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...Would you accept special security guarantees for the Golan Heights...
...story). Israel so opposes this, as well as the idea of having Syrian soldiers on a second Israeli border-even as Arab peace keepers-that the Jerusalem government convened its "war cabinet," deployed armor on the boundary, and threatened to invade Syria by sending tank forces rolling off the Golan Heights to Damascus if the Syrians either moved troops into southern Lebanon or introduced surface-to-air missiles anywhere in Lebanon...
...position to force a confrontation with Israel; they are too involved in Lebanon. Syrian units have moved no nearer the border than Zahrani, 30 miles to the north, near Sidon, to protect the oil refinery there, which has now resumed operation. Last week, Damascus quietly renewed the Golan Heights peace agreement with Israel for another six months...
...independent country. Or will the Syrians try to annex Lebanon to create the beginning of a greater Syria? Militarily the present deployment of the Syrian army puts it in a much weaker position against Israel than if it were concentrated where it used to be around Damascus and the Golan Heights. But this is really only a temporary situation. Israel cannot tolerate a return to the dangerous situation of a year and a half ago, when terrorists used southern Lebanon as a base for their attacks against Israel. We want a neutral zone in southern Lebanon-not a buffer zone...
...view is that in 1977 we should convene the Geneva Conference to decide the framework for an overall settlement. There is no need for any more "step by step." The Golan Heights is so small that it is not necessary to talk about further Israeli withdrawal before the final withdrawal. The second Sinai disengagement agreement defused the Israeli-Egyptian front...