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The significance of the Golan Heights

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March 26, 2019

The United States has reversed decades of policy in the Middle East by officially recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Israel seized it from Syria in the Arab-Israeli War in 1967, and then annexed the Golan Heights in 1981.

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