{"id":4860,"date":"2017-02-16T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2017-02-16T19:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:13:21","slug":"us-backs-off-two-state-vision-in-middle-east-in-first-trump-netanyahu-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-backs-off-two-state-vision-in-middle-east-in-first-trump-netanyahu-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"US backs off two-state vision in Middle East in first Trump-Netanyahu meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Trump backs away from the commitment to Palestinian state, calls on Netanyahu to hold back on settlements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed the US-Israel partnership in defiance of international pressure for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Donald Trump on Wednesday dropped a U.S. commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the hallmark of U.S. policy in the Middle East, as he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb settlement construction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference that he must show flexibility to prove he wants peace with the Palestinians. Trump said that he can live with either a two-state or one-state solution, adding that it&#8217;s up to both the Israelis and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first face-to-face meeting since Trump\u2019s victory in the 2016 election, Netanyahu asserted that a two-state solution can only happen under two conditions: The new Palestinian state must recognize Israel&#8217;s legitimacy, and Israel must maintain security control of the West Bank. And he suggested that the very &#8220;two-state&#8221; label was a hindrance to progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The one-state solution would include Israelis and Palestinians in a single, secular country with equal citizenship. The two-state solution calls for a negotiated settlement leading to a Palestinian nation alongside Israel, and it was the U.S. policy under both the Bush and Obama administrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump concluded by saying that the matter is up to Israel and Palestine to decide. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy with the one they like best,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is for the first time, a U.S. president has shrugged off the two-state solution and expressed support for the possibility of turning Israel into a binational state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-state solution has been a longstanding bedrock of Washington&#8217;s Middle East policy \u2014 and a source of friction between the Netanyahu government and Trump&#8217;s predecessor, President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump backs away from the commitment to Palestinian state, calls on Netanyahu to hold back on settlements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1,125],"tags":[75,26,356,27,7],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-conflict","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/netanyahu-trump-diplomacy.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}