WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was time to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in US coverage and giving a boost to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of his re-election campaign.
The disputed space was captured by means of Israel within the 1967 Middle East battle and annexed in 1981 in a transfer now not identified across the world. Netanyahu has pressed the United States to recognize its declare and raised that chance in his first White House assembly with Trump in February 2017.
"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump's transfer appeared to be his most overt but to help Netanyahu, who is locked in a carefully contested race within the April 9 election while additionally fighting allegations of corruption, which he denies.
Netanyahu arrives in Washington next week to meet with Trump and deal with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, lobbying workforce.
Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" that he didn't intend his transfer as an specific election boost for Netanyahu.
"I hear he’s doing okay. I don’t know if he’s doing great right now, but I hear he’s doing okay. But I would imagine the other side, whoever’s against him, is also in favor of what I just did," Trump said.
Trump, whose choice closing yr to move the USA embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv angered Palestinians, faced some grievance for his latest transfer.
"Neither America nor Israel, neither Trump nor Netanyahu, will change the historical fact that the Golan lands are Syrian lands and they will remain Syrian lands," Ayman Abu Jabal, a member of the Druze neighborhood within the Israeli-occupied Golan, said by means of phone.
Netanyahu thanked Trump for the Golan Heights gesture.
"You've made history," Netanyahu informed Trump in a phone name after the announcement, consistent with the top minister's place of work.
Netanyahu have been anticipated to boost the problem once more with Trump throughout his seek advice from to Washington, an Israeli official said.
"At a time when Iran seeks to use Syria as a platform to destroy Israel, President Trump boldly recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Thank you President Trump! @realDonaldTrump," Netanyahu wrote in a tweet.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Trump's announcement was "completely beyond international law." "The Arab League stands fully behind the Syrian right to its occupied land," he said in a commentary published by means of Egypt's state information agency MENA.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that Turkey "supports Syria's territorial integrity." He said Washington's "attempts to legitimize Israel’s illegal acts will only lead to more violence in the region."
At the United Nations, a spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declined to remark.
'cynical transfer'
The United States had foreshadowed the decision closing week when the State Department issued its annual human rights record The record revised its same old description of the Golan Heights from "Israeli-occupied” to "Israeli-controlled.”
A senior management official said the president have been discussing his Golan transfer over the previous few days with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House national safety adviser John Bolton, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt and US ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Officials waved away any considerations about Israel's elections, the official said.
"Every single person was supportive of the idea," said the official, who spoke on situation of anonymity.
There was no clarity from the White House on when formal bureaucracy could be issued confirming Trump's tweeted choice.
Richard Haass, a former senior State Department official who is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on Twitter that he strongly disagreed with Trump's Golan choice.
Haass said the transfer violates U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, "which rules out acquiring territory by war and serves Israel as it says all states have right 2 live in peace."
The solution, passed after the 1967 battle, referred to as for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories and assured the right of countries within the region to live peacefully within safe and identified borders.
J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying workforce, criticized Trump's action, pronouncing that untimely US reputation of Israeli sovereignty of Golan is a needlessly provocative transfer that violates global regulation.
"It’s clear that this cynical move by Trump is not about the long-term interests of the US or Israel, but rather about handing yet another political gift to Prime Minister Netanyahu in the hopes of boosting his chances for re-election next month," said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.
Trump’s announcement may complicate his management’s plans to roll out its long-delayed Middle East peace plan after Israel’s election.
The plan, which has drawn fashionable skepticism even sooner than its unveiling, is meant now not simplest to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table but in addition draw Israel closer to its US-allied Arab neighbors. Those states, then again, have lengthy rejected Israel’s annexation of the Golan.
The disputed space was captured by means of Israel within the 1967 Middle East battle and annexed in 1981 in a transfer now not identified across the world. Netanyahu has pressed the United States to recognize its declare and raised that chance in his first White House assembly with Trump in February 2017.
"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
After 52 years it's time for the United States to completely recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, whi… https://t.co/WNVb2P8PE8
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) 1553187046000Trump's transfer appeared to be his most overt but to help Netanyahu, who is locked in a carefully contested race within the April 9 election while additionally fighting allegations of corruption, which he denies.
Netanyahu arrives in Washington next week to meet with Trump and deal with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, lobbying workforce.
Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" that he didn't intend his transfer as an specific election boost for Netanyahu.
"I hear he’s doing okay. I don’t know if he’s doing great right now, but I hear he’s doing okay. But I would imagine the other side, whoever’s against him, is also in favor of what I just did," Trump said.
Trump, whose choice closing yr to move the USA embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv angered Palestinians, faced some grievance for his latest transfer.
"Neither America nor Israel, neither Trump nor Netanyahu, will change the historical fact that the Golan lands are Syrian lands and they will remain Syrian lands," Ayman Abu Jabal, a member of the Druze neighborhood within the Israeli-occupied Golan, said by means of phone.
Netanyahu thanked Trump for the Golan Heights gesture.
"You've made history," Netanyahu informed Trump in a phone name after the announcement, consistent with the top minister's place of work.
Netanyahu have been anticipated to boost the problem once more with Trump throughout his seek advice from to Washington, an Israeli official said.
"At a time when Iran seeks to use Syria as a platform to destroy Israel, President Trump boldly recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Thank you President Trump! @realDonaldTrump," Netanyahu wrote in a tweet.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Trump's announcement was "completely beyond international law." "The Arab League stands fully behind the Syrian right to its occupied land," he said in a commentary published by means of Egypt's state information agency MENA.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that Turkey "supports Syria's territorial integrity." He said Washington's "attempts to legitimize Israel’s illegal acts will only lead to more violence in the region."
At the United Nations, a spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declined to remark.
'cynical transfer'
The United States had foreshadowed the decision closing week when the State Department issued its annual human rights record The record revised its same old description of the Golan Heights from "Israeli-occupied” to "Israeli-controlled.”
A senior management official said the president have been discussing his Golan transfer over the previous few days with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House national safety adviser John Bolton, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt and US ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Officials waved away any considerations about Israel's elections, the official said.
"Every single person was supportive of the idea," said the official, who spoke on situation of anonymity.
There was no clarity from the White House on when formal bureaucracy could be issued confirming Trump's tweeted choice.
Richard Haass, a former senior State Department official who is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on Twitter that he strongly disagreed with Trump's Golan choice.
Haass said the transfer violates U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, "which rules out acquiring territory by war and serves Israel as it says all states have right 2 live in peace."
The solution, passed after the 1967 battle, referred to as for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories and assured the right of countries within the region to live peacefully within safe and identified borders.
J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying workforce, criticized Trump's action, pronouncing that untimely US reputation of Israeli sovereignty of Golan is a needlessly provocative transfer that violates global regulation.
"It’s clear that this cynical move by Trump is not about the long-term interests of the US or Israel, but rather about handing yet another political gift to Prime Minister Netanyahu in the hopes of boosting his chances for re-election next month," said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.
Trump’s announcement may complicate his management’s plans to roll out its long-delayed Middle East peace plan after Israel’s election.
The plan, which has drawn fashionable skepticism even sooner than its unveiling, is meant now not simplest to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table but in addition draw Israel closer to its US-allied Arab neighbors. Those states, then again, have lengthy rejected Israel’s annexation of the Golan.
Trump: Time for US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
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