Nobody, in the world, recognizes the Golan Heights as part of Israel,
despite the 1981 Israeli annexation. The US has continually accepted it
as an Israeli-occupied piece of Syria. But the Trump Administration
clearly sees major interests in keeping a far-right coalition government
in power in Israel.
So with Israel’s very tight election just weeks away, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made a visit to Jerusalem, giving the incumbent PM Benjamin Netanyahu all the photo-ops and talk of mutual hostility toward Iran he could ask for.
While this is already unseemly US meddling into the election, it’s also given Netanyahu a chance to lay out the idea that the US should just flat out endorse the conquest of Golan,
in the name of making sure Iran can’t put troops there. Israel’s oil
development plans in Golan, naturally, were not mentioned.
Though US recognition of the Golan annexation would undo decades of US
policy, doing it now, particularly after Netanyahu asked them to, would
be a major win for the prime minister, and could easily sway the
election his way. At the very least the administration may choose to use
Pompeo’s visit as an opportunity to at least give lip-service to such a
policy change, and further cement Trump’s pro-Netanyahu stance.
Huh… well Golan is a bloated can of worms well past its ‘best before’ date.
I’m betting Kushner has Ivanka have Trump open it.
Seems like the Israelis ain’t never seen any land they don’t covet…. Lotta payback gonna be seen when the bill comes due… Lotta land too…..
Duuh-Syria used the heights to shoot down on Israeli farmers for 20 years-they forfeited it. If you stab people with a knife, do you get to keepthe knife?
Are you on acid ?
No, are you on leftist LSD?
I don’t buy into the”left-right” bullshit….got nothing against LSD though…maybe you should try it..
It is apparent that you are ignorant of the history and strategic situation of the area. Your ad hominem attacks show your failure to refute facts with facts.
Funny little Zionist… I like the way you use big words to try to validate your lies…
i’m sorry that the BIG words frightened you
Don’t frighten me at all .. just funny the way you use big words to try to validate your treasonous, idiotic “opinions” and appear intelligent. Guess what, “Harry” … isn’t working.
If you don’t like my statement, refute it.You cannot. therefore yo engage in personal attacks
How do you refute an outright lie ? I really don’t need to prove anything to you…
Not true. Moishe Dayan admitted years before his death that Israel was responsible for almost all the shooting and shelling incidents on the Golan, usually by violating the neutral zone in order to provoke counter measures by the Syrians.
does a mugger get to keep the money and credit cards of their victims? just because you steal something, doesn’t mean it’s yours.. THIEF!
If you use your strategic position to harm your neighbor., then you forfeit that position. Survival trumps your ideology of the day.
you believe the story of harm from zionsts, the proven pathological lying psychopaths.. i have some slightly used land in fukushima I can sell you!
What do you really mean by”zionist” ?
the people intent on stealing the entire country of PALESTINE! those zionists!
Someday a massive army will march through the Golan into Israel and end this once and for all.
Why don’t you start marching right now, and see what you get
They take and they take. It’s their way–and ours, too.
Well Netanyahu must be living on another planet as a senior military official in the Syrian government has recently announced that once Syrian society has returned to a semblance of normality after the final defeat of ISIS terrorists in the country, the Syrian Army has every intention of reclaiming the Golan whether through negotiation or by force.
Isreal’s future now is quite finite no matter what fantasies Israeli leadership conjure up and American support will be waning over the coming years as many even in the US Jewish Community turn away from this increasingly “in your face”, violent and racist nation…
Israel to US, please endorse our ongoing criminal theft of PALESTINE “and in this case, Syria” that never belonged to us, and don’t forget to object at the UN when our crimes against humanity are mentioned! Remember, we’re the victims “cough holohoax cough”