[...]the agreement provided for the Israel Defense Forces to redeploy from the major cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Nablus, Bethleham, Ramallah (to be included in Area A), and from about 450 Palestinian villages and smaller communities (to be included in Area B). President Clinton proposed the following: a Palestinian state in 97 percent of the West Bank, 100 percent of Gaza (and a land link between the two), the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem would become the capital of the Palestinian state, a right for Palestinian refugees to settle in a future Palestinian state (along with an international fund of $30 billion USD that would be put together for either compensation or to cover repatriation, resettlement and rehabilitation costs), some form of sovereignty over parts of the Temple Mount, and many other historic proposals. Secretary of State John Kerry's Remarks on Middle East Peace - 2016 https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/12/266119.htm Summary taken from the Washington Post: Secretary of State John F. Kerry harshly criticized Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying their growth threatens to destroy the viability of a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and that the United States was obliged to allow passage of a U.N. resolution condemning the activity...

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