“Palestinian” condemnation of Pompeo for visiting the Psagot settlement!

On Thursday, the Palestinian presidency “strongly” condemned the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the settlement of Psagot on the lands of the Palestinian city of Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank, and the US decision to consider exports from the settlements. of the West Bank as an “Israeli industry”, according to Agence France-Presse.

The spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said in a statement: “This decision is a flagrant challenge to all decisions of international legitimacy. This US measure will not legitimize the Israeli settlements that will sooner or later disappear.”

He called on the international community, specifically the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities and implement its decisions, especially the latest resolution 2334, which came with the approval of the previous US administration.

In a related context, activists from the Israeli organization “Peace Now” concerned with monitoring settlement activity protested against Pompeo’s visit to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Activists stood in front of the winery that the US Secretary of State visited today in the Psagot settlement in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, and raised banners with the words “The United States must stop undermining the peace process “and” Normalization is not possible in the occupied territories. ” .

Pompeo’s visit comes after a year of a sea change in US policy regarding Israeli construction in the region, when he himself declared that Washington no longer considers the settlements illegal under international law.