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Trump Endorses Separate Palestinian State as Goal of Mideast Peace Talks

Thu, 09/27/2018 - 12:59am

Trump Endorses Separate Palestinian State as Goal of Mideast Peace Talks by Anne Gearan and Ruth Eglash – Washington Post

President Trump hopes to release his Middle East peace plan within two to four months and conclude a deal between Israel and the Palestinians, if one can be made, during his first term in office, he said Wednesday.

Sitting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said he prefers an outcome that would give Palestinians a separate state. That is the most specific he has been about what he wants to help negotiate.

“I like two-state solution,” Trump said. “That’s what I think works best.”

A separate Palestinian state alongside Israel has been the stated goal of U.S. peacemaking efforts for two decades, but the Trump administration had until now declined to endorse it.

Trump had said previously that he would support a two-state outcome if that was what both sides wanted…

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