Obama expresses commitment to two-state solution

US President Barack Obama is sent his “warmest wishes” to the Israeli people as Israel celebrate 66 years of independence, pledging to work with Israel “to support a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict” with the Palestinian people.

Such a solution, Obama said, must ensure “that the Israelis will live alongside their neighbors in peace and with security.”

The American president’s Yom Ha’atzmaut message referred to Israel as a “diverse and vibrant democracy,” and as a “start-up nation.”

“Generations of Jews dreamed of the day when the Jewish people would have their own state in their historic homeland…

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