(Politico) Michael Crowley - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House on Wednesday will "usher in a new relationship between Israel and the United States...a relationship that will show there is no daylight [between the two countries]," a Trump White House official said Tuesday. White House officials said that Trump wouldn't seek to impose a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elliott Abrams, a former top national security official in the George W. Bush White House, applauded the White House's language. "The true goal is peace," Abrams said. "The positions of Israel and the [Palestine Liberation Organization] have long been that the best and quickest road to peace is the two-state solution. But that is not the goal; it is a means to an end. If it is impossible, or there are better means, we should be open to them. That's what I think the administration is saying, and they're right." "For both sides, the primary objective of this meeting is to change the political theater of the relationship," said Michele Flournoy, a former top Obama Pentagon official and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security. Their goal, Flournoy added, is "to change the vibe, the feeling" from the tensions of the Obama era.
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