(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday: "As a [West Point] cadet, I studied the battles of the Golan. There's a famous battle called the Battle of the Valley of Tears, and it was Israeli heroism at its most amazing, saving this great nation at a time of enormous challenge, a threat that came from east of the Golan, from Syria, a tank battle of epic and historic proportion, of amazing Israeli bravery." "Tonight President Trump made the decision to recognize that that hard-fought real estate, that important place, is proper to be a sovereign part of the state of Israel....The people of Israel should know that the battles they fought, the lives that they lost on that very ground, were worthy and meaningful and important for all time."
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