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US envoy previews Biden's Israeli-Palestinian policy at the United Nations

Washington plans to reestablish diplomatic missions with the Palestinian Authority and defend Israel from "bias" at the UN.

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How will the Israeli envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, work together with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US envoy-designate to the UN? Erdan (L), who also is Israel's ambassador to Washington, is seen at a hotel in Jerusalem on Dec. 11, 2018, while Thomas-Greenfield speaks during an event announcing her nomination in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 24, 2020. — AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images / CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s administration said Tuesday that it would work to restore diplomatic ties with Palestinian leaders while pushing for an eventual two-state solution, all the while continuing to urge Middle Eastern countries to establish formal relations with Israel.

The new US administration will “support a mutually agreed two-state solution in which Israel lives in peace and security alongside a viable Palestinian state,” acting US envoy to the United Nations Richard Mills said during a debate held by the Security Council on Tuesday.

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