Israeli Minister Calls on World to Recognize Golan Annexation

Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan should never be recognized as legitimate, legal, lawful or moral- If anything Israel should have long been ordered out of that area.

A far-right Israeli minister on Sunday called for the international community to endorse his country’s 1981 annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, where he called for increased Jewish settlement.

“I call on the international community… to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan,” Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, said in a speech at a time of increasing world pressure on Israel over the occupied West Bank and Arab east Jerusalem.

Bennett sees the sparsely-populated Golan as a very different case from the Palestinian territories and a vital buffer between Israel and the turmoil raging a few hundred metres where the Syrian government has lost control of the border region to rebels.’

Read more: Israeli Minister Calls on World to Recognize Golan Annexation