Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports that Israel had agreed to resume negotiations where they left off with Syria in 1996 if Damascus backed an Israeli proposal to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon. Netanyahu was quoted as telling the Cabinet that Syria could raise any issue it wanted in negotiations with Israel, but that the Jewish state was not ready to trade portions of the Golan Heights in exchange for Syria’s support for the Lebanon pullout. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai is slated to visit the United States this week to discuss the Israeli proposal with American officials.
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