Such concerns are only intensified by Prime Minister Peres's expressed determination to press for the most risky peace agreement of all -- one achieved with Syria involving Israel's surrender of the strategic Golan Heights.

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According to media citations of Pentagon and State Department officials, the administration is looking to cut a deal where in exchange for Syrian agreement to curtail its support for jihadists in Iraq, the US will put pressure on Israel to surrender the Golan Heights to Syria.

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