SpaceWar.com reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will double the Israeli population of the Golan Heights following the fall of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad. The Israeli government approved the plan Sunday.

Netanyahu, who spoken Saturday night with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, has approved a plan to expand the number of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights.

‘Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the State of Israel, and it is especially important at this time. We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it,’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

Netanyahu said the shift is necessary because a ‘new front’ had emerged on Israel’s border with Syria after the fall of the Assad regime to an Islamist-led rebel alliance, the BBC reported…”