White House Chief Of Staff: 50 Years Of Israeli Occupation Must End

Denis McDonough speaks at the J Street Conference in Washington on March 23, 2015. Press TV

Haaretz: White House chief of staff: 50 years of Israeli occupation must end

U.S. cannot pretend Netanyahu didn't say no Palestinian state would be established on his watch, Denis McDonough tells J Street conference in Washington.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough made it clear on Monday that the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations over the issue of a Palestinian state remains, despite efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to clarify remarks he made late in the election campaign that no such state would be established on his watch.

“We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made,” McDonough told the J Street conference in Washington, whose left-leaning audience received his remarks enthusiastically.

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