Sharon and the occupied Golan
Syria-Israel, Politics, 2/29/2000

The chairman of the Israeli Likud Party, Ariel Sharon, said that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is different from his predecessors in previous Israeli governments in that he is ready to give up the Golan, while his predecessors expressed their readiness to discuss a settlement concerning the Golan.

In an interview with Israeli Army Radio on Monday, Sharon added that the former US secretary of state Warren Christopher informed Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 that Yitzhak Rabin had deposited no commitment with the Americans over what had been stated on his readiness to give up the Golan.

Sharon questioned why Barak is trying to hide behind former Israeli prime ministers and does not have enough courage to say regardless of what had been committed or not committed to by former prime ministers that he is ready to give up the Golan.

Sharon denied what had been announced by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political advisor, Uzi Arad, that Netanyahu had sent the Syrians an assertion that he was ready to give up the Golan to a distance of two miles to the east of the June 4, 1967 border line in the Katasrin area.

Sharon added that Barak is in a hurry to respond to the requests of US President Bill Clinton whose term of office will be ended in months.

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