US President Joe Biden said this Friday that the creation Palestinian state This is viable even with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power.

Asked whether a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “impossible” while Netanyahu was in power, Biden responded: “No, that’s not true.”

Moreover, he said that Netanyahu does not reject all two-state solutions and believed that there were several types of possible states, citing, for example, countries that were members of the United Nations and did not have Armed Forces.

“There are several types of two-state solutions (…) So I think there are ways in which this could work,” he said.

The American President spoke on the phone this Friday with Netanyahu, the day after the last one. expressed his disagreement with the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a possible post-conflict scenario in the Gaza Strip.

Reporters asked Biden if he was willing to limit the military aid the United States sends to Israel because of Netanyahu’s comments, to which the president responded: “I think we can come to an agreement“.

This Friday marked the first telephone conversation between both leaders in almost a month. His last call was on December 23.

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The White House assured that this call was not made because of Netanyahu’s comments regarding the creation of a Palestinian state, although it made it clear that Biden still believes a two-state solution This is the only solution to the conflict.

In addition to opposing the creation of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu refuses to allow the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, regain control of the Gaza Strip when the Israeli offensive ends.

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Both Biden and the European Union (EU) have repeatedly repeated his support for the two-state solution since the start of the Gaza war and have also advocated for the PNP to take control of the strip when the conflict ends, after it was ousted from the enclave when Hamas seized power by force in 2007.

Israel and Hamas have been at war since October 7., when an attack by an Islamist group killed 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostage. The Israeli army then launched a massive offensive into Gaza that killed 25,000 people, many of them women and children. (EFE)