US President Donald Trump is back with his decision, the Golan heights, the arch-enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran together. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, criticized on Tuesday the Declaration of the President of the Region belong to Israel.
At the Golan heights there was an Arab area, they said. In the state-run Saudi news Agency SPA said the step Trumps will have a significant negative impact on the peace process in the Middle East and the security and stability in the Region. Iran said the same thing: “Nobody could imagine that a Person comes into America and the country of a Nation of an occupying power against international law and conventions,” said President Hassan Rouhani, the official Irna news Agency said. “In a certain Moment of history, to the time of colonialism, the colonial powers, and a part of a country to another. However, in our century, which is unprecedented,” said Ruhani.
overlooking the village is A Qiniyye in the Golan heights.Photo: Ammar Awad/REUTERS
Trump had signed on Monday during a visit of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, adopted a joint Declaration with the United States to recognize officially the Golan heights as Israeli territory. Israel had conquered the territory in 1967 from Syria, and in 1981 annexed. The security Council of the United Nations has described it as illegal. (Reuters/AFP)