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Colombia’s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 445 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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Colombia’s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights The South American nation is only the second country to recognise Israel’s claims over the illegally annexed Syrian territory.

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What happened

Colombia’s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights The South American nation is only the second country to recognise Israel’s claims over the illegally annexed Syrian territory.

Why it matters

Colombia has recognised Israel’s claim of sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, just days after far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella took power.

Common ground

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry made the announcement on Monday, joining the United States as the only other country to recognise Israel’s annexation of the territory in 1981.

Perspective signals

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/colombias-far-right-government-recognis…

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Claim 1: “collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024”
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Claim 2: “last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated that stance, describing Israeli occupation as “totally unacceptable””
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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding recent statements by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on this specific matter.
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Claim 3: “President Abelardo de la Espriella took power”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm that Abelardo de la Espriella is the 36th President of Colombia, having taken office in August 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Defenders of the Homeland (Spanish: Defensores de la Patria) is a far-right political party in Colombia, founded by Abelardo de la Espriella to support his candidacy for the 2026 presidential electio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_of_the_Homeland_(Col…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration as the 36th President of Colombia took place on Friday, August 7, 2026. It was the 40th Colombian presidential inauguration marking the beginning of his four-ye…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Abelardo_de_la…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella Otero (born 31 July 1978) is a Colombian lawyer, businessman, and politician who has served as the 36th president of Colombia since 2026. He is the founder and leader …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelardo_de_la_Espriella
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Claim 4: “The United Nations recognises the region as a part of Syria”
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No evidence was provided in the search results specifically regarding the UN's current recognition of the region as part of Syria, although it is a widely known geopolitical fact, the provided evidence block for this claim is empty.
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Claim 5: “his predecessor, Gustavo Petro, criticised Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, severed diplomatic relations and halted Israeli arms imports”
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Claim 6: “Israel has moved troops into a UN-monitored buffer zone and seized strategic territories, including the Syrian side of Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon)”
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Claim 7: “the pair had agreed on the move in the Colombian city of Barranquilla a day before de la Espriella’s inauguration”
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While the recognition and the presidency are corroborated, the specific detail about the agreement happening in Barranquilla one day before the inauguration is not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella Otero; род. 31 июля 1978, Богота, Колумбия) — колумбийский адвокат, предприниматель и политический деятель. Президент Колумбии с 7 августа 2026 года.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Де_ла_Эсприэлья,_Абелардо
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web search NEUTRAL — De la Espriella's leftist predecessor Gustavo Petro had ardently criticised Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, severing diplomatic relations and halting Israeli arms imports into Colombia. The US-b…
https://today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd/world/colombia-reco…
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web search NEUTRAL — De La Espriella, the new Colombian president, ran a bombastic campaign during which he promised close relations with the US and Israel as a way to combat armed groups in his country. The US-backed mil…
https://www.blog.raed.co/colombias-far-right-government-reco…
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Claim 8: “Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar thanked his “good friend” de la Espriella for the “historic” recognition”
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Web search results confirm that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar thanked President de la Espriella, referring to him as a 'good friend', for the 'historic' recognition.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Foreign relations of Israel refers to diplomatic and trade relations between Israel and other countries around the world. Israel has diplomatic ties with 165 of the other 192 UN member states as of 12…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Israel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gideon Moshe Sa'ar (Hebrew: גדעון משה סער; born 9 December 1966) is an Israeli politician currently serving as Israel's Foreign Minister. Sa'ar was first elected to the Knesset as a member of Likud in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Sa'ar
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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Claim 9: “Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War, before illegally annexing the territory in 1981”
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Wikipedia entries for 'Golan Heights' and 'Golan Heights Law' confirm that Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Six-Day War and ratified the Golan Heights Law (annexation) in December 1981.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mouser offers inventory, pricing, & datasheets for PCB Mount 3 Position Switches.
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web search NEUTRAL — Todos los productos Switch Deslizante SPDT de 3 pines Pasante 3.3x9mm Serie SSSS2 para PCB y Protoboard
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Claim 10: “Syria tried to regain the Golan in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but was thwarted and the two countries signed an armistice in 1974”
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Claim 11: “Colombia has recognised Israel’s claim of sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Colombia has recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, describing it as an 'essential component of its national defense'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria, in the Levant region of Western Asia, that has been occupied by Israel since it was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. The international …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gola…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, the majority of which has been occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It is bor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights Law (Hebrew: חוק רמת הגולן, romanized: Khok Ramat HaGolan) is the Israeli law which applies Israel's government and laws to the Golan Heights. It was ratified by the Knesset by a vot…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law
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Claim 12: “De La Espriella has also cancelled Petro’s plans to open an embassy in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank”
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Claim 13: “the US formally recognised Israel’s claim in 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term in office”
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Multiple web search results confirm that President Donald Trump formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in 2019.
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web search NEUTRAL — Earlier this month, the US State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from "Israeli-occupied" to "Israeli-controlled" in an annual global human rights report. Washington’s rec…
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2019/03/25/591880/Trump-rec…
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web search NEUTRAL — Though Israel effectively annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, Mr. Netanyahu said it had to wait half a century for Mr. Trump “to translate our military victory into a diplomatic victory.” Mr. Trump’s d…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/us/politics/benjamin-neta…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel won the Golan Heights in a just war of self-defense, and the Jewish people's roots in the Golan go back thousands of years," he added.As NPR's Daniel Estrin reported, "This Golan decision is a …
https://www.cpr.org/2019/03/25/trump-formally-recognizes-isr…
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Claim 14: “joining the United States as the only other country to recognise Israel’s annexation of the territory in 1981”
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Web search results explicitly state that Colombia has joined the United States as the second country to recognize Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The relationship between Colombia and the United States evolved from a mutual cordiality during the 19th and early 20th centuries to an early-2000s partnership that linked the governments of both nati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia–United_States_relatio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir (Hebrew: כְּפִיר, lit. 'Lion Cub') is an Israeli all-weather multirole combat aircraft based on the French Dassault Mirage 5, with Israeli avionics and an Israeli l…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Kfir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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Claim 15: “Colombia’s Foreign Ministry made the announcement on Monday”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that the announcement was made by the Colombian Foreign Ministry on a Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Foreign relations of Israel refers to diplomatic and trade relations between Israel and other countries around the world. Israel has diplomatic ties with 165 of the other 192 UN member states as of 12…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Israel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, MRE), also known as the Chancellery (Spanish: Cancillería), is the Cabinet position of the Government of Colombia respons…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hebrew: מִשְׂרַד הַחוּץ, romanized: Misrad HaHutz; Arabic: وزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية) is one of the most important ministries in the Israeli government. The m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(I…
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