US President Biden says Israel does not want two-state solution

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (December 12, 2023) focused Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition authorities for not supporting the two-state solution and mentioned the nation was shedding world help on account of “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.

“He’s (Benjamin Netanyahu) a very good pal, however I believe he has to alter and — with this authorities,” Biden mentioned whereas addressing an occasion.

“This authorities in Israel is making it very troublesome for him to maneuver,” he mentioned.

Referring to National Security Minister Ben Gvir, Biden mentioned: “You know, Ben-Gvir is not what you’ll name somebody who — that is essentially the most conservative authorities in Israel’s historical past — essentially the most conservative.”

He mentioned: “Ben-Gvir and firm and the brand new people, they — they don’t want something remotely approaching a two-state solution.”

“They not solely want to have re- — retribution, which they need to for what the Palestinian — Hamas did, however towards all Palestinians. They don’t want a two-state solution,” he mentioned.

Israel started focusing on Gaza after Hamas members attacked the nation on October 7.

Biden mentioned: “Folks, the Palestinians have been not ruled properly in any respect. Rather a lot has occurred that’s very damaging.”

Meanwhile, in an announcement in a while Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned his nation had acquired the “full backing” of the US for its floor conflict in addition to its purpose of destroying Hamas and recovering hostages, reported BBC.

He added that Washington had blocked “worldwide strain to cease the conflict”.

“Yes, there may be disagreement about ‘the day after Hamas’ and I hope that we are going to attain [an] settlement right here as properly,” he was quoted as saying by BBC.

What is a two-state solution?

The two-state solution is a imaginative and prescient seen by leaders which could have two territorially district states- one every for Israelis and Palestinians.

The idea predates the creation of Israel in 1948, after the tip of the British mandate for Palestine. But outbreaks of violence and conflict blocked progress over the many years, reported The Washington Post.

In the US-brokered Oslo accords signed in 1993, Israel accepted the Palestine Liberation Organization because the Palestinians’ illustration, whereas the PLO recognised Israel’s proper to a peaceable existence, the newspaper reported.

Both the perimeters had then agreed that the Palestinian Authority would take governing obligations within the West Bank and Gaza.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton unsuccessfully tried to achieve a cope with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat at Camp David. Months later, clashes broke out after an Israeli politician’s go to to a Jerusalem website commemorated by each Jews and Muslims. A Palestinian intifada, or rebellion, gripped the area for years, the newspaper reported.