US envoy Tom Barrack retracts comment that Syria’s Golan is occupied
Ambassador to Turkiye says US policy of recognising Israel’s claimed sovereignty over Syrian territory is ‘unchanged’. United States Ambassador Tom Barrack has reasserted Washington’s position that Syria’s Golan Heights belongs to Israel after saying last week that the territory is occupied against “all of the international order”.
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- Fact 1: Trump has ‘run out of options’ in Iran war: Stephen Walt Palestinian teen killed in Israeli raid buried in Occupied West Bank Gaza’s hospitals are running out of oxygen as healthcare nears collapse “United States policy on the Golan was set by President Trump in 2019 and is unchanged,” he told The Associated Press news agency in a statement.
- Fact 2: Israel occupied the Golan during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the territory in 1981.
- Fact 3: “He should resign for his lack of understanding of US foreign policy,” she wrote in a social media post, sharing Trump’s 2019 proclamation saying that the Golan belongs to Israel.
Ambassador to Turkiye says US policy of recognising Israel’s claimed sovereignty over Syrian territory is ‘unchanged’. United States Ambassador Tom Barrack has reasserted Washington’s position that Syria’s Golan Heights belongs to Israel after saying last week that the territory is occupied against “all of the international order”.
US President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Turkiye and envoy for Syria walked back that comment on Sunday, underscoring Trump’s policy of recognising Israel’s claimed sovereignty over the stretch of land in southern Syria. Trump has ‘run out of options’ in Iran war: Stephen Walt Palestinian teen killed in Israeli raid buried in Occupied West Bank Gaza’s hospitals are running out of oxygen as healthcare nears collapse “United States policy on the Golan was set by President Trump in 2019 and is unchanged,” he told The Associated Press news agency in a statement. Israel occupied the Golan during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the territory in 1981.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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