National security adviser John Bolton defended calling Palestine a “so-called state,” saying Wednesday “it is not a state.”

Bolton, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, said that denying Palestine’s statehood isn’t counterproductive as the Trump administration prepares to unveil a Mideast peace plan.

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