Damascus blasts Trump's move on occupied Golan Heights

<p>By Mahmoud Barakat</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – The Syrian regime on Monday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.</p> <p>SANA quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry source who described the move as “a blatant violation of the sovereignty and unity of the Syrian Arab Republic”. </p> <p>The same source went on to assert that Trump’s decision “confirms the alliance between the U.S. and Israel against the Arab nation”.</p> <p>Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.</p> <p>The self-proclaimed Jewish state continues to occupy roughly two-thirds of the wider Golan Heights region as a direct result of the conflict.</p> <p>In 1981, Israel formally annexed the territory in a move unanimously rejected at the time by the UN Security Council.</p> <p>According to the Syrian Foreign Ministry source, Trump’s decision will serve to make the U.S. “the Arab world’s primary enemy”.</p> <p>The same source went on to accuse Washington of providing Israel with “limitless support and protection”.</p> <p>“Trump lacks the right — and legal capacity — to legitimize the [Israeli] occupation,” the source asserted, adding: “Such aggressive policy by the U.S. makes the region, and world, vulnerable to all dangers.”</p>

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