Word: quneitra
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...destroyed buildings at the site, as well as what they said was a Hizballah-bound arms shipment, which the Lebanese claimed was part of a relief convoy. And, on Sunday, a landmine was triggered - perhaps accidentally, perhaps deliberately - along the Syrian boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near Quneitra. No injuries were reported...
...Syrians who have known it as occupied land for most or all of their lives, since Israeli troops seized it during the Six-Day War of 1967. "He is a wise leader. We are all behind him," says Halima Khalid, 39, a Syrian homemaker picnicking with her family in Quneitra, a Golan town regained from Israel after Syria's 1973 surprise attack. He will have done it all, after surviving three wars with Israel, a fierce Islamic uprising, a coup attempt by his own brother Rifaat and the demise of Syria's only important ally, the Soviet Union. Comments Damascus...
...that the island was being used by the P.L.O. as a training base for sea assaults. The next day brought cause for celebration, however. Israel and Syria exchanged prisoners of war for the first time in a decade. In a tear-soaked ceremony in the Golan Heights town of Quneitra, Israel released 291 soldiers captured during the invasion of Lebanon, along with 20 Arabs who had been arrested for protesting the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Syria gave up three Israeli soldiers caught during the invasion and three security agents seized in May after they drove into a Syrian...
...Dinitz told me that Israel had clung to the hills behind Quneitra not out of a sense of strength but out of insecurity. The demarcation line on the Golan had been established where it was in 1967 precisely because it was the most easily defensible position?in some spots the sole defensible one. I told Dinitz that if and when the negotiations resumed, Israel had to show more understanding of Syrian pride. It had to widen the Syrian territory around Quneitra; it must, within the limits of its security, attempt an act of grace. I in turn would...
Kissinger decided the time had come for him to make an "American proposal" to both sides, as he had done in the Egyptian negotiation in January. He suggested further Israeli withdrawals west of Quneitra and continued Israeli control of the hills, but with limited arms. When the Israelis agreed to a ban on weapons that could fire from the hills directly into Quneitra, Assad accepted. Now Kissinger pressed both sides to wrap