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No Israel-Palestinian Solution during Obama Presidency, White House Assesses
(Jerusalem Post) Michael Wilner - The White House has made the "realistic assessment" that a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians will not come to pass during the remainder of President Obama's presidency, senior administration officials said Thursday. Rob Malley, National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East, told reporters: "The prospect of a two-state solution is not in the cards for the time that's remaining." The president's aides indicated that during Prime Minister Netanyahu's meeting with the president in Washington on Nov. 9, Obama will ask him to put forward ideas for a path forward "in the absence of negotiations." Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, told the Jerusalem Post that tension between the two governments over Iran amounted to an unavoidable policy disagreement - not a personal one - that both governments hope to put in the past.