Essay - Chapter 1 Introduction Problem Statement and Goal the Blood that...

Chapter 1

Introduction

***** Statement and Goal

***** blood that has been spilled ***** the tears ***** have been shed contribute to the growing monument commemorating the failed negotiations sounding the Israeli-Syrian dispute over the Golan Heights region of the MidEast. The normal give-and-take that should be part of standard political negotiations has instead been obfuscated by the fierce ideological passions, longstanding hatred and external pressures that ***** forced the stand-off in***** its fourth decade. Throughout ***** negotiations, the various strategies and tactics that are often used by negotiators have found employment from the ***** leaders *****volved ***** yet, those tactics have ***** to produce any serious progress with respect ***** ***** issue. ********** is clearly more to the s*****ry than a simple f*****ilure to negotiate and hence, a comprehensive look at the ***** is warranted to see what is causing the cons*****tent failures to achieve an agreement.

The dispute ***** the ***** Heights represents one of ***** most significant road blocks to peace in the MidEast. Israeli possession of the land is a rallying cry for Islamic fundamentalists ***** need little reason to hate the Jews in the *****. Exam*****ation ***** the interchanges between the *****s and the Syrians over the Golan ***** issue provides a wealth of insight in***** both the process of negotiation and how it can be swayed toward failure because of external forces.

The impasse that has been reached ***** Israel and Syria is indicative ***** failed negotiators who are working less toward reaching a solution ********** more toward promoting their own interests. Never has that distinction been clearer in a political dialogue than it ***** been with the *****is and *****. This paper will examine the issue of the Golan Heights and trace the path that ***** two countries followed to arrive at their current position of negotiation stalled as they are. In the ***** of this examination it is the goal to identify what circumstances ***** need to change in order for fruitful negotiations to take place. It ***** worthy of note at the outset of this examination ***** some of the changes that will ***** to take ***** will be self-evident ***** therefore will not ***** examined in ***** great detail. However, it will be helpful ***** at le*****t articulate ***** a minor way what changes may alter the course ***** the peace talks between *****se two adversaries.

Relevance and Signifi*****ce

***** analysis of this MidEast negotiation is helpful to promote underst*****ing ***** the conflict extant in that region of the world. Th***** understanding is *****icularly important in the ***** right now because much ***** U.S. foreign policy is based on concerns for the conditions ***** the region and the obstacles to peace ***** exist. Every member of ***** world population is potentially impacted by the events that take place (or fail to take *****) in the ***** and s*****ce peace in the ***** is necessarily influenced by the success of the ***** ***** over ***** ***** Heights it is therefore axiomatic