Word: golan
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...lawmakers in the Knesset: "I went there convinced we needed to add new energy to the talks and I'm convinced now that we have."TIME correspondent Lara Marlowe, in the Syrian capital, says, however, that Assad's offer of "full peace" if Israel first withdraws from the disputed Golan Heights is something "he has said before many times."What can be gleaned from the unprecedented closed-door talks, she says, is that negotiations over the last piece of the Mideast peace puzzle have shifted to top levels. Sources on all sides tell Marlowe only a handful of officials -- Assad...
...progress toward peace with Syria, the missing-link deal in the Middle East peace. The ruling Labor Party today submitted a parliamentary resolution that would tie Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's hands in the negotiations, capping a weeks' long movement by hawkish Israelis to keep the heavily settled Golan Heights from falling under Syrian control. The move was a rebuke to Rabin, Labor's own leader. In response, he has threatened to drop the peace talks altogether -- and to call a vote of confidence in his peace plan that, if negative, could topple the Labor government. By this morning, according...
Tens of thousands of peace-plan opponents have flocked to a biblical site in the Golan, where 500 Israelis today joined a hunger strike in its 18th day that has become the focal point of Israeli protests against the prospective Syria land giveback...
...Christopher headed home today after a week of trying to accelerate the peace process in the Middle East, having failed to jump-start negotiations between Israel and Syria. After a three-hour meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, Christopher said the two Mideast countries are still deadlocked over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Assad, more vaguely, said he was open to "discuss steps" that might help advance Christoper's aims when the American returns there in early August...
Talks inched forward between Israel and Syria. Secretary of State Warren Christopher shuttled between the two states, trying to advance a deal whereby Israel would trade the occupied Golan Heights for full peace with Syria. Progress looked possible when Tishrin, the mouthpiece of the Syrian ruling party, wrote that Damascus would consider accepting a withdrawal from the Golan in phases. Until now, Syria has rejected a staged pullout, which Israel prefers in order to build trust gradually. Christopher left the Mideast without any tangible achievement to boast of. Late last week, in a move which may further imperil Mideast negotiations...