WASHINGTON, Nov 4 — With Israel’s campaign against Hamas raging, the United States has renewed calls to work toward a Palestinian state, but few expect success now after...
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Speaking yesterday on his latest trip to Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for “humanitarian pauses” to let in assistance and said that longer term a two-state solution was “the best viable path — indeed, the only path.” The Palestinian Authority in turn has been increasingly weakened, and has not controled Gaza since 2007 when Islamist militants Hamas took over.But Brian Katulis, vice president of policy at the Middle East Institute, said that the Biden administration’s calls for a two-state solution sent a signal: “We’re not going down a dark tunnel here with no end in sight.”
Biden and Blinken, while publicly backing Israel’s right to respond to Hamas, have pressed Israel to hand over tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority and to crack down on attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. A survey taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Centre found that just 35 per cent of Israelis thought their country could coexist peacefully with an independent Palestinian state, down from 50 per cent 10 years ago, with polls showing a similar drop among Palestinians.
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