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"I think the decision has al- ready been taken by both sides, and it's only a matter of time, maybe months, perhaps around the beginning of the year [before it is worked out and made pub- lic]," said Hebrew University pro- fessor Moshe Maoz, who is considered, along with Ambas- sador to the United States Ita- mar Rabinovitch, to be Israel's leading authority on Syria. That Israel holds such a posi- tion isn't a startling revelation to Middle East observers. Rather, it's taken as a given. "I think everybody knows what the deal is. It's peace for the Golan," said former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in an interview with Israel Television. What re- mains to be settled, Mr. Baker continued, are the "bows" of peace, such as the pace of Israel's withdrawal in tandem with Syria's normalization of re- lations, and the extent of mutu- al demilitarization. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin denies all this, saying he is pre- pared for "withdrawal on the Golan, not from the Golan." An Israeli official repeated the gov- ernment's line, adding, "We have never raised the issue of total withdrawal." In the next sen- tence, however, the official ex- plained: "It would not be a wise tactic for us to say now what the final price is that we will pay." The price Syrian President Hafez al-Assad demands is the entire Golan. As Professor Maoz T put it, this a "red line" for him. Mr. Assad considers the Golan Heights occupied Syrian terri- tory. He also has the precedent of the Camp David treaty before him. In return for peace with Is- rael, Anwar Sadat got back the whole Sinai — all the land Egypt lost in the Six Day War. Mr. As- sad will not settle for anything less. The Israeli government, for its part, is absolutely determined to make peace with Syria. Recent- ly both Mr. Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres warned publicly that if such an agree- ment is not achieved, Israel could face a potentially catastrophic war by the end of the decade. Mr. Peres also mentioned that Israel already had recognized Syrian sovereignty over the Golan, im- mediately after the Six Day War. (Israel shortly withdrew that recognition, and years later ef- fectively annexed the Golan, which Mr. Peres didn't mention.) And Mr. Rabin wooed the Syrian leader by saying, "If Assad wants what Sadat got, he has to give what Sadat gave." So the reasoning goes like this: a) Mr. Assad's non-negotiable condition for peace is the whole of the Golan Heights; b) Mr. Ra- bin insists on making peace with Syria; therefore c) Mr. Rabin is willing to return the whole of the Golan to Syria. Before the 1992 election, Mr. Rabin held the opposite view: the Golan was vital to Israel's secu- rity, he would say, more vital than a peace treaty with Syria, so all of it must remain in Israeli hands. After the election he changed policy, saying he was ready to compromise. Why has he seemingly gone 180 degrees from his original position, to a N