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Article: Peace walks on water.(peace and relations between Syria and Israel stall over control of Sea Galilee)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2000
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DAMASCUS
Syria says it wants peace with Israel. The obstacle is the Sea of Galilee
"FRESH fish from Tiberias," shouts the fishmonger at Batiha, a refugee camp 32km (20 miles) north of Damascus. This is not quite accurate; the fish come from the Barrada river, a legacy of Gamal Abdul Nasser's project to spawn the celebrated fish of Lake Tiberias (or the Sea of Galilee) all over his United Arab Republic. But the refugees still prize their Galilee seafood, not just for its taste but because it reminds them of the shores where they lived before Israel took their territory in 1967. Forty years on, Abdal Karim al-Khatib, one of Batiha's headmen, still ...