Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the Biden administration’s change in Trump’s Middle East policy is what led to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday, May 11, that Biden’s policies toward Iran, Israel and the Palestinians are worrisome because his policies have given terrorists a free hand.
Pompeo told a Fox News reporter Tuesday that the Biden administration clearly does not have the same clear support for Israel’s right to self-defense as the Trump administration did back then. He said, “Biden delayed his calls to Israeli leaders after he took office and restarted aid funding to the Palestinian government through the United Nations. These actions have informed Hamas and terrorists in the West Bank of Gaza that the U.S. government does not take the relationship between Israel and the United States very seriously.”
Moreover, the Biden administration has changed the Trump administration’s policy on maximum pressure sanctions against Iran and has refused to recognize Iran’s proxy Houthi forces in Yemen as terrorists. In response, Pompeo said, “The Biden team is currently allowing the Iranian regime to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue by providing crude oil to the Chinese Communist Party. This week, we seized a large shipment of weapons that must have been sent from Iran to Iran’s proxy Houthi forces in Yemen. All of these moves are backed by Hamas, supported by the Iranian authorities, sending a signal that now is the time to fire rockets at Israel and win global recognition and support for its own alleged grievances.”
He was particularly critical of the Biden administration’s desire to revive the nuclear deal that former U.S. President Barack Obama signed with Iran back then. He argued that the move gave Iran a way to have nuclear weapons and forced Israel to take military action against Iran.
Pompeo said, “Biden’s motto is that if the nuclear deal with Iran is not restored, the Middle East could go to war. However, when we (the Trump administration) pulled out of that very bad Iran nuclear deal, there was no war. And there were actually three other countries that joined the Israel-Arab Peace Accords (the Abraham Accords) that normalized relations with Israel.”
He argued that by busily rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, the Biden administration would trigger what is now happening in Gaza, which is a violent conflict and unrest in the Middle East, sparking a new war that would lead to more countries joining when it intensifies.
Pompeo said, “Rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, as we’re experiencing now in Gaza, is going to reduce peace and create situations that create war, and a vicious cycle that will lead to more countries getting involved when that war intensifies.”
Currently, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is heating up again. Hamas has fired rockets at Jerusalem, and Israel has responded with air strikes on Gaza. The conflict between the two sides has remained unabated since May 10.
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