Mike Pence: "In our history, anti-Semitism is gaining momentum"

US Vice President Mike Pence badured that the rocket attack today against Israel shows that Hamas is not a partner for peace and the United States will never negotiate "with terrorist Hamas"We have reached a catastrophic moment in our history in which anti-Semitism is on the rise," he warned.

Pence made the remarks at the annual conference of the Israeli-American Public Affairs Commission (AIPAC), a powerful lobby group for the Jewish state.

In addition, confirmed that President Donald Trump would "officially" recognize the sovereignty of Israel on the Golan Heights, taking advantage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington. "Today, for the first time in 52 years, with Prime Minister Netanyahu at his side, the US President will officially recognize the sovereignty of Israel on the Golan Heights"he said

The Vice President's confirmation comes four days after Trump announced on his personal Twitter account that he was considering recognizing Israel's "full sovereignty". With this gesture, the United States will be the first country to recognize the sovereignty of Israel over a region that ravaged Syria during the Six Day War (1967) and was annexed in 1981.

In front of an audience that applauded him, Pence explained the White House's decision that control of the area was "essential" to the security of Washington's "very dear ally" and that its occupation took place "after a war in which Israel was forced to participate "

This decision is contrary to the UN which, in its resolution 242 of 1967, reminded Israel of the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war"; while 497, in 1981, considers "the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as void, invalid and without legal international effect".

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz had already announced yesterday that Trump would sign a decree on Monday recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

This territory is located on the border between Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and has significant water resources that provide Israel with about one third of the water that it consumes.

Four Arab villas – Majdel Shams, Ein Qiniyye, Masade and Buqata – now form this region populated by some 27,000 Syrians, mostly druze, as well as about thirty Jewish settlements, considered as settlements by the international community. .