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Pompeo makes visit to West Bank settlement, says products from there can be labelled ‘Made in Israel’
The US State Department has announced that products from Israeli settlements can be labelled ‘Made in Israel’, breaking with longstanding policy.
Key points:
- Mike Pompeo said the visit to a Jewish settlement is part of the Trump administration’s “reality-based foreign policy”
- Mr Pompeo said the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is a “cancer”
- He also said he will make an unprecedented visit to the Golan Heights which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war
The move was announced shortly after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited a settlement in the occupied West Bank, a first by a top US diplomat.
President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, which overwhelmingly favoured Israel and was rejected by the Palestinians, would…
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