Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bridges over the canal. Moreover, Israel insisted that it would consider a Suez settlement as a separate agreement, and not the beginning of any wholesale Israeli withdrawal from other occupied territories?the rest of Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the Jordan River, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. More than that, Israel demanded ironbound guarantees from the U.S. that if there were any cross-canal troop movements, Washington would 1) veto any Security Council resolution censuring Israeli retaliation and 2) provide direct support if Israel proved unable to cope with the situation...
...difficult to understand why a people who have had to struggle for sheer survival throughout their existence should be loath to take even the most minimal risks with their security. During his Jordan-sponsored tour of the Golan Heights, Rogers turned to his lieutenant, Joe Sisco, and remarked that it was easy to see how the Israelis could be so concerned about security in such terrain. But Rogers also took pains to note that he could understand, too, how the Arabs felt when looking at land that once was theirs...
...part, Israel would rather not spend so much time talking. Suggesting agenda items for Rogers' two-day visit, Israel's Foreign Ministry proposed that instead of engaging in lengthy conferences, the Secretary tour such disputed borders as the Golan Heights and the Jordan River's West Bank. Since it is his first visit, suggested the Israelis, Rogers might better comprehend their concern over secure borders if he saw those borders himself. The U.S. rejected this idea. An American embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv explained that what Rogers really wanted to do was to talk...
...MIDEAST. In Israel's Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 war, Muskie answered a kibbutznik's question about that disputed territory by saying: "If I were in your shoes. I would hold on." Was that a pro-Israeli statement? Did that not differ from U.S. policy? In fact, Muskie was impulsively expressing sympathy for the plight of those Israelis. Diplomatic blunder? Yes. Indecisiveness...
Possibly because Israelis consider Syria the neighbor most reluctant about reaching peace, an overwhelming 86% favor the annexation of the Golan Heights, from which Syrian artillery regularly shelled Israeli kibbutzim before the war. And 72% are for keeping Sharm el Sheikh, from which Egyptian gunners in the past turned back ships bound for the Israeli port of Eilat. About the only territory that significant numbers of Israelis are generally prepared to let go is the sandy western Sinai desert. Yet even here, only 18% are willing to give the captured desert back to Egypt, while 29% favor annexation...