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Show TheSalt LakeTribune MIDDLEEAST Al7 Friday, January 14, 2000 Leaked Draftof Israel-Syria Treaty Highlights Obstacles to Peace BY REBECCA TROUNSON LOS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM Israel wants wish settlers to be able to re in in their homes in the Golan was dismayed by the leak, which officials said will make the ch for peace in the Middle East more difficult “It is particularly unhelpful for working documents andthecon: fidentiality of the negotiations to of the complexities of the tiations, conducted which are being at the highest-ever level between the two nations. The talks are to resume Wednesday in Shepherdstown. Barakhas said der Syrianrule. “Welive in a democracy,” said Marla van Meter, a spokeswoman ment can be reached within two for the Golan Residents Commit tee. “Living under Syrian sover- near Washington, possibly again Heights even after Israeli troops withdraw from the strategic pla teau in an eventual peace accord be jeopardized,” said State De hebelieves a framework agree- bin, a frequent critic of Israel's months iraft treaty published Thursday. feisty news media. He said the with Syria, according to a U. The document, prepared by the United States and carefully guarded during last week's Israeli-Syrian peace talks in Shepherdstown, W.Va., was leaked to theIsraeli daily Haaretz, vhichpublished thetext. U.S. andIsraeli officials later confirmed its authenticity, but the Israelis wereatpainsto notethat the documentwasa draft, thatit has nolegal status and that the zovernment of Prime Minister partment spokesman James Ru document was intended only as a tool to help focus the recent discussions. Others close to the negotiations said publication of the document will make it tough for either side The draft document under. scores the many issues separating Israel andSyria, including water, securityand the fate of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. Barak has indicatedthat heis willing to to change its stated position be cedemostorall ofit in exchange cause even incremental shifts will nowbe viewedas concessions. for extensive security arrange. Apart from theIsraeli demand ments and the establishment of that Syria allowthe 17,000Israelis now living in the Golanto remain after a peace agreement is signed which seems unlikely, at best The Clinton administration, there are few surprises in the document, For the most part, it sketches out relatively familiar normal diplomaticrelations with Damascus, but he faces growing opposition at home. Israel's bid to allow Jewish residents to remain in the Golan tiations from becoming public, areas of consent and dispute be tween the twosides. Still, it provides the first real was greeted with surprise Thurseven bythe settlers themselves. Some welcomed theidea, saying it indicates that the gov ernment recognizesthat “creative Ehud Barak has made numerous” presumablynega tive commentsonit. which tried assiduously to keep the substanceof the recent nego- solutions” must be considered. But even those positively inclined said that few, ifany settlers, would actually be willing to remain un after an Israeli troop eignty is really not an option for us. Someanalysts said the pro- posalis a nonstarter becauseSyr- ia, which hassaid it wants to return thousands ofSyrian citizens to the Golan who wereforced to leave it after Israel's victory would never agree. Barak's aim, theysaid, appearedto beto reas sure the settlers that Israel is fighting hard to prevent the dis mantling of their communities The document states that Syria has accepted the establishment of an early warning station at Mount “It is particularly. ; unhelpfulfor working documents and the confidentialityof the negotiations to be jeopardized.” Hermon, the Golan’s highest point, althoughit differs sharply with Israel on whoshould run it Syria says the station should be operatedby France and the United States; Israel believes that it should havean “effectiveIsraeli g presence.” Seeking to prevent surprise at Israel also argues that the jan should be demilitarized; Syria says that equal areas on both sides of the newly drawn border should be demilitarized. 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