Jason Greenblatt, the former White House envoy to the Middle East during the Trump administration, expressed his opinion today on his X account (formerly Twitter) about the report of a reporter “Wala!” Barak Ravid, according to which the US State Department is examining recognition of a Palestinian state as part of a day-after initiative.
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“This would be a huge mistake, a betrayal of Israel and would make things much more complicated to achieve something real down the road that could benefit everyone,” he wrote.
“This effort must be stopped immediately. It will further entrench an intransigent Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, and strengthen Hamas and other terrorists to continue their bloody rampage. Truly the definition of an “absolutely terrible idea.”
As you may recall, according to Ravid’s report, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ordered the US State Department to prepare a staff work that will examine the possibility of US and international recognition of the state of Palestine the day after the war in Gaza, so said two senior US administration officials.
The fact that the US State Department is examining this possibility indicates a change in thinking within the Biden administration on an issue that is considered extremely sensitive both internationally and politically internally in the United States. For decades, the policy of the United States has been to oppose the recognition of Palestine as a state – both bilaterally and in the UN institutions – and to make it clear that a Palestinian state will only be achieved through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been strongly opposed for years to any recognition of a Palestinian state by individual countries and by UN institutions.