Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not offered a framework leading to a sovereign Palestinian State in the near future, despite having acknowledged his misleading comments on opposing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US President Barack Obama said.
Obama stressed that even if the US accepts the corrective of Prime Minister Netanyahu, "there still does not appear to be a prospect of a meaningful framework established that would lead to a Palestinian state even if there were a whole range of conditions and security requirements that might be phased in over a long period of time, which was always the presumption," RIA Novosti cited him.
"We cannot pretend that there’s a possibility of something that’s not there. We cannot continue to base our public diplomacy on something that everybody knows is not going to happen at least in the next several years," the head of the USA said.
Obama stressed that the United States is still committed to achieving a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will continue intelligence and military cooperation with Israel.
