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Published — Monday 18 April 2016
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday that the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights would “forever” remain in his country’s hands as his Cabinet held its first meeting in the territory.
“The Golan Heights will remain in the hands of Israel forever,” Netanyahu said at the start of the cabinet meeting, in comments broadcast on public radio. “Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights.”
Israeli media have reported that Netanyahu planned the Cabinet meeting as a statement amid fears Israel could come under pressure to return the Golan — which it seized from Syria in 1967 — as part of a future peace deal for its war-torn neighbor.
Urging the international community to recognize Israel’s claim on the territory, Netanyahu said he told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a conversation on Saturday night that it was doubtful Syria can return to what it was.
The premier also plans to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia, a key backer of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, on Thursday.
“The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts,” Netanyahu said.
“One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
Israel keeps the territory usurped for unfounded fears that Lebanese militia Hezbollah could establish a front against it along the Syrian border.
@Solomon2 Please give us your views on this illegal expansionism
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday that the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights would “forever” remain in his country’s hands as his Cabinet held its first meeting in the territory.
“The Golan Heights will remain in the hands of Israel forever,” Netanyahu said at the start of the cabinet meeting, in comments broadcast on public radio. “Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights.”
Israeli media have reported that Netanyahu planned the Cabinet meeting as a statement amid fears Israel could come under pressure to return the Golan — which it seized from Syria in 1967 — as part of a future peace deal for its war-torn neighbor.
Urging the international community to recognize Israel’s claim on the territory, Netanyahu said he told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a conversation on Saturday night that it was doubtful Syria can return to what it was.
The premier also plans to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia, a key backer of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, on Thursday.
“The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts,” Netanyahu said.
“One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
Israel keeps the territory usurped for unfounded fears that Lebanese militia Hezbollah could establish a front against it along the Syrian border.
@Solomon2 Please give us your views on this illegal expansionism