Results for “Golan Heights”

…t Assad was holding firm on his insistence that without our “deposit,” without a prior agreement that he’d get back the Golan, there could be no substantive progress. This was particularly frustrating because I was getting reports from our intelligence services, and 329 HOUSE_OV...

… compensation for the rest. On the Syrian front, Israel would be expected to withdraw to the June 4, 1967 line, but the Golan would be demilitarized, agreements on water would be worked out, and Syria would be expected to use its influence to help promote a comprehensive Arab–Isr...

… a source of inspiration, and a call for action. The Yoni who rebuilt a tank battalion reduced to ashes and dust on the Golan. And there was the Yoni at peace. Tranquil. At home. With his pipe and his phonograph records, out of uniform. We saw him in his hours of supreme achievem...

… an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main command post on the Golan. “Good luck.” Uzi was waiting for me when we landed. Walking to his car, we ran into two reserve armored officers who had also just arrived home. They ex...

…a, he asked me to unfold the map I'd brought with me and talk him through, step by step, how we planned to get onto the Golan, plant the bugging device, and get back 66 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011537

…tly after I returned to the kirya, he provoked further anger in Washington by announcing the de facto annexation of the Golan — in effect “balancing” our Sinai withdrawal with a dramatic reassertion of Israeli control over other land captured in the 1967 war. Part of Arik’s plan...

… an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main command post on the Golan. “Good luck.” Uzi was waiting for me when we landed. Walking to his car, we ran into two reserve armored officers who had also just arrived home. They ex...

…rael controlled had more than tripled. It included the whole Sinai Desert, up to the edge of the Suez Canal. The entire Golan. The ancient lands of Judaea and Samaria: the West Bank. And the reunited capital city of Jerusalem. Suddenly, we had a sense that we could breathe. Wand...

… was because of my history in Sayeret Matkal. Other Israeli sayerets were attached to specific fighting forces. Sayeret Golan, for instance, was part of the Golani infantry brigade in the north; Sayeret 7zanhanim, was part of the paratroopers. But “matkal” is the Hebrew word for...

…the hope, of peace. It was the same problem Yitzhak had faced over the Americans’ misuse of our “pocket deposit” on the Golan. I realized that, having come this far with Oslo, neither he nor the government was likely to back away from approving the Gaza-Jericho accord. But he did...

…size and shape shifted over time. For example, Judah under the Hasmoneans did not include the Negev but did include the Golan. The general locale of Israel is fixed. Its precise borders have never been. Thus, it is perhaps better to begin with what never was part of Israel. Isra...