FATE OF GOLAN HEIGHTS HOLDS KEY TO ISRAEL-SYRIA PEACE.(PERSPECTIVE)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | January 21, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: PETER SLEVIN Knight-Ridder

ALONEI HABASHAN, Golan Heights To stand in an Israeli army bunker and peer down onto the broad Syrian plains below is to know why kings and soldiers have battled over the Golan Heights for 3,000 years.

Whoever controls the high ground east of the Sea of Galilee commands the tactical advantage in war and the psychological edge the rest of the time, when things are invariably tense. Yitzhak Rabin, then prime minister, told nervous Golan residents in 1992, ``Withdrawal from the Golan is unthinkable, even in peace.''

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