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...strikes on those countries since the 1967 war. About 75 planes took part in the raids, bombing eight presumed guerrilla bases in Syria and four in Lebanon. Arab sources said that the attacks had left 66 dead and scores wounded. Israeli jets shot down three Syrian planes over the Golan Heights in view of Israeli motorists out on holiday drives. Syria said it downed two planes in return. Israeli ground troops crossed the Lebanese border to battle commandos who had been mining roads in Israel. The Israelis seemed angry enough to do much more. On the chance that they might...
...says an Israeli foreign-ministry official. "If we release 250 prisoners today that will only encourage the terrorists to demand more prisoners tomorrow. And what would stop them from asking for political ransom? They could kidnap Israelis somewhere in the world and demand that we get out of the Golan Heights or the West Bank...
...behind its façade of unity, Israel's Cabinet is sharply divided on just what terms to offer. At issue is the question of the territories-Egypt's Sinai and Gaza Strip, Jordan's West Bank and the Arab quarter of Jerusalem, Syria's Golan Heights-that Israel has occupied since the 1967 war. Israel has so far refused to budge from those territories on the grounds that it needs secure borders against the Arabs. But what happens when that threat is removed? Three factions in the Israeli Cabinet suggest different solutions...
...Canal. Elsewhere settlers have moved fast, and they are thinking far ahead. At coralline Sharm el Sheikh, now renamed Ophira, they are building hotels and planning still others to accommodate tourists. Hard-topped roads make access far easier than it was in 1967. At a new kibbutz on the Golan Heights, British-born Frank Donnel points to the freshly planted grass and trees. "Another ten years and you won't recognize the place," he says...
...places the border is still deadly violent. Near Ein Zivan on the Golan Heights, a 31-year-old reservist was killed shortly after my visit. Rockets fired from Syria hit a car in which he had thumbed a ride. Strangely, no one else was even injured. Near "Fatahland," where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria converge and Palestinian guerrillas are still active, highway signs include notices that TRAVELING AT NIGHT is FORBIDDEN. In the farming village of Metulla, which has lost two men killed and five wounded in fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, Mayor Assaf Frankel wistfully said: "I hope...