Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East, convinced that his personalized, step-by-step approach to diplomacy will prove more fruitful than the reconvention of a multinational peace conference in Geneva. So far, Kissinger's accomplishments have borne out his beliefs. Warring armies have been pulled apart on the Sinai and the Golan Heights, United Nations peace keepers have been inserted, and some Israeli-occupied territory has been returned to Arab sovereignty...
...willingness to pull back their armed forces from the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai Peninsula and return the Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egypt. In exchange they want a declaration of nonbelligerency from Egypt-something that Sadat cannot give until there is an overall settlement, including the Golan Heights, the West Bank and recognition of the Palestinians...
Geneva talks and also proposed a set time for discussions to begin-no later than early March, shortly before the United Nations' peace-keeping mandates in the Sinai and Golan Heights demilitarized zones expire. Gromyko obviously meant to use the Soviet-Syrian communiqué as a way to pressure Sadat, who so far has steadfastly resisted Soviet demands for talks in Geneva until he determines how much Kissinger's step-by-step strategy can accomplish...
...hawks. The theory is that a noted hard-liner would be better able than Rabin to convince the Israelis that they will have to give up not only large parts of the Sinai, which even opposition politicians are ready to surrender, but also the more sensitive areas of the Golan Heights and the West Bank in return for an Arab commitment to guarantee peace and secure borders for Israel...
...believes in the extension of Israel to its biblical borders, which include the West Bank. "Historically and religiously," he says, "the Land of Israel is one entity, However." He continues "I might be willing to compromise" on territories for a real peace. And certainly, in the Sinai and Golan Heights, it's more a question of security, the more real peace the Arabs want, the more territories we can return...