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i24 News: Senior aid says Biden against annexation but will keep US embassy in J’lem
April 30, 2020
A top-level aide to former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee is against Israel’s unilateral annexation of the West Bank, as laid out in the Trump administration peace plan and which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports.
According to online publication Jewish Insider, senior foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken said that Biden had been “on the record several times [that] unilateral steps taken by either side that make the prospect of a negotiated two-state outcome less likely is something he opposes, and that includes annexation.”
Blinken made the comments while speaking via webinar to representatives of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.