The US President's decision to tweet his support for Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights marks a dramatic shift in US position.
US President Donald Trump said it was time to back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in US policy and giving a boost to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of his re-election campaign.
Mr Netanyahu has been pressing for the United States to recognise its claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and raised that possibility in his first White House meeting with Mr Trump in February, 2017.locked in a closely contested race while battling corruption allegationsMr Netanyahu thanked Mr Trump for the Golan Heights gesture, telling the US President in a phone call he had"made history".
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