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Personal animus between president obama and prime minister netanyahu or if you dont buy into this is personal at all? >> oh, its highly personal. the foundation of the u.s./israeli relationship actually is better than its ever been. provision of u.s. security assistance, support for israeli anti-missile promise, intelligence and strategic cooperation are at their height. but the two leaders, netanyahu and obama, just never got along. and youre now seeing this come out in a very negative way righ...

>> reporter: president-elect donald trump says he can do what no president has done in half a century, solve the israeli/palestinian conflict, calling it the ultimate deal and suggesting his jewish son-in-law jared kushner may be a part of the plan. trump tweeting the recent resolution on israeli settlements was a big loss and will make it harder to negotiate peace, but saying he will get it done anyway. the president-elect has promised to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and rec...

Shootings, rockets that come over from gaza, the talk about that, then they feel like look, those are issues, too, why are settlements turning into kind of a number one issue as the stumbling block for peace. on the other hand, the palestinians saying we have been talking for a very long time and these settlements are taking over land that was supposed to be part of the two-state solution so how will there ever be two states. a lot of people feeling like two state solution may be near dead at th...

Co youth come of those elections. >> as for u.s.-russia relations. look at what might be in the works for u.s.-israel relations. donald trump is making clear he thinks israel has been treated unfairly. israel is counting down the days until trump takes office. oren? >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu made it clear he is done working with president obama and is very much looking forward to president-elect trump. trump has made it one of his goals, he says, to close the ultimate deal, the israel...

The top democrat says that approach is misguided. >> its easy for us to sit and point fingers saying the israelis should do this or that. i didnt hear much from john kerry about what the palestinians need to do. its easy for us to do it. >> chuck schumer writes in a statement, quote, while secretary kerry mentioned gaza in his speech, he seemed to forget the history of the settlements in gaza and the palestinians responded by sending rockets into israel. some democrats are applauding kerry. the ...

Settlements was a big loss for israel and will make it harder to negotiate peace" but saying hell get it done anyway. the president-elect has promised to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and recognize the holy city as the capital of israel, the move, welcomed by israel, condemned by the palestinians as the death of a two-state solution. the unprecedented intervention from the president-elect coming as relations between prime minister netanyahu and president barack obama are as ba...

>> reporter: presint-elect trump says he can do what no president has done in a half century, solve the conflict calling it the ultimate deal and suggesting his jewish son-in-law maybe a part of the plan. [ inaudible [ inaudible ] as the death of a two-state solution. the unprecedented intervention coming as relations between benjamin netanyahu and president obama are as bad as ever.

60 minutes interview because they dont believe that that really means independent and equally sovereign palestinian state in places like east jerusalem, gaza, the west bank, et cetera. how do you read it? >> well, thats exactly why secretary kerrys speech, as well crafted as it was, should be read carefully. because the point that he made is not really whether one mouths the words two-state solution. but whether or not actions on the ground, whether its settlements on the israeli side, or incite...

You, you know, does he know the difference between the two? i mean, hes had four years to be over there so, obviously, he would know the difference. >> well, he still continues to believe that there can be a two-state solution. but keep in mind in his mind, this irrational mind of his, two states mean two governments trying to live on top of each other on the same piece of real estate. i mean, thats not, thats not going to happen. and for israel to give up jerusalem, heather, one of the things t...

Settlement building. the top democrat says that approach is misguided. >> its easy for us to sit and point fingers saying the israelis should do this or that. i didnt hear much from john kerry about what the palestinians need to do. its easy for us to do it. >> chuck schumer writes in a statement, quote, while secretary kerry mentioned gaza in his speech, he seemed to forget the history of the settlements in gaza and the palestinians responded by sending rockets into israel. some democrats are a...