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Breaking News Cardin: Netanyahu Golan Declaration Not ‘Timely’ During Syria War
Sen. Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said declaring Israeli ownership of the Golan Heights was not “timely” while Syria was mired in civil war. He counseled Israel to focus more on peace with the Palestinians. “Syria is in a state of war, the whole area is in flux,” Cardin,…
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Breaking News U.S.: Golan Heights Not Part of Israel, Despite Netanyahu’s Claims
The United States and Germany both criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that the Golan Heights “will forever remain part of Israeli sovereignty.” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Monday that the Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights to be part of Israel, despite Netanyahu’s assertion at a Cabinet meeting there Sunday,…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Keep Golan Heights ‘Forever’
“The Golan Heights will forever remain in Israel’s hands,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, being held for the first time on the land captured from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War. “I chose to hold this festive Cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights in order to…
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Breaking News German Supermarket Pulls Golan Heights Wines in Labeling Fight
Germany’s famous KaDeWe department store in Berlin has taken wines made in the Golan Heights off its shelves to comply with a European Union labeling regulation A spokesperson for KaDeWe, Petra Fladenhofer, told German media on Friday that the store was removing eight wines from stock, due to the recent decision by the European Union…
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Breaking News Arab Israeli Daredevil Paraglides Over Golan Into Syria
With a propeller on his back and suspended from a parachute, a 23-year-old Arab Israeli may have blindsided Israeli surveillance by sheer audacity when he buzzed across the fortified northern frontier into Syria at the weekend. The identity of the man, described by a relative as an enthusiast of extreme sports and a moderately pious…
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Breaking News Israel Claims Citizen Entered Syria Using Paraglider Over Golan Heights
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
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Breaking News ‘Significant’ Oil Reserves Unearthed in Golan Heights
A large amount of oil has been found on the Golan Heights. The reserves were found in the southern Golan after a year of drilling, the Afek Oil and Gas company announced on Tuesday. “We are talking about significant quantities. The important thing is to know the oil is in the rock and that’s what…
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Breaking News Israel Points Finger at Iran as Syria Border Fight Flares
Israel said it killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday, after cross-border rocket fire from Syria prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria’s four-year-old civil war. An Israeli defense official said the people killed in Friday’s air strike were Palestinian militants from…
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