{"id":581063,"date":"2026-08-11T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581063\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:50:09","slug":"colombias-far-right-government-recognises-israeli-claim-over-golan-heights-occupied-golan-heights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581063\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights | Occupied Golan Heights News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South American nation is only the second country to recognise Israel\u2019s claims over the illegally annexed Syrian territory.<\/p>\n

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Colombia has become only the second country to recognise Israel\u2019s claim of sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights<\/a>, just days after far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella took power.<\/p>\n

Colombia\u2019s Foreign Ministry made the announcement on Monday, joining the United States<\/a> as the only other country to recognise Israel\u2019s annexation of the territory in 1981.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Government of Colombia recognises Israeli sovereignty over this territory, as well as that State\u2019s right to protect itself against external threats,\u201d read a statement published on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cColombia recognises that maintaining Israel\u2019s control and sovereignty over the Golan Heights is an essential component of its national defence,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar thanked his \u201cgood friend\u201d de la Espriella for the \u201chistoric\u201d recognition.<\/p>\n

He said the pair had agreed on the move in the Colombian city of Barranquilla a day before de la Espriella\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War, before illegally annexing the territory in 1981. The move was rejected by most of the international community, although the US formally recognised Israel\u2019s claim in 2019 during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office.<\/p>\n

The United Nations recognises the region as a part of Syria, and last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated that stance, describing Israeli occupation as \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n

Syria tried to regain the Golan in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but was thwarted. Israel and Syria signed an armistice in 1974, and the Golan has been relatively quiet since.<\/p>\n

Colombia\u2019s recognition of the Israeli claim comes as Israel expands its military footprint in Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government in December 2024. Israel has moved troops into a UN-monitored buffer zone and seized strategic territories, including the Syrian side of Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon), which overlooks the capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n

De La Espriella, the new Colombian president<\/a>, ran a bombastic campaign during which he promised close relations with the US and Israel as a way to combat armed groups in his country.<\/p>\n

The US-backed millionaire has promised to restore Bogota\u2019s ties with Israel after his predecessor, Gustavo Petro, criticised Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza, severed diplomatic relations and halted Israeli arms imports.<\/p>\n

De La Espriella has also cancelled Petro\u2019s plans to open an embassy in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South American nation is only the second country to recognise Israel\u2019s claims over the illegally annexed Syrian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47380,4646,234,85,46,16632,47,43,227267,238,4713,4497,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-581063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-border-disputes","tag-colombia","tag-government","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-latin-america","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-occupied-golan-heights","tag-politics","tag-syria","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}