Tag: Golan Heights
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Trump’s clear view of the Golan Heights
The Middle East is vast, and within it Israel is no more than a speck, a shard, a sliver clinging to the easternmost shore of the Mediterranean Sea. At present, it is the only...
Of compromise and betrayal: From the Golan to Brexit
Two current sources of uproar tie Britain, the United States and Israel into a matrix of hypocrisy, double standards and spinelessness.
The first was the welcome announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States...
IDF commander who saved the Golan Heights from the Syrians has a message for...
If ever there was a counterpart to the biblical story of young David facing Goliath, the Yom Kippur War was just that. Avigdor Kahalani, now 74 and a modern-day David, was commander of a...
Capsule history of the Golan Heights
Long before the mid-7th century CE Muslim/Arab Conquest of the eastern Mediterranean coast, known as the Levant, the Jews inhabited the area known today as the Golan Heights. Modern-day Ramat ha Golan (Golan Heights...
Greenblatt: Golan vital to Israel’s security, recognition not linked to elections
U.S. special envoy for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt said on Thursday it is “cynical” to label this week’s U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights as a move to boost Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
US to update maps to display Golan as belonging to Israel
The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it will update its maps to reflect the Trump administration’s move this week to officially recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
A department spokesperson told Voice of America...
What to make of a historic pro-Israel presidency
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said something last week timed to the Jewish holiday Purim that made a lot of people snicker. When asked by an interviewer by the Christian Broadcasting Network if U.S....
US recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Golan ‘sends direct message to Arab world’
The formal recognition of Israel’s sovereignty in the Golan Heights by the United States could not have come on a more sobering day for Israelis. As rockets were being launched deep into the central...
Nations decry US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights
Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iraq criticized the United States for recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, following a ceremony attended by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Deputy foreign minister: Syria has right to employ armed struggle to free Golan
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said in a March 22, 2019 interview on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) that the Trump administration is acting against the basic interests of the American people and imposing coercive...