The US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey on Sunday walked back his comments from two days ago that Israel \u201cstill\u201d occupies the Golan Heights in violation of UN resolutions, remarks that went against US President Donald Trump\u2019s position on the disputed territory.<\/p>\n
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations and most of the international community consider the territory occupied Syrian land and does not recognise Israel\u2019s annexation of it.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Trump recognised Israeli sovereignty over the territory, reversing decades of US policy.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Tom Barrack on Friday said Israel \u201cstill\u201d occupies the territory in an interview with Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal.<\/p>\n
Barrack now says that was a description of the territory\u2019s historical status, \u201cnot an endorsement of the United Nations\u2019 position\u201d on the Golan.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnited States policy on the Golan was set by President Trump in 2019 and is unchanged,\u201d he said in a statement to Associated Press on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He said he intended to explain why he does not anticipate annexation in Lebanon, where Israeli forces were occupying parts of the south after the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, and to argue that negotiated agreements, rather than territorial maps, are more durable and that he had cited the Golan as an example that \u201cterritory taken by force remains contested for generations\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey on Sunday walked back his comments from two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[70464,656,1613,38,1278,669,100,34,37,99,93,12576,95,1176,1243],"class_list":["post-261596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abu-duhur","tag-associated-press","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-golan-heights","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-lebanon","tag-rick-scott","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-nations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117146631696339454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}