{"id":400593,"date":"2019-03-21T07:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-duplicity-over-golan-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:16:51","slug":"us-duplicity-over-golan-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-duplicity-over-golan-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"US Duplicity Over Golan – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a controversial snub to international law, the United States signaled last week that it is moving to officially recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israeli territory. If the US does so, then it forfeits any moral authority to sanction Russia over allegations of \u201cannexing Crimea\u201d.<\/p>\n

In its annual US State Department report, the section dealing with the Golan Heights\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0refers to the contested area as \u201cIsraeli-controlled\u201d, not \u201cIsraeli-occupied\u201d. The change in wording deviates from United Nations resolutions and international norm which use the term \u201cIsraeli-occupied\u201d to designate the land Israel annexed from Syria following the 1967 Six Day War.<\/p>\n

Israel has occupied the western part of the Golan since 1967 as a spoil from that war. In 1981, Tel Aviv formally annexed the Syrian territory. However, the UN Security Council in 1981, including the US, unanimously condemned the annexation as illegal. The resolution mandates Israel to return the land to Syria which has historical claim to the entire Golan. The area of 1,800 square kilometers is a strategic elevation overlooking the northern Jordan Valley.<\/p>\n

If Washington confirms its recent indications of recognizing the Golan as officially part of Israel, the development would mark an egregious flouting of international law.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s more, such a move totally prohibits Washington from posturing with presumed principle over the issue of Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which since 2014 voluntarily became part of Russia.
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Just last month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u00a0repeated<\/a>\u00a0accusations against Russia of \u201cannexing\u201d Crimea. Pompeo insisted that US…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a controversial snub to international law, the United States signaled last week that it is moving to officially recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israeli territory. If the US does so, then it forfeits any moral authority to sanction Russia over allegations of \u201cannexing Crimea\u201d. In its annual US State Department report, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}