Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buffer Zone. Quneitra's importance for the moment is primarily symbolic. The new buffer zone that runs through the territory from north to south has deprived the town of its old strategic position as a major crossroads and access point to both northern Israel and the Damascus plain. Economically, the city will be a burden on the Syrian government for some time to come, although in the long run the agricultural potential of a fertile, well-watered area-good land for growing fruit, wheat, barley and beans-should contribute significantly to Syria's economy...
...Between the milltary zones a buffer zone varying in width from 1.3 miles to 3.7 miles will be manned by 1,250 United Nations troops. They will be charged with maintaining the cease-fire and seeing that it is "scrupulously observed." Along with this U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, 30,000 or more Syrian refugees will be allowed to return to their land; Syrian civilian administrators will run the buffer zone...
...that same ominous thought, Kissinger flew back to Israel. He had managed to obtain at least an oral promise from Assad that the fedayeen would be policed. He convinced Israeli negotiators that they should eliminate their demand for a clause specifically forbidding paramilitary forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight...
Both Syria and Israel were eager to have an agreement, but the two countries could not get together on the size of the United Nations buffer force to be inserted between them. Israel wanted at least 2,500 blue-helmeted U.N. troops to keep peace. The Syrians at first insisted on no more than 300 observers, but later agreed to 1,000. Nor could the foes agree on the depth of "military zones" to be established on each side of the disengagement line. Jerusalem wanted relatively wide areas of 14.5 miles on either side of the U.N. buffer manned...
...been to bring together the Israelis and the Egyptians. Neither side had much to trade, especially since their armies were not stopped in exposed, vulnerable positions, as was the case in Egypt. The nature of the territory was also a factor: the vast Sinai desert is an obvious buffer zone, while the plain of Damascus and the Golan Heights are-or were before the fighting at least-populated regions with civilian settlements on both sides. Another difference: Egyptian and Israeli negotiators were willing to talk to each other, under U.N. auspices, at Kilometer 101; all the Syrian-Israeli negotiations...