81.   With a right-wing government in power, he and others figure the strategic plateau is in Israeli hands to stay.

82.   While peace talks with Syria founder, residents of the Golan Heights have launched a campaign to convince Israelis that the strategic plateau cannot be given up.

83.   While Syria demands that Israel return the strategic plateau in exchange for peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country should maintain control of the area.

84.   With Israel now considering a return of the strategic plateau to Syria, the timing could hardly be more prescient.

85.   Yehuda Wolman, a leader of Golan residents, said Netanyahu was given a proposal for development on the strategic plateau that Syria wants in return for peace.

86.   He added, however, that peace would only come with the return of the strategic Golan plateau to Syria.

87.   However, at the same time Netanyahu has firmly ruled out handing back the strategic plateau.

88.   However, Netanyahu says he will not return the strategic plateau and insists the negotiations restart without preconditions.

89.   However government forces were successfully defending a barracks on the strategic Grabez plateau, east of the UN-mandated safe area around Bihac town.

90.   However, the daily ran an opinion poll on Tuesday showing the majority of Israelis were opposed to total withdrawal from the strategic plateau.