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| Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and News Agwncies: Olmert: Peace talks with Syria are a 'national obligation' |
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Title: | The Golan ? The security insurance of Israel. |
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| One hardly requires the military acumen of Clausewitz to appreciate the huge military value of the Golan that gives Israel command over the approaches to Damascus and precludes Syrian command over the entire northern portion of Israel. This provides Israel with unequivocal deterrence, which has ensured that the Syrian frontier has been the most peaceful for over third of century ? without Israel yielding a centimeter of territory. Only the moronic or the malicious could suggest that Israel would be better off militarily without the Golan. Nowadays, the Golan is an integrated region of Israel : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/04/golan-heights-geography-geology-and.html |
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