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...between the Syrians and the Israelis, of course, is more terrestrial than spiritual: Possession of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in their 1967 war remains the key to an elusive peace deal between the two countries that remain, technically, at war. While both Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak - and even Benjamin Netanyahu, in secret, according to reports - had negotiated with Syria over returning the territory, they were unable to resolve disputes over just where the international border began and ended and over the security guarantees required by Israel. The pope's visit to the Golan Heights area...
...Israel has problems with a blanket freeze on settlement activity. He's also questioning the four-week timetable, proposing a three-month cooling off period before talks. But most important, Sharon has made abundantly clear that he has no intention of negotiating on the basis of offers made by Ehud Barak. Sharon considers the Oslo peace process over, and wants to negotiate a series of long-term interim non-belligerency agreements with the Palestinians...
...from the Golan Heights or the Jordan Valley or removing the Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza deprives Israel of the "strategic depth" to defend herself, Sharon insists. Returning those lands to Arab control - as his predecessors had considered - is not an option for Sharon, and Ehud Barak, he says, had no right to even discuss sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians...
...part of a comprehensive peace plan that included Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967. Negotiations to that end were begun by the late Yitzhak Rabin, more tentatively pursued through back channels by Benjamin Netanyahu and taken almost to the point of conclusion by Ehud Barak. But Sharon made clear in an interview published over the weekend that he believes Israeli withdrawal from the Golan is unacceptable under any circumstances, and that he won't consider it. In other words, from the Syrian point of view, Sharon is signaling that Damascus has nothing to discuss with...
Mainstream media sources in the U.S. described the dynamic of Camp David II as a frustrating time for Bill Clinton and especially Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who made “wide-ranging concessions” only to see the “intransigent” Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat decline a deal at the eleventh hour (because, by most accounts, Palestinians would receive only limited sovereignty over East Jerusalem). Undeniably, East Jerusalem carries great religious and symbolic significance to both sides. But Barak’s “concessions” only meant inching closer to Israel?...