Relating to American President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, the Sovereignty Movement expresses its gratitude to Prime Minister Netanyahu for presenting the issue of sovereignty in the Golan to the U.S. president.

The co-chairwomen of the movement, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, add their thanks also to ministers of the Israeli government, to members of Knesset, to the many public figures and  activists in Israel and abroad who have been exerting parliamentary and public pressure in the issue of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, pressure that resulted as the first step, to the recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan as the prime minister’s political goal. “If the political pressure continues, this will happen in Judea and Samaria as well”, say the two women.

“As it was with the Golan Heights, it must also be in Judea and Samaria; the decision for sovereignty must begin here in Israel. From herein Israel, world opinion will follow. We showed resolution on Jerusalem, and the United States followed us as well as other countries. Regarding the Golan Heights, there was first an Israeli consensus and the American recognition followed. In Judea and Samaria as well, we will win recognition in the same way, beginning with an Israeli step”.

Katsover and Matar note that “just as American recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan matches American interests in the region, Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria will match U.S. interests even more.  American recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan constitutes a response to the increased Iranian, Russian and Turkish influence on the Golan and in Syria in general. If there was, Heaven forbid, an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria , it would be a base for another tentacle of the Iranian octopus and the axis of evil. Such a withdrawal, even a partial one, and the establishment of another political entity in the heart of the Land, would be not only an existential danger to Israel, but also significantly undermine regional stability. When this is understood, it could bring about the American recognition of Israeli sovereignty also in Judea and Samaria, but as noted, everything begins with Israel”.

The two women emphasize that the Israeli leadership must refrain from viewing the American recognition as a way to exert political pressure on Israel ahead of the American president’s “Deal of the Century”, which is expected to include, according to rumors, recognition of an Arab state or entity in the heart of the Land, despite this being an existential danger to the future of Israel. “After 52 years of ideological and political submission to the two-states concept, springtime has come to Israel. The time has come to return to the natural Jewish and Zionist concept, to be a free people in our Land. The Israeli spring is spring for the world, in the words of Rav Kook, ztz”l, conclude Katsover and Matar.