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ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a new settlement in Golan Heights named after US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu unveiled a ‘Trump Heights’ sign, featuring an Israeli and an US flag, to mark the site of the new settlement.
Trump has already responded to the new settlement. “Thank you PM @netanyahu and the State of Israel for this great honor!” he tweeted.
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
In March, Trump recognised Israeli sovereignty over the territory. Israel annexed the area after seizing it from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War in a move never recognised by the international community.
“The Golan is Israeli and will remain so always,” Netanyahu declared.
He called Trump “a very great friend of Israel who has taken a decision that has never before been taken”.
US ambassador to Israel David Friedman was also present at the naming ceremony. The naming “is an extraordinary gesture”, Friedman said.
The settlement to be built on the site of a former kibbutz, which was established in 1984. A kibbutz is a form of collective agricultural commune that spread across Israel in the 20th century.
Netanyahu promised that the Israeli government would invest in building homes and roads in the Golan Heights area, as well as in education and tourism facilities.
Some 23,000 Druze – an Arab Muslim minority also present in Syria and Lebanon – live in the occupied and annexed portion of the Golan, while 25,000 Israeli settlers have arrived there since 1967.
Netanyahu also said Trump had proven “once again his commitment to the security and the future of Israel”. In May 2018, Trump transferred the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
This decision broke with decades of international consensus not to recognise the city as the capital of Israel. Israel considers the entire city its capital, but the Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
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Taylor swift’s record company is taking her to the cleaners and blaming Spotify I would imagine.
It’s not like she needs to do it because she’s not selling enough records. Her latest album was the fastest selling album in 12 years
She is hot though. Maybe her acting career will take off. Pirate bay here we come…
Agreed!! She’s a Taylor Shift
Devastated that Taylor Swift is no longer on spotify, NOT…
Spotify should just sign the artists directly and cut out the record labels.
The artists rarely own their music the label does.
I love spotify! Especially offline mode for planes and travelling.
Oh no she’ll never afford to pay for her 6th house !!
I wonder if Taylor Swift will make more money since she removed her music from Spotify. Will it make any difference at all even?
Makes you laugh these multi millionaires complaining about money.
I guess that’s one less artist on Spotify whose shite I’ll have to listen too.
Spotify is in trouble, trouble , trouble.
Taylor Swift – jaysus what a loss.
The interview is gas…..”For superfans that want to ‘invest’ in the artist” Hahaha!!
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