" When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, took a wrong turning in Sarajevo in 1914 the world found itself on the road to WW1. With Donald Trump’s self-serving recognition of Israel’s illegal annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, a similar wrong turn has been taken, and it has paved the way to the next Middle East War."............"These men are presently engaged in an act of piracy, just not on the high seas. The oil they prospect is being stolen from its rightful owners. That no legal action can stop them shows only the powerlessness of the so-called “Rules-based order” trumpeted by the chorus of hirelings the pirates employ. Syria will never accept the theft of its land or what lies beneath. Neither will the Syrians who live under foreign military rule in the Golan. Neither will the Arab street united across sectarian lines by the validation by Trump of this brigandry. Neither will Syria’s Army, battle-hardened. Nor its allies – Russia, China, Iran, and Hezbollah. They say pride comes before a fall. The Trump-Netanyahu love affair struts proudly over this latest affront to Arab dignity. But the wrath of the Arabs grows warmer, and there are great storms still to come.".................
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/454866-gola...l-recognition/