20 Nov 2019

US changes stance on Israeli settlements on Palestinian land

From Morning Report, 6:48 am on 20 November 2019

The US has declared that Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land are not necessarily illegal. Four decades of US foreign policy was overturned in a single sentence from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Senior Palestinian politician Saeb Erekat says this threatens to replace international law with the "law of the jungle".

Robert Berger is a CBS news correspondent in Israel.