

+>The Golan Heights is a serious security problem, and Israel obviously
+>will have to keep part of it and give up part of it.  (One should
+>remember that the Golan Heights had been part of the area that was to
+>be in Britain's Palestine Mandate, slated to become part of the Jewish
+>state, until Britain traded it to France for other considerations.  In
+>other words, it is an historical accident that it was ever part of
+>Syria.)

	The Palestine mandate had no borders before
the borders were negotiated and drawn.  The most the Golan may have been
is on the list of what territories Britian would have liked to
see in the palestine mandate.
	Until the mandates came into existance, there were no defined
boundaries between any of the various territories in the region.