Israel must stay 'deep in Golan' .........

In the BBC, here

"An aide to Israel's prime minister has said Israel must keep a large part of the Golan Heights, rejecting Syria's major demand for a peace deal. In June, Syrian President Bashar Assad said there was no partner for talks on the Israeli side. ...The comments come amid a thaw in relations between the US and Syria...... the aide's comments will serve to reinforce this view.

"The position is that, if there is a territorial compromise, it is one that still leaves Israel on the Golan Heights and deep into the Golan Heights," the aide, Uzi Arad, said in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He said the Israeli government was willing to resume negotiations with "no prior conditions", but Israeli control of parts of the territory was necessary for "strategic, military and land-settlement reasons... needs of water, wine and landscape". .."