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You might have noticed there's a lot going on with Israel right now. A new round of fighting just broke out between the country and Hamas in Gaza.

The APAC conference is wrapping up right now in our backyard here in DC. Pompeo, Pence, Netanyahu, Schumer, they've already spoken.

And yesterday President Trump made last week's tweets official. He is breaking with decades of US policy on the Golan Heights.

In a moment, I will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing Israel's sovereign right over the Golan Heights.

It's a very big deal. It's the first time in the Middle East that the United States government issued such unilateral declaration giving sovereignty over an occupied land.

Joyce Karam covers Washington for the national, a large English daily based in Abu Dhabi.

Even though the Golan Heights is a small piece of territory home to only 50,000 or so people Joyce says this move by President Trump might fundamentally change the Middle East.

It's very dismissive of the history of the binding resolutions issued by the UN repeatedly throughout the last few decades on the Golan Heights.

And it's breaking with all past US presidents in recognizing an occupied area without negotiations, without a due process, without even going to the United Nations.

Where do we begin with that history?

We could begin when we talk about the Golan Heights in the 1967 war.

War preparations were stepped up in the Middle East today, even as the diplomats worked to drive preserved peace.

Metham Cairo itself, Muslim preachers declared today but it is always command the Arabs destroy Israel.

The sound you hear is the Cairo rally in early June 1967, as Gamal Abdel Nasser asked the Arab nations for vengeance and victory in a holy war against Israel.

The Arabs were planning the first strike. It was Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan believing that they could go to war and liberate Palestine.

But Israel took a preemptive move and bombed Egyptian Air Force.

On Monday, the Israelis took the Gaza Strip and started their push into the Sinai Desert. They also began encircling Old Jerusalem.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army had carved out a large area of the Sinai on Wednesday. The Israeli drive was almost complete in Jordan.

Tonight, the Israeli army stands on one shore of the Suez Canal. It has increased its hold on the Sinai and remains triumphant in Jordan and Jerusalem.

After that war and the aftermath, Israel occupied the Golan Heights and Syria, Sinai in Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza.

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