International opinion on a two state solution for Palestine and Israel 2016-2017

01/31/2016

Grouped Articles

Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel

New York Times 01/31/2016

Ban Ki Moon, Ban, Ki Moon

World Leaders Gather to Mourn Shimon Peres, and Possibly His Dream

The New York Times 09/30/2016

Peter Baker

Trump, Meeting With Netanyahu, Backs Away From Palestinian State

The New York Times 02/15/2017

Peter Baker, Mark Landler

Israeli prime minister Netanyahu's effort to backtrack from comments about about a two state solution and the Obama White House's response in March 2015

02/25/2015

The Obama White House says following the election victory of Netanyahu that the White House is free to support a two state resolution at the UN. The U.S. Congress has voted unanimously for a two state solution giving the White House support for its new position. To get his own right wing supporters to the polls Netanyahu said before the election that he did not support a Palestinian state. In a speech in 2009 at Bar Ilan University Netanyahu had supported a two state solution. The sudden surge for Netanyahu days prior to the vote is attributed to this move. Netanyahu tried to retract his statement as expected in an interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, saying that under the current conditions with terrorism in the Middle East and failure of the Palestinian Authority to abandon its alliance with Hamas no peace was possible making a two state solution inachievable, but he still supported the idea in the right conditions. Netanyahu also had made comments that Israeli Arabs were "voting in droves" which were seen inside Israel and in the U.S. and Arab world as racist baiting. Netanyahu told Mitchell that Israeli Arabs voting was "sacrosanct" and that he was only trying to get his own supporters to vote. Suggestive of the rifts created in the election most interviews were given selectively to Israeli television stations. Netanyahu is now broadening his reach by talking to NBC, MSNBC, and Fox News of the U.S., but no response is given to NYT requests so far. Some experts see the rift between Netanyahu and Obama as irreparable, and now carried to a new level, as the comments seen as racist baiting on Israeli Arabs were discussed in a phone conversation between the two leaders.

Grouped Articles

Israel’s Netanyahu Reopens Door to Palestinian State, but White House Is Unimpressed

New York Times 03/19/2015

Jodi Rudoren, Jodi, Rudoren, Michael D. Shear, Michael, D., Shear

Cracks Appear in Democratic-Jewish Alliance Over Iran Deal, Netanyahu

Wall Street Journal 04/04/2015

Peter Nicholas, Peter, Nicholas

Talk Toughens as U.S.-Israel Relations Fray

New York Times 02/25/2015

Peter Baker, Peter, Baker, Jodi Rudoren, Jodi, Rudoren

How Obama Abandoned Israel

Wall Street Journal 06/16/2015

Michael B. Oren, Michael, B., Oren

The President Against the Historian

Wall Street Journal 06/30/2015

Bret Stephens, Bret, Stephens

Obama and Netanyahu: A Story of Slights and Crossed Signals

New York Times 11/08/2015

Peter Baker, Peter, Baker, Jodi Rudoren, Jodi, Rudoren