On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) stated that while he supports a two-state solution with a Palestinian state, “You can’t just declare it because that doesn’t make it be.” And saying that a Palestinian state should exist is “the easy part. The hard part is the negotiations to get there and who is to negotiate it. And so, for me, in my viewpoint, we also need to have a Palestinian voice. That cannot be Hamas. And it does not seem that, at this juncture, that the Palestinian Authority has the authority of the Palestinians to be the one that’s there.”

Meeks said, “I think that what the world is calling for is an end to the war in Gaza, because they see, every day, the number of individuals, women, children, men

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