{"id":4725,"date":"2019-03-22T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2019-03-22T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:48:39","slug":"fluid-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"Fluid Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-47657843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: Sans-Serif;\"><p>President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 in a move not recognised internationally.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Richard Haass, a former senior US state department official who is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, said he &#8222;strongly disagreed&#8220; with Mr Trump. He said such recognising Israeli sovereignty would violate a UN Security Council resolution, &#8222;which rules out acquiring territory by war&#8220;.\u2026<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4726\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bbc-hard-hitting-analysis-of-israel-claiming-golan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1606\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bbc-hard-hitting-analysis-of-israel-claiming-golan.jpg 1606w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bbc-hard-hitting-analysis-of-israel-claiming-golan-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bbc-hard-hitting-analysis-of-israel-claiming-golan-768x294.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1606px) 100vw, 1606px\" \/><br \/>\nBut the formal US recognition doesn&#8217;t change anything on the ground: Israel was already acting with full military authority.<\/p>\n<p>So critics have concluded this was a blatant attempt to give Mr Netanyahu a boost in a hotly-contested election.<\/p>\n<p>If so, it&#8217;s one that violates important principles of international law, they say: Mr Trump has endorsed the seizure of territory, and will have no moral authority to criticise Russia for doing so in Ukraine&#8217;s Crimea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the BBC it&#8217;s &#8222;Ukraine&#8217;s Crimea&#8220;, but &#8222;the occupied Golan Heights&#8220; \u2014 not &#8222;Syria&#8217;s Golan Heights&#8220;. One grumbling murmur of dissent is heard in the voice of a former senior state department official. There is nothing to see here, nothing is changed on the ground. While critics may claim &#8222;important principles of international law&#8220; have been violated, the BBC isn&#8217;t about to say that. The BBC&#8217;s hard-hitting analyst asks only &#8222;Was Trump&#8217;s tweet a surprise for his aides?&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.\u2026 Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 in a move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4725\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}