Facing Up to the Inescapable Conclusion on the Golan Heights

From: Forward | Date: January 14, 2000| Author: Gold, Dore | Copyright information


Forward

01-14-2000

Facing Up to the Inescapable Conclusion on the Golan Heights

After taking office in 1996, the Israeli government of Prime Minister
Netanyahu preferred to restart Israeli-Syrian negotiations on an entirely
new basis, rather than renew negotiations from the point where they had
left off in February 1996. For that point had a very specific meaning to
the Syrians: the reconfirmation by Israel of what the Syrians called the
Rab...

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