Netanyahu in Washington with Golan Heights recognition on tap
An election campaign billboard of the ruling Likud party reads 'Netanyahu is in a different league’, and depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump shaking hands, at the entrance to Jerusalem, Israel. Many analysts view the US president’s statement on Golan Heights as a campaign gift to Netanyahu ahead of Israel's April 9 polls. – EPA pic, March 25, 2019.
ISRAEL’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington yesterday, looking for an electoral boost from Donald Trump amid expectations the US president will formally recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Trump broke longstanding international consensus last week over the status of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, saying the US should recognise Israeli sovereignty over the strategic plateau.
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