Syria and a town called Quneitra

There's a very good post over at Daniel Pipes' blog, here. He asks, and answers, an interesting question -

How come, 35 years and one day after the negotiated return of Quneitra by Israel to Syria June 26, 1974, the town remains unrebuilt? To make a propaganda point, its population has been prevented all these years from returning to the town and resuming their lives.

The full post is well worth checking out.