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Marking 50 Years of Rule, President Rivlin Calls on World to Recognize Golan as Israel
(Times of Israel) As Israel marked the fiftieth anniversary of its military victory in the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War, President Reuven Rivlin called Thursday for global recognition of Israeli rule there. "The nations of the world must formally recognize that the Golan is an integral part of the State of Israel, and is essential to our existence as a people." "The Golan Heights are strategic to the State of Israel's ability to exist as a people able to safeguard its borders." Rivlin said that in light of regional developments such as the ongoing civil war in Syria, "it seems to me there are none who would disagree that the Golan is a strategic part of the State of Israel....The internal Israeli debate about the Golan, if there was one, has ended."