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...Does the Sinai agreement allowing for the deployment of multinational forces offer a model for the Golan...
...What they say in this respect is one thing; what their convictions are is another. Our delegation has heard the Israelis say that their occupation of the Golan has not brought them security. Their real aim is to drive us away from their settlements ((in the Golan...
...talks more about peace thanYitzhak Shamir did. But he talks about a partial withdrawal. If he sticks to this logic, there will not be peace, because we cannot give up our land. If he does not agree to complete withdrawal from the Golan, I believe he will lose the support of the Israeli political parties that demand it. There are even rabbis, including the Chief Rabbi, who have said that the Golan is not Israel's land...
That Damascus and Jerusalem may be ready for some progress is perhaps no great surprise. The Syrians, unlike the internally quarrelsome Palestinian- Jordanian delegation, have an unchallenged leader in President Hafez Assad. His immediate goal is regaining the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967. This mountainous region of hardscrabble farms and fields has about 13,000 Israeli settlers, in contrast to 140,000 such settlers in the West Bank. Despite the Golan's symbolic significance to both sides, its importance to Israeli security in the age of the missile has diminished. Though risking loss of support at home, Israeli...
...Egypt got the entire Sinai back in exchange for peace and diplomatic relations in the process of normalization. Why can't the same formula apply to the Golan Heights...