Jerusalem (CNN)Israel's Prime Minister has declared that the Golan Heights will remain permanently under the country's control, during Israel's first Cabinet meeting held in the territory.
"The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts," said Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting Sunday.
"One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel's sovereignty permanently."
Israel seized parts of the Golan Heights, a strategic, rocky plateau to its northeast, from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War.
Syria unsuccessfully attempted to retake it during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, before Israel annexed the region in 1981 by extending its laws over the territory and its occupants.
The international community considers the Golan Heights to be occupied territory, and Israeli settlement-building there to be illegal.
Syria wants the return of the territory, which has been monitored by U.N. peacekeeping forces for decades.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/middleeast/israel-syria-golan-heights/index.html
It said the accused handed his helmet to a comrade, cocked his rifle, walked a few steps toward the Palestinian and “fired one bullet at the terrorist’s head”, causing his death.
Such action, the charge sheet said, violated rules of engagement and had no “operational justification”.
The soldier was initially held on a murder warrant. The lighter manslaughter charge, reflecting a view that the killing was not premeditated, could spell a jail term of up to 20 years.
An opinion poll last month found 57 percent of Israelis think the soldier should never been arrested. His supporters, including some rightist politicians, have demonstrated for his release. Almost 60,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that he be decorated for heroism.
israelis are literally majority nazi
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:manslaughter lol
and for possibly MOST israelis, he's an actual hero for extrajudicially shooting an incapacitated dude in the head and the manslaughter charge is a great injustice and martyrdom for this dude
ilmdge posted:
which raises the question,
i would have never thought BDS would actually "work" but the ferocity with which it's being attacked actually has me wondering.
ilmdge posted:
haha
i can't imagine what college is like these days
