With Netanyahu looking over his shoulder at the White House, Trump signed a proclamation officially granting US recognition of the Golan as Israeli territory - a dramatic shift from decades of US policy. Israel captured the Golan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally. He harked back to two previous Middle Eastern wars in justifying Israel’s need to hang on to the Golan. “Just as Israel stood tall in 1967, just as it stood tall in 1973, Israel stands tall today. Syria reacted swiftly to Trump’s proclamation, calling it a “blatant attack” on its sovereignty and territorial integrity and saying it had a right to reclaim the Golan.

Source: bd News24 March 25, 2019 21:00 UTC