President Biden is signaling for the first time what his plan would be for the day after the war in Gaza — a new generation of peace talks in the Middle East on a "two-state solution" in which Israel would co-exist with a Palestinian state.
Why it matters: Biden's call for a "concentrated effort" to begin talking about a two-state solution represents a pivot for the president.
So far he's focused largely on trying to avoid conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank — and securing a big peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, there's no going back to the "status quo" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority as it stood on Oct. 6, Biden said Wednesday during a news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
"Hamas can't continue to terrorize Israeli citizens.... When this crisis is over there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view it has to be a two-state solution," Biden said."It means a concentrated effort to put us on a path towards peace."
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I think everyone should be living in peace, the gaza strip was an existing peice of shared land for the palestinians and they took advantage of it and are now destroying it, Palestine did NOT develop before Israel, Adam and Eve were both Jewish and arrived before everyone else living on earth. I don't think that we would ever live in peace with them and I highly dislike Palestine either way so I would want countries to mind their own business and worry about themseleves.
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