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Sharm el Sheikh to the Golan Heights, is also thriving...
...since last November, both the target and the timing were significant. Petah-Tikva (Gate of Hope), settled by Russian immigrants in 1878, was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in modern Palestine. The rocketing, along with guerrilla forays elsewhere-a bazooka barrage on the Lebanese border, a skirmish on the Golan Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited the Yad Va'shem...
When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...
...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...