When Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the Trump Administration did not view Israeli settlements as violating international law, the American media did its best to convince its audience that this was a radical departure from “40 years” of settled policy. The New York Times outdid itself, insisting in its headline that: In Shift, U.S. […]
Pompeo States a Home Truth, and the Media Mostly Mocks
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on November 18 that the Administration did not regard Israeli settlements in the West Bank as violating international law, there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the Great and Good in our media. The New York Times characteristically did not bother to address the truth […]
Pompeo: Israeli Settlements ‘Not Inconsistent with International Law’
My latest in PJ Media: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, which was renamed “the West Bank” by Jordan in 1948, were not “inconsistent with international law.” CNN noted indignantly that this “breaks with international law and consensus,” but in reality, no state and no entity, […]
Pompeo: Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are “not inconsistent with international law”
Pompeo is right. As is explained in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, no one but Israel has any legal right to the land known as the “West Bank.” “Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements,” by Jennifer Hansler, Nicole Gaouette and Jeremy Diamond, CNN, November […]
Pompeo Says the Taliban Must ‘Behave’ — But They Won’t
My latest in PJ Media: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday: “If the Taliban don’t behave, if they don’t deliver on the commitments that they’ve made to us now for weeks, and in some cases months, the president is not going to reduce the pressure, we’re not going to reduce our support for the […]
Pompeo: “If the Taliban don’t behave, we’re not going to reduce our support for the Afghan security forces”
“If the Taliban don’t behave, if they don’t deliver on the commitments that they’ve made to us now for weeks, and in some cases months, the president is not going to reduce the pressure, we’re not going to reduce our support for the Afghan security forces that have fought so hard there in Afghanistan.” Here’s […]
Pompeo on ISIS bride with CAIR lawyer: “She’s a noncitizen terrorist…she’s not coming back to the US”
The establishment media and Hamas-linked CAIR continue to push for the US and the UK to readmit Islamic State jihadis. These are people who joined an entity that is avowedly at war with both countries, and that has repeatedly called for the murder of American and British civilians. They should not be allowed back in. […]
Pompeo: “Our effort is to make sure that the Iranian people get control of their capital”
“Our effort is to make sure that the Iranian people get control of their capital, and it becomes a nation that is normal and is not conducting terror campaigns that are unrivaled any place else in the world.” It is a consummation devoutly to be wished. Let’s hope his assurance translates into real and effective […]
Pompeo: “We’ve taken down 99 percent” of the Islamic State caliphate
This is a momentous statement. When Barack Obama left office, the Islamic State caliphate looked as if it was here to stay, and was following the precedent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in moving from being considered a jihad terror group to being respectable. But now it is almost all gone, although the Islamic State […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Who Will Reconstruct Syria?
Now that the Islamic State has been driven out of the last town it controlled in Syria, the question must be asked: who will reconstruct the country? Estimates for the reconstruction of Syria range from $250 billion to one trillion dollars. Where will that money come from? Nothing will come from the deep-pocketed Saudis, Emiratis, […]