US: We Can’t Allow Palestinian Authority Rule Gaza After The War, Israel Must Control Border” Mike Pompeo

According to a report by Times of Israel, Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at a Republican Jewish Coalition event on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, has rejected the installation of the Palestinian Authority as the governing body in Gaza after Israel’s war against Hamas.

Pompeo echoed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance, stating that “it cannot be that the government that exists there after [the war] is controlled by Hamas, or the Palestinian Authority, each of which are controlled by terrorists and underwritten by the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, Iran.”

The former secretary of state also asserted that Israel cannot allow continued weapons smuggling from Egypt into Gaza after the war. He suggested that either Israel will have to place troops along the Philadelphi Corridor or a mechanism will have to be put in place to ensure that arms cannot flow into the Strip.

Netanyahu’s new demand for Israeli troops to remain at the Philadelphi Corridor has slowed negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire agreement that had been progressing since Hamas softened some of its demands in recent weeks, according to an Israeli official and an Arab mediator.

Pompeo expressed his willingness to serve under former President Trump again if asked……See_More