“VT advocates a multi-national military force to remove Israel from the Golan Heights in accordance with law:

United Nations Security Council resolution 497, adopted unanimously on 17 December 1981, declared that the Israeli Golan Heights Law, which effectively annexed the Golan Heights, is “null and void and without international legal effect” and further calls on Israel to rescind its action.[1]

The Council requested the Secretary-General to report to the Council within two weeks on the implementation of the resolution, and in the event of non-compliance by Israel, the Council would reconvene, not later than 5 January 1982, to discuss further action under the United Nations Charter.”

This is Trump’s game to get his “kitchen kabinet” of Jewish billionaires, to a one mob money from pedophile rings, drug trafficking and securities fraud, to bail his “broke ass” out of bankruptcy and provide enough cash to keep him out of jail and buy another election.  Trump is praying, like he was Kenny Rogers, to die in office rather than prison.



Sputnik/Moscow: After Thursday’s tweet by US President Donald Trump, in which he called to recognise the disputed territory of the Golan Heights, numerous European and Middle East countries voiced their strong opposition to the move.

The United Nations has reiterated its position on the sovereignty of the Golan Heights, insisting that the status of the area has not changed after US Donald Trump’s call to recognise it as Israeli territory.

In particular, the UN does not recognize the annexation of the territory that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War and formally annexed in 1981.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports, citing sources, that the Trump administration is working on a document to formally recognise the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. As the news agency informs, the US president might sign it next week during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.

Netanyahu is campaigning for reelection next month while fighting corruption charges at home.

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Trump’s Tweet Sparks Controversy

Trump’s call has prompted strong opposition from European and Middle Eastern countries. France bashed the move, recalling that it contradicts international law, while Germany noted that the national borders should be changed through peaceful means.

READ MORE: France Responds to Trump: Israeli Sovereignty Over Golans Against Int’l Law

A similar position has been voiced by Russia, Iran, Palestine and Egypt, with some of the states stressing that the territory falls under Syria’s sovereignty.

Damascus said that the US announcement on its readiness to recognise the disputed Golan Heights as part of Israel were ‘irresponsible’, adding that the Syrian people are determined to recover the area through all available means. The US move has been slammed by the EU, Russia, Iran and the Arab League as a violation of international law.

Sputnik discussed Donald Trump’s statement with Oded Eran, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a former Israeli ambassador to the European Union and Jordan who once led Israel’s team for negotiating with the Palestinians.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before delivering a speech at the Israel Museum, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem

Sputnik: What is the reaction in Israel regarding Donald Trump’s statements on the Golan Heights and how could it affect the situation in the region?

Oded Eran: Well, many people are, of course, very happy about this recognition. Although it is not a formal recognition, it is a statement by the US President and by and large, it is welcomed in Israel.

Yet many people are saying that this is in response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s request that many leaders, especially the US President, help him in the coming elections, which we are going to have in two weeks’ time. And this is seen, by some at least, as an intervention in the Israeli political process.

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Sputnik: What is your feeling with regard to how Mike Pompeo’s statement about an alleged “deal of the century” between Israel and Palestine will affect Benjamin Netanyahu’s ratings weeks before Israeli elections? Now we know that Benjamin Netanyahu in terms of his personal standing and his current situation in Israel, has had a rather rocky last sort of twelve months with bad press in the mainstream media and also with the fallout with the Defence Minister as well, and that he has been holding both posts. Do you think this is going to affect his ratings?

Oded Eran: To some extent, yes; because obviously, people are looking at his record beyond the personal legal problems that he faces. And they are looking at the record and certainly the record on foreign affairs [which] is quite positive and even I would say impressive in terms of relations with the US, relations with President of Russia, and President of Egypt, etc.

But I would say that the “deal of the century” is still to be seen. [Mike] Pompeo, during his visit yesterday, avoided every question that related to this issue; obviously, he didn’t want to discuss it. But I think that whatever is known to the West, we can learn about this “deal of the century”, it is not going to be affecting the situation between us and the Palestinians.The Palestinians for more than a year have stopped any formal contact with the US administration; the US administration certainly angered the Palestinian leadership by moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and by cutting the US participation in the UN agency, which helps the (Palestinian) refugees. So, there is no contact with the Palestinians and I doubt that they will say anything positive on the deal when the “deal of the century” comes out [and is made] public.

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Sputnik: In many ways, you have answered my next question, which is what is known about the plan and obviously, it is very, very scarce in terms of the information. So, how likely is Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to this so-called “peace plan”? And will the other parties involved in the plan agree to it? And how well can this plan be implemented by all sides [that] agreed? It is a tough one, isn’t it?

Oded Eran: It is a tough one. And I think the US administration is certainly investing a lot of effort in certain Arab capitals, which are known to be allies of the US, trying to get their support to whatever will come out from what we know as “the deal of the century”.

I think that Netanyahu to the best I can guess if he is the Prime Minister when the deal is coming out, he will say — and I guess this is something which every government will say — “yes, but!” They will say: “OK, there are certain elements in the deal which we like; there are certain elements which we contest or don’t agree with. Let’s see how the Palestinians respond. Let’s see if this is acceptable as a basis for continued negotiations.And then if there is some consent on the Palestinian issue from the Palestinian side, we will be willing to enter into negotiations based among other things on the ‘deal of the century”. But as I said before, I doubt very much that the Palestinians will say anything positive on the plan.

Even though some Arab countries may put pressure on them and ask them to be more positive about this deal, I doubt that the Palestinians can say anything positive. To the best I know about this plan, what comes out is met with rejection by the Palestinians. And so I think that we can say that it may be “dead on arrival”.

Views and opinions, expressed in the article are those of tje speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Dear Mr Assad. You deserve to lose the Golan. In fact you would have lost all of Syria due to your utter incompetence if not for the blood sacrifice of Hezbollah soldiers, who died saving you.

  2. Benji i.s talking to Trump:
    B. “Hey Donnie Boy I really need a favor.
    T. Boy, you and me both.
    B. This one’s gotta be big.
    T. Yeah, mine too. OK what is it.
    B. The Golan Heights. I mean I gotta have it. It’s election time here. You know?
    T. No problem but you gotta do me a huge one.
    B. Shoot
    T. I can’ t I got bone spurs.
    B. No you fn idiot I meant just ask.
    T. Do ya think you can find me about oh, a hundred mill? We have elections here too.
    B. In a blink of an eye. No probs.
    T. And Israel citizenship?
    B. I don’t know about that one. I mean the rabbis won’t be easy to sway. Ya gotta be a jew.
    T. Oh, but but haven’t I done enough?
    B. Ah, I don’t think so. Not yet. But maybe in the future.
    T. Gee Benji. I mean Mr Netanyahu, that would be great.

  3. “VT advocates a multi-national military force to remove Israel from the Golan Heights in accordance with law.” Good. All three branches of Washington, DC are thoroughly corrupted in their service to Zionism. Trump is nothing more than a Zionist puppet and is more like terminal cancer than a “bone spur.” If the American people do not understand, or feel hopeless to stop, this unconstitutional Zionist mob rule over the United States of America in an effort to advance the “Oded Yinon Plan”; then there is no recourse or hope other than international intervention.
    That Trump black magic embassy move was disgusting. Furthermore; I am not Jewish and am not at all interested in rebuilding Solomon’s Temple of necromancy. I see no reason at all to support the Zionist State of Israel with my U.S. tax dollars nor do I feel compelled to worship an evil god that requires blood sacrifices. NO ONE is representing me in this shit show Federal Government of the United States and I am beyond disgruntled. People who are opposed to this need to speak now or forever hold their peace. Good on you VT!

  4. Gall: The Pence replacement issue is an unsupported allegation that the Zio’s use to make Trump seem, to some, like he has a lest vestige of independence. Fake.

  5. Declarations from one party or the other are nothing but a waste of time.
    The strategic Golan Heights were sold in 1967 to Israel by MoD Hafez al Assad. A few years later he had their blessing when he seized power with a coup.

  6. Lol. The UN has as much authority as my long dead Grand Mother. ‘Rebuffed’?? As if Netty gives a rat’s ass about any opinion other than Isurreal’s. Trump’s opinion does not even enter into the equation because, as you’ve so perfectly parodied him, he ‘knows nothing, NOTHING!’

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