Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Monday that the Israeli government wants to quadruple the population of the Golan Heights to ensure the territory captured from Syria in 1967 will stay Israeli.
“The Golan Heights is Israeli, period,” Bennett said. His plan is to bring the population of Golan Heights to around 100,000, up from its current population of 27,000. He said Israel’s “aim is to double, and then double again the number of residents on the Golan Heights.”
Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, a move that was not recognized internationally. In 2019, the Trump administration broke with the rest of the world and recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
At the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, there was some question over whether or not the new administration would continue recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli. In February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israeli control of the territory is important for “Israel’s security” and left open the possibility of re-examining the recognition in the future.
In June, amid rumors that the Biden administration was going to reverse the recognition, the State Department said the policy has not changed. “US policy regarding the Golan has not changed, and reports to the contrary are false,” the State Department said.
Ultimately, the Biden administration has been extremely pro-Israel, and the idea that the recognition would change is unlikely.
When they first took the Golan, Israel often lied about its intention to keep it.
When they first annexed the Golan, the US often lied about whether the Israelis really meant what they said.
The US wants to be lied to about the Golan. So it won’t believe this either.
isreal-we can steal what we want whenever we want and if you complain we attack…
The rogue nuculear apartheid state rolls on toward it’s ultimate demise by stealing more & more land and rubbing its Zionist supremacist indifference to “the norms of statecraft” that the U.S. is always braying about. It will be telling to see if the more and more feckless and extorted UN has any comment on this.
Dump the party line.”Rogue nuclear state”-bah. Israel refused to sign a dangerous and discriminatory NPT-therefore it did not violate any agreements. Why is it Ok for France, a largely Christian country, to have nukes, and not a largely Jewish country? Pakistan, a largely Islamic country,appears to have aided the North Korean nuclear program-but that is also O.K.
Isra-hell continues to steal ever more territory in in its bid to make the Palestinian people disappear.
It needs to be bitch-slapped up one side and down the other…question is, who’s got the balls to do it?
No one.
Go there and try.
Oooh tough guy…the IDF are a bunch of bullies who murder woman, and children in cold blood, because they can. People like you get off on this, because you were raised to support terrorists, and land thieves…go figure!! lol!
Speak of land thieves-fine- 750,000 Jews were evicted from their homes in the Arab world-don’t they count?
However, Blinken added that “if the situation were to change in Syria, that’s something we’d look at. But we are nowhere near as that.”
And by “change” Tony means that if Syria would allow a US/Israel puppet government to lead that country and that government promises to be in lockstep with whatever orders come from US/Israel then, and only then, the US/Israel would consider looking at “reversing the recognition”. Of course that’s a lie and is only being said because the US/Israel knows damn well that isn’t happening but it sounds good to a certain segment of the population so why not toss it out there.
The war in Syria is sad and fraught with human suffering;to hope for the return of the cruel,murder torture dictatorship isn’t too much better.
If you’re talking about Assad, he never lost power so no one is hoping for a “return” to anything.
The Zionists started the 1967 war with a sneak attack on Egypt. The Zionists attempted to sink the U.S.S. Liberty to prevent the U.S. from listening in, to know what the Zionists were doing, their intent.
The irony is Moshe Dayan, the man who said the Palestinians will live like dogs, in an interview said that if Israel was still an occupier ten years (from 1987), it would mean the end of the ideal of Israel. Well, here it is, 2021, and Israel is still an occupier, a brutal occupier.
Get your facts straight. Nasser said his mission was to destroy Israel,thew UN peacekeepers out, brought his army up to the lines, and imposed a blockade in violation of previous agreements. Cruising for a bruising.
his facts are straight Jake…your historical context is just Zionist propaganda on steroids.
Few Americans realize that we in US intelligence had long since concluded that Israel had been grossly exaggerating the Arab “threat” in early 1967. Fifteen years later, in 1982, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin publicly confessed:
“In June 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that [Egyptian President] Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/06/05/who-started-the-six-day-war-of-june-1967/
When a country has no internal source of oil, and you cut off their oil supplies(Gulf of Tiran), then their economy draws to a halt-act of war.
The 67 war was a Zionist fabrication to grab land, and further beat down the rightful owners of Palestine. Israel is a people without a justification because they embrace terrorism and murder as their mandate. You are dazed and confused Jake..
The quote was from Begin. Not a word from him about oil supplies being cut off.
“We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”
That land is Syrian.
Used to be.
It will always be Syrian despite the illegal squatters trying to export their terror there.
Feh! borders and countries change all the time.
Israel has and always will be a squatter state where The government and military cannot coexist with anyone. Long live Palestine!
Israel is the new Palestine.
Admitting that Israel stole the land. Good for you. Now read up on the Geneva conventions which says you can’t keep land taken during war.
When has the Geneva conventions protected Israel? No one stopped Egypt fro using gas in Yemen during the 1960’s,no one stopped yellow rains in south East Asia, no Egyptian or Syrian was punished for the torture of Israeli prisoners of war, no one has stopped Syrian gassing of its rebels.
They’ve been protected since 1951 when they ratified them. They didn’t sign the 4th Geneva Convention because they’re rogue. The Geneva Conventions doesn’t prevent any of those things that you listed from happening. The same way they can’t prevent the IDF from brutalizing children. And maybe read Seymour Hersh if you want the truth about “Syria gassing it’s rebels”.
Israel is a state based upon lies and fabrications dating from the King David hotel bombing, to the Lavon Affair, to the 67 Israeli false flag war to the illegal, USS Liberty Attack, the 1982 attack on Lebanon, Mossad agents filming 9/11 while it was happening..arrested and admitting they were filming an event in secret…This state has no real justification for being, especially since its serial criminality against the Palestinians mimics the KKK of the Deep South of the US in the 50’s and 60’s Israel is on a trajectory towards a hell that it has made for itself. No empathy, or tears required.
Israel was recognized by the UN.What false flag in 1967? Everyone knew who was fighting who. It exists, sometimes right,sometimes wrong. It isnot going away-get used to it. What justification does any country on earth have for being?
Israel started the 67 war under false pretexts. Nassar was never going to attack and there is no proof he had any plans to. 67 was a blatant criminal landgrab by gutless thieves unable to stop their own vile greed. Israel is most hated because it has always acted with impunity and serial criminality .