Trump's recent comments on recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights have been met with international condemnation. Especially from Damascus, which condemned this position as a flagrant violation of international legitimacy.
"After 52 years, it is time for Israel to fully recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of great strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and the stability of the region," Trump wrote in a tweet on his social networking site.
Damascus condemned Trump's remarks on the Golan Heights, noting that Washington's stance on the Golan was a flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions.
"The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the irresponsible statements of the American president on the occupied Syrian Golan, which reaffirms the blind US bias of the Zionist occupation entity and its unlimited support for its aggressive behavior," the official SANA news agency quoted an official source at the Foreign Ministry as saying.
Moscow also considered Washington's position on the Golan Heights to be a direct violation of UN resolutions and that Trump's statement could destabilize the region.
The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Dr. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, expressed his regret over the statements made by US President Doland Trump on the Syrian Golan Heights. He said Trump's comments on recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights would not change the firm truth of the international community and the United Nations: the Arab Golan Heights were Syrian territory occupied by Israel by military force on June 5, 1967.
For its part, the European Union, in a statement today, rejected the recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan.
According to the decisions of international legitimacy, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the Golan is occupied Arab land.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that any American recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan would represent a dangerous reaction to the US position on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In a similar situation, a German government spokeswoman said Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights was illegal under UN resolutions.
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that statements by US President Donald Trump on the Syrian Golan drag the region into a new crisis.
In a related context, the name of the Golan is called the social networking site "Twitter", where thousands of followers expressed their anger at Trump's statements, considering that they violate the United Nations resolutions.
"Yesterday Jerusalem and today, with its expulsion from Trump, the Golan became Israel," said one of the worshipers. "And what next?"
"Trump's statements about the occupied Syrian Golan are a crime against our people and a disregard for the blood and sovereignty of the Syrians," said another. "These unjust and false statements establish and legitimize the occupation of the lands of others by force."
"The Golan Heights are Syrian and Arab and you do not belong to the original land, but you are occupying the land and you will be fought by the rocks if its men die," he said.
The international community has not recognized the decision of the Israeli Knesset in the so-called "Golan Law," which aims to "impose Israeli law, jurisdiction and administration on the Golan Heights" and rejected it by UN Security Council Resolution 497 of 17 December 1981. United Nations documents To the Golan Heights on behalf of the "occupied Syrian Golan".