by KYW’s Mideast Bureau Chief Jay Bushinsky
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had created a "national consensus around the term 'two states for two peoples."'
This could be billed as a diplomatic victory for the Obama Administration -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making the US-backed two-state solution to the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians into government policy.
In so doing, however, he told the weekly cabinet meeting that the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state is conditional on its recognition of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.
Netanyahu said this rules out the idea that the Arab refugees, who fled during the 1948 war, can and will have the right of return.
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