U.S. Jewish leaders should press the Clinton administration to oppose Syria’s demand that Israel agree to withdraw from the Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967, border as a precondition for resuming bilateral talks, Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon said Tuesday. Addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York, Sharon added that some of the land making up that border, which runs along the Sea of Galilee, had been taken by Syria after Israel’s War for Independence.
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