Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Kohelet Forum conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, in a video statement, that the Trump administration was “disavowing” a 1978 State Department legal opinion that termed Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria “inconsistent with international law.”
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Israeli Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Flash90/Hadas Parush)