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Obama envoy tells Israel U.S. wants Palestinian state

Jerusalem - U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy told Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on Thursday that Washington wants to see the creation of a Palestinian state. I reiterated to the foreign minister that U.S. policy favours, with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution which will have a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel envoy George Mitchell told reporters, with Lieberman at his side.

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Netanyahu demands Palestinians recognize 'Jewish state'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting U.S. envoy George Mitchell on Thursday that his government would condition talks over Palestinian statehood on the Palestinians first recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. ''Israel expects the Palestinians to first recognize Israel as a Jewish state before talking about two states for two peoples,'' a senior official in Netanyahu's office quoted the new prime minister as telling Mitchell, U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East.

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