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Thread: Syria; Illegal US/Israeli occupation of Syrian Golan Heights must end.

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    Default Syria; Illegal US/Israeli occupation of Syrian Golan Heights must end.

    Syria reasserts its right to restore its sovereignty over Israeli-occupied Golan



    Syria has reasserted its "inalienable right" to restore its sovereignty to the Israeli-occupied Syrian territory of the Golan Heights, denouncing the US's support for the regime that has emboldened it to prolong the occupation.

    Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed made the remarks, addressing a session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in the Middle East, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Wednesday.

    The Israeli regime seized the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and later occupied it in a move that has never been recognized by the international community. The regime has built dozens of settlements in the area ever since and has been using the region as a launch pad for its military operations against the Arab country.

    "Israel commits a war crime by building colonies and settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan, and its colonization plans have witnessed an escalation since the end of 2021, when it announced the doubling of the number of settlers in the Golan over a period of five years," the Syrian envoy said.

    Ahmed also pointed to a plan by the occupying regime to install wind turbines in Golan, saying the scheme proved Tel Aviv's intransigence in keeping up its colonial and racist practices in the Syrian territory.

    "The time has come to start taking concrete steps to put an end to the Israeli regime's occupation of Arab lands, which comes as a result of the support that the US and other countries provide to the Israeli occupation entity," added the Syrian diplomat.

    The United States has proven the Israeli regime's biggest and most dedicated ally since 1948, when the regime claimed existence after occupying huge expanses of regional territories during a similar war.

    With a cast-iron resolve, Washington has invariably provided sustained arms, logistical, and political support for Tel Aviv that has encouraged it to sustain the occupation and keep up its near-daily deadly crimes against the peoples of the occupied territories, foremost among them the Palestinians.

    The Syrian official said the US's continuing to provide this support despite the horrible crimes served as the greatest evidence of Washington's contempt for the provisions of international law, the United Nations Charter, and international resolutions.

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/0...-Golan-Heights

    That will include the removal of Trumpton, of course , the building of which in itself justifies any country on earth attacking and occupying another.

    " First they came for the journalists...
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    Maria Ressa.

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    Yeah, spoils of war and all that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Yeah, spoils of war and all that.
    No- this crime was committed in contravention of international law and continues in contravention of international law.
    Annexations by force are illegal-- as is the transfer of populations into/out of illegally occupied territory.

    Trump/Biden complicity makes a mockery of US objections to Russian contravention of international law. The US is the world's A#1 top-ranking hypocrite- and it was Israel that made it so.
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    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    No- this crime was committed in contravention of international law and continues in contravention of international law.
    Annexations by force are illegal-- as is the transfer of populations into/out of illegally occupied territory.

    Trump/Biden complicity makes a mockery of US objections to Russian contravention of international law. The US is the world's A#1 top-ranking hypocrite- and it was Israel that made it so.
    So what is it that Pooty Poot is doing right now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    So what is it that Pooty Poot is doing right now?
    Just what the US does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Just what the US does.
    When was the last time we invaded Mexico or Canada?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    When was the last time we invaded Mexico or Canada?
    That would be a while ago- before it was internationally illegal.
    Cuba ? That was more recent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    That would be a while ago- before it was internationally illegal.
    Cuba ? That was more recent.
    It certainly wasn't very recent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    It certainly wasn't very recent.
    Recent enough to be illegal. Then there's Iraq, of course.

    Russia is just doing what the US does.

    Is it wrong ? Sure. The West are all assholes too.
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