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Most of the Middle East was bathed in sunshine, but high atop snowy Mount Hermon north of the Golan Heights an ominous battle between Israelis and Syrians raged day afterday. For the past six weeks Syrian guns have off and on bombarded Israeli installations in a concerted effort to convince Israel that it must return captured Syrian territory. But last week the diplomatic cannonading turned into a full-scale battle. Syrian commandos attempted to overrun Israeli positions held since the October war and were beaten back. Aircraft were called in on both sides for the first dogfights since last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Escalating Battle for Peace | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Political War. Perhaps Kissinger was optimistic for all the right reasons. Despite its intensity, the Mount Hermon fighting was clearly more political than military. Last week, touring the long ridge line that rings Mount Hermon, TIME Correspondent William Marmon talked to one Israeli officer who shared responsibility for the defense of the mountain. "This is a political war," he told Marmon. "The Syrians are trying to play the same game that the Egyptians played before there was a disengagement in Sinai. But we shall stay here as long as necessary." The Syrians hoped to convince Israel that they could fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Escalating Battle for Peace | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...from 9,232-ft. Mount Hermon and beyond the Syrian plain below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Escalating Battle for Peace | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Israel's Arab neighbors waited for the offensive with mixed apprehension and truculence. The Palestinian commandos took Mrs. Meir's speech as a challenge and warned that they would fight back; at week's end two Israeli soldiers were killed on the slopes of Mt. Hermon by guerrillas who had infiltrated over the border from Lebanon. Israeli troops also discovered mines laid near the Syrian border and reported they had traced guerrilla tracks back into Syria. In Damascus, the Syrian government openly admitted that it has been urging the fedayeen to action since the Israeli air raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's New War | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...before. At that time two Israeli tourists were wounded in a rocket attack inside Israeli-occupied territory, and two soldiers were hurt by a mine. Now Israeli Skyhawks, in a series of raids that continued through the week, bombed and strafed guerrilla encampments near the slopes of Mount Hermon; scores of fedayeen were reported killed. The Israelis also hit villages in the area. In a town called Hasbaya, curious villagers who rushed out of their houses at the noise became the targets; five died and 25 were wounded before the planes flew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Border Ambush | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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