its a wonderful thing to see the empire step on itself and here is a description of how they did it this time;

Trump’s call for recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, a part of Syria, is intended to help his and his donors’ ally Binyamin Netanyahu win the Israeli elections.

It is another example of his uncanny ability to sabotage his own policies.

Not to mention to sabotage any semblance of international legality.

The United Nations Charter of 1945 forbids countries to add their neighbors’ territory to themselves through military aggression. This principle was put forward in reaction against the horrors of the Nazi regime.

Israel conquered part of the Golan Heights in 1967 and ethnically cleansed most of the Syrians living there, then brought in its own squatter population, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention of 1949.

The propaganda lie that Israel has to have the Golan Heights to prevent Syrian bombardment was undermined by revelations that the Israelis in the 1960s deliberately shelled Golan to provoke a Syrian response that they could use as a pretext to annex the territory...........https://www.juancole.com/2019/03/recognition-usurpation-strengthens.html