In a 151-2 vote, the UN General Assembly has voted to call for the end of the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights, and calls for the territory to be returned to Syria. Israel, as usual, voted against the resolution, but the US also voted no for the first time ever.
The resolution is passed regularly in the UN, though Israel has claimed to have annexed the Golan Heights and most officials rule out returning it to Syria. The US vote is interesting, as historically, the US has always abstained from such votes, and the US has never recognized Israel’s annexation of Golan.
Ambassador Nikki Haley said the vote was because they considered the resolution to have an anti-Israel bias. The resolution, however, appears identical to what it always says. The change seems wholly within the administration.
The US vote does not necessarily amount to the US endorsing the annexation of Golan, though it will almost certainly be seen as doing so. Haley suggested this would be the new normal, and that the US would not abstain from “useless annual votes” on Israeli matters.
As usual the USA sells it vote to the highest bidder.
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What to do in the Golan
The Golan is a paradise for nature lovers, with abundant outdoor activities, hiking trails, and nature reserves. It is also rich in history and culture, with a large Druze population. Read more in our guide about what to do in the Golan.
Any other population living in Golan besides large Druzi population?
From Wikipedia:
“The Israeli-occupied territory is administered by the Golan Regional Council, based in Katzrin, which has a population of 6,400. There are another 19 moshavim and 10 kibbutzim. In 1989, the settler population was 10,000. By 2010 the Jewish settler population had expanded to 20,000 living in 32 settlements.”
And of course, 2010 was 8 years ago.
Near as I can see, there are 50,000 people in Golan, 20,000 of them Druze in four villages.
and the druse want to stay in Israel .
Never would it occur to the USA that it could possibly be wrong when it votes with Israel against the rest of the world.
No I don’t think USA is wrong . the whole world that votes against Israel is wrong
Gee, if Haley had been our UN Ambassador earlier, America could have had dive shops in Okinawa, and first class chocolate shops in Berlin.
It’s not useless to remind everyone that the US and Israel are isolated together, and that the world stands united against such aggressive actions.
And I pray the United States stays united with Israel . You all can be united with the head choppers if you wish .
It sounds like when you say head choppers you mean arabs, and that the entire UN General Assembly has been tricked by those arabs. Do you realize that the US / Israel / Saudis armed Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria? That’s some of the head choppers, but certainly the arms didn’t buy perfect or endless loyalty from the extremists. Nor is Israel loyal to the terrorists it uses.
You seem to be well informed and I’am aware that United States supported the non existent moderate Arabs rebels who were in fact affiliated more with ISIS . Our fake news and even both the Obama and the Trump administration didn’t always tell us the truth on why we were even there . It really would be better to stay at home than to be fighting and supporting the wrong side all the time . A very good reason to study the ANTI war doctrine .
We’ve watched Israel systematically take over or destroy Palestinian homes and lands little by little and as soon as Palestinians complain about it they get squashed without mercy, right in front of God and everybody. Our US government has supported this diabolical behavior for decades. The US and Israel want the Gaza Strip it’s plain to see and they will stop at nothing to get rid of the remaining Palestinians.
That’s the plan.
Israel has not done a very good job at getting rid of the Palestinians . here is a lot more of them now than there was in 1948
With the ink barely dry on its Charter, the UN violated its most fundamental principle, the right of the people who live in a place — Palestine — to self-determination, to control their political/territorial affairs. Instead, the UN took responsibility for the Zionist vs Palestine business thus — illegitimately — denying the Palestinians their right to self-determination, and pursued instead the partition of Palestine.
The Palestinians had been slaughtered and disarmed in the course of the 1936-39 Palestinian revolt. Slaughtered and disarmed by the 15,000 Jewish colonial “police” armed and trained by the British to “maintain order” — ie suppress the Palestinians — in Mandate Palestine. Thus the 1948 “War of Independence” was actually a ***war crime*** of slaughter and ethnic cleansing. And then, following that 1948 war crime of aggression by the Zionists against the helpless Palestinians, the UN again, violated its charter by illegitimately recognizing the State of Israel.
The UN is an international empty suit. A nothingburger. Neither the US nor Israel care in the least about the UN’s charter or the rules with which they as signatories are required to comply. They use the UN when it suits them, and ignore it when it doesn’t.
If three hundred people from Ohio wish to become part of Indiana or even Russia they can vote to move part of Indiana to where ever they wish to go .
Israel can give the Golan back to Syria after the United States gives Texas and California back to Mexico . It don’t matter one bit where the people living there wish to go