Obama Will Quickly Give Palestinians State
President Obama will move to create a Palestinian state “more quickly than anybody could imagine.” At least that’s the message the Palestinian Authority claims it received from the U.S.
A chief PA negotiator, speaking to WND from the West Bank city of Ramallah, said that in recent days Palestinian officials held preliminary meetings leading to an in-person confab today between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy to the Mideast.
The PA negotiator said the American team preparing for Mitchell’s meeting with Abbas conveyed to the Palestinians that Obama seeks to move swiftly toward a Palestinian state.
Said the PA negotiator: “They (the U.S. team) told us, ‘We don’t mind who is the government in Israel. Things will be closed (for a Palestinian state) and more quickly than anybody could imagine.”
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with Obama’s envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, to outline the prime minister’s approach to Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
US President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy George Mitchell said Friday that a “two-state solution is the only solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting stark policy differences between the US and Israel over the idea of Palestinian statehood.
