Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously warned the Israelis (and the U.S. Jewish community) against being too rigid. Above all, it is plain that the next step down the road will be far more hazardous. The Geneva Conference is likely to be reconvened, and it will almost certainly raise the issues of the Golan Heights, the Palestinians, the West Bank, Jerusalem?on none of which the Israelis so far show any sign of flexibility. What worries Jews?and by no means Jews alone?is what might be asked of Israel by the U.S. in later rounds of bargaining...
Kissinger's problem is that Israel is not likely to offer much to Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...that map up for? I don't intend to talk about Sinai." At a dinner with Israeli officials he described Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur as a general "who displays great affection for any piece of territory possessing any elevation whatsoever." Referring to three promontories on the Golan Heights that Israel insisted on controlling in the first stage of disengagement talks with Syria, Kissinger told Gur: "I'll get one of those hills yet." Retorted a Gur aide: "You haven...
...Coalition. The Israeli attitude may yet frustrate the latest round of talks. Prior to Kissinger's visit, even some dovish politicians in Jerusalem were coming round to the hawk point of view that the country gave up too much for what it received during previous negotiations. On the Golan Heights, for instance, many Israelis feel that they should have held onto the provincial capital of Quneitra instead of returning it to the Syrians. Officially, Premier Rabin was authorized by his Cabinet to conclude only what Jerusalem called a thirty-fifty deal-a military pullback in the Sinai...
...Egypt, before the U.N. peacekeeping mandates come up for renegotiation in the spring. If he is successful, Syria's President Hafez Assad might even agree to delay a resumption of the full-scale Geneva conference long enough for Kissinger to work out second-stage agreements on the Golan Heights. Sadat desperately wants Kissinger to succeed. If he can work out a Sinai deal, it will justify Sadat's argument that a moderate approach can recover territory...