The link is useless. No such story. And the link on the main page there to a story that the original story (wherever it went) has been denied is also not a working link.
U.S. officials: Cheney was kept in the loop on Israel-Syria talks
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/814534.html
Says that a former Israeli official met a Syrian representative, and that two former senior Central Intelligence Agency officials were also there, and that the meetings were arranged by Geoffrey Aronson, of the Washington-based Foundation for Middle East Peace. The story also reiterates the Syrian position that the non-negotiable starting line for talks will be Israel's unilateral move to withdraw from the Golan.
There is nothing new about any of this, and the "negotiations" were by a cell of traitors with no authority. It was a propaganda exercise, as is the republication of the events.
Ah! Here are some live links.
Both sides deny Haaretz report of back-channel talks with Syria
By Amiram Barkat and Yoav Stern
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/814328.html
Israeli, Syrian representatives reach secret understandings
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813817.html
(and, from 2004)
EXCLUSIVE: Full text of document drafted during secret talks
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813769.html
However a government spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the contacts, confirmed that officials were aware of the talks, though they were not sanctioned by the government.
Sounds like Haaretz taking a leaf out of the AP book of 'journalism'.