{"id":573866,"date":"2021-06-25T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573866"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:36:34","slug":"u-s-policy-on-golan-heights-has-not-changed-state-dept-says-after-free-beacon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-policy-on-golan-heights-has-not-changed-state-dept-says-after-free-beacon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Policy on Golan Heights \u2018Has Not Changed,\u2019 State Dept. Says After Free Beacon Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-policy-on-golan-heights-has-not-changed-state-dept-says-after-free-beacon-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.31843575419\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Statement comes after weeks of inquiries from the Free Beacon<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232587305_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232587305_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232587305_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232587305_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn Israeli soldier walks early morning near Moshav Alonei HaBashan in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on April 29, 2021. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 June 25, 2021 12:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"63.767634854772\">\n<p>The State Department says that U.S. policy on Israeli control over the contested Golan Heights region &#8220;has not changed,&#8221; following a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> report on Thursday highlighting how the Biden administration has until this point stopped short of recognizing the Jewish state&#8217;s sovereign control over the land.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. policy regarding the Golan has not changed, and reports to the contrary are false,&#8221; the State Department&#8217;s Near Eastern Affairs Bureau\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept_NEA\/status\/1408421393671372801\">tweeted<\/a> on Friday. Prior to that announcement, State Department officials were vague about whether they would continue to uphold a landmark policy by the Trump administration that officially recognized the Golan Heights territory as sovereign Israeli land.<\/p>\n<p>When asked\u00a0to clarify the Biden administration&#8217;s stance on the territory, a State Department official told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken &#8220;was clear that, as a practical matter, the Golan is very important to Israel&#8217;s security. As long as [Bashar al-Assad] is in power in Syria, as long as Iran is present in Syria, militia groups backed by Iran, the Assad regime itself\u2014all of these pose a significant security threat to Israel, and as a practical matter, the control of the Golan remains of real importance to Israel&#8217;s security.&#8221; Questions about the administration&#8217;s policy first arose in February, when Blinken offered similar comments in response to questions about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Those initial statements fell far short of the State Department&#8217;s Friday tweet on the matter, which marked the first time the current administration acknowledged that U.S. policy has not changed since President Trump&#8217;s historic action. The clarification also came only after former U.S. diplomats and members of Congress expressed anger at what they described as a non-committal stance that leaves open the possibility the territory&#8217;s status could change depending on the region&#8217;s shifting power dynamics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Statement comes after weeks of inquiries from the Free Beacon  An Israeli soldier walks early morning near Moshav Alonei HaBashan in the Israeli-annexed Golan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281339,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232587305_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"U.S. Policy on Golan Heights \u2018Has Not Changed,\u2019 State Dept. 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