Word: golan
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...Jewish settlements were established in the West Bank territories during his six years as Prime Minister as in the previous decade of Labor governments. In 1980 he presided over the annexation of the Arab sector of Jerusalem. In December 1981 he pushed through a bill effectively annexing Syria's Golan Heights...
Syria is the master of Lebanon, which it has always coveted. It is still on the U.S. list of terrorist-supporting nations, but its relations with the West are improving. Washington has even hinted that it will be more supportive of Syria's demand that Israel return the Golan Heights...
...Syria wants to be removed from the list of terrorist-sponsoring nations and the U.S. has proposed Israeli return of the Golan Heights...
...pressure is being placed on Syrian leader Hafez el-Assad, and why Bush wants the Golan to be in Assad's hands is a mystery. Is Assad going to plant Dutch tulips on the mountain's rolling slopes or would it be more along the lines of the 24 North Korean scud missiles Syria purchased in the wake of last year's Gulf...
Bush should stop pressuring Israel. Not attending Wednesdays session was the least the Israelis could do to show they will not accept imposed solutions later. Bush doesn't know that living in the shadow of the Golan or anywhere in the Middle East is no Broadway show...