Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed reports that he had secretly negotiated with Syria to hand over the Golan Heights. In an Israeli television interview on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Syria agreed to a key Israeli demand to maintain a strategic early-warning station on Mount Hermon and denied reports that he had agreed to a withdrawal to the June 1967 border.
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