CHANGE: Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements.

“After carefully studying all sides of the legal debate… the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law,” Pompeo said, citing President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 assessment that the settlements were not “inherently illegal.”

Pompeo said the US government is “expressing no view on the legal status of any individual settlement” or “addressing or prejudging the ultimate status of the West Bank.”

Having thrown away every chance for peace they’ve been offered, the Palestinians have no one to blame but themselves.