US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said
yesterday that “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to
look like going forward” and that US-Israel relations are “stronger than
ever”.
Speaking at an award ceremony held by the
Jewish Institute for National Security of America in Washington DC,
Pompeo hailed Israel as “democratic and prosperous”, adding “it desires
peace, it is a home to a free press and a thriving economy,” Arutz Sheva reported.
Pompeo then compared Israel to Iran,
citing the latter’s “corrupt leaders [who] assault the human rights of
their own people and finance terrorism in every corner of the Middle
East”. Pompeo lamented that the US administration under former President
Barack Obama “had more respect for the leaders of Iran than it did for
the State of Israel,” stressing that
under President Trump’s leadership, the United States is standing where it should firmly be: On the side of Israel.
Pompeo also discussed the long-awaited US
peace initiative – dubbed the “deal of the century” – hailing it as a
“truly historic” effort to reach an agreement. Pompeo said that “we [the
USA] are very hopeful that one day the Palestinian people will have the
same kinds of things, the same material, the same opportunities that
the people of Israel have,” according to the Jerusalem Post. Pompeo added “We very much want you [the Palestinians] to have a space.”...
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