Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Tuesday
that he plans to name a new illegal settlement in the occupied Golan
Heights in honor of Donald Trump, to thank the American president for
agreeing to overlook the unlawful nature of Israel’s annexation of the
territory seized from Syria in 1967.
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Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump’s Call to Block Them
Israel on Thursday barred the entry of
two American Democratic congresswomen who had planned to visit the West
Bank, hours after President Trump had urged the country to block them.Mr. Trump’s intervention was an extraordinary step to influence an allied nation and punish his political opponents at home.