US president to make push for demilitarised Palestinian state: Report

US President Joe Biden is homing in on a new doctrine involving an unprecedented push to immediately advance the creation of a demilitarised but viable Palestinian state, The New York Times' Thomas Friedman says.

The plan, Friedman writes, "would involve some form of US recognition of a demilitarised Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that would come into being only once Palestinians had developed a set of defined, credible institutions and security capabilities to ensure that this state was viable and that it could never threaten Israel," Friedman said.

"If the administration can pull this together - a huge if - a Biden Doctrine could become the biggest strategic realignment in the region since the 1979 Camp David treaty," Friedman added.