Fresh efforts to restart the stalled Middle East peace process get underway in the U.S. next week. The international talks will be the first serious negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in more than seven years.
A week before the U.S-hosted conference in Maryland, Israeli Defence minister Ehud Barak visited Washington to push for Israel-Syria relations to be the focus of the meeting.The Golan Heights on Israel's border with Syria is a ‘no man’s land’. It remains one of the unresolved issues in the conflict. Israelis who live there face eviction from their homes any day.