Israeli Army Gen. Sahoky Sharor shows Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien the Israeli boundaries of the shores of the Sea of Galilee near the Golan Heights, April 11, 2000.
AP Photo
"Peace with Syria?"
Op-Ed, Human Events
July 8, 2008
Author: Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
"...While it is clear that withdrawal is the price of peace, disagreement over the Golan's precise delineation is what led to the talks' failure in the past. Syria demands a return to the 1967 lines, Israel to the 1923 mandatory border.
Under the 1923 demarcation, the recognized basis for all Mideast negotiations, the Golan ends just meters east of the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee. Between 1948 and 1967, however, Syria encroached upon Israeli territory, with two enclaves along the Jordan and a strip on the lake’s northeastern shore. The 1967 lines would thus give Syria more than 100% of the internationally recognized Golan, a claim to the lake's water and end full Israeli access around it...."
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Freilich, Chuck. "Peace with Syria?." Human Events (July 8, 2008).
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