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    Trump's recognition of an Israeli Golan Heights draws little enthusiasm from those who live there

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 2019 4 minutes

    EIN ZIVAN, Golan Heights - As far as Yoav Levy is concerned, the Golan Heights are Israeli and forever shall be. But that doesn't mean Levy is applauding President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the land seized from Syria 52 years ago.

    "This will wake up the bear," said Levy, a vintner who produces $40 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon on his Golan farm, Moshav Kidmat Zvi. "And for what?"

    "It is provocative," agreed his companion Yael Pudik.

    Many of the estimated 25,000 Israeli Jews who settled in the Golan Heights - as well as some of the roughly same number of Druze Arabs living there - concur that the lush hills, tented date farms and sizable agricultural production

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