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Between president obama and israelis prime minister, benjamin netanyahu? >> you know, im a national security analyst and im never supposed to be surprised. im supposed to be anticipating all of these things and this is so keystone cops and its unbelievable, that the peace talks are dead and that the president could actually put a proposal on them to make them seem more dead is unbelievable and basically to sit there with netanyahu and in a sense, let him shellack him in public, which i can only ...

Angry right now. >> the king of jordan is getting his perspective, saying the white house was going to seal the deal. >> its obvious hes optimistic about this but i think he could be only one of the only people. the white house has put out feelers. ive seen quotes saying the pre-1967 border thing is a starting point for negotiations more than anything. i dont know where hes getting his optimism from at this point, actually. >> given that and what you said about the white house, do you think the ...

Has a potential to define a lot of what else is happening. >> obamas speech at apack will be historic. if he wants to retreat at least strengthen assurances to israel in any way it will happen in that speech. if he leaves everything as if without the shoring up of the stuff he left out or left ambiguous there will be a huge rift between him and the pro israel community which i would add is about nine tenths gender. its not about apac is about gentiles and jews alienating a huge cconstituent. >> ...

And for all? >> i think thats right. i think hes responding to this unilateral declaration initiative that the palestinians are rolling out. they have really laid a lot of ground work so that -- and theyve been lobbying their latin american companies and european companies that agreed to this in the 1967 border formulation. so i think the israelis are a little bit late and i think netanyahu understands this right now. so hes come to the u.s. he gave his impassioned speech in the oval office. hes...

Lobby in washington, d.c. hes going straight into the lions den to defend this proposal. >> thats one lions den. you can talk about gop contenders or those jumping into the race for the presidential race. lets talk about the republicans who jumped on obama here, michele bachmann making comment, mitt romney saying obama threw israel under the bus. do you see this as becoming an issue in 2012? >> yes, i do. i absolutely do. the middle east is already a huge issue, foreign policy has become probabl...

Of what else is happening. >> obamas speech at apack will be historic. if he wants to retreat at least strengthen assurances to israel in any way it will happen in that speech. if he leaves everything as if without the shoring up of the stuff he left out or left ambiguous there will be a huge rift between him and the pro israel community which i would add is about nine tenths gender. its not about apac is about gentiles and jews alienating a huge cconstituent. >> prime minister netanyahu address...

Borders. on the other hand, they didnt talk about jerusalem or refugees, which was a bone to the prime minister. but this is going to open up divisions on the eve of a big meeting tomorrow. and the president was supposed to speak at apac, and the prime minister will have the final word before congress. so more stay tuned. >> a tough meeting, potentially, between the president and netanyahu tomorrow, or are they just going to sort of brush aside the difficulties and move on? >> brush aside. no re...

Maneuvering room he said we really want to rebuild trust with president obama. rebuild. they concede its broken, but he also said, quote, theyre asking to us do the impossible. so the prime minister very clearly feels he has very little room to maneuver because of his own very tough domestic politics. >> the coalition government that the prime minister has, he has a lot of right-wingers in the coalition and the government could collapse. if he were to make a promise to stop construction of new h...

Sanger joins us now. first of all, there was a very convenient fact that the prime minister arrives for the annual meeting of apac, so there wouldnt have been the awkwardness of are they going to meet the prime minister. now, president obamas going to be here. how are they going to get around that issue? >> it is a little awkward. the previous thought was that hed meet vice president biden. asso it wasnt clear how that meeting would play out. now, the president obama does not see prime minister ...

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