(Times of Israel) Amb. Michael Oren - In recent articles on Hizbullah's rocket attacks on northern Israel, the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal all referred to the "Israeli-occupied" or "Israeli-controlled" Golan Heights. In March 2019, President Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, making it an indivisible part of the Jewish state. In describing the Heights as they did, America's papers of record were publicly rejecting the position of the country's democratically elected leader. Every press attempt to describe as occupied areas that the U.S. has deemed sovereign must be met with robust public and government protest. Every effort to ignore or override the administration's foreign policy must spur even greater initiatives to clarify that policy and defend it in all branches of the media. Without presenting any evidence or giving them a chance to defend themselves, the Biden Administration sanctioned a number of Israelis. A law is needed forbidding the arbitrary sanctioning of the citizens of an allied state. The writer is a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and Deputy Minister for Diplomacy.
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