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What the president is doing now is quite acceptable and appropriate. let me tell you why. when vice president biden went to israel he was greeted with the announcement of a very large settlement. ever since the founding of the state of israel, settlement activity has been against the policy of the united states again, whether it was republican administration or democratic administration. the reason is because creating facts on the ground forecloses opportunity to exchange land for peace under 24...

The detriment of everyone, including our own interests. jon: we mentioned you have advised six secretaries of state and five presidents, i believe you said. if you were advising mr. obama, what would you tell him the next step ought to snb. >> number one, dont take the united states for granted. i mean, the rest of the world may judge israel by a double standard, but the united states does not. you can afford to alienate your enemies, but you cant afford to alienate your friends. so dont be reck...

>> jill, what potentially could happen now? we know the u.s. is demanding all settlement activity. israel is saying its not going to happen. how do you see a breakthrough emerging here? >> its hard to see a breakthrough right now, campbell, because what were seeing right now is complete frozen situation. the whole idea of having the trip by the prime minister here was to bring things back on track, at least thats what we thought. what do we end up with? basically its the same thing as two weeks ...

Are considering more settlement activity. megyn: there you have it, a contentious back and forth between robert gibbs and several members of the white house press corps wondering about this procedure. the house is looking at passing the healthcare bill without voting on it. they will instead deem it passed. and sort of say that its passed and send it to barack obama for his signature. way is raising all 70s issues about whether -- which is raising all sorts of issues if that is what the white ho...

Anger the u.s., its martin who served as the u.s. ambassador to israel during the clinton administration. hes author and vice president and director of foreign policy at the brookings institute. thank you for joining us. listen, i want to ask you, do you think that first of all was this intentional? did he do this to embarrass the vice president? >> no, i dont believe so. i think it was just business as usual. its happened many times on previous occasions to other secretaries of state starting a...

So there are a few different dynamics here. and this is a 19,000 dimensional chessboard. this could be a productive move. maybe the settlement development just for a short term could be suspended to help with some of our efforts. >> you do acknowledge its a shift for this white house, though, and this president? >> yeah, you know, the administration hadnt indicated in the past that it would be requesting the suspension of developing additional settlements. >> they made a statement, with the pick...

This morning. kristin fisher has more. >> abby, its important to keep in mind this is a nonbinding resolution. it has no teeth. its all guidelines and recommendations. but that could change. not only does this resolution demand that israel stop all settlement activity in the west bank. it also calls intoquestion, the legality of jewish prayer at the western wall, according to this resolution, the jewish quarter in the old city of jerusalem is occupied territory. the problems are it opens the doo...

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Ironclad information the u.s. secretly colluded with other countries to bring the resolution forward, but israelis have yet to produce any of this proof publicly and the obama administration vehemently denies the charge. white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes went on israeli television last night to push back on netanyahus pushback of the event as a shameful ambush. >> its not an ambush when president obama and secretary kerry have been saying in hundreds of conversations and pu...

>> reporter: good evening. for the first time now in nearly four decades, the u.s. has failed to veto a u.n. security council resolution condemning israeli settlement activity. the u.s. officially abstained while the remaining 14 other members of the security council voted yes. the resolution calls for israel to immediately and completely cease all settlement activity in the palestinian territory, including east jerusalem. samantha power said the u.s. would veto any resolution undermining israel...