Israel - Syria negotiations 1999-2000

This video is an extract from a lecture which professor Benny Morris gave in Norway 1 July 2007. He explains briefly the status of the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1999/2000.

Israel's primeminister Ehud Barak basicly offered Syria 99,9 percent of the Golan heights in the negotiations.

Morris also explains the difference between the international border from 1923 and the June 4 1967 border. The Syrians had taken some territority from Israel contrary to international law after 1948.

This video is produced by the Norwegian pro-Israel organization "With Israel for peace". For more info, see www.miff.no/english/

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[medisraelforfred]

What do you think Barak offered?

[TheUria24]

@calpolyis

You can whan the land is in your control

Something which for some reason people like you is hard to understand

And it is done with Egypt when Israel offered to return the Sinai for peace

Ehud Barak was prime minister he was precisely at the place to do it

I'll tell you something else

That if he would have had peace with Syria, he was elected a second time

The reason opposed to him so much is because they knew that it will fails

Syria thereby lost the opportunity to return their land

[yehudi06]

That's a really stupid question.

[calpolyis]

ّI don't care what Barak offered. How can you negotiate something that you don't own at the first place?

[calpolyis]

This is absolutely not true. Israel wanted to give back less than 99.99% of a land that doesn't own in the first place. Also, Barak was not in a position to convince his government and the Israeli people to withdraw from Syrian territory, so he quickly called for reelection short after.