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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The trouble is there is a significant and very violent portion of the Palestinian population and Iran that backs them that believes that all of Israel is 'land that doesn't belong to them' so it doesn't really matter what Israel does they will still be attacked
This then leaves Israel viewing land strategically; to give up the Golan Heights and the West Bank is to give up the high ground overlooking the whole of Israel and a days march to the coast, from a military point of view that is suicide
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There's zero chance Israel, or anyone else, would ever give up the Golan Heights. The vast majority of Israel's population lives in low lying coastal areas. Areas that would be directly observable by Syria from the Golan Heights.
It's also very sparsely populations and not all that habitable, with a total population of about 45,000.