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		</div><p>US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has wrapped up a trip to Israel with a visit to a museum in Jerusalem that honours Christian Zionists and was founded by a prominent evangelical adviser to the Trump administration.</p>
<p>The museum visit came a day after Mr Pompeo became the first secretary of state to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>He also announced a new policy allowing settlement products exported to the US to be labelled “made in Israel” and a new initiative to combat the Palestinian-led international boycott movement.</p>
<p>Christian Zionism is a belief by some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 were in accordance with biblical prophecy.</p>
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<p>The Friends of Zion Museum was founded by Mike Evans, a prominent evangelical supporter of Israel. Evangelical Christians are among US president Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters and have hailed his unprecedented support for Israel.</p>
<p>They would also be an important constituency should Mr Pompeo pursue elected office following Mr Trump’s presidency.</p>
<p>Mr Pompeo did not deliver any public remarks at the museum, and was expected to depart later on Friday.</p>
<p>The Trump administration has broken with decades of US policy to support Israel’s claims to territory seized in war and to isolate and weaken the Palestinians.</p>
<figure id="attachment_164403" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-164403" style="width: 592px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/4163FEC0-7FC9-4312-A1A8-BA9EEA046452.jpeg" alt="" width="592" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-164403" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-164403" class="wp-caption-text">Mr Pompeo with other dignitaries at the Friends of Zion Museum</figcaption></figure>
<p>It moved the US embassy to contested Jerusalem, adopted the position that settlements are not contrary to international law, recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights — which Mr Pompeo also visited on Thursday — and released a Middle East plan that overwhelmingly favoured Israel and was rejected by the Palestinians.</p>
<p>It has also adopted a “maximum pressure” campaign against Israel’s arch-enemy Iran while brokering normalisation agreements with Arab nations.</p>
<p>The moves Mr Pompeo announced on Thursday are largely symbolic and could be easily reversed by US president-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.</p>
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<p>But it was a powerful show of support for Israel and its Christian allies.</p>
<p>Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 war, territories the Palestinians want for their future state.</p>
<p>The Palestinians view the settlements as a violation of international law and a major obstacle to peace, a position shared by most of the international community.</p>
<p>Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the same war and later annexed it. Last year, the US became the first country to recognise it as part of Israel, a position Mr Pompeo reaffirmed during his visit to the strategic plateau on Thursday.</p>
<p>Mr Biden is opposed to settlement construction and has vowed to adopt a more even-handed approach aimed at reviving peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
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