Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to the occupied Golan Heights to declare that Israel will retain full control of the mountainous plateau forever and never return the strategic highlands to neighbouring Syria. As talks on the future of Syria are underway in Geneva, Mr Netanyahu convened a symbolic meeting of his cabinet on a mountaintop in the Golan Heights on Sunday, which Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War. In a lead-up to the Geneva talks, representatives of Syrian...
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