Israeli extreme-right MP warns fellow MPs against returning Golan Heights back to Syrians

TEL AVIV - Israeli extreme-right MP Arieh Eldad on Monday demanded the death penalty for anyone who hands over the occupied Golan Heights to Syria, public radio reported.

"Anyone who gives up part of Eretz Israel (Greater Israel) faces the death penalty," said Eldad, an MP of the National Union-National Religious Party, an opposition coalition.

Syria and Israel announced last week that they had resumed indirect peace negotiations through Turkish mediators, ending an eight-year freeze.

The Syrians want the return of all of the Golan Heights which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981, a move never recognised by the international …