WASHINGTON (JTA) — Official U.S. maps now include the Golan Heights as part of Israel. Jason Greenblatt, the top White House Middle East peace negotiator, posted a map Tuesday on his Twitter feed.
So now the Golan is part of Israel? Kind of. Israel thinks so, but no other country has recognized its sovereignty over the heights — including the U.S. The international community sees the ...
There are about 20,000 Israeli settlers living in the Golan Heights now. Some Syrians fear that Israel is taking advantage of Syria's fledgling government to make a land grab. And many villagers ...
At the end of a winding road on a dusty hillside in the Israeli-annexed Golan, the yellow gates of Trump Heights slowly open ... of the modern state of Israel, now we need to continue building ...
Israeli has occupied the Golan Heights since the 1980s and now its troops have seized the demilitarised buffer zone, in response to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship in Syria.
After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...