Palestine issue remains key to stability, peace: Top US official
THE PALESTINE issue might have dropped off the front pages of late, but it remains fundamental to peace in the region, a top US official has said. Talking to a select group of mediapersons in Muscat yesterday (June 21, 2011), Jeffrey D. Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, said a two-state solution was not only in the interest of the Middle East, but for the United States as well. “But we have to overcome a lot of mistrust, a lot of history for that,” he said, while adding that the solution has to be eked out through negotiations only. “The Israelis needRead More →