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2020-11-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Pompeo: US to recognize BDS movement as antisemitic, settlements as Israel
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 [Jpost] The US will withdraw funding from groups that boycott Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday.
"We will recognize the global BDS campaign as antisemitic," he said. "The time is right... We want to join all the other nations that recognize BDS for the cancer that it is."
Pompeo later released a statement that the US "strongly opposes the global discriminatory Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign... and practices that facilitate it, such as discriminatory labeling and the publication of databases of companies that operate in Israel or Israeli-controlled areas."
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He added that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism."
Pompeo directed the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism to identify organizations that support the BDS movement and whether they are working to penalize or limit commercial relations with Israel or "any territory controlled by Israel," meaning Judea and Samaria.
Soon after, he announced the US would allow products of Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria to be labeled as "Made in Israel," as opposed to "Made in the West Bank."
The State Department will review its funds to make sure none are going to entities that support the BDS campaign, including foreign aid funding, Pompeo said.
Thirty states currently have various laws that ban state funding for affiliates of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The BDS movement was started in 2005 by Omar Barghouti, who has been living in Israel for close to 30 years.
The ultimate goal of the movement is to eliminate Israel, he said in an interview with the Gazook Voice Podcast earlier this year, adding: "There won’t be any Zionist state like the one we speak about [presently]."
Following his meeting with Netanyahu, Pompeo listed the many policies related to Israel that he and the Trump administration have promoted in recent years, saying they have "done incredible things."
"The simple fact of recognizing the reality of Jerusalem as the rightful, proper, true capital of Israel — it’s crazy that the US hadn’t done that for decades," he said. "Then we moved the embassy. How simple, how right, how just."
The State Department’s new policy of viewing the settlements as not necessarily illegal reversed a "view [that] didn’t recognize the history of this special place," Pompeo said.
He also expressed pride in the Abraham Accords, saying he is "hopeful and confident there will be more" Arab countries establishing ties with Israel.
"This will continue because people are demanding peace," he said. "People are coming to me from all over the region, recognizing that the right thing to do is to recognize Israel... I am confident that this one-way movement towards peace will continue."
Pompeo said he hopes the peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan will lead to the end of the conflict with the Paleostinians.
In addition, he cited the weaknesses of the United Nation Interim Force in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
(UNIFIL), saying that "for far too long, Hezbollah enjoyed almost total freedom of movement in areas under UNIFIL’s control."
If UNIFIL does not fulfill its mandate to keep the peace in southern Lebanon and continues to allow Hezbollah to dig attack tunnels and other hostile actions against Israel, the US will have to "move in another direction," Pompeo said.
He is not speaking or acting like a man who expects to need a new job in January. Netanyahu praised Pompeo’s stance on Iran, saying he had "set the standard for what Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has to do to be treated like a normal country."
The prime minister warned against the US returning to the Iran deal — something that President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
 ...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. ...
has said he intends to do — saying the agreement gives "a free pass on Iran’s plan to develop nuclear weapons with the express purpose of eliminating Israel."
"The tyrants of Tehran deserve no free passes," he added.
The partnership between Israel and the US in recent years is evidence that "the United States has no better friend than the State of Israel... [and] Israel has no better friend in the world than the United States of America," Netanyahu said.
He thanked US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
six times in his remarks for recognizing Israeli illusory sovereignty in the Golan Heights, leaving the Iran nuclear deal, putting "crippling sanctions" on Iran, killing Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, putting forward "the first truly realistic plan for peace between Israel and the Paleostinians and for helping Israel forge peace with three Arab countries."
Bibi isn’t speaking like a prime minister who expects to need the goodwill of a new American president in January. How very odd. "We are deeply grateful for all President Trump has done with [Pompeo and others] to strengthen Israel and advance peace," Netanyahu said. "We are grateful for your unwavering support."
Pompeo: Settlement businesses hurt by ‘pernicious EU labeling efforts’
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweets about his visit earlier to the Psagot winery in the West Bank and the State Department’s decision — announced around the same time — to label settlement products as "Made in Israel."
"Enjoyed lunch at the scenic Psagot Winery today. Unfortunately, Psagot and other businesses have been targeted by pernicious EU labeling efforts that facilitate the boycott of Israeli companies. The US stands with Israel and will not tolerate any form of delegitimization," he tweets. 
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