Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas are right to urge that the United States government recognize Israel’s sovereignty over a section of the Golan Heights. Such recognition is long overdue.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he is asking President Trump to recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s control of the 7 percent of the heights that it annexed in 1981 after capturing them from Syria during 1967’s Six-Day War. He made the remarks at a joint press conference in Jerusalem with U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.