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Rabin has made it clear that he is willing to make withdrawals in the Sinai in return for Egyptian political concessions in the nature of a non-belligerency pact or a demilitarization of the territory. Withdrawal in the Golan Heights presents a more difficult problem because of the great tactical advantage the Golan Heights would give to the Syrian army, traditionally the most virulently anti-Israeli of the bordering Arab states...
...major "confrontation" countries, the issues of war and peace were the main topics. In Syria, the group members were driven directly from the airport across a rocky plain to the Golan Heights, where they inspected the scene of a pitched tank battle of the 1973 war. Two days later, when they crossed the Jordan River into Israel, their hosts ushered them into two huge air-force helicopters for an inspection tour of the Israeli side of the battle line and a detailed briefing by Raphael Eitan, the major general who heads the Israeli "Northern Command." Standing on a destroyed Soviet...
...Damascus, President Assad had broken off his dialogue with the Americans to send for a war map to make his point. Two nights later in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin illustrated his opposing position with a map of the same territory. The balanced view of the Golan's strategic terrain provided an invaluable understanding for the group, but the emphasis put on the Heights by both sides underscored the ominous possibility that renewed fighting there might shatter the Middle East's fragile peace...
...weeks, the group had little time to take in the beauty of the region. But even seen in passing, some sights linger: the minarets and mosques of Cairo, Jerusalem's Wailing Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Sea of Galilee gleaming beneath the war-ravaged Golan. It was a crucial time to visit the Middle East, and the Americans came away guardedly optimistic that peace and prosperity, which seem so near in the region, may soon be achieved...
...Congress, are complex and intricate, but they are not the problems of the Arabs. We have an Israeli occupation. Is it legal or illegal? We should be talking the same language. A new withdrawal in the Sinai will not solve the problem, nor will a withdrawal in the Golan Heights and the West Bank...