Steve Clemons: Trump ‘Stuck a Knife in the Back of the Two-State Process’

‘It’s a remarkable departure from the past’

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CLEMONS: "I think it’s an enormous change. You have Donald Trump essentially smiling at both parties, but he stuck a knife in the back of the two-state process. I spoke to former foreign minister of Israel, former Likud Party member who's still in the Knesset in Israel just a week ago, and she fears that these kind of steps, not having anticipated this particular step, but the various directions in both U.S.-Israel relations and what’s happening in Israel, if we didn’t get to a credible two-state solution, that Israel would not be able to maintain its democratic character, that we would see elements of apartheid develop, that we would see illiberal democratic Israeli state with Arab — I won’t call them citizens, but with Arabs and Palestinians living in the country under occupation forever." 

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