State Department says no change in US recognition of Israel's claim to Golan Heights
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Biden administration would be “walking back” President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli.
The US State Department on Friday dismissed a report suggesting the Joe Biden administration would be reversing the prior administration’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
“US policy regarding the Golan has not changed, and reports to the contrary are false,” read a tweet from the Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, and in 1981, annexed the mountainous plateau in a move Israel defends as necessary for its security.
In 2019 Trump broke with decades of US policy by signing a proclamation officially recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli. The declaration made the United States the first country, after Israel, to recognize Israel’s claim over the contested territory.
