The results reverse culture shock. Ready for. You realize how strange artificial is really connected to life. The prize winning documentary something from the forest starts people first on t. W. It is a trunk tweet that changes decades of u. S. Policy in The Middle East today the us president said its time to recognize israeli sovereignty over the Go On Heights Israel captured to go on hikes from syria in one thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Seven a move considered illegal by the un israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who could be voted out of office in two weeks i think the president for making History Today netanyahu critics say hes trying to engineer an election victory with the help of the u. S. President gul from berlin this is the day. The
president. Has just made history. I called him. I thanked him on behalf of the people of israel tonight President Trump made the decision to recognize that that hard fought realistic that important place is proper to be a sovereign part of the
but a little more than a week ago senator lindsey graham was in israel he s there frequently but this particular trip was for the specific purpose of opening the discussion as he said he was going to go back to america and lobby the president for full recognition of the israeli sovereignty over the golan heights graham made no bones about it in politics you don t have accidents you don t have people. starting to to say something expected to be in a vacuum clearly it was it was well orchestrated and senator graham did his job he was very articulate but what was interesting about his presentation was that undiplomatically he made no bones about the fact that part of the american decision was to punish those who are not playing along and punish those who are causing trouble and instability in the region he wanted not just that the israelis for their purposes have the golan heights or sovereignty is recognized but according to
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a very unusual niche and he s playing it to the hilt right now he s going from which really being down to to probably victory again would you say that this decision has been taken and with the blessing of lattimer putin as well as the knowledge and the blessing from of saudi arabia do you think that they have signed off on this as well. probably and that s especially putin if putin didn t sign off on it if he wasn t affirmative on it not being negative on it in the middle east means quite a bit as well yeah that s it that s a good point what about this upcoming visit next week and then you know he s going to the white house we understand it s going to be a two day visit at the white house and that s unusual isn t it for the president to meet with another head of state for two days that says a lot doesn t it well this oh absolutely anybody who wants to make the case of president trump being involved in the israeli election and doing what he can for israel and netanyahu it s not so much
about a strong syrian regime i know bosch or al assad is still in power but if it were stronger like it used to be. so you know clear in its position of basically taking that land away from syria and letting israel have it. well it s very significant as the the putin card a putin has become the king of the hill in the in the middle east when you look at the airspace over syria and all the different players and all the different fighters and all the different it s like a crowded parking lot except it s up in the air. netanyahu spends a tremendous amount of time and effort and cajoling putin and he s probably the leader of a western nation who has more western type nation who has more input and more time with putin than than any other he doesn t necessarily get his way with putin but there s clearly a relationship that that others don t have and it s an it s not it s carved out