Occupation Measures
The occupation authorities took many procedures during the last several years against both the Golan and its inhabitants. These included; land confiscation, settlements construction, control of the underground water, installation of local councils, imposing the marketing methods of agricultural products and preventing the establishment of charity societies, yet the most extreme measures of all, was imposing Israeli identity card upon the Golan Arab Inhabitant, and depriving them from their Syrian Arab identity and Arabism. To legalize such action, the Knesset Interior and Security Committee discussed amending the Naturalization Law so that the Israeli Government could naturalize the Golan Inhabitants as Israeli Citizens. The final text of such law was adopted by the Committee on 22 July 1980, enacting it as a law that entitles the Government to grant Israeli Nationality to the Golan inhabitants, but such decision was not implemented until late in 1980. Another more risky procedure was the decision of the Golan annexation. These two proposals were frozen under the pressure of the Knesset Opposition, represented largely by the Ma’rakh Party; now the Labour. The Mapam party (United workers Party) issued a statement on 17 November 1980 opposing the Golan annexation because it would make impossible any future settlement with Syria. The law was eventually passed on 14 December 1980 by the Knesset with a majority of 63 votes of Likud and Mefdal and 8 of Ma’rakh, against 21 votes of Hadash (Democratic front for peace and equality), Shinui (center party) and "Talam" and 13 of Ma’rakh, whereas "Agudat Israel" Block abstained. In December 1981, the Israeli Government decided to annex the Syrian Occupied Golan. Overruling the more cautious minority in his cabinet, on 14 December. Ex-Premier Begin pushed through the kenesset a bill which extended Israeli laws, Jurisdiction and administration to the territory Israel had occupied since 1976 the UN security council unanimously condemned the action and gave Israel two weeks to rescind its decision. When the Israel government refuse to comply, the security council reconvened at the beginning of January 1982 in order to study what measures should be taken against Israel: Syria advocated a resolution calling for mandatory sanctions under chapter seven of the UN charter; while Jordan Introduced a milder resolution calling merely for voluntary sanctions against Israel even this was too strong for the USA, which vetoed it, although it claimed at the same time stressing its opposition to the annexation.