{"id":37557,"date":"2019-03-27T00:24:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37557"},"modified":"2019-03-27T00:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:24:14","slug":"is-trump-changing-us-policy-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37557","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump changing US policy in the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"70.1846522782\">\n<p>In his latest controversial move, US President <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> has recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/trump-recognised-israel-claim-golan-heights-190326110207566.html\">Golan Heights<\/a>, ending decades of US policy towards the region.<\/p>\n<p>It was a boost for embattled Israeli Prime Minister<a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/benjamin-netanyahu.html\"> Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> who is seeking re-election in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But the move has been condemned by world leaders. Israel captured the territory in 1967 and annexed it in 1981 in a move not recognised internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Nick Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rami Khouri: senior fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University of Beirut<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume Charron: director of the advisory firm Independent Diplomat<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Kontorovich: international law professor at the Kohelet Policy Forum who advised both the Israeli and American governments on the occupied Golan Heights<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest controversial move, US President Donald Trump has recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, ending decades of US policy towards the region. It was a boost for embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is seeking re-election in two weeks. But the move has been condemned by world leaders. Israel captured&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37557","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=37557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}