Golan Heights

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Place.png Golan Heights  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
LocationMiddle East
TypeUnited Nations Members.svg nation state
Interest ofArab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights
Israel's exploitation of wind energy in the occupied Golan Heights is legal under international law because it does not deplete the territory's natural capital. But oil drilling would violate that principle.

Syria's Golan Heights have been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. Oil exploration rights in the Golan Heights were awarded in 2010 to Genie Energy, a US company founded by Howard Jonas, an American Jewish millionaire, whose 'strategic advisory board' includes Dick Cheney, the US vice-president under George W Bush, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Larry Summers, a senior official under Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and former CIA director James Woolsey. The chairman of Afek, Genie's Israeli subsidiary, is Effi Eitam, a far-right former general and cabinet minister who lives in an illegal settlement in the Golan.

In October 2015, a huge oil discovery in the Golan Heights was reported in the Israeli media.[1]

On Friday 13 November 2015, the day of the mass murder in Paris, Israel announced it was seeking to annex the Golan Heights.[2]

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