... person in the state of Israel who believes that we can make peace with the Syrians without, in the end, giving up the Golan Heights." Olmert even argued that Israel must be ready to make territorial concessions in Jerusalem, where he once was mayor ...

... diplomacy, prevails. And there are fewer settlers on the Golan Heights and no megaton issues such as the status of Jerusalem ... willing to go, on the extent of withdrawal from the Golan Heights in Israel's case, on normalization and security in ...

... she's sending emissaries to Syria. Damascus wants a peace deal with Israel that would include the return of the Golan Heights, and the United States and Israel want Syria to stop supporting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in neighboring ...

... major lake in Arkansas. But in Israel, where water is life, the Jordan River is worth fighting for. So are the Golan Heights, where springs supply at least 20 percent of the northern water supply. - Advertisement - It seems ironic that many ...

... through the northern part of the Golan Heights where we can see the borders of ... Here, the importance of the Golan Heights to Israel for protection becomes obvious. The Golan Heights provide a view of Syria, Lebanon ...

... world paid tribute to John Lennon, six days after he was shot to death in New York City. In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967. In 1986, the experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and ...

... Party dropped its opposition to a Palestinian state three years ago and also softened its stance on keeping Syria's Golan Heights, another of those pre-1967 borders the Arabs want back. So the Palestinians will get a nation of their own; the ...

... At a minimum, Syria wants to get back all of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau along Israel's northern border ... Syria in U.S.-mediated talks it could have the Golan Heights for the right terms. It is not clear where Barak stands ...

... in which President Hafez Assad had been assured by the last Labor-led government he could get back the strategic Golan Heights enclave for the right peace terms. While formal talks have been in suspension for three years, former Prime Minister ...

... painful compromise" with Syria over the Israeli-held Golan Heights, which President Hafez Assad is determined to recover ... boundaries before capturing the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights in the Middle East war that year. "Most of the settlers ...