Word: golan
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...coordinated pincer movement, with the Israelis moving north into Lebanon while the Christians push southward. Another option is all-out war, which would mean Israeli attacks not only on the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization but on Syrian bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and along the Golan Heights...
With the Israeli-Egyptian agreement in hand, the next hurdle was a settlement on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel. Syria's President Assad took an important step forward in February 1974 by responding to Kissinger's insistence that the U.S. would not negotiate without a list of Israeli prisoners of war. The oil embargo ended a month later, in March 1974. Even so, Sadat remained vulnerable as the only Arab leader to have dealt with Israel, and the embargo could have been reinstated at any time. So it was up to Syria and Israel, whose mutual suspicion...
When I embarked at the end of April 1974 on the negotiation that led to the disengagement of the Israeli and Syrian armies on the Golan Heights, little did I realize that I was to shuttle back and forth between Damascus and Jerusalem for 34 weary days...
...capital of the region, a dusty little town nestling beneath the Golan hills. For the next few weeks, Quneitra was to haunt every waking hour and probably my dreams (or nightmares) as well...
...decide between its longing and its fears. This schizophrenia was well exemplified by the masseur in the King David Hotel who gave me a rubdown with a violence that belied his good will. All of Israel was counting on me, he allowed, pounding me. How many kilometers on the Golan was it safe to give up? I inquired, if only to gain a temporary surcease. "Give up? Kilometers? On the Golan? You must be crazy!" shouted my tormentor, returning to his task with redoubled vigor...