Israel resuming talks with Palestine is the US’ condition for recognizing the former’s annexation of parts of the West Bank, the State Department said. Palestinians argue, in that case, there’d be nothing left to negotiate.
“As we have made consistently clear, we are prepared to recognize Israeli actions to extend Israeli sovereignty and the application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank that the vision foresees as being part of the State of Israel,” a US State Department spokesperson told the Times of Israel paper. However, they specified that it would require Israel “agreeing to negotiate with the Palestinians along the lines set forth in President [Donald] Trump’s vision.”
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