US puppet Syrian βpresidentβ silent on Zionist occupation of Golan Heights
Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan!
The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israelβs occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder thatβ¦ pic.twitter.com/f6RlXdpmuw
β Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) July 9, 2026
The US-UK-Zionist ally, former ISIS-linked Syrian terror leader al-Jolani, recently attended another intimate US-NATO press conference. In the clip, Ahmed al-Sharaa (as he since restyled himself) silently capitulates Syriaβs territory to Zionist occupation.
Trump reaffirms Israelβs illegal occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights, while Abu Mohammad al-Jolani sat beside him without any objection. Trump says:
No President has done as much for Israel as I have. Not even close. Just look at all the things: Jerusalem, erm, the Golan Heights. We did things. Nobody has ever done anything for Israel like me.
The Syrian leaderβs silence at a moment like this is effectively state policy. When the US president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory, the self-proclaimed βPresident of Syriaβ says nothing. The world can only interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.
Before unpacking the Golanβs history of occupation and displacement, itβs worth a taking refresher on who the relatively recently-declared Syrian president is. Heβs al-Sharaa to some, al-Jolani to others. Either way, we know ever more clearly where his true political allegiances lie.
Most of all, al-Jolaniβs post-terrorist era βrehabilitationβ entirely undermines decades of narrative-building around the βWar on Terrorβ. Whatever alleged inherent opposition US officials, including President Trump, claim to harbour towards Islamic fundamentalistsβ¦ They clearly donβt mind when interests align.
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Al-Jolani β Who is the Syrian president?
He was a leader of Hayβat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a breakaway of Al Qaeda with links to ISIS. The former, Al Qaeda, reportedly considered HTS too extreme. It has a record of massacring and abusing minoritised groups, including significant numbers of Alawite, Druze, Christian, homosexual and women.
Since at least 2017, al-Jolani was wanted by the US State Department, with a bounty on information about him set at $10m. His bounty was only cancelled in late 2024, after his Sunni jihadist faction, βHTSβ, took control over much of Syria. Now he poses regularly for photos with Western heads of state.
One helpful article on the London School of Economicsβ (LSE) blog page said in late 2025:
On 24 September 2025, al-Sharaa stepped onto the global stage, addressing the United Nations in New York. His speech was more than symbolic: it marked the entry of a former al-Qaeda and ISIL-linked commander into formal diplomacy, ironically in the very city that suffered the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks. β¦
Al-Sharaaβs trajectoryΒ mirrors the broader story of globalΒ Jihad. Under his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani, he trained under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, fought U.S. forces, and rose through the Islamic State under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In 2012, he crossed into Syria and founded Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaedaβs Syrian affiliate, notorious for suicide bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations.
By 2017, he rebranded the group as HTS, distancing himself rhetorically from al-Qaeda.Β Designated as a terrorist byΒ theΒ U.N. Security CouncilΒ since 2013, al-Sharaa resurfaced in late 2024 in a suit and tie, shedding his nom de guerre and presenting himself as a statesman. Behind the wardrobe change, the ideology remained unchanged.
Almost a month afterΒ al-Jawlaniβs appearance at the UN General Assembly, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer took steps to de-proscribe HTS. This means that Starmer un-banned HTS mere months after proscribing anti-genocide peace activist group Palestine Action a βterror organisation.β This is clearly absurd.
Remind us which was βnotorious for suicide bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations,β Sir Keir?
By donning a suit, polishing up his English and compromising himself regionally, al-Jolani was warmly welcomed into the NATO-Zionist-led international regime. When Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled in late 2024, HTS took over and imposed its own dictatorial, fundamentalist regime.
The only difference is that this one was willing to bow to Western imperial interests. And central to those interests in the region, of course, is the Zionist settler-colonial military state project of βIsraelβ.
Golan Heights: more Zionist occupation
The Golan Heights mountain plateau spans some 1,800sq km (700sq miles) in the south-western corner of Syria. It borders Jordan, Lebanon and everyoneβs worst neighbour, Israel.
It has been occupied by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) following its Six Day War in 1967. The Zionist entity then annexed most of Golan in 1982. The UN upholds a buffer zone on the Syrian side, while only the USA recognises occupied Golan as βIsraelβ. Trump officially recognised it as such in 2019.
Golan land is largely rugged basalt rock: fertile, hilly land where volcanic soil grows apple and cherry orchards and vineyards. The region holds vital water sources feeding the Jordan River, including the Hasbani River, which flows from Lebanon and through the Golan. Not land most Syrians wish to part withβ¦
Yet today, more than 30 Israeli settlements are in the Golan, where more than 25,000 Jewish Israelis now live as illegal occupiers and human shields. Plausibly over 100,000 people, many of them Druze, were displaced and expelled by the IOF in the months and years following the 1967 occupation. Now many live under a similar regime of apartheid to that in occupied Jerusalem and wider Palestine.
In 1981, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Israelβs occupation of Golan. It called on Israel to rescind its imposition of βIsraeli lawβ on the plateau. It declared Israelβs rule over Golan:
null and void and without international legal effect.
Trump and Biden, both being fundamentalist Zionists and war-criminals, equally dismissed all this.
In late April 2026, Israel approved a $334m plan to move Israelis in while keeping long-displaced Syrians out of occupied Golan. It aimed to bring in another 3,000 Zionist βciviliansβ β many of whom comprise armed militias β to so-called βKatzrinβ city by 2030. Human Rights Watch described it as:
clear statement of intent to commit war crimes.
Golanβs occupation resembles the βCrimson Threadβ project: the IOF barrier cutting off Palestineβs essential βbreadbasketβ agricultural land. The planned 500km IOF barrier would block off Palestinians from a large swathe of some of the most fertile farming land in the entire occupied West Bank.
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Featured image via the Canary