(USA Today) Oren Dorell - Samantha Sutton, special assistant to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations at the U.S. State Department, said the U.S. position on the recognition of a Palestinian state has not changed. "We continue to believe that the preferred path to resolve this conflict is for the parties to reach an agreement on final status issues directly." If France recognizes a Palestinian state, the move would have no practical effect on Palestinian or Israeli lives, but it would have symbolic impact and increase diplomatic pressure on Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a former State Department peace negotiator. Miller called the French proposal "bone headed" on Twitter and said it won't work.
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