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Thursday 12 November 2015 - 05:05

Bibi wants US to recognize Golan Heights annexation over ‘water’

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Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) situated between the Golan Heights and the Galilee region, in the Jordan Rift Valley.
Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) situated between the Golan Heights and the Galilee region, in the Jordan Rift Valley.
Bibi allegedly discussed the recognition the Israeli-occupied region at a meeting he held with US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday.
 
The rocky plateau in southwestern Syria was seized in the closing stages of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed in 1981.
 
"We won't tolerate attacks from Syrian territory… and we will disrupt the transfer of deadly weaponry from Syria to Lebanon," Netanyahu reportedly told Obama.
 
“Israel has always used this as an excuse,” said independent researcher and writer Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich.
 
She further argued that Israel has occupied the region mainly as it is a key source of water.
 
    “The most important factor to the Zionist leadership in the past, which continues today, has been to secure all water resources and to control them at their sources,” she said. “This is why Golan has been so very important.”
 
Israel’s interest in the water is “tantamount to Israeli expansion and control of the area,” Ulrich noted.
 
Catchment areas in the Golan Heights feed water into the Jordan River, giving Israel a third of its water supply.
 
“The audacity of Mr. Netanyahu to make such a demand is shocking and yet not surprising because every time Israel does something the world just looks away and America rewards it with war, arms, military aid, and funds.”
 
Sources close to the Israeli premier said after his meeting with Obama that he had asked for an aid of $5 billion per year for ten years instead of the over three billion dollars Tel Aviv already receives.
 
“It’s really up to the international community to stand up to this aggression and expansion. If we don’t do it now then tomorrow it’s going to be even harder.”
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