Report: Biden to reverse US recognition of Golan as ‘Israeli territory’

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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The Biden administration is walking back on Donald Trump’s recognition of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as “Israeli territory”, in what Republicans have described as a significant blow to the Tel Aviv regime, a report says. 

Press TV: A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, alleged in remarks to the Washington Free Beacon website that the territory belongs to no one, and its control could change depending on the region’s ever-shifting dynamics.

Back in February, Secretary of State Antony Blinken first raised questions about the Biden administration’s view on the matter. At the time, Blinken would only say the Golan Heights “remains of real importance to Israel’s security,” but that its formal status remained unclear.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the closing stages of its 1967 Six-Day War on Arab countries, which also saw the regime occupy the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem al-Quds and the Gaza Strip.



Tel Aviv unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.

Syria has repeatedly reaffirmed its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, saying the territory must be completely restored to its control.

In March 2019, Trump signed a decree recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the occupied Golan during a meeting with then Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who was central to formulating and advancing the Trump administration’s decision on the Golan Heights, told the Free Beacon that the Biden administration was jeopardizing Israel’s security.

David Milstein, former special assistant to the US ambassador to Israel under Trump, also said the reversal signaled “an unconscionable betrayal of our close ally Israel.”

“Our allies depend upon the United States keeping its commitments,” Milstein told the Free Beacon. “But now Secretary Blinken has re-injected the dangerous and delusional idea the US could support pressuring Israel to give up the Golan Heights in the future.”

Honduras opens embassy in Jerusalem al-Quds

On Thursday, Honduras transferred its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, breaking a decades-long policy of neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett signed several bilateral cooperation agreements on Thursday to mark the occasion.

Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez inaugurate the Honduran embassy in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on June 24, 2021. 

Israel is set to open a diplomatic office in Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

The Central American nation became the fourth country to follow the US move under Trump to relocate its chief diplomatic mission in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds. The other two states are Guatemala and Kosovo.

Trump sparked controversy by officially recognizing Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli ‘capital’ in December 2017, before moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv in May 2018.

Guatemala and Paraguay later followed in Washington’s footstep, before the latter reversed its decision after just four months.

Israel lays claim to the entire Jerusalem al-Quds, but the international community views the city’s eastern sector as occupied territory and Palestinians consider it the capital of their future state.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Sad to say, but the real friand of Israëli Zionism is Russia’s Putin. Seems ha has a soft spot for Jews and Israël due to some childhood attachments. On the other side, he is also the man who warns Israël agaiinst overstretching their occupation and acquisitions outside the dividing lines from 1948.

  2. Always remember, this is Greater Israel we’re talking about, from the Nile to the Euphrates. That’s why Israel has no real borders and never will. The poor Syrians just don’t understand that they’re living on someone else’s land. The Ashkenazim actually are descendants of the Khazars from what is now the Ukraine and Southern Russia, but that has never stopped them from thinking they are God’s chosen people. Oddly, US Christian Zionists, who are the heart and soul of the ReTrumplican Party, think the very same thing.

  4. “”Our allies depend upon the United States keeping its commitments,”” Milstein told the Free Beacon.” Where was this sanctimonious hypocrite when Trump was trashing the JCPOA?

  5. Biden is quietly throwing a monkey wrench into the ongoing Zionist project in Palestine, displacing the indigenous Palestinians and stealing their land. This will not go down well with ReTrumplicans, as they fully support what the Ashkenazim are doing in Greater Israel. Trump and Netanyahu will have to look to “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor” (PNAC) that will undo all the legal proceedings that threaten to send them to prison. A redo of 9/11, this time blamed on Iran, coming right up, folks.

  6. When I see it, then I’ll believe it. So far the only thing Biden has done is follow in the footsteps of Trump. JCPOA? The same BS, Iran must negotiate their ballistic missiles and now, return to previous enrichment levels, before the US will remove SOME sanctions, not all. US embassy? Is it still in Jerusalem? Of course. Israeli weapons-welfare? ditto. Yemen? ditto. Syria? ditto KSA? ditto. NATO still screwing around with Russia? ditto. Russian sanctions? ditto, plus new ones. Pardon the hell out of me, but where is the change? In all honesty, all I see is the continuation and progression of previous laid plans. Change? A mirage.

    • All very cogent points. The reality is that Left-Right politics in the US is pure theater for the masses. It is really about Up and Down. And We The People of these United States are Down, while a sick oligarchy of Banksters with their Milsteins and Blinkens control us. Rothschild, Warburg, Schiff, Goldman-Sachs, Kuhn and DeLoeb are the real enemies of humankind.

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