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Vice-President Vance: U.S. Won't Follow UK in Recognizing Palestinian State


(Sunday Times-UK) Oliver Wright - Meeting British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Friday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance was critical of the UK's changed position on recognition of a Palestinian state. Vance said, "We have no plans to recognize a Palestinian state. I don't know what it would mean to really recognize a Palestinian state, given the lack of functional government there." Vance said the U.S. had two "very simple" goals in Gaza. "Number one, we want to make it so that Hamas cannot attack innocent Israeli civilians ever again, and we think that has to come through the eradication of Hamas. Second, the president has been very moved by these terrible images of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, so we want to make sure that we solve that problem....Obviously, it's not an easy problem to solve, or it would have already been dealt with."
2025-08-10 00:00:00
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