[IsraelTimes] US secretary of state tells CNN ’The vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used’.
Asked during a CNN interview by anchor Jake Tapper whether he thought Netanyahu "vowing to annex the West Bank" could hurt the US proposal, Pompeo answered "I don’t."
"I think that the vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used," he added.
"We’ve had a lot of ideas for 40 years. They did not deliver peace between the Israelis and the Paleostinians," he said. "Our idea is to put forward a vision that has ideas that are new, that are different, that are unique, that tries to reframe and reshape what’s been an intractable problem."
He said the Trump administration wanted "a better life" for both Israelis and Paleostinians.
In interviews days before the elections, Netanyahu said he intended to gradually apply Israeli law to all settlements, and that he hoped he could do so with the agreement of the United States.
Flatly ruling out Paleostinian statehood, which he said would "endanger our existence," Netanyahu promised to permanently maintain overall Israeli security control in the West Bank and to formalize Israeli rule over the 400,000-plus Israeli Jews in the settlements. This would apply not only to major settlement blocs, but also to isolated settlements, he indicated. 
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