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[Where Obama's Final Push for a Two-State Solution Leaves Trump | Christianity Today] Also: Reading the Reformation in 2017 | Scorsese's Faithless Characters | [View online] [ChristianityToday.org] [Donate] [Christianity Today Weekly Newsletter] Friday, January 13, 2017 SPEAKING OUT [Where Obama's Final Push for a Two-State Solution Leaves Trump] Two Christians explain the intensifying world debate over Israel's West Bank settlements. Gerald McDermott and Todd Deatherage Though the Obama administration has just one week left in office, Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to a Paris peace conference this weekend in a last-ditch effort to advocate for the two-state solution he strongly endorsed last month. In an unusually blunt December 28 address, Kerry said that Israel's settlements in the West Bank are obstacles to the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. "No one thinking seriously about peace can ignore the reality of what the settlements pose... 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