The issue of U.S. forces on the Golan Heights involves large stakes for the United States.
Syria has insisted Annapolis address its demands for the return of the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
It was willing to give up the critical Golan Heights, asking little in return.
Finally, Syria has also decided to remove military checkpoints on the road to the Golan Heights.
Syria insists on a return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.
What would United States negotiators demand if the Golan Heights were an American asset?
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Israel has not announced the extent to which it is willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights.
In one case, 60 families from one settlement arrived at a hotel in the Golan Heights on Friday.
But this job can be done without giving U.S. troops a dangerous and costly long-term assignment on the Golan Heights.
Plenty of obstacles to a deal on the Golan Heights remain, but there is optimism on this front as well.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said a mortar shell exploded on its side of the frontier in the Golan Heights.
Rebels had detained the peacekeepers, identified by the Philippine government as Filipino, in a Syrian village near the Golan Heights.
Moreover, there has been no detailed public debate in Israel regarding the stationing of U.S. troops on the Golan Heights.
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Israel's military said Sunday its soldiers were on routine patrol in the Golan Heights when they were fired upon and responded.
However, the negotiations surrounding the Golan Heights have the potential to undermine regional security efforts that are important to the United States.
Syria itself won't because of the longstanding grievance over the Golan Heights.
Two years ago, when he was prime minister, Mr Barak offered the bulk of the Golan Heights in return for peace with Syria.
Mr Clinton was thrilled to hear in 1993 that the former general was willing to cede the Golan Heights for peace with Syria.
Last week he was reported to have pledged allegiance to a new ginger group formed to fight against withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
In 1967, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff determined that Israel needed the West Bank and Golan Heights to assure its security from conventional threats.
The United Nations called on Syrian and rebel troops at that time to honor the impartiality of the U.N. troops stationed in the Golan Heights.
Ramon Zagala, a spokesman for the Philippine Armed Forces, said the Filipino peacekeepers were with the commander of that country's troops in the Golan Heights.
Since the conflict in Syria erupted more than two years ago, fighting has repeatedly spilled into Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Syria's opposition network, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, said rebels were clashing with the Syrian army near the Golan Heights border at the time.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military staged exercises in the Golan Heights.
Disengagement Observer Force, or Undof, has been patrolling the Golan Heights since 1974, after the end of hostilities between Israel and Syria in the 1973 war.
He will not hesitate to lead a nationwide movement against withdrawal from the Golan Heights if he feels that that is the political thing to do.
It's currently the fourth-largest winery in Israel, with four different labels and vineyards in key regions like the Golan Heights, the Judean Hills and Upper and Lower Galilee.
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It also emerged on Monday that a member of the UN peacekeeping force monitoring the ceasefire between Israeli and Syrian troops in the demilitarised Golan Heights was missing.
Mr Annan says the UN will not require Israel to abandon the contentious Shebaa farms area in the Golan Heights in order to verify the withdrawal as complete.
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