Trump Declines Two-state Solution: ‘Peace … Can Take Different Forms’

President-elect Donald Trump declined Thursday to support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying he is open to whatever achieves peace, but that there was a need to consider “alternatives” toward that goal.
Trump’s remarks came in his interview with Time magazine, which named him “Person of the Year” for 2024 — an astonishing marker in achieving what historians will regard as the greatest political comeback in American history.

From the transcript (original emphasis):

You mentioned the Palestinian people. In your first term, your administration put forward the most comprehensive plan for a two-state solution in a long time. Do you still support that plan?
I support a plan of peace, and it can take different forms. When I did the Abraham Accords, that should have been loaded up with people, you know. I made a statement. I think they didn’t add one country. Think of it. They didn’t add one country to the Abraham Accords. We had the four countries, very important countries, but that should have been loaded up with Middle Eastern countries.

Do you still support a two-state solution?

I support whatever solution we can do to get peace. There are other ideas other than two state, but I support whatever, whatever is necessary to get not just peace, a lasting peace. It can’t go on where every five years you end up in tragedy. There are other alternatives.

Your incoming ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, supports the settlement movement and Israel annexing the West Bank. The real question at the heart of this, sir, is, do you want to get a two-state deal done, outlined in your Peace to Prosperity deal that you put forward, or are you willing to let Israel annex the West Bank?

So what I want is a deal where there’s going to be peace and where the killing stops.

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Trump Declines Two-state Solution: 'Peace ... Can Take Different Forms'

Trump declined to back a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying he wants to reach peace but there are "alternatives."

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[Tall Timbers]

I suggest Israel march all the "palestinians" in Gaza to Syria which is wide open to Israel at the moment, then annex gaza. Do the same with the inhabitants of the west bank and then annex that, too.

 

[Margery]

That reads like a play nice OR ELSE message to Hamas in Gaza, the "West Bank" terrorists which lines up with his previous message to get the hostages home by the time he reaches the Oval Office or ELSE! (I'm paraphrasing here)

The way he avoids mentioning a 2 state Solution, and talks up the Abe Accords suggests that he's going for the Abe Accords negotiations, and the Abe Accords DON'T give away ANY land to anyone.

I hope he's gotten beyond any land for peace deals which was the heart of his earlier Deal of the Century. Even though he used a new approach it still carved up the "West Bank" aka Judea and Samaria.

It kind of sounds like he's not going back to that.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

That reads like a play nice OR ELSE message to Hamas in Gaza, the "West Bank" terrorists which lines up with his previous message to get the hostages home by the time he reaches the Oval Office or ELSE! (I'm paraphrasing here)

The way he avoids mentioning a 2 state Solution, and talks up the Abe Accords suggests that he's going for the Abe Accords negotiations, and the Abe Accords DON'T give away ANY land to anyone.

I hope he's gotten beyond any land for peace deals which was the heart of his earlier Deal of the Century. Even though he used a new approach it still carved up the "West Bank" aka Judea and Samaria.

It kind of sounds like he's not going back to that.

Maybe his evangelical inner circle pointed out the consequence of what happened to him in 2020 when he suggested the 2 state solution

 

[AnyMinute]

Maybe his evangelical inner circle pointed out the consequence of what happened to him in 2020 when he suggested the 2 state solution

I hope Mike Huckabee gets confirmed as ambassador to Israel and is able to biblically influence Trump concerning dividing the land. He's (Huckabee) always seemed solid but I'm not sure what his eschatological views are now that I think about it.

 

[Batman]

God is not going to be happy with the USA or any govt that gets involved in a land for peace, two-state, or other similar sell out of Israel.....HIS land!

 

[Work4Peanuts]

I hope Mike Huckabee gets confirmed as ambassador to Israel and is able to biblically influence Trump concerning dividing the land. He's (Huckabee) always seemed solid but I'm not sure what his eschatological views are now that I think about it.

As someone from Arkansas, where, if you don't personally know someone, you know someone who does know that someone (that's starting to change, but as of now, the "good ol boy" network still stands) Huckabee was a Southern Baptist preacher, when Southern Baptist preachers were rock solid in the Word. Both my childhood pastor (which is who I learned eschatology from) and my current pastor have met and known him, and speak highly of him.