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“Two State Solution Is Only Answer”: US Prez Joe Biden On Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Joe Biden on Friday said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the “only answer” to the conflict.

While pledging to help organize efforts to rebuild Gaza, US President Joe Biden on Friday said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the “only answer” to the conflict.

He had told the Israelis to stop “intercommunal fighting” in the flashpoint city of Jerusalem, Biden said.

However, the US President stressed “there is no shift in my commitment, commitment to the security of Israel” and added that until the region “unequivocally” acknowledges Israel’s existence “there will be no peace.”

The idea of two states consists of sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel and Jerusalem as their shared capital. The theory has been the cornerstone of decades of international diplomacy aimed at ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Biden on Friday insisted on a full-blown two state remedy.

“There is no shift in my commitment to the security of Israel, period, no shift, not at all,” he said.

“But I tell you what there is a shift in. The shift is that we still need a two-state solution. It is the only answer, the only answer,” Biden stated.

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In Massive Air India Data Breach, 45 Lakh Affected, Credit Cards Details Compromised

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Air India said the incident has affected around 45 lakh customers registered between 26th August 2011 and 3rd February 2021.

Air India has announced that in a massive cyber-attack on its data processor in February, ten years’ worth of Air India customer data including credit cards, passports and phone numbers have been leaked.

Air India, disclosing the scale of the breach nearly three months after it was first informed of it, said the incident has affected around 45 lakh customers registered between 26th August 2011 and 3rd February 2021.

In the ‘highly sophisticated’ attack that targeted Geneva-based passenger system operator SITA that serves the Star Alliance of airlines including Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and United besides Air India, Names, date of birth, contact information and ticket information have also been compromised.

In an email to customers, Air India said: “SITA PSS our data processor of the passenger service system (which is responsible for storing and processing of personal information of the passengers) had recently been subjected to a cybersecurity attack leading to personal data leak of certain passengers. This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the world.”

“While we had received the first notification in this regard from our data processor on 25.02.2021, we would like to clarify that the identity of the affected data subjects was only provided to us by our data processor on 25.03.2021 and 5.04.2021,” it added.

“The breach involved personal data registered between 26th August 2011 and 3rd February 2021, with details that included name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information, Star Alliance and Air India frequent flyer data (but no passwords data were affected) as well as credit cards data. However, in respect of this last type of data, CVV/CVC numbers are not held by our data processor,” the airline clarified.

 

It had launched an investigation into the incident and took steps including securing the compromised servers, engaging external specialists of data security incidents, contacting credit card issuers and resetting passwords of its frequent flyer programme, Air India said.

“While we and our data processor continue to take remedial actions…We would also encourage passengers to change passwords wherever applicable to ensure safety of their personal data,” it said.

 

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