The US base may also be used to launch air sorties to defend Israel’s
recent illegal annexation of the part of the Golan Heights, land which
it has managed to take under the cover
of the Syrian conflict. Recently, Israel has managed to pry away this
contested land from Syria with the help of Al Nusra terrorists on the
ground, after they previously chased out UNDOF Peacekeepers which had
been positioned there since 1974. Amazingly, the UN still has not
updated its website to express this new reality on the ground (still
showing a mission photo from 2012).
