Israel does not want to control the Palestinians, Shimon Peres told the United Nations. The Israeli foreign minister told the U.N.’s General Assembly in New York on Thursday that “there is support for a Palestinian state,” although, he added, this is not a “formal policy of the government of Israel.”
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