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Over the years. but never have we supported a one-time resolution that condemn israel in the strongest of terms with a flagrant violation of international law and accuses what israel is doing as imperilling the peace process. this is strong language anag lus to what the security council said about saddam when he inv e invadinvad invaded kuwait in 1990. this is change in policy, to go to the u.n. this way, not to support israel, to turn our back on another ally after turkey, syria, opposition fig...

Basis for negotiations over the past couple of decades. obviously, we know that has stalled in recent years under president obama. but it will be interesting to see if john kerry uses language that is very strong against israel or against the palestinians or if he moves those benchmarks that have been long established in addition to the tone he is using in rebutting these accusations coming out by israel. is this going to be a warning of sorts? or is this going to be more or less the same? artic...

Well, because theres a conference scheduled for next month. a meeting of about 70 different countries. held in france. designed to jump start the mideast peace process. this u.n. resolution was seen -- earlier this week was seen as a starting point for that and the fear among the israeli government and some in the israeli government is that this meeting in france will continue that thread. there will be another u.n. resolution and the trump administration hands will be tied as far as their own m...

He called john kerrys planned speech today anti-democratic. he accused the obama administration of being pro-palestinian. he said there were people who simply dont understand whats happening in the middle east. he said if john kerry lays out principles for a peace deal, as hes expected to do in that speech, it would limit president obamas ability to set his own policy on the conflict. all of that before the speech is even delivered. what can we expect from the speech? what we do know comes from ...

Process, not toward it. whats the point of all that, if barack obamas leaving office and it is clear that the incoming president-elect will have a decisively different posture toward israel, why -- >> it sounds like you have a working theory here. >> what do you mean? >> it sounds like you have an idea why the president might do that. why do you think the president would do something like that? its unclear. it doesnt seem constructive. i think george mitchell was right. you may disagree with the...

Secretary of state will say, craig. >> all right, thank you. im joined by nbcs ron allen. ron there in washington for us. ron, president-elect trump really going after president obama again this morning via his favorite vehicle for communication, twitter. >> exactly, craig. interesting that the president-elect is saying the transition is not going smooth. that one stood out because at the white house we constantly hear from the obama administration how they are bending over backwards and doing e...