Golan Heights
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The Golan Heights is a strip of land in southwestern Syria that was occupied by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967.[2] The United Nations has voted to ask Israel to pull its troops out of the Golan Heights.[1] Syria and Israel still have not signed a peace treaty from that war, mostly because of the issue of the Golan. They almost reached a peace deal but they could not agree on where to draw the line, and what Syria would have to do in return.[3] On the western edge of the Golan Heights is a range of extinct volcanos.
In January 2013, the Israeli government said it planned to build a wall along the eastern edges of the Golan Heights, on what it claims is its border with Syria.[4]
References [change]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Profile: Golan Heights". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14724842. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Golan Heights". Encyclopaedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237237/Golan-Heights. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ "The Syrian Golan". Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations. http://www.un.int/syria/golan.htm. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ Israel becomes a fortress nation as it walls itself off from the Arab Spring, NBC News, March 20, 2013.
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