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UAE: US should push for quick end to war

 
ABU DHABI: The diplomatic adviser to the president of the UAE on Saturday said the United States needs to push for a quick end to the war and that a new process must be found for the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian issue or the United States would be seen as ineffective.

Anwar Gargash also said that Israel's policy of containment that has been the 'hallmark' of the Palestinian issue for the past two decades had failed and called for a new approach that addresses refugees, borders and East Jerusalem.

'US involvement will be seen by when we end this war, the quicker the better, and whether we can have another you know, sort of process at problem solving, at issue solving,' he said at a policy conference in the capital Abu Dhabi.

'If this crisis continues, and especially the humanitarian side, and if this crisis, brings us back full circle, to the old containment policy of pre-Seventh of October, I think the American role here is not going to be, forget right and wrong, is not going to be seen as effective,' he added. - Reuters