This is the strategic high ground on Israel’s border with Syria that Israel must not give up.
Via Free Beacon:
President Donald Trump is calling for the recognition of Israeli control over the contested Golan Heights region on Israel’s northern border, territory that was originally controlled by Syria but annexed by Israel several decades ago following war.
Trump, who became the first U.S. president to make good on a promise to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to its capital city of Jerusalem, is now pushing for recognition of Israel’s control over the Golan Heights, a policy that Israel has also been pushing for.
With Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Israel for high-level meetings with his Israeli counterparts, Trump took to Twitter to call for the United States to recognize Israel’s complete control over the territory, which would provide the Jewish state with greater leverage as it conducts counter-terrorism operations aimed at thwarting Iranian-backed militants such as Hezbollah, which operates in the contested territory with war-torn Syria.
“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 tweeted.
Pompeo was coy in his stance on the issue during a press briefing earlier Thursday with reporters.