Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is considered a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024, is going to launch his new autobiographical book “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” this Tuesday. Although, according to a report in the Jewish-American newspaper “Forward”, Pompeo attacked the Prime Minister in his book Benjamin Netanyahu And he claimed that the latter intentionally leaked a report about the existence of a defense alliance between Israel and the US, even though Netanyahu knew it was a false matter.
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“Netanyahu deliberately leaked an untrue commitment to promote a defense alliance between the US and Israel for political reasons and for political gain,” Pompeo was reported to have written about the Israeli announcement following a meeting planned between the two in Lisbon, Portugal in December 2019. “But it was a good story for him,” Pompeo claimed. At the time, Netanyahu was in the middle of the third election campaign and tried to act in parallel with the approval of his plan to annex parts of Judea and Samaria.
According to the report, Pompeo wrote that Netanyahu requested a meeting with him at the end of 2019 because he was concerned that Jared Kushner, Trump’s former son-in-law and senior advisor to the administration’s Middle East peace plan, was “willing to give up too much on Jerusalem.” Also, Pompeo wrote in his book that “the US relationship with Israel is particularly important, and even more critical than its alliance with Britain. Its survival, “is also important for the security and prosperity of every American”.
Pompeo is one of several former senior Trump officials who are considering running for president in next year’s Republican primary. Most of the known potential candidates, including the former president, who has already launched his campaign, are known to be strong and avowed supporters of Israel, including former Vice President Mike Pence, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and John Bolton. The former US National Security Adviser.
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Also, according to the report, Pompeo accused Nikki Haley of being too focused on her political ambitions. Just two years into her tenure at the United Nations, Haley announced her departure to spend time with her family. But according to Pompeo, Haley tricked then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly by going into the Oval Office with Kushner and Ivanka Trump to plot Pence’s impeachment in order to that you can be vice president in his place.
Nikki Haley at the UN (Photo: Reuters)Pompeo claimed in his book that the appreciation and glamor surrounding Haley is exaggerated. “She said nice things about Israel, but didn’t do much beyond that,” he wrote, describing her work as “much less significant than people think.” Likewise, Pompeo described her resignation as an abandonment of the interests of the national security of the United States precisely at a time when there was the greatest need to protect them. “She described her role as directly confronting tyrants,” Pompeo wrote, “so why would she leave such an important job, at such an important time?”.
Pompeo also criticized his former colleagues on the national security team who did not share or refused to accept Trump’s foreign policy interests. “They just didn’t want to confront Iran anywhere,” writes former Defense Secretary James Mattis, comparing him to Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry, who was an enthusiastic supporter of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.