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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Trump declines to commit to backing Palestinian state as in previous term: ‘A lot of plans change’
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Sitting alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump declines to commit to supporting a Palestinian state, as he did in the peace plan he presented in his previous term.
“Well, a lot of plans change with time. A lot of death has occurred since I left and now came back,” he says when asked about his 2020 plan that did make that provision.
“Now we are faced with a situation that’s different,” he says, “in some ways better, in some ways worse.”