HAARETZ – U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed Monday night that the Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights to be part of Israel, one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed they “will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.”
“The U.S. position on the issue is unchanged,” Kirby told reporters during a daily briefing at the State Department in Washington. “This position was maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations. Those territories are not part of Israel and the status of those territories should be determined through negotiations. The current situation in Syria does not allow this,” Kirby continued.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz expressed support for Netanyahu’s comments on the Golan, saying that “the government of Israel reiterated the reality that the Golan Heights are part of Israel’s sovereign territory.” Cruz added that it’s “dangerous for the international community to try to pressure Israel to abandon the Golan to the chaos engulfing Syria.”
The U.S. is the second country after Germany to respond to Netanyahu’s declaration that the Golan, captured from Syria in the 1967 war and later annexed, “will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.”
“It’s a basic principle of international law and the UN charter that no state can claim the right to annex another state’s territory just like that,” Martin Schaefer, spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, said Monday.
Israel annexed the Golan in 198, in a move unanimously rejected the same year by the United Nations Security Council.
Netanyahu’s declaration came as UN-sponsored international efforts are being made to obtain a political accord to end the civil war in Syria.
Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office say that Syrian President Assad demanded that one principle upon which the international talks will be based is that the Golan Heights be considered occupied territory that must be returned to Syria.
On Thursday, Netanyahu will fly to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu’s senior aides say the prime minister plans to bring up this issue at their meeting and to stress the same message to Putin.
” Hi Bibi, Vlad here. – I am well thank you. I had a chat to Bashar about the Golan. – Yes he says that in the interest of regional peace and as a token of his good wishes to you and the people of Israel. He will be happy to hand the Golan over to you. – Yes wonderful news is it not. – Yes I asked him as to when this exciting event will take place. He says he will hand it over 24 hours after Hell freezes over.”
IF CRUZ IS ELECTED WE CAN EXPECT MORE WARS….AND SOON. NOT THAT THE U.S. JEWISH MEN WILL JOIN THE MILITARY. THEY WILL EXPECT THE GENTILES TO DO IT FOR ISRAEL. JS
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We know of the massive oil reserve under Golan and Chaney already has deals to extract it through Halliburton Let’s hope Putin tells nut job to take off.
Delusional Ted Cruz is right about one thing in his pathetic life, it’s a dangerous situation. Israel
Is not use to it getting its every demand but what will they do, Invoke the Samson option?