Blinken Calls for ‘2-State’ Solution Amid Mounting Israel–Palestine Violence

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 4, 2023. Sarah Silbiger/Reuters

On the second day of a three-day Middle East tour, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Jan. 30 repeated calls for a “two-state” solution to the perennial Israel–Palestine conflict.

Blinken made the appeal amid steadily escalating Israeli–Palestinian violence that in recent days has claimed more than a dozen lives.