During a Tuesday meeting with Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Special Envoy for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, and Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell, Jordan’s king said any attempt to renew negotiations must be based on an end goal of two states, according to a readout provided by the Jordanian Royal Court.
The meeting in Amman “focused on efforts to push forward the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and re-launch serious and effective negotiations between the two sides based on the two-state solution, which is the only way to end the conflict,” the statement said.
Those discussions came two days before the Kushner-led team was scheduled to meet separately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
The current US administration has not explicitly backed the two-state formula.
The Palestinians were demanding the US explicitly express its backing of the two-state solution before talks may resume. READ MORE
