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Obama says two-state deal unlikely after Netanyahu’s comments

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that it was difficult to envision how a Palestinian state could be formed following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\'s negative comments during his recent re-election campaign.
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March 24, 2015

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that it was difficult to envision how a Palestinian state could be formed following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's negative comments during his recent re-election campaign.

Netanyahu has sought to walk back comments made before the election campaign that a Palestinian state would not be established on his watch. Obama told a news conference that even after that “corrective,” the prospects of a two-state deal appeared dim.

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