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"Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Syria refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel" — This is just one of many bits of Israeli propaganda posing as facts in this article at the moment. Actually Israel did not offer a peace treaty to Syria, for the simple reason that a peace treaty would have required concessions and Israel didn't want to make any. On the contrary, in mid-1949 Syria offered a separate peace treaty to Israel that included absorbing 250,000–500,000 Palestinian refugees, but at the cost of running the border down the middle of the Jordan River and Lake Kinneret instead of along the eastern banks. Ben-Gurion refused to meet the Syria leader to discuss it. This is all in Morris, "Righteous VIctims", p264, and lots of other good sources. Further bloopers include presenting the public explanation for this operation as the real reason, ignoring all the scholars who dug into the archives looking for the real reason. A good fraction has to be completely rewritten. Zerotalk 21:46, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
An example of a real investigation of the Israeli-Syria negotiations is this recent paper. Zerotalk 22:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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