WorldPresident Donald Trump welcomes Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Wednesday after an administration official signaled a break with US support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “A two-state solution that doesn't bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to achieve,” the official said late Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. For the better part of half a century, successive US governments -- both Republican and Democrat -- have backed a two-state solution. - =========================== Trump is expected to tell the Israeli prime minister that he hopes to help broker a solution to the conflict. Obama often warned that Israeli settlement construction could make a two-state solution impossible, and that a one state solution would put the future of the Jewish state in question.

Source: Sunday Times February 15, 2017 11:45 UTC