United Nations – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday the United States still supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a day after President Donald Trump suggested he is open to new ways to achieve peace.
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“First of all, the two-state solution is what we support. Anybody that wants to say the United States does not support the two-state solution – that would be an error,” Haley told reporters at the United Nations.
“We absolutely support the two-state solution but we are thinking out of the box as well.”
Haley’s comments came after Trump said on Wednesday that he was open to ideas beyond a two-state solution, the longstanding bedrock of Washington and the international community’s policy for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
“I’m looking at two states and one state, and I like the one both parties like,” Trump told a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I can live with either one.”
Apparently she didn’t watch Trump’s news conference yesterday.
Last week the administration sounded like their right hand didn’t know what their left hand was doing. This week it is beginning to sound like the right hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
So whom should I believe, Trump that clearly said that he doesn’t support it, or someone claiming that he does?