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...central issue is the fate of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel has agreed to withdraw, and according to reports from Israeli officials, the two sides for the first time have an implicit understanding that the withdrawal will be total. The two sides have accepted the principle of "equality" of security arrangements on and around the Golan. Both countries, for instance, would remove their armed forces from the border region. However, the Syrians are demanding that the demilitarization be symmetrical; Israel insists that it cannot afford to pull back...
Diplomatic sources are also suggesting that Syrian President Hafez Assad has agreed to begin normalizing relations with Israel-establishing embassies, opening up trade and so on-before the Israeli retreat from the Golan is complete; if true, this would be a substantial concession. The list of major differences is still long. Israel, for instance, wants to continue to maintain early-warning stations on the Golan, and Syria flatly refuses. But at least the two countries are on speaking terms again...
...after reaching abreakthrough agreementto resume peace negotiations with Syria, Israeli officials admitted they might jettison 28 years of tough talk and withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. "We must not allow the chance ofcomprehensive peace in the Middle Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister...
Israel and Syria today agreed to resume long-stalled peace negotiationsin Washington late next month, spurred by a U.S.-drawn framework to help resolve their central dispute over the strategic Golan Heights. Under the tentative compromise, the two sides would match one another, move for move, in reducing their military presence in the border region. The resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syriasince they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details,TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyerreports that each side has accepted a specific...
Israel and Syria today agreed to resume long-stalled peace negotiations in Washington late next month, spurred by a U.S.-drawn framework to help resolve their central dispute over the strategic Golan Heights. Under the tentative compromise, the two sides would match one another, move for move, in reducing their military presence in the border region. The resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria since they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details, TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports that each side has accepted...