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Palestinians can live with equal measures of security, of peace, and of dignity. >> did you catch it? equal. not something we always hear from the u.s. when talking about solutions in the region. what impact will that have on the prospects for long term peace? joining us now is professor, the chair of the gilbert foundation of israel studies at ucla. professor, welcome. >> thank you for having me on the program. >> what do you make of that? the use of the word equal in terms of the way that the ...

Are saying why should we pay again to reconstruct gaza to have another war in six months or a year and israel will bomb it again. especially when theres no context in which we bring this money. theres no two state solution on the horizon, why should we pay. and the third thing is that the white house wants to see whether it can jump start its relationship with the palestinian authority. for example, consulate in jerusalem, one of the main goals for blinken. >> do you get a sense that israeli off...

This hour, i will ask a doctor what families need to know and how concerned we should all be. today, secretary of state tony blinken is set to visit the middle east. his visit comes as the fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas holds for a fourth day now. president biden has made his position clear. he wants to see a two state solution in that region. thats not the only thing that president biden has laid out, not the only part of his vision. he pitched an overall to the immigration str...

Important for the region. according to a senior state department official ahead of blinkens visit, saying that that will be a primary focus of his tour here, solidifying that cease-fire as well as providing aid for gaza. in that briefing, the senior state department official was asked about the possibility that aid could end up in the hands of hamas, re-weaponizing hamas. he says the united states would work with the palestinian authority as well as the united nations to make sure that that does...

Into towns like ashton and beercheffa and when we talk about a two state solution going back to 1967 borders, it was always assumed that those towns would never be part of a future palestinian state. what shes saying is it is all up for grabs now. were no longer debating 1967 border as shes been clear, were fending 1948, a right to an independent sovereign state so i think we should be honest about what were talking about here. but peter and noura and the people they speak for, including the ham...

Really a fully functioning government. its a caretaker government. we just had our fourth lot of elections in the spafs a couple of years. it looks like were going to have our fifth lot soon. over the last few elections that weve had here the palestinian issue has not really been a central plank of any of the political parties. the electorate here is more concerned with things like health care, with the economy, with the high cost of living, education, things like that. in addition to that youve...

I want to emphasize into the two state solution is long dead and used as a veneer to continue this violence. the u.s. provides israel with 3.le billion dollars a year and has issued 43 security council vetoes to impede an international resolution to this issue, to the palestinian question as well as to protect israel from any accountability. if you if you really want to see just outcome, must place sanctions on israel and hold them to account and must support palestinians and all people could be...

Into towns like ashton and other parts of the country that were never disputed. when we talk about a two state solution going back to 1967 borders, it was always assumed that those towns would never be part of a future palestinian state. what shes saying is it is all up for grabs now. were no longer debating 1967 borders, as shes been clear, were fending 1948, a right to an independent sovereign state peter says we shouldnt have at all anyway. we should be honest what were talking about. but pet...

Band-aid, all of the underlying problems, the palestinians being in their own frozen conflict between hamas, and the governing palestinian authority, and israel moving towards expanding settlements and doing everything possible it seems to stop an eventual two state solution, all of that still remains. >> theres been so much going on around the world. i think this story sort of flew under the radar this past week. president biden drawing immense criticism, even from within his own party for deci...

The challenge now, of course, to prevent skirmishes with police like the one that erupted today, out in the open in jerusalem. and keep them from escalating and getting any larger. the president has credited quiet, intense diplomacy for bringing about the truce. and late today, as he hosted south koreas leader at the white house, he suggested this would be indeed, he strategy going forward. >> one of the reasons why we were able to get the cease-fire in 11 days, we didnt do other people have don...