Monday, June 28, 2021

U.S. position on Israel and the Golan Heights

US denies rumors of reversing Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty on Golan Heights

Israel gained control of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War and extended sovereignty over the region in 1981. In 2019, the United States became the first country to recognize that.

Per Wikipedia: "The United States recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel through a presidential proclamation signed by U.S. president Donald Trump on March 25, 2019. The directive made the United States the first country to recognize Israeli rather than Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights region.The Golan Heights are widely viewed as Syrian territory under Israeli military occupation."

Read about it... and the 73 Democrats in the US House of Representatives, including a number in leadership positions, urging President Joe Biden to make a number of moves to reverse what they call the Trump administration’s “abandonment of longstanding, bipartisan United States policy” on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Among other things, the letter sent Wednesday calls for Biden to firmly consider Israeli settlements illegal and the West Bank occupied, two things the Trump administration stated that it would no longer do.

Let's see what Joe finally does.

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