Word: golan
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...triumph for Israel. Within hours of its start, the Egyptian air force had been destroyed in pre-emptive air strikes. Israeli troops sliced through Egyptian defenses in the Sinai Peninsula, moved against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and outflanked King Hussein's Bedouin army in the West Bank. In 132 hours, it was all over. Israel had more than tripled its territory, its forces moving into ancient Jerusalem, fulfilling the age-old quest of the Jews to return to their holy city. The war changed mental maps in the Middle East as much as it did the political landscape...
...doesn't want it to happen. Various Israelis have been quietly talking about opening peace talks with Syria--which actually does have some power over the Palestinian extremists, since it allows the militant wing of Hamas to be based in Damascus. The deal seems obvious: Syria gets back the Golan Heights. Israel gets recognized. Hamas gets the boot. Two years ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad told me he wanted to reopen talks with the Israelis. When I asked Olmert about Assad, he didn't say no--but he wasn't nearly as enthusiastic as he was about the Saudis. According...
...limited to the refugee crisis. Syrian officials say their willingness to take in so many refugees has helped stabilize the region. Now they want something in return: a softer U.S. line on Syrian involvement in Lebanon and more pressure on Israel to give back occupied land in the Golan Heights. "One million refugees is a huge number," says Redwan Ziadeh, director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. "It is a card that Syria can play with...
...again a withdrawal without something in return. In the early days of June 1967 came the moment of Israel's brightest triumph -- and the beginning of its present travail. Israeli armies swept over Gaza and the Sinai to the south, the entire West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights in the north. In triumphal rebuke of the 2,000-year-old stereotype of the passive ghetto Jew, history's endless victim...
...needs revision. A Hamas-dominated government—which denies Israel’s right to exist—will certainly prove hostile to negotiations with Israel, and permanent peace will surely not materialize in the reported timeframe of a year. Moreover, the call for the transfer of the Golan Heights from Israel to Syria and the establishment of a stable Palestinian state could easily be construed as diminishing U.S. support for Israel...