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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A year after an unprecedented wave of Hamas terrorist bombings brought a bloody end to Israel?s peace talks with Syria, Benjamin Netanyahu says he's ready to resume talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Although Netanyahu said he would not set preconditions for talks, preconditions for peace appear still on the table. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Netanyahu told both President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in meetings Thursday that "you must make it clear to Assad that he must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A year after an unprecedented wave of Hamas terrorist bombings brought a bloody end to Israel?s peace talks with Syria, Benjamin Netanyahu says he's ready to resume talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Although Netanyahu said he would not set preconditions for talks, preconditions for peace appear still on the table. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Netanyahu told both President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in meetings Thursday that "you must make it clear to Assad that he must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan...
This problem is complicated because Hizbullah, the Syrian and Iranian instrument used to attack Israel, does not desire merely to end the Israeli presence in Lebanon. Rather, Hizbullah seeks to end the Israeli presence in Israel and has taken a completely rejectionist stance regarding the Oslo Accords, the formal treaty governing what is otherwise known as the "peace process." Indeed, Israel has learned through experience the price of an insecure Lebanese border. The Palestine Liberation Organization had a ministate in Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This situation led to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...Egypt would not "stand idly by." Given popular feeling in Egypt against the Netanyahu government, it was perhaps an inevitable, if insincere, remark. If Egypt did not go to war when Israel attacked Lebanon in 1982, notes a senior Arab diplomat, it is unlikely to volunteer help with a Syrian attack on Israel today. Even so, the Mubarak comment has Israeli commanders re-examining their options on the western front...
...response to Assad's moves, the Israelis have increased their intelligence gathering and are planning and rehearsing their responses to a Syrian offensive. In addition to taking regular troops through their paces, as in the two major tank exercises held recently, commanders are perfecting plans to call up reserves, who make up the bulk of the military. In headquarters across the Golan Heights, the lights scarcely go out any more as officers work through the night...