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| US officials rule out Israel peace deal before Obama leaves office | US officials rule out Israel peace deal before Obama leaves office |
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| Barack Obama has made a “realistic assessment” that a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians is not possible during his final months in office, US officials have said. | Barack Obama has made a “realistic assessment” that a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians is not possible during his final months in office, US officials have said. |
| The officials spoke to reporters before the visit of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to the White House on Monday. It will be the first time the American president and Netanyahu have met since the US and its international partners reached a nuclear accord with Iran. | |
| Netanyahu was a chief critic of the deal and lobbied Republicans in Congress to oppose its implementation. | Netanyahu was a chief critic of the deal and lobbied Republicans in Congress to oppose its implementation. |
| While the nuclear accord is expected to be a major focus of the leaders’ talks, they will also discuss the fresh wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that began two months ago at a Jerusalem holy site and spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. | While the nuclear accord is expected to be a major focus of the leaders’ talks, they will also discuss the fresh wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that began two months ago at a Jerusalem holy site and spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
| Officials said Obama and Netanyahu would discuss steps to prevent further confrontation between the parties in the absence of a peace agreement. They said that while Obama remains committed to a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, he does not believe it is possible before he leaves office in January 2017, barring a major shift. | |
| Obama and Netanyahu have long had a tense relationship, which was further strained by the US president’s pursuit of the deal with Iran. Netanyahu regards Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon as an existential threat to Israel and has argued that the agreement leaves Tehran within reach of making a nuclear bomb. | Obama and Netanyahu have long had a tense relationship, which was further strained by the US president’s pursuit of the deal with Iran. Netanyahu regards Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon as an existential threat to Israel and has argued that the agreement leaves Tehran within reach of making a nuclear bomb. |