Trump talks Israel, Venezuela

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump is endorsing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He says that while he’s with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “100 percent,” Israel will have to do something that is good for the other side.
While meeting with Netanyahu on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly today, Trump said “deals have to be good for both parties,” but that he thinks the Palestinians “actually want to do something.”
Last week, eight European Union nations urged Israel to reconsider its planned demolition of a Palestinian community on the West Bank and said they will not give up on a negotiated two-state solution with Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a new Palestinian state.
Meanwhile, Trump says all U.S. options are on the table to help end the political, economic and humanitarian chaos in Venezuela — even the “strong ones.”
Reporters pummeled Trump with questions about whether the U.S. would ever intervene in the South American country. Venezuela’s inflation and homicide rates are among the highest in the world and more than 2 million people have fled the violence and conflict in recent years.
The Trump administration on Tuesday slapped financial sanctions on four members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s inner circle, including his wife and the nation’s vice president, on allegations of corruption.
Asked if he would meet with Maduro, Trump said he would meet with anybody if it would help ease the suffering in Venezuela, which he described as a “disgrace.”