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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
State Department declines to say if US still supports two-state solution
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce repeatedly declines to say whether Washington still backs a two-state solution after US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said otherwise in an interview with Bloomberg.
“I’m not going to parse the ambassador’s remarks,” Bruce says.
Bruce says that the foreign policy issue is a question for the White House, not the State Department.
Q: Is the two-state solution a goal of the State Department currently?
TAMMY BRUCE: When it comes to the policy of the United States, that sits with President Donald Trump
Q: But the secretary of state is in charge of foreign policy
BRUCE: Secretary Rubio implements President… pic.twitter.com/sU8puD3Lhb
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