WASHINGTON — The White House signaled a sharp break with decades of support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Tuesday, on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House. "A two-state solution that doesn’t bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to achieve," the official said on condition of anonymity. President Trump will host Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday, and is expected to express his desire to help broker a solution to the conflict. For the better part of half a century successive US governments, Republican and Democrat, have backed a two-state solution. 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: Viet Nam News February 15, 2017 04:55 UTC