But theyre out of patience. And we couldnt contain that. And as you know, they went to the u. N. And i spent three weeks over Christmas Holiday working to keep people that we would like to be working with constructively from doing something negative. And in the end, by a vote where they didnt get the nine votes at the u. N. , so now we never had to exercise a veto. But theres a great deal of frustration build and this is not the moment to go into it in any depths. You know, were very anxious not to get dragged into the election process. Were not going to. Israel has the this important election coming up and they need to do it without us commenting from the sidelines. Im not going to go further on this. I just say to you we wish the palestinians had behaved differently. And thats why theyre not getting aid right now. And therefore maybe some other people we think others are going to step up and try to help bridge the gap in order to get them over the hurdle. But when the israeli electio
And what kind of, negotiations pressure whatever you want to call it, are we entering into with the u. N. So that does not happen again . Well, which, the short fall itself the u. N. World Food Programme . Right. Unfortunately people have made pledges arent stepping up and demand is increasing and this has reached it is largest humanitarian crisis on the planet today and it is going to get worse. Im sitting here, this is part of frustration. It is going to get worse. We are the largest single donor in the world and we should be proud of that. More than 3 billion weve put on the table since 2011 more than any donor. We had three million into the red crescent to provide syrians and refugees from kobani. We put 133 million into the world Food Programme and other partners because of the emergency needs. Its not sustainable and its one of the reasons why were looking at this question and syria and other things with great urgency right nows as to what other alternatives may be available. 201
Are in the middle of delicate negotiations . Was it a wise move to ignore the administration in terms of appearing in front of a joint session of congress . What are your thoughts on that . Secretary kerry my thoughts are that you as a secretarys have leeway to make up your own minds about how you feel about this. My job is to work with the Prime Minister of israel to maintain security to honor our very strong relationship, and i speak with the Prime Minister more than any other leader. I speak with him later. I speak with him regularly. The enduring relationship we has, nobody should question that relationship. You all have to make up your own minds about the propriety of the way this unfolded or what happened. We are going to proceed about our business, which is protecting the country in maintaining the integrity of these relationships and that includes israel. I will be, i know i have been focused on iran negotiations in ukraine and afghanistan and a bunch of other things. I will be
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Accommodate that kind of demand driven by change and growth unless we invest in transportation today. And specifically public transport. Of course more people means more people trying to get to work and because this is america it also means more people starting and growing businesses and they will need to connect to workers. A very recent example. When the big blizzard in january shutdown bostons Public Transportation Massachusetts General Hospital had a real problem. According to the hospital, nearly half of their employees take public transit. So in the midst of this very dangerous storm they were literally working overtime to make sure they could get enough on every shift to serve their patients. That is the situation that is not as unique as it sounds. In atlanta, University Study looked at 50 Industry Sectors that make up the regions economy and it found that 14 of the 18,000 fastestgrowing sectors are among those whose workers rely heavily on local Transit Services to get to and