{"id":586090,"date":"2026-08-16T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586090\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:40:08","slug":"people-of-colombia-dont-recognise-israels-sovereignty-over-golan-heights-ex-president-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586090\/","title":{"rendered":"People of Colombia don&#8217;t recognise Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over Golan Heights \u2014 ex-president Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The former Colombian president Gustavo Petro has said that the people of Colombia don&#8217;t consider Syria&#8217;s Golan Heights to belong to Israel, offering an apology to the Arab world over the move made by new President Abelardo de la Espriella.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;The people of Colombia do not consider, for now, that the Golan Heights belong to Israel,&#8221; Petro said in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petrogustavo\/status\/2088311125272080696\">statement on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;It has always been regarded, like the majority of humanity, that the Golan Heights belong to Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Petro added that Israel influenced the recent presidential election in Colombia and replaced &#8220;popular vote with algorithms&#8221; to impose de la Espriella.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Israel used its software to influence elections and replace the popular vote with algorithms, and imposed a man subjugated by the governments of Israel and the United States, Mr Abelardo de la Espriella, a US citizen, who did not obtain the majority of the votes from Colombians,&#8221; Petro added.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;As a former president of Colombia, I offer an apology to all the countries of the Arab world and to the followers of Islam, whom we respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Colombian president Gustavo Petro has said that the people of Colombia don&#8217;t consider Syria&#8217;s Golan Heights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-586090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586090","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=586090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}