Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

March 28, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.google.co.il/search?dcr=0&source=hp&ei=0HGcXIXDK4ikwAK1wZPoAQ&q=Trump%27s+Golan+Strategy&btnK=Google+Search&oq=Trump%27s+Golan+Strategy&gs_l=psy-ab.3...97890.97890..98589...2.0..0.366.551.0j1j0j1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.....6..35i39.OTXtg32XWZ0

Trump's Golan Strategy

(Wall Street Journal) Elliot Kaufman - President Trump's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights puts the Palestinians on notice. The fear is that if a U.S. president can tell Syria to forget returning to the pre-1967 borders, he can tell the Palestinians the same thing: Shape up and cease your intransigence, or America could let Israel annex parts of the West Bank, too. The pre-1967 lines are no longer sacrosanct, and they never should have been. They merely reflect where armies stopped in 1949, when the Arab states failed to smother Israel in its infancy. The armistice established the borders "without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines." The Trump strategy has been to back Israel and pressure the Palestinians into moderating their maximalist objectives. Palestinian leaders have long assumed time was on their side. The longer they held out and refused to make peace, the more the international community marginalized Israel and pressured it for further concessions. But if the Palestinians don't face reality, their own dreams of a state could be swept away.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: