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...Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers have perished in running battles with the militiamen, who receive guns and training from Israel. Moreover, the Lebanese fighting has forced Assad to redeploy many of his best troops from Syria's border with Israel along the Golan Heights. Only one Syrian armored division now stands between the massive Israeli war machine and Damascus, a mere 40 miles away...
...effort to stiffen Assad's resolve to stay on in Lebanon, Iraq's radical regime offered last week to send its own troops to the Golan Heights. Assad, who has quarreled bitterly with the Iraqis, was bound to reject their dubious offer. His determination to solve his Lebanese dilemma was probably hardened by the success of the Camp David peace talks, which foreshadowed a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Such a development would leave Israel free to concentrate its massive firepower on Syria and other "rejectionist" Arab states...
...Congress provided a bit of bait by approving $90 million in foreign aid for Damascus if President Carter attests that the aid would help the peace process. Israel also contributed something. From Jerusalem came a calculated leak that Dayan had told his aides that "neither the Sinai nor the Golan Heights is part of our homeland...
...demonstrate their anger, settlers from Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights snarled traffic in Jerusalem last week by staging a massive tractor drive-in. Later, a vociferous band of 2,000 protesters marched outside the Knesset waving banners that read WE BEG YOU NOT TO RETREAT FROM SINAI and BEGIN: ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO RELY ON. Among the picketers were members of the 20 families that inhabit Ne'ot Sinai, one of 15 communities along the Mediterranean coast. The Ne'ot Sinai group was particularly angry with Begin: during a visit last year, he asked them...
Egypt Except for minor border modifications, Israel must give up all Arab lands conquered during the 1967 war-Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and East Jerusalem...