The U.S. Should Recognize Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan
Why heed the demands made by a mass-murderer in the name of “international law”?
July 3, 2018
The U.S. Should Recognize Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan
Why heed the demands made by a mass-murderer in the name of “international law”?
Israel seized the Golan Heights—an area whose Jewish history goes back to biblical times—from Syria during the Six-Day War and formally applied Israeli law there in 1981. While the U.S. has from time to time encouraged or pressured Jerusalem to enter negotiations for returning the territory to Damascus, any such idea, given Syria’s current state of affairs, is at present a nonstarter. Therefore, argue Moshe Ya’alon and Yair Lapid, it’s high time for Washington, and the rest of the world, to recognize Israeli sovereignty there:
July 3, 2018
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