Speaking at the conference, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said of the legality of settlements that “the name Judea says it all. It is the biblical heartland of Israel.”
“You don’t need a PhD or a law degree to know who has a good claim to this land,” he said. “The answer, with all due respect to the scholars, is just obvious. Because it’s so obvious, because the right of Israel to settle in Judea and Samaria is so obvious, the goalposts started to move.”
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He said the “Pompeo Doctrine doesn’t resolve the conflict over Judea and Samaria, but it does finally move the goalposts back onto the field.”
This does not contradict the Palestinians’ right to “live in dignity, peace, independence, pride and opportunity,” Friedman said. “But the Pompeo Doctrine says Jews have the right to live in Judea and Samaria.”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pompeo-disavows-carter-era-anti-settlement-policy-613546A reply by J Street at the time:
“While the Trump administration continues its outrageous effort to legitimize the settlement movement and green-light Israeli annexation of the West Bank, Israeli leaders must understand that the extreme ‘Pompeo Doctrine’ does not represent the views of Congress or the long-term positions of the United States.
“Just last month, the House of Representatives passed Resolution 326, officially opposing unilateral Israeli annexation of the West Bank and asserting longstanding US opposition to settlements. Just a few weeks before, a letter signed by 106 members of Congress made clear that the Trump administration’s settlement policy has severely damaged prospects for peace and blatantly disregarded international law.
“While Pompeo and Friedman do all they can to promote the agenda of the Israeli far-right, their actions are only imperiling the long-term security of Israel, trampling on Palestinian rights and undermining the shared democratic values at the heart of the US-Israel relationship. ‘The Pompeo doctrine’ is a recipe for disaster — and Israelis should know that Congress and the next administration will take decisive steps to reverse it.”
https://jstreet.org/press-releases/pompeo-doctrine-on-settlements-is-opposed-by-congress-disastrous-for-us-and-israel/There have been other uses of the phrase by commentators, but that appears to be the first serious attempt by Pompeo's employees, and
the Israeli government, to make it a "real thing" that people are supposed to take seriously.
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