WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to help organize efforts to
rebuild Gaza and said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the
"only answer" to the conflict.
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Biden
also said he had told the Israelis to stop "intercommunal fighting"
in the flashpoint city of Jerusalem.
However,
he stressed "there is no shift in my commitment, commitment to the
security of Israel" and added that until the region
"unequivocally" acknowledges Israel's existence "there will be
no peace."
The
idea of a two-state solution — with a sovereign Palestinian state alongside
Israel and Jerusalem as their shared capital — has been the cornerstone of
decades of international diplomacy aimed at ending the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
US
policy under Donald Trump was criticized as being blatantly pro-Israel and
ignoring the Palestinians.
A
Mideast peace plan devised by Trump's adviser and son in law Jared Kushner was
billed as providing for a two-state solution. But that blueprint envisioned a
Palestinian state with only limited sovereignty and Israel maintaining security
over that state.
The
plan was rejected out of hand by Palestinian leaders.
Biden
on Friday insisted on a full-blown two state remedy.
"There
is no shift in my commitment to the security of Israel, period, no shift, not
at all," he said.
"But
I tell you what there is a shift in. The shift is that we still need a
two-state solution. It is the only answer, the only answer," Biden stated.
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