Analysis: The president's call for the US to recognize Israeli control of the Golan Heights will be popular across the political spectrum.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to deliver a statement at his residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump is again making a major Middle East policy change on Twitter — announcing that the U.S.
Netanyahu ended with a hug for Pompeo, whom the prime minister pressed this week for the policy change. Pompeo has been brushing off suggestions of any connection between U.S support for the Israeli leader's foreign policy goals and his re-election bid, but the Golan move is expected to be wildly popular across a broad swath of Israelis — left, right and center.
But the advantage for Israel's embattled prime minister, who is facing a popular former Army chief of staff, Benny Gantz, in the April 9 election, are unmistakable.
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