Israel must recognize Kosovo as an independent country.
Slobodan Milosevic and his henchmen waged four wars of aggression in Southeast Europe in the1990s, resulting in the forced expulsion of four million Bosnians, Croats, Albanians, and Roma and the murder of more than 350,000 men, women, and children, including at least 10,000 Kosovar Albanians 3,000 of whom have not yet been found at the hands of Serbian forces.
Illyria , Illirians, Albanians have 5000 years history in Kosovo in Albania. Kosovo is not Serbian land. Serbians emigrated from Russia in 6th century.
The area of Kosovo in the Neolithic lay within the areal of the Vinca-Turdas culture (Western Balkanic black and grey pottery
The Bronze Age begins in ca. the 20th century BC, and the Iron Age begins in ca. the 13th century BC. Bronze and Iron Age tombs have been found only in Metohija, and not in Kosovo.
The area comes to lie within the eastern parts of the kingdom of Illyria in the 4th century BC, bordering on Thrace. At the time, it is inhabited by the Thraco-Illyrian tribes of the Dardani and the Thracian tribe of the Triballi.Illyria was conquered by Rome in the 160s BC, and made the Roman province of Illyricum in 59 BC.
The Kosovo region became part of Moesia Superior in AD 87 alternatively was divided between Dalmatia and Moesia, a view which is supported by archaeological evidence. Upper Moesia was reorganized further by Diocletian (after 284) into smaller provinces, being further divided into Dardania, Moesia Prima, Dacia Ripensis and Dacia Mediterranea.
The Dardania’s capital was Naissus. Roman province of Dardania included eastern parts of modern Kosovo, while its western part belong to newly formed Roman province Prevalitana with capital in Doclea.
Justinian I, who assumed the throne of the Byzantine Empire in 527, oversaw a period of Byzantine expansion into former Roman territories, and re-absorbed the area of Kosovo into the empire. He is often referred to by historians as the last “Roman” emperor because Latin was his native tongue and because he was the last emperor to make a serious attempt to reunite the Latin-speaking West with the East.The Slavic migrations reached the Balkans in the 6th to 7th century. The area was absorbed into the Byzantine empire in the 850s.
Kosovo is the land of Illiria, Albanian Land.
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Israel Government may consider to recognise KOSOVO and we should stand by the side of theses people who had suffered a lot over the period and bitterly in the year 1999.
I had an opportunity to work in Kosovo in 1999, I had seen the cruelty, brutality of the Serbs killing, raping, destruction, damages, mass graves, that took me in the year of 1967.
Therefore, if otherwise, not difficult or not against the country's political decision,the Government may consider to recognize
If Israel does not recognize Kosovo because of its political ambitions it should be wrong. For one, Israel stands on in the same claims as Albanians in Kosovo do. They claim to be indigenous people and Albanians do in addition to the oppression suffered from the recent Serbian dictatorship. Secondly, Kosovo has been recognized by the majority of Israel's allies which stood against humanitarian catastrophe that Israel has known not long time ago.
Best regards to all, and I think Kosovo will prevail and Israel will stand for the right rather than self-interest!
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