JD Vance Asked For Response To UK's Decision To Recognize Palestinian State Right In Front Of UK FM

During a meeting with UK PM David Lammy, Vice President JD Vance was asked about the UK's intention of recognizing a Palestinian state.

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00:00of the day. Mr. Vice President, some big issues in the Middle East. What do you make of the UK's

00:04decision to recognize the state of Palestine? Do you think that's a bad decision? Well, it's one of

00:08the things that we're going to talk about. Obviously, the United Kingdom is going to make

00:11its decision. We have no plans to recognize a Palestinian state. I don't know what it would

00:16mean to really recognize a Palestinian state, given the lack of a functional government there.

00:20What the president has made very clear is our two goals are very simple right now vis-a-vis the

00:25situation in Israel and Gaza. Number one, it's we want to make it so that Hamas cannot attack

00:30innocent Israeli civilians ever again. And we think that has to come through the eradication of Hamas.

00:36Second, the president has been very moved by these terrible images of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

00:41So we want to make sure that we solve that problem. I think all of us can work on how to solve that

00:45problem. Obviously, it's not an easy problem to solve or it would have already been dealt with.

00:49But we share, I think, that focus and that goal. We may have some disagreements about how exactly

00:54to accomplish that goal. And we'll talk about that today. Mr. Vice President.