My take on the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights Interview on i24NEWS English from their studio in Washington DC. It's a test case for a new concept of international law/diplomacy: the legitimacy of retaining strategic territory from which wars of aggression are launched. Formerly part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, then part of the British Mandate for Palestine from 1918, then ceded to the French Mandate for Syria in 1923 and held by Syria from its independence in 1946 until it was captured in Israel's defensive military operations of the 1967 Six-Day War, following repeated Syrian attacks from the Heights on civilian Israeli villages below and cross-border incursions and land grabs between 1949-1967. Shame President Barack Obama or various other presidents didn't do it long ago, and that other western democracies are so trapped in mid-20th-century thinking they can't see the logic and justice of it. They will, eventually.... ...