#US Secretary of State Mike #Pompeo was Thursday taking the first trip by an American top diplomat to the #Israel-occupied Golan Heights after an unprecedented stop in a West Bank Jewish settlement that infuriated Palestinians. The envoy of US President Donald Trump, who has made a staunchly pro-Israel stance a hallmark of his turbulent term in power, also called the pro-Palestinian BDS movement a “cancer” that Washington would designate as anti-Semitic. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.
Pompeo in Israel, first top US diplomat to visit Israeli settlement
