Israel could become an apartheid state if peace negotiations fail, John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has warned.
Mr Kerry said the country could be faced with a large population of second-class citizens if it did not succeed in negotiating a two-state solution – with Israel alongside an independent Palestine - to end the Middle-East conflict.
According to the Daily Beast website, he made the remark at a closed-door meeting of the trilateral commission of international leaders.
He said: "A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second class citizens - or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state."
