President Biden is signaling for the first time what his plan would be for the day after the war in Gaza — a new generation of peace talks in the Middle East on a "two-state solution" in which Israel would co-exist with a Palestinian state.
Why it matters: Biden's call for a "concentrated effort" to begin talking about a two-state solution represents a pivot for the president.
So far he's focused largely on trying to avoid conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank — and securing a big peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, there's no going back to the "status quo" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority as it stood on Oct. 6, Biden said Wednesday during a news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
"Hamas can't continue to terrorize Israeli citizens.... When this crisis is over there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view it has to be a two-state solution," Biden said."It means a concentrated effort to put us on a path towards peace."
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