{"id":35708,"date":"2019-03-24T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T00:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35708"},"modified":"2019-03-24T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T00:31:53","slug":"the-golan-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35708","title":{"rendered":"The Golan Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21st <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/21\/trump-us-should-recognize-golan-heights-as-israeli-territory\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Post<\/a> reported that President Trump called for the US to recognize Israel\u2019s sovereignty of the Golan Heights, the 700-square-mile northern plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the Six-Day War in 1967. Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, although the territorial claim was never acknowledged by the international community. The Golan Heights is strategic to the survival of Israel geographically.<\/p>\n<p>In an article from December 2016,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4013760\/The-divine-intervention-God-Bizarre-dust-rain-cloud-forms-barrier-ISIS-Israel-Syrian-border.html?fbclid=IwAR3QZlXhkM93SEV_3CghAV21wGKVzl95esoPNxQC5kDl5L4VaynM3qGJ0KQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> reported on a strange event in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A huge cloud of dust and rain blew up along the border between Israel and ISIS last week, sparking online claims that it was a biblical storm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Four days after ISIS fighters attacked an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights, a plateau in Syria which the Jewish state has occupied since 1967, the bizarre meteorological phenomenon suddenly appeared.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Eyewitnesses said the storm seemed to stop at the boundary and be unable to enter the Golan Heights, which tower above the rest of Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Footage of the dust barrier was uploaded onto Facebook by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IsraelNewsOnline\/videos\/761097954028488\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Israel News Online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>They wrote: &#8216;A weather phenomenon occurred at 8am Thursday on the other side of the Syrian border, in the same place where ISIS attacked Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This strange storm of what appears to be dust, cloud and rain did NOT cross the border fence into Israel. It sat like a barrier between ISIS and Israel.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Underneath Deborah Van Dam posted: &#8216;Absolutely the divine intervention of God protecting Israel. Amen!&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the picture (taken from the U.K. Daily Mail):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights1.png 655w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights1-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights1-475x300.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a>This is a map showing the location (taken from the U.K. Daily Mail):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights.png 652w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GolanHeights-372x300.png 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a>The Golan Heights is strategic because it is high ground that overlooks Israel. It is part of what protects Israel from rocket fire or invasion from Syria. Because Syria has become a satellite of Iran, it also protects Israel from Iranian forces working in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible says that he who blesses Israel will be blessed and he who curses Israel will be cursed. History bears that out. By moving the Israeli embassy and acknowledging Israel&#8217;s possession of the Golan Heights, President Trump is blessing Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21st The New York Post reported that President Trump called for the US to recognize Israel\u2019s sovereignty of the Golan Heights, the 700-square-mile northern plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the Six-Day War in 1967. 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