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...miffed at being made to look as if he is following Arafat in concluding an accord with Israel instead of playing the lead Arab role he prefers. He might also fear that the Israeli-P.L.O. agreement sets an uncomfortable precedent for his own negotiations to get the Golan Heights back from Israel. The Declaration of Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli pullout from the Golan in return for something he calls "full peace" but has never spelled out. Getting Assad's agreement...
Returning to the army in 1969, Netanyahu defended the Jordan Valley, the Golan Heights and the Lebanese border. By 1972, he had been promoted to the rank of major...
...Israelis also hinted at unprecedented flexibility on the question of the Golan Heights -- or at least one Israeli did. In stating that he would choose "genuine peace" over continued occupation of the heights, Police Minister Moshe Shahal became the first Cabinet member to suggest that Israel was prepared to return the entire area to Syria...
...saying peace would make cutting aid to Israel easier, right? Wrong. It's just the opposite. "Consider the northern front," explains Ze'ev Chafets, an Israeli journalist who served as spokesman for the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "If we give the Golan Heights back to Syria, we'll have to build expensive new defenses close by." Never mind that Israel could finance such projects itself; the post-peace game would be played differently. "If peace happens," says Chafets, "we'll be looking for more American money, not less -- just like we got from Jimmy Carter after we made peace...
With the articulate and popular Netanyahu at the head of the opposition, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will probably face a tougher time selling its policies. Trickiest will be Rabin's proposal to return at least part of the Golan Heights to Syria, a move opposed by Netanyahu and about half the population. Concessions for peace will have an eloquent advocate in Weizman, a former Defense Minister and chief of the air force and one of Israel's most flamboyant politicians. Once an avid hawk, Weizman now supports withdrawal from the Golan, direct negotiations with the P.L.O...