President Joe Biden said Friday there has been no shift in his commitment to Israel's security, but insisted a two-state solution that includes a state for Palestinians remains ``the only answer'' to that conflict.
Biden spoke at a White House news conference on the first full day of a cease-fire after 11 days of Israeli-Hamas fighting that killed well over 200 people, most of them Palestinians in Gaza.
Biden, speaking at the end of a visit by the president of South Korea, also played down the idea that the newly ended fighting had opened a rift among Democrats, as scores of Democrats split with Biden's ``quiet diplomacy'' with ally Israel to publicly demand a cease-fire.
``My party still supports Israel,'' Biden said. ``Let's get something straight here,'' he added. ``Until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace.''
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