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