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Trump’s belief that Golan Heights belongs to Israel is ‘delusion’: Scholar

US President Donald Trump’s belief that the occupied Golan Heights belongs to Israel is a “delusion” and underscores the US leader’s mental instability, an American scholar and political commentator says.  Trump signed a proclamation on Monday recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the Syrian territory of Golan Heights, triggering a global outcry. Trump signed the decree at the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “Trump’s belief that the Golan Heights belongs to Israel is very much a delusion, sort of like [Venezuelan opposition leader] Juan Guaido’s belief that he is the president of Venezula,”…

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