Syrian dictator Assad confirmed that during the negotiations in Turkey Olmert refused to budge on Syrian occupation of Lake Kineret.
The problem is that the Syrians want not only the Golan Heights—which we rightly annexed after winning the three wars they launched against us—but also a small area beyond the international border, which they occupied in 1948, during the War of Independence, when we were weak. That small area “incidentally” touches the shore of Lake Kineret, which would give Syria water rights to half of our only significant aquifer.
