ISRAEL OUT OF GOLAN?

A day after reaching abreakthrough agreementto resume peace negotiations with Syria, Israeli officials admitted they might jettison 28 years of tough talk and withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. "We must not allow the chance ofcomprehensive peace in the Middle Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin still faces widespread opposition among Israelis afraid of surrendering the Golan, where Syrian gunners used to attack northern Israeli settlements before Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war. "It's clear thatin these meetingshe has already given up the Golan Heights, without which there can be no security," said Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud bloc.