Netanyahu Denies Plan To Give Golan Heights Back To Syria After Newspaper Report -- National Post
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a newspaper report on Friday that said he had agreed in principle to hand back land annexed from Syria as part of secret U.S.-mediated peace talks that broke off last year.
Syria has long set a complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights as a condition for making peace with the Jewish state. Israel captured the strategic plateau in a 1967 war, then annexed it in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.
Israeli leaders had consented to at least partial Golan pullbacks in past talks with Syria, though none had gone as far as Netanyahu in agreeing to withdraw to the northeastern shores of the biblical Sea of Galilee, the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth daily said.
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More News On Reports That Israeli PM Netanyahu Was Prepared To Give The Golan Heights Back To Syria
PM, Barak deny agreeing to Golan withdrawal -- Jerusalem Post
Barak: We didn't Offer Syria the Golan -- Arutz Sheva
Herzog to NYT: There was no Golan agreement -- Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu denies Golan pullout offer for Syria peace -- AFP
Netanyahu told Assad: I'm ready to discuss Golan withdrawal, if you cut Iran, Hezbollah ties -- Haaretz
Netanyahu prepared to hand back Golan Heights to Syria in return for peace, say reports -- The Independent
My Comment: I have doubts that such talks ever took place. Israeli-Syrian relations have been in the "toilet" for years .... the idea that they would start talking and Israel would give up on the Golan Heights .... hmmmm .... noway. Anyway .... all of this speculation is now moot. Syria is in the middle of a horrific civil war, and when finished we may have a country that is not only fractured into sectarian parts, but there will be no central government for Israel to talk to.
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