Global reaction to what Trump said about the Golan …

The international community reacted strongly to the US President's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a region that the Israelis snatched from Syria. "Trump's position has no legal effect," the Syrian government said yesterday in calling its statements "irresponsible." "His words show Washington's unlimited support for Israel's aggressive behavior," he said. To the repudiation of Syria are added those of Palestine, Iran, China, Russia and Turkey.

The US president's new support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was announced by the social network Twitter a few days after the general elections in Israel. "After 52 years, it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights," Donald Trump wrote in a tweet in which he argued that the territory was of strategic importance for the United States. State of Israel and Regional Stability In addition, Trump's message arrived at the very moment when his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is visiting Jerusalem. Netanyahu, on the other hand, will be received at the White House next week. The Israeli prime minister has long called for the recognition of his sovereignty over the Golan Heights and, in this sense, he has recently visited the region with US Senator Lindsey Graham and Ambbadador David Friedman.

Yesterday, the Palestinian presidency was quick to denounce Trump's decision. "Trump's words are aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.These American denominations do not change the fact that the occupied Palestinian territory since 1967 and the Arab Golan are territories under Israeli occupation under United Nations resolutions and international law," Palestinian spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said. The internationally recognized Palestinian leadership based in Ramallah refuses to speak to the Trump administration, which accuses it of openly siding with Israel. Iran, for its part, allied with Syria, said that the decision of the White House on the Golan Heights would cause a crisis in the Middle East region. "US policy is dangerous for the world and pushes sensitive regions into ongoing crises," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The foreign spokesman, Bahram Qasemi, also added that Israel, as a regime of occupation, had no sovereignty over any of the Islamic and Arab lands and that the occupation was to so stop quickly. For Qasemi, the interventionist decision of the US president does not change the fact that the Golan Heights belong to Syria. "It's a violation of international law," he said. UN Security Council Resolution 242 urges Israel to withdraw from the territories occupied by it during the 1967 war, while the ceasefire agreement signed in 1974 between Israel and Syria establishes a demilitarized in the Golan.

Russia has also added its criticism to Trump's recent decision and coincided with Iran's view of a possible destabilization of the regional situation. "Of course, such calls can significantly destabilize the situation in the Middle East, which is already tense," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. At the same time, China has called on all parties involved to abide by UN resolutions on the Golan Heights. Similarly, the Turkish president said that it was unthinkable to remain silent on such a sensitive subject. "President Trump's unfortunate comments on the Golan Heights have brought the region to the brink of a new crisis," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an address broadcast on NTV. "The Golan Heights have been under Israeli control since 1967. Not only the Arabs in the region, but also the Turkmen," said the president.

The announcement of Trump has also sparked strong reactions in the United States. Leon Panetta, a former Pentagon leader, refused to Trump to tweet an announcement that, he said, was not discussed with international partners or with the United Nations. At the same time, Robert Malley, president of Crisis Group and former adviser to Barack Obama, called the decision "eminently political". "It is adopted without regard to international law and whose time is clearly intended to help Netanyahu at the electoral level," Malley said.

The United States has left its first record of what now constitutes their explicit support for Israel in the matter when, in its annual report on human rights, the State Department stopped working. use for the first time the expression "occupied by Israel" to define the Golan and changed the expression to "controlled by Israel". Another show of support from the New York mogul towards his Israeli ally took place in 2017 when he unilaterally acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Isarel, going against the traditional American diplomacy and international consensus. In addition, in mid-November last year, the United States voted for the first time against a UN resolution that considered the annexation of the Golan by Israel, becoming the only one country to vote against. Israel conquered much of the Golan Heights, 1,200 square kilometers, during the Six Day War in 1967 and annexed it in 1981, but the international community never acknowledged annexation. .