Report: U.S. OKs talks with Syria
Gives green light to Israel to negotiate Golan Heights withdrawal
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Posted: May 22, 2007
1:19 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – The U.S. has given Prime Minister Ehud Olmert the green light to negotiate with Syria regarding an Israeli retreat from the Golan Heights, according to diplomatic sources quoted today by Israel's Haaretz daily newspaper.
The Golan Heights is strategic mountainous territory looking down on Israeli and Syrian population centers twice used by Damascus to launch ground invasions into the Jewish state.
According to Haaretz, the Bush administration granted Israel permission to discuss vacating the Golan, but Washington reportedly stipulated Olmert must not agree to any negotiations, even indirectly, regarding a change in the U.S. position toward Syria.
The U.S. largely has attempted to isolate Damascus, which is accused of aiding the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq and generating instability in Lebanon.
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