we also need to be focused on the day after. and so in conversations that we ll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you ll see a focus there, and particularly how we can get over time two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they are entitled to. so, these roadway the things that we are focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place, that s what we ll be working to do. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on, are you confident you ll be able to get them to make movement on this, given the positions we have seen from israelis? as we said and it s impor
that this one senator is having this kind of an impact on our operational readiness and if you don t think it isn t, i would urge him or anybody else who doubts this, go on down to tampa, florida and talk to the folks in central command about the priorities and what they are trying to do on behalf of our administration s policy in the middle east, especially right now with everything going on. it s having an impact and as karine rightly said, an impact on family members, can t get schools for the kids, can t buy or rent houses, don t know where they are going to be living next. absolutely ridiculous. the vice president was over in london and said if israel and ukraine were bifurcated the president would veto it. you over the last couple of days have explained that you would be something offset, especially involving the irs. but i wanted to be clear, if the president was presented with a clean israel funding bill without ukraine, he would veto that as well? the president b
and briefly, david, there is news out of car auk yas where they re describing that he is back home in venezuela, and now they ve expelled a defense atache which they ve accused of u.s. defense attache who they accused of spying on them. it seems we ll have a lot of turmoil coming up in venezuela, one way or the other. absolutely. the door is opening now with chavez in his final days. certainly of exercising power. the door is opening for venezuela. it s something they take very seriously. it will be interesting to see in this post-chavez era how brazil falls, whether brazil alines itself as a pro-american force in the region or sort of hit its anti-americanism behind chavez. he won t be able. just to add one thing. i was really struck in your interview with john kerry, he is on the team. i mean, you know, he rate is