Golan is not in Israel. nableezy -
14:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
they can call themselves swedish or japanese, but the fact, proven with RS, is that they are israeli. sorry to disappoint you. please revert back.
Soosim (
talk)
15:07, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
No they are not, they're Syrians. "Population estimate: 20,000 Israeli settlers, 20,000 Syrians "
[1]. And you still have not provided one single valid argument that the area Marsad serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
talk)
15:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
You provided two what? I have never seen any RS saying they are Israeli, the detailed sources I have seen say only around 10% have accepted Israeli citizenship. Concerning this discussion, still not one single valid argument has been provided that the area they serve is Israel. --
Supreme Deliciousness (
talk)
16:21, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
The 'Israeli law in Golan Heights' is extremely important as it is a sign of annexation/de facto annexation under international law, which is one of Al-Marsad's campaigns. Why are you removing one of the organisation's campaigns? — Preceding
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