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Article: There are no guarantees on the Golan
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- Jerusalem Post
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- December 2, 1994
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ARIEL SHARON
Jerusalem Post
12-02-1994
THE government's demand that a 1,000-strong US observer force be stationed on the Golan isn't an issue of US credibility. Such a demand is unrealistic, even impossible. It does nothing to enhance our security and could, ultimately, embarrass the US.
In the effort to persuade the public that Israel can withdraw from the Golan because the US will defend us there, our leaders are putting the country in danger and US troops at risk.
If they came to any harm, Israel would get blamed, and the force, justifiably, would be pulled out.
Prime Minister Rabin, who seems to "fall in love" every so often with the late Menachem Begin, has been trying to draw a ...