Sharon was not about to cede back golan to syria.Eiland is quite correct about the dangers. Barak was brought up in the oslo frame believing concessions bring peace.Now with the hezbollah model in lebanon and thanks to olmert in gaza, its too dangerous to replicate it in the west bank and the golan. Syria attacked israel from the golan incessantly for 19 years so it lost this in any case disputed territory. Barak himself was groomed to be the labor star general, he is vastly overrated, his judgement is faulty(lebanon, gaza, west bank) and aside from a few commando actions is not a good land general.The problem is non millitary people use barak as the model of what concessions to give up. So Livni and Olmert start from camp david. Israel is not defending itself from hezbollah and hamas. Who is going to defend it when the golan and the west bank are returned? Nobody, rockets will come in from all directions. Olmert or his clones will collapse the state into the zsimmi slave province in palestine. That is where he is taking israel. Wake up israel, stop all this nonsense and remove olmert right now. Not tommorrow, right now.

Assad arms Hezbollah with the sole objective of destroying Israel. He is in bed with the Mullahs and their mouthpiece who call daily for Israel's destruction. Exactly what peace talks with Syria are we talking about? We can't even trust our own Prime Minister. How can we possibly trust Assad?

Olmert is driving the country into the ground with him, yet Israelis are too complacent to give a damn. After all, we have enough to worry about with our jobs and soccer games.

This is true regarding so many policy issues, including domestic ones. Everything is just putting out fires. Is there a coherent plan for dealing with Israel's water needs, especially if we withdraw from Golan and the West Bank? What about energy, or transportation?

This guy is very "strange". OK, he wants ro make a few $$ by writing this stuf. Why not to write a Junior theses in some university? Golan is Jewish. Give the guy some cash and let him relex if he has nothing else to do.

I realize America made Israel return the Sinai to Egypt but it seems to me not so Golen Heights possibly as Syria may see no difference both attacked Israel in 48 67 73 but alas though I am highly skepticle that America sees it that way manner luckily for Israel Assad feels though still enough to get back the G H but alas I am skepticial as negociations seem to elude wane wander stop whatever from time to time is this a sign to Israel negociate forever but need not return the G H say even in 10 years and or less if ever RIGHT ??? Thank you... M. S.

When will we wake up and tell Syria that they are NEVER going to get the Golan - SO LIVE WITH IT? We can expect continued quiet on our border with Syria as long as Damascus is within artillery range of Israeli guns.

Barak has zero chance of ever being PM again. he set the standard for conessions which olmert even made worse. Without doubt, barak is a fiction of labor's imagination, a lousy general who did nothing while arabs lynched 2 israelis in ramallah over arab tv. He is as bad edud olmert- one lousy general and one lousy lawyer.

not only does the Emperor have clothes, he is extremely unpleasant to see in the bare.

If only Israeli leaders would leave well alone Israel could keep the Golan and have a peaceful quiet Border,instead they are hellbent on stirring up trouble and constantly teasing Syria who has long ago written off the Golan .

ALL so called peace talks are dangerous! When will we learn? Look what happens to people who try to give away the land of Israel to the enemy. Rabin lost his life, Sharon 'lost' his life. We don't know where Olmert is going. If the Arabs really wanted peace we would know by now. Israel should stop looking outside and protect the people inside.

Uzi describes how olmert did all these criminal like things. I remind him that Ehud has not been convicted of anything yet so he is not yet a convicted criminal. The reason that he is not fit to lead israel is not these thingsw, but his lack of leadership and diplomatic skills which led to losses to hezbollah and hamas and lousy resolution that has not stopped syrian smuggling as well as his insane concession offers.Winograd has already pronounced itself and there is nothing to discuss.Olmert will be indicted by mazzuzz at the last hour and may or may not convicted. the tours case is the one that will likely get him as we all know about that manoever. He will spend some time in jail. Not many people know that Olmert is mentally ill, not relaxed in his own skin.Benziman is a dumbell.