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Netanyahu responds to Blinken: Golan will remain part of Israel forever
2021-02-10
[IsraelTimes] PM’s office, Gantz push back after US secretary of state says Washington supports Israeli control of strategic plateau under current conditions — but situation could change.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday pushed back after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cast doubt over Washington’s recognition — under former president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
 — of Israeli illusory sovereignty in the Golan Heights.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Vice President Winken and President Nod had no comment.
Posted by: JHH   2021-02-10 22:49  

#5  Israel Annexed the Golan Heights in 1981. President Trump merely recognized that fact.

The odds of all the conditions Secretary of State Blinken laid out coming to pass any time soon is pretty low. My bet is that the current Assad will die of old age in bed, still a satrap of Iran, and grateful for the protection. But it no doubt made the rabidly Jew-hating wing of the Democratic Party happy, so PM Bibi will be saying No a good deal over the next four years.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-10 19:27  

#4  Given the strategic value of the Golan, Israel would have truly gone suicidal to give them up.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-02-10 16:06  

#3  The standard Hebrew response translates as "engage in sodomy", however, given the current American progressivism ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-10 15:34  

#2  But "legal questions are something else. And over time, if the situation were to change in Syria, and depending on the size of the check - with 10% to 'the big guy' of course,
that’s something we’d look at."

-- Fixed.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-02-10 15:32  

#1  "We're not committing suicide, no matter how many times you ask threaten us"
Posted by: Frank G   2021-02-10 14:30  

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