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Bibi plannin’ Mar-o-Trump in Golan Hts.

- BY CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

Bibi knows how to get The Donald’s attention.

Embattled Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu (photo) said Tuesday he wants to throw Donald Trump a bone by naming a contested Jewish settlement after the U.S. president.

Trump, whose love of naming objects after himself is well known, issued a proclamati­on last month recognizin­g Israel’s right to the Golan Heights, and Netanyahu — who was recently elected to his fifth term despite facing corrupting charges — made it clear he wants to return the favor.

“All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignt­y over the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in a video posted to his YouTube account.

“Therefore, after the Passover holiday, I intend to bring to the government a resolution calling for a new community on the Golan Heights named after President Donald J. Trump,” he said.

Netanyahu made the comments during a tour of the Golan Heights with his wife and sons.

A White House spokesman referred to the State Department, which did not return a request for comment.

Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignt­y over the Golan Heights broke with longstandi­ng U.S. foreign policy and United Nations resolution­s.

Israel captured a portion of the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and control over the area has since been of intense debate. Some 25,000 Israelis live in settlement­s in the Golan Heights that the UN considers illegal.

Last month, Syria’s Foreign Ministry ripped Trump’s recognitio­n of Israel’s right to the Golan Heights as a “blatant attack on Syria’s sovereignt­y and its territoria­l integrity.”

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