Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state, speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on Nov. 18, 2022. Photo by Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images
By Jacob Kornbluh
January 20, 2023
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a potential presidential candidate in 2024, writes in a new memoir that the U.S. relationship with Israel is uniquely important, and more critical than its deeply rooted alliance with the United Kingdom. But he also accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of skewing the U.S. administration’s commitment to the security of Israel for political gain and by fomenting anxiety.
In Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, set to publish on Tuesday, Pompeo writes that Netanyahu purposely leaked a nonexistent pledge to advance a formal defense treaty between the U.S. and…
