“There’s no doubt that in general the United States government has been much more attuned to the sensitivities of the Israelis and has yielded excessively to the circumstances in the Holy Land as Israel has confiscated several lands within Palestine,” Carter said at the opening of a two-day conference on US-Arab relations.
He added: “I hope that in the future we’ll see the United States taking a much more balanced position and doing everything possible to implement a two-state solution” that establishes an independent Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
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