Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while reflecting on the long list of achievements the Trump administration made toward peace in the Middle East, told Newsmax TV on Wednesday he hopes the incoming Biden administration will "see it's not 2015 anymore and take this challenge seriously."
"The Middle East is more stable, more secure than it's been in an awfully long time," Pompeo told "National Report." "President [Donald] Trump refused to accept the establishment view that we couldn't do anything about the Middle East situation until the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was resolved."
Trump, he added, recognized Jerusalem as the rightful homeland of the Jewish people in Israel, and "we acknowledged that not every settlement was legal here at the State Department."
The administration also confronted Iran, "the world's largest state sponsor of terror," Pompeo said, adding he hopes the Biden administration will see that as the path forward for the Middle East.
He pointed out, if one asks Gulf state countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait what makes them safer, they would say it was the view the Trump administration had that they are not terrorists and not supporting al-Qaida as Iran does.
If the Biden administration keeps up the "good work" completed with Trump, including with the Abraham Accords, the Middle East will be more prosperous, which will benefit the United States and its trade in the region, Pompeo concluded.
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