Experts think that the US move to recognise Syria’s Golan Heights as Israeli territory aims to further destabilize the war-ravaged country
, has flatly rejected Trump’s sovereignty decision on Golan Heights, seeing it as a violation of international law.
“Trump does not gift Golan to Israel, instead, it’s taking away Golan from Russia, which effectively takes shots in Syria. Golan has a prominent geopolitical importance [for both Syria and Israel],” said Deniz Ulke Aribogan, a prominent political scientist at Istanbul's Uskudar University. Cevat Ones, the former deputy director of Turkish national intelligence agency, offered a similar analysis, saying Washington wants to exert pressure on Russia and Iran by emboldening Israel in occupied Golan Heights. Trump's decision has created a perception among his rivals that instead of making an exit from the Syrian battlefield, the US preparing for a long haul.
YPG is the Syrian branch of the PKK, which is considered a terror organisation by the US, EU and Turkey. Netanyahu, US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border line between Israel and Syria at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on March 11, 2019. “There is a political alliance between pious Zionists and Evangelicals,” said Mehmet Bulovali, an Iraqi-Kurdish political analyst and a former advisor to the Iraqi presidency, as Trump represents Evangelicals and Netanyahu represents pious Zionists.
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