Posted on 06/07/2021 2:29:07 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Secretary of State Tony Blinken declined Monday to confirm that the U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, when asked directly by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) about the issue at the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Israel captured the area in the Six Day War in 1967, after the Syrian military had used it to shell Israeli civilians in the Galilee. Israel was prepared to give most of it back to Syria in peace talks in the 1990s, but was rejected by the regime.
The rise of the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS, a decade ago, and the subsequent intervention of Iran in the Syrian Civil War, cemented the importance of Israeli control over the Golan Heights as a strategic buffer against invasion.
President Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in 2019. In gratitude, Israel named a town in the Golan after him, “Trump Heights.” Blinken appeared to walk back that commitment, however, in February.
Zeldin asked Blinken directly about the issue, and the two had the following exchange during Monday’s testimony:
Zeldin: To clarify one other point: does the Biden administration recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights?
Blinken: With regard to that, as a practical matter, Israel has control of the Golan Heights, irrespective of its legal status, and that will have to remain unless and until things get to a point where Syria and everything operating out from Syria no longer poses a threat to Israel, and we are not anywhere near that.
Blinken’s reluctance to affirm Trump’s commitment reinforces concerns that the Biden Administration does not support much of what the Trump administration achieved in the Middle East, despite the fact that it led to new peace agreements.
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They can shell much of Israel with 155mm guns from the Golan. That’s why the Arabs and their toadies in the West, like Blinken, want Israel to pull out. Israel would be incredibly stupid to give it up.
This F’ed up commie regime clown show has GOT to be GONE by fall.
We are a total laughing stock around the world!
Not to mention falling into chaos that nothing short of a war will straighten it out! Whether it’s a political or physical war makes no difference to me. I am ready either way.
It’s my day off and I am going back to my chainsaw. The next big locus tree limb I cut will be JoeBama’s neck!
Blinken: By what authority?
Netenyahu: It's got my troops all over it; that makes it mine.
With apologies to "A Lion In Winter", dialogue between Henry II and Philip II
Israeli taking of the Golan Heights has never been questioned by anyone of rational mind. Blinken simply reveals and reflects the imbecilic quality of thinking of career swampies.
Who cares what he thinks.
Orange Man Bad!
Fortunately no one listens to the idiot Blinky who already lost all credibility
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