Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex parts of the West Bank, while President Donald Trump won’t commit to a two-state solution in his perpetually delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Meanwhile, Democrats on Capitol Hill are arguing among themselves about a single word in a symbolic resolution that endorses a two-state solution to the conflict.
Rank-and-file Democrats are accusing the party leadership of trying to water down and slow walk the resolution, which Democrats initially introduced to reaffirm a decades-long bipartisan pillar of US policy that has started to unravel under the Trump administration.