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With only three weeks to go with the obama administration and incoming trump administration will much likely have different foreign policy view than this one. secretary of state john kerry says he delivered the speech and the outgoing administration can not in good conscience do nothing and say nothing when we see the hope of peace slipping away. so he delivered this speech. and mostly criticized israel on its settlement building. >> some seem to believe that the u.s. friendship means the u.s. m...

For speech. we hope president-elect trump looking at this policy of the u.s. for 50 years against settlement building and understanding 67 borders are the demarcation line between peace and war. and that consolidating them helps the parties. erasing them like netanyahu government is doing harms the parties. we hope he will move those conditions. >> are you hopeful you will have a u.s. president capable? or givenhe tweets, it do not look like that? >> early in the campaign, he said he wanted to b...

Of anti-israel activity but anti-american activity. patti ann: rich edson in washington. israel dialing up the rhetoric against the obama administration. reporter: good morning, patti ann. the israeli government is looking forward to the next u.s. administration as president-elect trump has criticized the united nations over this vote. israel says it has proof the obama administration coordinated a resolution condemning israel for its settlement building and says it will turn the evidence over t...

Western civilization and basically save western civilization from the three major worldwide terror organizations, iran, al qaeda, isis and the muslim brotherhood. so israel is doing everybody a big favor by defending them from these terror organizations. israel also defends christians, jews and muslims in jude day yaw and samaria in israel and protects the so-called palestinian arabs. eric: how about those that say the settlements are illegal under international law and that israel is just being...

Those jeffersonian democracies like venezuela, malaysia, senegal, to decide on israels fate. reporter: the white house denies it orchestrated that vote. dep hety press secretary eric schultz says in a statement, the u.s. did not draft the resolution nor did the u.s. introduce this resolution. he egyptians in partnership with the palestinians are ones circulated earlier draft. egyptians moved it forward on friday and we took the position that we did when it was put to a vote. the obama administra...

Democratic congresswoman jan shakowski of illinois. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> you talk publically about your deep connection to the state of israel. i have to ask about fridays u.n. security council resolution, the abstention from the united states. do you support the move from the obama administration here? >> i do. its u.s. policy that we dont support the extension of settlement building in the west bank. thats because it will diminish the chances for a two-state ...

Settlements and no other u.s. government. in fact, the palestinians never made a decision until the obama add m-- you can understand the frustration that obama has with netanyahu. they havent gotten along. obama felt as if netanyahu poked him in the eye and broke protocol. under aerial sharon they vacated the gaza strip and got nothing for it. they dismantled settlements and all they got was terrorists and missiles. >> in 2011 this same administration vetoed to the united nations and the argumen...

Barack obama being a shield at the u.n. for the israelis. you mentioned all the way back to lyndon johnson. every president has passed or supported a u.n. resolution which is critical of israel, maxed out at 21, under ronald reagan. so if obama had let this go through, it would have been a very strong diplomatic signal to the israeli prime minister, especially benjamin netanyahu. >> yes, i think so. it would have been a parting shot by the president, thats had an acrimonious relationship with th...

At least of protocol. the u.s. always tried to shield israel from these type of resolutions, condemning israel for the settlement building so trump made it clear hi would have vetoed it. >> barack obama will remain the most powerful man in the world until the inauguration but are you surprised little were talking bet the sit can president and how much were talking about the new president? >> no really. trump generates news, good news, bad news, by virtue of twitter. barack obama is making news q...

Happened is that those periods of time have not been used in order to advance peace, in order to limit or end the occupation in order to head towards a two-state political collusion. those period of time have tended to be characterized by more settlement building, more en tran muchment of the -- i think most people look at this and say almost an inevitability that if you do not see periods of quiet used to advance peace that you will see a return to rounds of violence. what we see right now is a...