Ma'an- A US State Department official denied a host of rumors on the progress of the peace process Friday, including reports that Washington would back a bid for a Palestinian state presented to the UN Security Council.
...As talks stalled in late September, reports in the Israeli press suggested that US mediators had promised to block action for a Palestinian state at the Security Council as part of a package of guarantees in exchange for a promise to halt Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian lands. Read more