It requires a mindset that is open to that perspective,” Mr. Blinken said. “But that can only happen through peace for the Palestinians, through a Palestinian state,” he said. “Let me be very clear — the phaseout of fossil fuels is essential and inevitable,” Mr. Guterres said in a speech at Davos. Mr. Blinken, after meetings on January 15 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others, was asked in a conversation with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman whether Jewish lives matter more than Palestinian lives. Recently reappointed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Argentina's new president — self-described “anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei — also will take the podium.
