U.S. drops decades-old insistence on two-state solution to
U.S. drops decades-old insistence on two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Trump administration’s policy shift comes on eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Wednesday visit to White House
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shown here in 2015. Netanyahu meets with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON—The White House said Tuesday that finding a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians doesn’t have to include an agreement to establish two separate states, marking a dramatic break from decades of U.S. policy.
On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House to meet President Donald Trump, a senior administration official said the Israelis and Palestinians have to agree on what form peace between their countries will take—and that didn’t necessarily include two states.
Read: Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump to meet amid uncertainty over U.S. policy
“A two-state solution that doesn’t bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to achieve,” the official said. “Peace is the goal, whether it comes in the form of a two-state solution if that’s what the parties want or something else, if that’s what the parties want, we’re going to help them.”
Two states for two peoples, Israelis and Palestinians, has been the official U.S. policy of Democratic and Republican administrations for decades, and was the tenet guiding historic talks at Oslo and Camp David. Most governments and world bodies back that principle as well and it had been embraced by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.
The U.S. historically has said it supports direct negotiations between the two sides that would end in a two-state solution. Toward that end, Washington has opposed Israeli construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories.
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