Syrians preoccupied with daily financial pressures have nevertheless been infuriated by Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights. A senior government official told Gulf Today that US policy is “to protect Israel” although Israel, which has built the most powerful military in the region, needs no protection. The countries of this region, rather, need protection from Israel. What the US is “protecting” is Israel’s occupation and colonisation of Arab territory and Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.
However, Trump’s unilateral decision to award Israel the Golan, seized from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981, had nothing to do with “protection” but everything to do with the re-election prospects of his chum, Binyamin Netanyahu.
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