In the Golan Heights, a small prefabricated settlement named after a sitting American president stands as a quiet monument to the distance between political gesture and lived reality. Christened Trump Heights in 2019 to mark the Trump administration's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over disputed territory, the village bears none of the gilded grandeur its namesake is known for — only modest homes and ordinary lives. The people who live there did not ask to become symbols, yet they find themselves perpetually enlisted as proxies in a geopolitical conversation they cannot control. Their frus