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It said there was optimism among Israeli diplomats, who hadn't expected President Hafez Assad to make such a pro-Israel gesture before the Golan Heights were returned to Syria, but skepticism among others who saw it as a psychological tactic to soften up Israeli public opinion into accepting territorial concessions.
The Jerusalem Post 's editorial criticized the desire of "considerable numbers of Israelis" to negate the influence of Israeli Arab votes in an eventual referendum on the return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
Syria aims to win Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which it lost in 1967.
Around a.d. 141, the three Maccabee brothers overthrew the Seleucids and established their own Hasmonean dynasty and an extensive empire which dominated Palestine as far as the Golan in the north and Gaza in the south.
But, as the art historian Remy Golan notes in a catalog essay for the current show, "after having provided hospitality to Soutine and thousands of Jewish immigrants like him for three decades, the French essentially abandoned them to their own fate during the years of German occupation."