evidence: Friday marks the anniversary of the United States’s declaration that the Golan belongs to Israel – a move that experts said backed a clear violation of international law. And this year, it comes as Washington is promoting the concept of "territorial integrity" to push back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [...] Until Trump’s decision to recognise the territory as Israel’s, no other country in the world had accepted Israeli claims to the Golan Heights. [...] Trump, too, invoked Israel’s security in the March 25, 2019 decree proclaiming "the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel".