Mike Pompeo

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the Middle East peace plan, at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 28, 2020. (Flash90)
The world won’t stop Israeli annexation. What will Palestinian leaders do?
Four events last week illustrate the international community's failure to halt annexation — and why only a Palestinian policy change will force them to act.
By Omar H. Rahman May 22, 2020
Settlers attend a demonstration against the demolition of nine homes in Ofra in the West Bank, February 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Israel’s fury over UN settlement ‘blacklist’ is only the beginning
On its own, the UN-compiled blacklist of companies with ties to Israeli settlements is rather generic. So why are Israel and the Trump administration so enraged?
By Omar H. Rahman February 17, 2020
Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers guarding a settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
America’s long history of tolerating Israel’s illegal expansion
The U.S. has never treated Israeli settlements as illegal, as expansion continues with little resistance from Washington. Still, Pompeo’s declaration will likely become the new normal.
By Mitchell Plitnick November 20, 2019
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference on the Iran nuclear program at the Kirya defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Netanyahu just made the best case for the Iran nuclear deal
Intent on killing the Iran nuclear deal, Netanyahu and Trump have dispensed with logic and are relying on emotion, confusion, and fear to try to achieve their objective.  By Paul R. Pillar Benjamin Netanyahu’s display of a cartoon bomb before the United Nations General Assembly nearly six years ago received much ridicule but at least was grounded in some…
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