{"id":36823,"date":"2019-03-22T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36823"},"modified":"2019-03-22T21:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:22:46","slug":"what-will-be-the-outcome-of-trumps-golan-heights-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36823","title":{"rendered":"What will be the outcome of Trump&#8217;s Golan Heights tweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"73.2911795962\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a> captured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/golan-heights.html\">Golan Heights<\/a> from Syria in 1967. It&#8217;s been an occupied territory ever since, in defiance of multiple resolutions by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1108772952814899200\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a> on Thursday, US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> seems set to overturn the US position and recognise Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over Golan Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a move designed to boost the standing of Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/benjamin-netanyahu.html\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> as he campaigns for reelection. But there&#8217;s already been some international outcry, with some accusing Trump of bringing the region close to war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What will the consequences of Trump&#8217;s latest policy bombshell be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Nick Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Barak &#8211; CEO of Keevoon Global Research, who was an adviser to former Israeli President Shimon Peres<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Southlea &#8211; Advocacy officer for Al-Marsad, the Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights<\/p>\n<p>Simon Mabon &#8211; Senior lecturer in international studies at Lancaster University<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967. It&#8217;s been an occupied territory ever since, in defiance of multiple resolutions by the United Nations. In a tweet on Thursday, US President Donald Trump seems set to overturn the US position and recognise Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over Golan Heights.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a move designed to boost the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}