Editor’s Note: As U.S.-Israeli negotiations intensify over a range of related issues—the implications of U.S. policy in Syria for Israeli security, the vaunted American peace plan reported to be in preparation, and other matters—history alerts us to the likelihood that a range of tradeoffs might attend resolution of any or all of these matters. One tradeoff that reportedly has been raised recently by the Israeli side concerns American acceptance of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Back on July 17, the Subcommittee on National Security of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held hearings on this matter. Then-Congressman …read more
Source: The American Interest
