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...tacit understanding between Israel and Syria has gone so far that Damascus has withdrawn most of its offensive military power from the Golan Heights. Last year the Syrians had five armored divisions standing between Damascus and the Israeli-occupied territory on the Heights. Gradually, those forces were shifted, either to Lebanon or to Syria's troubled border with Iraq...
...survival of Israel is not a political issue. It is a moral imperative." He sharply criticized Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's penchant for personalized and secret handling of foreign affairs, including the shuttle, step-by-step diplomacy that has achieved cease-fires in Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Carter complained that "the underlying threat to Israel" has been left "unresolved." He called for "a general settlement" to be reached by "direct negotiation between the parties...
Amid such bloodshed and bitterness, there have been a few hopeful signs. Last week both Israel and Syria agreed to extend for another six months the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces on the Golan Heights. The agreement by Jerusalem and Damascus was as much to avoid the consequences of no mandate-the prospect of renewed fighting-as it was a vote of approval for the U.N. troops...
Unfortunately, not much progress toward peace has been made in more than 2½ years. Only tiny, easily negotiable slivers of territory in the Sinai and to a lesser extent along the Golan Heights have changed hands. The Geneva Conference remains stalled, and Washington has still not addressed itself to the region's central problem, the Palestinian issue. By trying to ride two camels at the same time, as it were, the U.S. risks the prospect of falling between them. If a new war breaks out, for instance, both Israel and Egypt may demand arms airlifts...
...bombs, TIME has also learned, were hastily assembled at a secret underground tunnel during a 78-hr, period at the start of the 1973 October War. At that time, the Egyptians had repulsed the first Israeli counterattacks along the Suez Canal, causing heavy casualties, and Israeli forces on the Golan Heights were retreating in the face of a massive Syrian tank assault. At 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, the Israeli Commander on the northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly...