Top Palestinian official Saeb Erekat says that Israel must give all Palestinians full voting rights if it refuses to agree to a Palestinian state, hours after a senior White House official appeared to backtrack from the US’s traditional for a two-state solution.
“Contrary to [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s plan of one state and two systems, apartheid, the only alternative to two sovereign and democratic states on the 1967 border is one single secular and democratic state with equal rights for everyone, Christians, Muslims, and Jews, on all of historic Palestine,” Erekat says during a meeting with the speaker of the UK House of Commons, John Bercow, in Ramallah.
Hours before Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were set to meet for the first time since the president took office, the White House announced Tuesday that Washington will seek to broker a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, but that a two-state solution may not be the framework to bring that peace to fruition and that the president will not insist on it.
— Raphael Ahren
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