Word: golan
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Hebrew Sparta. It is Ben-Gurion's overriding concern that those children be raised in an Israel finally at peace. To achieve that, Ben-Gurion would be willing for Israel to surrender every captured territory except Jerusalem ("the eternal capital") and the Golan Heights. He is thus closer than his successors in Israel's government to the six-point settlement that U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers outlined last week at the U.N. Rogers urged Israel to withdraw from the east bank of the Suez Canal in exchange for an Egyptian pledge of unrestricted passage for Israeli...
...seem more democratic, the three rulers sent their voters to the polls last week in a rubber-stamp referendum in which 98% approved of the new arrangement. Gaddafi, the most junior but the noisiest partner, told his Libyans: "As you march to the polls today, you march to Golan and the West Bank, to the mosque of Al-Aqsa and to Jerusalem." But the federation is not expected to alter the military balance in the Middle East. Unlike Libya, the other two partners face Israeli guns across cease-fire lines; then, too, Egypt's Sadat has indicated that...
Sharm el Sheikh to the Golan Heights, is also thriving...
...since last November, both the target and the timing were significant. Petah-Tikva (Gate of Hope), settled by Russian immigrants in 1878, was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in modern Palestine. The rocketing, along with guerrilla forays elsewhere-a bazooka barrage on the Lebanese border, a skirmish on the Golan Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited the Yad Va'shem...
When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...