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Pro-Israel opponents of a land-for-peace deal with
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I is a picture almost guaranteed
to alarm American audiences:
U.S. soldiers, lightly armed
and vulnerable, sandwiched
between nervous Israeli and Syr-
ian soldiers on the Golan Heights.
That visceral imagery is at the
center of a debate that has ex-
ploded in Washington in recent
days over the widely anticipated
use of American peacekeeping
troops as part of any settlement
between Syria and Israel.
The unfolding battle pits sup-
porters of the policies of the gov-
ernment of Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin against opponents
who see the nascent proposal as
a glaring weakness that they
hope to exploit in the interests of
thwarting the return of any ter-
ritory to the Syrians.
Not surprisingly, some Israeli
officials regard that strategy as
a blatant attempt to limit their
options in the negotiations by
dragging the explosive issue of
peacekeeping troops into the
messy realm of American parti-
san politics.
But distinguishing between le-
gitimate concerns about a poten-
tially dangerous American
military involvement and an in-
appropriate interference in in-
ternal Israeli affairs is not easy
— a fact causing headaches for
American supporters of the peace
process.
The American front in the bat-
tle for Golan opened in earnest
last week after Secretary of State
Warren Christopher's latest
swing through the region. Mr.
Christopher's shuttle diplomacy
— which is expected to resume
next month — did little to clari-
fy Syria's response to the latest
Israeli proposal for a phased with-
drawal from parts of Golan in re-
turn for credible guarantees of a
"full peace" with the Jewish state.
But it did focus new attention
on Israel's willingness to discuss
relinquishing parts of the strate-
gic heights, and on Washington's
desire to play a much more active
role in the Syrian-Israeli talks in
the coming months. The Christo-
pher mission also added to the
perception that an international
peacekeeping force with a signif-
icant American component is
front and center in the adminis-
tration's thinking.
'We've been talking a lot about
the idea — which means that
somebody in Israel has been giv-
ing us encouragement," said
William Quandt, a fellow at the
Brookings Institution in Wash-
ington. 'What we seem to be say-
ing that while this isn't
something we're desperately ea-
ger to do, it is a proposal that
could help bridge some major
gaps."
Israeli officials have not offi-
cially endorsed the concept. But
they have done little to discour-
age such speculation — a fact
that has ignited opposition from
several quarters. Some of that op-
position emanates from the Pen-
tagon, where the recent
experience in Somalia — and the
indelible memory of the 241
American soldiers killed by a ter-
rorist bomb in Beirut in 1983 —
have created a powerful aversion
to open-ended peacekeeping op-
erations.
During a recent trip to Israel
for retired generals and admirals
Some Israeli
officials regard the
effort as a blatant
attempt to limit their
negotiating options.
sponsored by the Jewish Institute
for National Security Affairs
(JINSA), a major subtheme in-
volved the growing unhappiness
in the military establishment
with peacekeeping assignments
in general. JINSA, with its close
ties to military brass, has a long-
standing policy against U.S.
peacekeepers on the Golan
Heights based mostly on the mil-
itary risks, according to special
projects director Shoshana Bryen.
"I'm not opposed to the United
States helping Israel and Syria
make a deal," she said. "But do-
ing it by inserting ourselves be-
tween them is not a good idea
from a military standpoint."
The continuing downsizing of
the American military, she said,
means that this country does not
have sufficient manpower to
make such a mission work; the
close proximity of Israeli and Syr-
ian forces makes the Golan very
different from the military envi-
ronment in the Sinai, where
American troops have been part