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Land, Water and Blood
In The Golan's Future
Some background to the critical Israel-Syria
negotiations on the future of the Golan Heights.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
ince 1974, when Henry
Kissinger negotiated a
post-Yom Kippur War sep-
aration of forces between
Israel and Syria on the Golan
Heights, this has been "Israel's
safest border," the slain Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin used to
say.
It wasn't always like that. Syr-
ians and Israelis killed each oth-
er along the Golan Heights
beginning in the 1948 War of In-
dependence. The pretexts were
usually land and water.
On Wednesday, Syrian and Is-
raeli negotiators in Maryland
were due to resume trying to
make peace and a new border —
one that almost certainly would
return most or all of the Golan to
Syria. The dispute over the
Heights has divided the two
countries for the better part of
this century.
tained the French had no right
to hand over their water re-
sources to the British," said Tel =\
Aviv University geography Pro-
fessor Moshe Brawer, a frequent
consultant to Israeli peace nego-
tiators.
Immediately after Israel de-
clared its independence in May
1948, Syria joined other Arab na-
tions in attacking the new state.
A little over a year later, UN
envoy Ralph Bunche brokered an
armistice agreement between Is-
rael and Syria. The cease-fire line
kept Syria away from the Sea of
Galilee and Jordan River and left
a strip of demilitarized land be-
tween the two countries.
Arye Shalev, a senior re-
searcher at Tel Aviv University's
Jaffee Center for Strategic Stud-
ies and a member of the original
Israeli-Syrian armistice supervi-
sion committee, said: 'There was
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Golan residents demonstrasted with banners in a field in the southern part of the
Golan.
It began in 1923, following the
end of Turkish Ottoman rule in
the Middle East. France, the new
ruler of Syria, and England, the
new ruler of Palestine, drew a
border dividing their territories.
The border gave the Golan
Heights to French-ruled Syria,
but gaye British-ruled Palestine
the adjacent Sea of Galilee and
Jordan River, and sole water
rights to them.
The League of Nations and the
Zionist leadership accepted the
arrangement. But the Syrians,
who eventually gained indepen-
dence from France in 1946, re-
jected the border as the work of
colonialists. "The Syrians main-
no definition of which country
had sovereignty over the demili-
tarized area because it was be-
lieved Israel and Syria would
make peace within about six
months." This was not to be.
Over the next few years,.Syri-
an forces moved onto demilita-
rized land on the northeast bank
of the Sea of Galilee and began
using its water. Israeli fishermen
who got near the bank were fired
upon.
Seven Israeli policemen en-
tering the area of El Hama, just
southeast of the Sea of Galilee,
were killed by Syrian troops.
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