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...parties to speed toward new agreements. Barak wants agreements too, but on his terms. He has pledged to withdraw Israeli forces from south Lebanon within a year, but he rejects the notion of a unilateral pullout. He is ready to do a deal with Syria on returning the Golan Heights but hangs tough on demilitarization and full normalization of ties...
...Syria began exploratory talks with Rabin's government over returning the Golan Heights -- captured by Israel in the 1967 war -- in exchange for security guarantees, but Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to hold on to the territory. Even though there's little chance of any progress before Israel's June election, the surest sign that peace with Syria may be back on the agenda was Tuesday's report of a new Israeli settlement being built on the Golan. After all, no piece of ground is more attractive to the right-wing settler movement than one they fear may be negotiated away...
...articles I have read in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Crimson about the Middle East, I had only a basic idea about the history of land exchanges in the West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. And in meetings with top level political advisors, activists and journalists in Israel, it became apparent that even they had wide discrepancies in their understandings of the accord...
...Israel-Syria track of the Middle East peace process skidded to a halt in May 1996, when Netanyahu came to power and swore never to meet Syria's chief condition for peace: Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. But after a particularly brutal year for Israeli forces patrolling its self-declared "security zone" in south Lebanon ? where Syria has sufficient influence to damp down anti-Israeli activities ? there may be some room for negotiation...
...appear still on the table. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Netanyahu told both President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in meetings Thursday that "you must make it clear to Assad that he must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan does not exist from our point of view." It probably won't be that easy. "Netanyahu knows he can't separate the pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely withdraw from southern...