Jerusalem CNN —The Biden administration received another rebuff from Israel Wednesday night – this time from the country’s parliament – over the United States’ long-standing support for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state.
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been US policy for decades, but absent negotiations between the two sides, and a lack of sustained effort by the US to make it happen, means faith in such an outcome has dwindled.
On Wednesday evening, the Israeli parliament made clear its position, voting by 68 to 9 to reject any creation of a Palestinian state.
“The Knesset of Israel firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan (river).
What we have is multilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood and unilateral Israeli rejection,” Scheindlin says.
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