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President Trump endorses Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Friday, March 22nd, 2019.

President Trump endorsed Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights yesterday, marking what the Wall Street Journal

calls a sharp U.S. policy shift. The move came during U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's

visit to Israel, and before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White

House next week. Why does the region known as the Golan Heights matter to Israel and to the world?

The Golan Heights is an elongated, elevated area approximately 40 miles long and 12 miles wide.

It comprises 690 square miles, about twice the size of Dallas, Texas.

The Golan, as it is known, borders Israel and the Sea of Galilee to the west, Syria to the

east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon to the north. I have visited the area many times over the last

25 years. It is a spectacularly beautiful region dominated by hills and valleys. It is also one of the

most strategic military areas in the world.

The Golan was part of Syria until the Six-Day War, which happened from June 5th through 10th in 1967,

between Israel and Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. During the war, Israel gained control of the

Golan and soon began settlements there. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Syrian forces overran

the Southern Goalan in a surprise offensive, before they were expelled by an Israeli counteroffensive.

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