Zev Chafets, Columnist

Mike Pompeo’s 2024 Campaign Gets an Early Endorsement

Israel has plenty of reasons to hope the secretary of state can pick up where Trump left off in four years.

November 23, 2020 at 7:46 AM UTC

Zev Chafets is a journalist and author of 14 books. He was a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report Magazine.

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Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Mike Pompeo as a hero during his two-day visit to Israel last week, and it’s no wonder. While most of the attention, and credit, has gone to his boss, Donald Trump, there has never been an American secretary of state so unambiguously supportive of the Jewish state and its interests.

In a joint appearance in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister praised the many transformative policies of the Trump years, from the U.S. declaration of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights to the recognition by the State Department of Jerusalem as Israel’s indivisible capital. He also acknowledged Pompeo’s key role in expediting Israeli peace deals with three Arab Sunni states.