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Impunity. >> tom freedman, how does this thing move forward? youre hearing what hanan is saying. you tried to work for a two-state solution, write about it. how do -- whats your reaction to where we are? >> my reaction is do you want to make a point or do you want to make a difference? you want to make a point, we can make aunt awl kinds of points about how bad the israelis are. i can make points about how corrupt the leadership is these days and we can all win this debate. this conflict is goin...

Choose to create a capital on other peoples lands. >> what does it say that the united states moved the embassy there? >> i think the u.s. has dealt a serious blow to the peace process, number one, or to the chances of peace. its removed the core of the requirements of peace. it has this qualified itself as a peacemaker. jared kushner says peace is to be had had. you have destroyed the chances of peace. you have destroyed jerusalem. you have destroyed the refugees unilaterally by striking. you d...

Separated. >> on a diplomatic level, i have not met a palestinian official over the last several months -- i started covering this particular decision back when it was made in december, on every trip theres not been one palestinian official that said to me that they believe the united states still has a role to play with this palestinian administration. its gotten worse every single time and this time the official statement that came out from the palestinian authority, the american decision had ...

People. the land itself has become almost a golden calf. its placed on a pedestal where i fear that jewish morality, ethics and even democracy might not be able to touch it especially with this netanyahu government, which -- it has moved to the right. the window of what is acceptable has moved to the right. and the palestinians who are living under occupation are suffering and realizing, wait, what two-state solution? more and more settlements are being built. the united states just moved to the...

Update for you. first i want to talk to you about the big international news. as you know, president trump moved from tel aviv to jerusalem the u.s. embassy. it opened. britain was not in favor of that. they voted to condemn that move. israel is quite happy about this. how are britain feeling about this? >> it should be settled as part of negotiations on a two-state solution. so thats the position we have always taken. on the events of the last 24, 48 hours, we will always stand up for israels r...

Preserve that zone for the two-state solution. thats what he would have said. i would trade you this embassy move for that. >> that would have been the art of the deal. >> that would have been the art of the deal. had trump done that he could have come to mahmoud abbas, the palestinian leader and said, i know you dont like this embassy move but i got you something obama never got you, i got a freeze on israeli settlements. then he could have gone to the arab world and said, look what i have done...

This had nothing to do with diplomacy. but to say that us moving the embassy to jerusalem is the first step toward peace is such stuff and nonsense, anderson. what would a real american president have done if he wanted to actually use the embassy move as a step toward peace? here is what he would have done. he would have come to netanyahu, prime minister of israel, here is what i am ready to do. you have coveted the u.s. embassy being moved from tell have vive to jerusalem and recognizing jerusa...

Settlements to the point theres 385,000 people in the west bank, how will there be peace? the u.s. embassy move to jerusalem, site of the future palestinian capital, what youre telling me is there is no two-state solution. >> one of the things i found so admirable about your piece which i found quite powerful having spent a lot of time there and know a lot of settlers myself is the honesty of the palestinian voices that you included in the piece. these are people for whom tel aviv is a settlemen...

Violent troubling pictures, as you left that region and talking to palestinians and the settlers, did you come back any more hopeful that there could be some version of peace, not perfect peace, but some version of the two living together without scenes like this? >> i left sad. i left very sad. you have to have hope. theres a great saying of the profit mohammed today is the first day of ramadan for many people, you see the day of judgment coming around the corner, you mention the apocalypse sig...

Come down very, very hard on the side of israel, every administration as you rightly pointed out agrees that israel has a right to defend itself. we helped them defend themselve and with good reason. it is a dangerous neighborhood they live in, no question about that. this time around we have so heavily put our thumb on the scale in the favor of israel and this conflict that we removed ourselves from any credible position of trying to help negotiate or be an arbiter for some sort of solution goi...