In fundraiser video, Romney doubts two-state solution

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Mitt Romney expressed doubt that Israel and Palestine could ever come to a peaceful two-state agreement. The comments were made in May at a Boca Raton fundraiser where they were secretly taped and released by the liberal Mother Jones magazine.

Romney said he thinks "the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish." Romney added that a former secretary of state told him there was a prospect for peace between the two nations, but that he doubted that. The Republican presidential candidate concluded that the best strategy for the U.S. is to "kick the ball down the field" in hopes that "something will happen and resolve it":


And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say, "There's just no way." And so what you do is you say, "You move things along the best way you can." You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. We live with that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don't go to war to try and resolve it imminently.

In fundraiser video, Romney doubts two-state solution | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

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