Despite virus, Pompeo in Israel to talk West Bank annexation

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ILAN BEN ZION

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, as Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teen in a clash with stone-throwers in the occupied territory.

Pompeo arrived at a tense time, as Israeli troop searched for the killers of a soldier killed a day earlier by a rock dropped from a rooftop during an army raid of a West Bank village.

With President Donald Trump facing election in November, Netanyahu and his nationalist base are eager to move ahead quickly with annexing portions of the West Bank. Annexation is expected to appeal to Trump’s pro-Israel evangelical supporters, but is also bound to trigger widespread international condemnation. It would crush already faint Palestinian hopes of establishing a viable state alongside Israel, on lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

Pompeo landed in Tel Aviv early Wednesday, donning a red, white and blue face mask, and headed directly to Jerusalem, receiving an exemption from Israel’s mandatory two-week quarantine for arrivals due to the coronavirus outbreak. He is the first foreign official to visit Israel since January, before the country largely shut its borders to curb the pandemic.



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus during news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)


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1. Trump must be worried about Florida,

He and Biden are neck and neck there.

[Roy Rolling]

2. Good Point

I wasn’t thinking that, but it’s the right direction.

Trump told us Nixon’s mistake, I guess Hitler’s mistake was not identifying “Jews for Hitler” voters?

You’d think he was doing this for the campaign donations, because he thinks Jewish people have a lot of money. If he is not too ignorant to know that is a stereotype, It’s because that’s his myopic world view.

The only people of the Jewish faith are the Sheldon Adlesons of the world who give him money. If there isn’t an exchange of money involved, other people don’t exist in Trump’s worldview.