Analysis: Trump’s Golan Heights tweet disregards decades of U.S. commitment to UN resolutions.
A Likud party election billboard reads"Netanyahu is in a different league" and shows the Israeli prime minister with President Trump. By Jeremy Pressman March 22 at 2:00 PM On Thursday, President Trump tweeted that “it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights.” That U.S. move is fully in line with the Trump administration’s close embrace of Israel’s right-wing government but breaks with decades of U.S.
Israel and Syria again battled in the Golan in a 1973 war. After an initial Syrian advance, Israel counterattacked and captured slightly more territory. Postwar negotiations in 1974 led to an Israeli-Syrian agreement, a slight Israeli pullback, and the insertion of a U.N. peacekeeping force, the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force which remains in place to this day . The United States has long supported the UNDOF’s mission. One question about the Trump announcement is whether it could alter the U.
Unlike the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the population in the Israeli-occupied Golan is modest, with only about 50,000 people split between Druze and Israeli Jewish settlers. The low Arab population is a result of the 1967 war, when, Israeli historian Benny Morris writes, 80,000 to 90,000 Syrian civilians “fled or were driven from the Golan Heights.
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