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News ID: 87458
Publish Date : 10 February 2021 - 21:45

Netanyahu Feels Insecure After Blinken Golan Remarks

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stopped short of endorsing the Trump administration’s recognition of the occupied Golan Heights as part of the Israeli-occupied territory.
Former president Donald Trump officially granted U.S. recognition of the Golan as ‘Israeli territory’ in 2019 - a dramatic shift from decades of U.S. policy. The Zionist regime captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move that is not recognized internationally.
"As a practical matter, the control of the Golan in that situation I think remains of real importance to Israel’s security,” Blinken told CNN. "Legal questions are something else and over time if the situation were to change in Syria, that’s something we look at, but we are nowhere near that.”
Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the remarks by Blinken concerning the sovereignty of the Syrian Golan Heights, claiming the territory "has been and will continue to be a part of Israel”.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to Zarzir, a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied territories on Tuesday, Netanyahu rejected the notion that sovereignty of the Syrian region could ever be relinquished.
"The Golan Heights has been and will continue to be a part of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu told reporters.  
Syria has called on the United Nations Security Council to pressure the Zionist regime to end its decades-long occupation of the Golan Heights, affirming that the region is an "inseparable” part of the Arab country and will remain so.
In a letter to the head of the council and UN chief Antonio Guterres last month, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Ja’afari asked the UN to urgently move to implement Resolution No. 497, which declares the regime’s annexation of the Golan Heights "null and void and without international legal effect.”
The resolution, which was adopted by the Security Council in late 1981, further calls on the occupying regime to rescind its settlement activities against the Syrian territory.
Ja’afari, who is also Syria’s deputy foreign minister, further called on the world body to oblige the Zionist regime to stop establishing settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, halt its repressive measures against the inhabitants of the Syrian region, and completely withdraw from it.