US President Joe Biden said – yesterday, Friday – that he discussed the issue of the two-state solution with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the latter did not object to this solution. Biden added, in statements to reporters, that there are a number of patterns for the two-state solution, noting that several countries in the United Nations The United States does not have its own armed forces, and he pointed out that this solution is not impossible with Netanyahu in power.
Communications Coordinator for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, said that President Biden assured Netanyahu of his strong conviction in the possibility of a two-state solution. Kirby added that the US President still believes in the two-state solution, and that the long-term solution is the establishment of a free and independent Palestinian state.
He added that Biden also welcomed Israel’s decision to allow a shipment of flour to enter the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
CNN also quoted an informed source as saying that the Biden administration recently held discussions about establishing a potential demilitarized Palestinian state.
The source added that Biden believes that establishing a demilitarized Palestinian state is an interesting idea, stressing that Biden discussed, during a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the possible features of the future Palestinian state that must be negotiated.
The United States called on Israel to reduce its attack on Gaza, and said that the establishment of a Palestinian state must be part of the “day after” the war.
Washington supports the two-state solution; Because it is the only way to guarantee peace, security and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians, as she put it.
During the past weeks, public disagreements surfaced between Biden and Netanyahu over the method of managing the war on Gaza, and the future of the Strip after the fighting stopped, but these disagreements did not reach a stopping point, or change the nature of American support for Tel Aviv.
Last week, the Axios news website reported that the US President hung up the phone on Netanyahu during their last call, in new evidence of the expansion of the dispute as a result of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for 105 days.