Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that the US no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, breaking with precedent dating back over four decades
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US backs Israel's right to build Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank by abandoning its four-decade position that they were"inconsistent with international law."
It appeared to deliver a new blow to Trump’s efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a peace plan that has been in the works for more than two years but has drawn widespread scepticism even before its release. “The United States is neither qualified nor is authorized to negate international legitimacy resolutions and it has no right to give any legitimacy to Israeli settlement,” said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Analysts criticised the move, saying it would make it even harder to resolve the more than 70-year-old conflict.
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