Since the French colonization of Syria, Golan Heights has been a part of that country.  Now Pres. Donald Trump has officially proclaimed Golan Heights a Jewish land.  Damn!  What the heck is going on?

The history of the Golan Heights is self-evident.  At the end of the First World War, the French who colonized Syria back then were given authority over the territory.  In 1941, Golan was formally integrated into the Syrian mainland. 

Unfortunately, the Israeli-Arab 6-day war in 1967 has changed all that.  The Golan plateau was seized and has been since then under the Israeli occupation. 

Israel is, so to speak, a big country trapped in a small land. One way for that monster turtle to get out of its snail’s shell is via expansionism. With that in mind, it encroaches deep upon neighboring countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. 

Surprisingly, Israel has signed a peace treaty with Egypt and Jordan.  So Mount Sinai was returned to Egypt, and Jordan regained sovereignty over Baqoura and Zofar/AlGhamr.  But in the absence of a peace treaty between Syria and Israel, the Golan Heights is still occupied, and the two countries are technically still at war.

 “The message to people out there…If you have military power, and you have U.S. support, go ahead and occupy other people’s land by force.” Khalil Jahshan, Arab Center Washington, DC.

When Israel was created in 1948, the United Nations established a set boundary lines. But the leaders of Israel have bigger ambitions, which are the concept for Greater Israel. It comprises the entire Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.  It also extends from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf with chunks of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 

By the way, Israel is a very powerful country.  Shortly after its creation, it fought war after war and won every single one of them.  Israel ranks the 8^th most powerful nation in the world.  With all its military might, it dominates the entire Middle East.  According to a source, Israel has a higher standard of living than its Arab neighbors and it is also comparable to highly developed countries.

With all that power comes the abuse of it.  It is a proven fact throughout history that dictators around the globe have committed despicable acts in their quest to forcefully conquer and to dominate.  Binyamin Netanyahu is leading Israel in that direction.

With the blind support of the United States, Netanyahu is fearless in his land and military conquests.  He and Trump are in cahoots in the official recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. 

Trump’s recent Golan Heights decree serves well the interests of Netanyahu weeks prior to the Israeli election. It is also meant to deflect the Jewish public opinion from Netanyahu’s alleged corruption charges.  In short, it is all about winning an election at the expense of a stolen land.

Like Netanyahu, Trump is allegedly marred with challenges and controversies.  Trump uses the Golan’s annexation to perfect his Jewish legacy and to capture their votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.  By so doing, he adds fuel to an already volatile Middle East, and he also turns the Arab world toward Russia. 

Historically, Golan Heights remains a Syrian territory regardless of who robbed Syria of it.  The fable “The Wolf And The Lamb” can be related to Israel and Syria.  The United States partiality for Israel is a carte blanche issued to the Jewish State to sabotage, to steal land and to violate neighboring airspace to provoke or to attack as it pleases.  Under Trump, it’s absolute Jewish usurpation. 

The Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights is a blatant act of robbery.  The United Nations should have a say in this.  In case the United Nations is also partial toward Israel, a credible International Court, if there exists one, should be able to bring the Golan Heights issue to a fair resolution.  For it’s time that the United States stops acting unilaterally in world affairs as if it were the United Nations itself. 

Look! Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea Peninsula to Ukraine in 1954. President Vladimir Putin retook it from Ukraine in 2014, which results in Russia being heavily sanctioned. In all fairness, how much more the United States and Israel should be sanctioned for stealing the Golan Heights from Syria? What an imperialistic act!

It goes without saying that if a country is Israel or a close ally to the United States, that country is bound by a set of favorable rules that govern it.  On the other hand, if a country is perceived to be an enemy, it is doomed to fall prey to the imperial world predator. 

Such is the current situation of the Golan Heights today.  Sadly enough, captive Golan, like a volcano, is languishing and erupting tears of lava below the surface while awaiting its freedom and its return to the Motherland, the Arab Republic of Syria.