“We… know well how Netanyahu put a great deal of effort with the American leadership and Western governments in the past years and still does till today, to obtain international recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights under the excuse of the Syrian conflict,” Nasrallah said in a weekend speech.
Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 – a move that is not recognized internationally – and has built more than 30 Jewish settlements in the area over the last three and a half decades.
There have been some media reports claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently raised the issue of the Golan Heights with US President Barack Obama. A number of Israeli politicians have also floated the idea of legitimizing Golan’s annexation.
Nasrallah also threatened “retaliation” for Israel’s killing of Samir Kuntar, a Hezbollah commander in Syria, who died in a suspected Israeli airstrike on his home in Damascus.
