A senior US diplomat in Tel Aviv said the US administration’s proposed peace plan between Israelis and Palestinian may not necessarily include the two-state solution.

“This is an ambitious plan and a feasible one; yet it does not impose or rule out a two-state solution,” Al-Monitor news site reported the unnamed diplomat as saying.

According to the diplomat the plan will include halting Israeli settlement expansion.

“It also includes rigid security and anti-terror measures for Israel for the long run and rejects the right of return for Palestinian refugees. The plan refers to Jerusalem only in a religious sense,” he said.

Meanwhile, the news site reported a senior official in the Israeli foreign ministry as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may respond to the US’ proposed plan “more positively than expected”.

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However, the source stressed that Netanyahu is not interested in a two-state solution, but he is ready to accept a Palestinian state “with limited sovereignty, providing that all of the West Bank remains under Israel’s security control”.

The US administration is expected to announce its plan in the coming weeks.