With less than two weeks left in the White House and the odds heavily against a peace deal, Clinton was emotional at times in revealing the " parameters " of a settlement he submitted to the two sides before Christmas, only to receive their conditional endorsement in return.
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European Union foreign ministers welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conditional endorsement of a future Palestinian state in June 2009, but said it was not enough to raise EU-Israel ties to a higher level and questioned the conditions set for backing a Palestinian state and Netanyahu's defense of Jewish settlements.
