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...various possibilities. In return for a formal peace treaty that will guarantee Israel's security against renewed Arab attacks, the Israelis are seriously considering large territorial settlements. If the areas involved were demilitarized, they might return almost all the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, give back much of the Golan Heights to Syria, create a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, and establish Jerusalem as a jointly managed united city in which Arab residents would administer their own municipal affairs. But if the Arabs are not willing to bargain on a final peaceful...
...territory. However, it did not stipulate, as Mrs. Meir insisted it should, that the withdrawal be to "secure and agreed borders," which Israel privately argues must include several pieces of occupied territory: a strip of land along the Gulf of Aqaba to Sharm el Sheikh, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and all of Jerusalem...
...other fronts, Israel was still faced with a shooting war. Six Israelis were killed by fedayeen attacks; five of them died when their Jeep ran over a mine while they were driving to a sunflower field near their settlement in the Golan Heights. Twenty-five others were injured in attacks that were staged from commando hideouts in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The Israelis retaliated by killing 14 and capturing 26 fedayeen infiltrators, and sent planes on bombing raids on enemy staging areas in Jordan and Lebanon. Said the leader of a small settlement on the Lebanese border: "At least...
...Golan Heights-"We should not claim it permanently, but the Syrian border should be adjusted to give us the headwaters of the Jordan, which are our main water supply. The Heights should be demilitarized...
...settled either militarily or politically, we shall make no concession of one inch of Arab territory," he said. "It is being said that an offer has been made for an Israeli withdrawal from Sinai and the West bank of the Jordan but not from the Syrian Golan Heights. Egypt will accept no compromise at Syria's expense." Nasser also bragged that Egypt, which has a shortage of jet pilots, will soon receive "hundreds of new planes from the Soviet Union and will soon have equality...