Sen. Welch delivers letter to President Biden urging him to take action to help improve relations between the Israeli government and Palestinians in response to a recent surge in violence in the region.
“I am gravely concerned that Mr. Netanyahu’s regime dismisses the long-term security threat his government’s policy of de facto annexation poses to Israel,” the freshman senator wrote. “If this policy continues, our advocacy for the two-state solution is meaningless. Despite increasing obstacles, the two-state solution must be reinvigorated.”
Welch, who recently returned from a congressional visit to Israel, delivered the letter to Biden on Thursday afternoon as the president stopped by Capitol Hill to speak at Senate Democrats' weekly lunch.Welch was part of a congressional delegation led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week.
In his letter to Biden, Welch also wrote:"It is time to acknowledge what is painfully apparent: as far as the Netanyahu government is concerned, the two-state solution is dead.” He noted the"escalation of conflict in the West Bank" the day after his delegation departed Israel,"resulting in the deaths of Israelis and a Palestinian, and attacks on Palestinian homes."
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