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October 23, 2012

Carter: Israel, U.S. Abandoning Two-State Solution 
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is accusing the Israeli government of
abandoning any effort to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Speaking during a visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, Carter
said Israel, with U.S. backing, has never been less publicly committed
to a two-state solution.

Jimmy Carter: "I think, for the first time in my memory of the Mideast
peace process, we have reached a crisis stage, because all the previous
prime ministers of Israel have been detectably and provenly committed to
a two-state solution. I would say that every [Israeli] prime minister
that I've known has been a pursuer of the two-state solution, and I
don't know that President Obama has found that Prime Minister Netanyahu
is willing to go that route."

 

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