1. Atop the hill, a military early warning station monitored Syrian troop movements while just below it young children on sleds whipped past an Israeli troop transport parked nearby. 2. Nearby is the hill Baal Hatzor, the highest point in the West Bank, and the site of an Israeli air force early warning station. 3. No suggestion, you may notice, of a Syrian early warning station to guard against Israeli attack. 4. Sadat insisted that Israel have no early warning stations on Egyptian sovereign territory. 5. The Mount Hermon early warning stations give it unimpeded surveillance of Syrian skies and military bases. 6. There would be Israeli early warning stations on Palestinian territory. 7. They hope to convince Barak, a former general, that warning stations on the ground would provide inferior intelligence to aerial systems. 8. This changes the dynamic of the negotiation over land, with Israel putting a high value on the security controls that could be provided by early warning stations. 9. Under his proposals, five American early warning stations will be needed including two in Britain, Menwith Hill and Fylingdales near Whitby in North Yorkshire. 10. Peres reacted cautiously to reports from Damascus that Syria would permit the establishment of early warning stations on its territory after Israel withdraws on the Golan Heights. |