Members of Israel’s Third Way Party said they would push for a bill that would make it more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights. Knesset member Yehuda Harel said his party was dissatisfied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to media reports that he and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak had reached a secret agreement on an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan, which was captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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