WASHINGTON: With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, US President Donald Trump declared on Monday (Mar 25) that the Golan Heights ...
WASHINGTON: With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that the Golan Heights belongs to Israel - handing another major diplomatic victory to the premier ahead of tight elections.
"Your recognition is a two-fold act of historic justice. Israel won the Golan Heights in a just war of self-defence, and the Jewish people's roots in the Golan go back thousands of years," he said. Netanyahu was visiting Washington for the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the pro-Israel US lobby, but cut his visit short after a rocket fired Monday from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip hit a house north of Tel Aviv, wounding seven Israelis in an unusually long-range attack.linked to Hamas - which denied carrying out the attack - with the prime minister vowing to respond"forcefully to this wanton aggression.
Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 but had won no international support. The territory had long been seen as a comparatively easy problem to resolve, as both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Golan's 20,000 settlers are largely secular in a region dominated by religious feuds. Amid Trump and Netanyahu's mutual affection and the Israeli leader's rightward turn, top Democrats seeking the White House have steered clear of AIPAC - an absence that Pence eagerly highlighted.
"That is why I say from this stage to the Iranian regime - never again. We will not allow you to establish yourself in Syria, we will not allow you to develop nuclear weapons," he said.
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