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In recent years, the organization has
led a sporadically vociferous campaign
against returning the Golan, and they
are gearing up for another battle.
"We have to work on Israeli public
opinion to show that returning the
Golan would be a total disaster," says
Avi Zeira, outgoing chairman of the
group, presenting the traditional
Israeli position against trading the
Golan for peace with Syria.
It would, he says, endanger Israel's
security to relinquish its strategic
foothold overlooking the Syrian fron-
tier, while at the same time, Syria
remains a sponsor of terrorist groups
and does not really seek normalization
with Israel.
The group is focusing on lobby-
ing policymakers. It is also reviving a
fund-raising drive this month in the
diaspora from offices in New York
and Los Angeles. Between 1992 and
1996, the committee raised about $1
million a year in the United States,
which made up the lion's share of its
budget.
Yigal Kipnis has no budget to get
his message out. From his leafy home
in Ma'aleh Gamla, a moshav on the
western slopes of the Golan overlook-
ing the Sea of Galilee, Kipnis, a
farmer by day, has been coordinating a
small peace movement of Golan set-
tlers to counter the Residents Board
since late 1995.
"Peace with Syria is a vital interest
of the State of Israel," Kipnis says.
"I would be very happy if we could
make peace withodt leaving the
Golan, but we will accept with under-
standing an agreement that includes
returning the Heights."
His group does not actively demon-
strate, but Kipnis — who first came in
1978 — says that in small meetings he
finds more and more residents signing
on to his message.
Israel, he says, conquered the Golan
for two reasons: to provide a security
buffer to the northern settlements
from Syrian aggression and to ensure
Israel's water interests. The Golan's
streams are the source of about 30
percent of Israel's water.
If Israel can achieve these same two
goals with a peace treaty, argues
Kipnis, then why should the settle-
ments remain? This is a Garden of
Eden that we have never had, but a
treaty with Syria will not be decided
by our personal interests," he says.
"The only reason the settlements are
here is because Israel believed that
peace with Syria was an impossibility
All of Israel's leaders realize this is no
longer true." I I
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