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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — If Israel
returns the Golan Heights as Syria de
mands, it would not be the same place that
survives so vividly in the minds of Syrians
who fled their homes in the 1967 war.
Israel’s footprints will linger in the
resorts it has built, the orchards it has
planted and the archaeological sites it
has excavated.
Syria’s government has not revealed its
plans for the plateau, but the people have
plenty of ideas: rebuild villages, establish
factories, get agriculture moving, develop
a tourist industiy.
The Golan is at the heart of the dispute
between the two nations, which resumed
talks in December after a 3 1/2-year freeze.
Israel seized the Golan in 1967 and any
peace deal is expected to return all or most
of it to Syria.
“Syria’s economy will benefit a great
deal from the return of the Golan because
the land is famous for its crops and water,
its geography and nature,” said Madhat
Saleh el-Saleh, a ruling Baath party
lawmaker who is the symbolic represen
tative for Syrian villagers remaining in Is
raeli-occupied land.
Syria’s economy, slowly opening to
the world, remains agriculturally
based. A shepherd from southern Syr
ia, Saleh Suleiman Mustafa, imagines
jobs for Syrians growing apples, figs
and grapes in the Golan’s fertile soil.
Nayim Jabri, a fine arts professor at
Damascus University, hopes to see wa
ter and farm projects that will benefit
the whole region.
El-Saleh envisions juice factories,
vineyards and a winery on the plateau.
Hotels and restaurants will be needed
for tourists who can ski Mount Hermon
then cross the plateau to swim in the warm
waters at el-Himma, he adds.
Israel has built just such projects, but
el-Saleh does not expect it to leave behind
anything of use. In 1982, Israel tore down
settlements in northern Sinai before re
turning the territory to Egypt.
The Syrian government also has
made clear it expects Israeli settlements
to be dismantled and their 17,000 resi
dents to leave.
Development projects will take
time, el-Saleh acknowledges. How
long will depend largely on how much
international aid and compensation
Syria receives following any peace deal
with Israel, he says.
The Golan, more than 700 square
miles of volcanic plain, is filled with ap
ple orchards, wildflowers and waterfalls.
It has dramatic — and militarily strategic
— views of northern Israel and Syria.
Syria has not indicated how much
money it intends to seek to resettle the
Golan. It claims 244 villages “disap
peared” after more than 100,000 peo
ple fled the area in 1967.
Sunday, it said more than 400,000
people — original residents and their de
scendants — consider the Golan home.
Ahmed Mustafa Diab, at 31 too
young to know the plateau firsthand,
still calls the Golan village of ai-Mah-
jar near the Sea of Galilee home. If a
peace deal makes it possible, he says he
will head straight for it.
Diab expects the Syrian government
and foreign donors will help his family re
build. If not, he says, neighbors will help
each other.
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throughout Asia on Sunday against a conference calling a
wartime massacre of Chinese civ ilians b\ Japanese troops
“The Biggest Lie of the 20th Century.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry had urged Japan earlier in the
week to stop the conference, and ministry spokesperson /liu
Bangzao read a statement Sunday on national telev ision news sav -
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Chinese people and interfered w ith the nor
mal development of China-Japan relations.”
But inside the conference, some 300
people packed an auditorium to hear former
soldiers and a historian deny the so-called
Rape of Nanking, where some historians
said the Japanese military killed hundreds of
thousands of Chinese civilians.
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Supporters of the speakers heckled protesters, but there
was no violence.
Some historians said Japanese imperial soldiers killed as
many as 300,000 people during Tokyo’s 1937-38 occupation
of the Chinese city ofNanking, now called Nanjing.
A postwar tribunal in Tokyo said more than 140,000 were
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