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...ambiguous. Netanyahu is Prime Minister by just 29,507 votes of 3.1 million cast, a decimal-point majority of 50.4%. To win at all, he embraced the peace process even as he promised actions that would thwart its success. He would negotiate with Syria but never give up the Golan Heights. He would abide by the Oslo agreements with the Palestinians but build more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. He would undertake talks on the territory's final status but not discuss Jerusalem. He would model himself on the Nixon who went to China, the Begin who met with...
...halt. Christopher headed for Damascus on Saturday to talk with Hafez Assad, considered the linchpin to any solution: if he wants to, U.S. and Israeli officials believe, Assad can persuade Hizballah to stop shooting. But why should Assad play ball? His main objective is to regain possession of the Golan Heights, the portion of southwestern Syria that Israel captured in 1967. But exactly how he intends to get it back is unclear. "The Katyushas are a means of putting pressure on Israel," says a senior U.S. official, "with Damascus as the address...
...even more complicated than that. Assad wants all of the Golan back, and Israel wants a full peace with Syria, including diplomatic and trade relations. But Israel is willing to return the Golan territory only slice by slice, testing at each stage to see if the peace is real. Given those unsatisfactory terms, Assad may have decided that it makes no difference whether Peres the peacemaker or Netanyahu the hard-liner is in office in Jerusalem. "Syrians were very hopeful that Peres would take a big step," says Ibrahim Hamidi, a Damascus-based journalist. "Either Peres couldn...
...foreign policy on ABC's "Night Line" Wednesday. Forbes suggested that the United States stop the arms-control talks known as START II, and allow Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic into NATO. He added that he was not in favor of sending American peacekeepers to the Golan Heights. But it was his statement suggesting that the U.S. move "ahead with a sensible anti-ballistic missile defense system" that may invite more snickering from his opponents. The multi-billion-dollar "Star Wars" system, championed by Ronald Reagan, was derided by Democrats and eventually abandoned by most Republicans as too costly...
...some questioners could not stand for such a morally disinterested attitude. One man (who by a slip of the tongue called the Secretary "Mr. Chamberlain") asked, "What irks you about Jews in the Golan Heights?" He was referring, of course, to Christopher's shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Damascus to restore peace between Israel and Syria. The Secretary all but dismissed the notion of this Israeli citizen's attachment to his land...