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Say weve tried to hit the home run ball three times and solve this conflict. maybe we should do a single. along the lines that you are suggesting in your last question with mike. namely dont settle beyond the barrier. the palestinians also could do steps like dont support families of suicide bombers. you know, that kill israelis. something that would convince the other side they have a partner. theres no grand deal to be had. despite i think the genuine nus of the secretary. but i think what was...

>> i read closely your op-ed in the "wall street journal" a day or so ago. where you said the two state solution has been on life support for years. and you want to see a three state solution. you can briefly summarize for our viewers what is the way forward in your eyes? >> well, the briefest summary of whats wrong with the two state solution is john kerrys speech today where he says well, there is either a one state solution, which is bad for israel or there is a two-state solution. what a fai...

Undermining the two-sate solution. netanyahu at the same time saying that kerry was paying, quote, lip service to palestinian attacks, our oren liebermann is live for us this hour in jerusalem with more. whats the reaction on the ground there? >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu offered a withering criticism of secretary of state john kerrys speech. the u.n. security council resolution. and the obama administrations vision for middle east peace. this relationship, netanyahu/obama relationship w...

Policy will distinguish between construction in the blocks and outside the blocks. i believe that that policy would send a clear message of israels adherence to a two-state solution. i would hope that this would be our policy. if you look at the israeli -- the israeli political scene today, you see that the far right in israel is pressurizing the government away from a two-state solution and towards annexationist policies. and i certainly hope that the decisionmakers on our part will resist that...

Ambassador to the united states, now israels deputy minister for diplomacy. he joins me on the phone. can you hear me? >> i hear you fine. good to be with you. >> thank you so much for joining me. i really appreciate it. in a new opinion piece that you just put out in "newsweek" you write this about that u.n. resolution. i want to read it for our viewers. the goal of the initiators of the resolution was not to achieve a better two-state solution, i believe, you write, but to deny israel the righ...

Lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. >> reporter: kerry blasting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu accusing him of undermining peace efforts. >> the israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution. but his current coalition is the most right wing in israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements. >> reporter: netanyahu firing back calling the speech a disappointment and a bias attack that paid lip service to terrorist attacks to palestinians....

Two administrations that are talking past each other. it was a very compelling speech by secretary kerry. i think to have the desired effect, it probably should have been delivered two years ago. but it really has brought the obama administration full circle. you know, out of the gate eight years ago, it made a settlement freeze precondition for the launching negotiations. that was probably a tactical mistake in retrospect, but it has come back to the settlement issue at the end of its eight-yea...

To get support among congressmen and senators, and senator chuck schumer in new york, he has come out very strongly against this and he points out its actually going to make it more difficult for a two-state solution to actually happen. >> look, look, the democratic party continues to alienate people: alienated blue collar workerrize doesnt maintain what happened 1967. it happens -- matters thats united states did and abstained and allowed there is to move forward. if you see the rockets and mis...

So they can get back to the negotiating table. i think it will be interesting when we look four years down the road whats changed but i think the obama administration and particularly secretary kerry wanted to lay out whats possible in terms of salvaging the whole idea of a two-state solution, an israeli state and an israeli jewish state. >> i had one israeli official tell me yesterday, robin, that the abstention on friday was the knife in the back and kerrys speech yesterday was an unnecessary ...

Israel. that accelerated settlement activity. the move in israeli politics to the right. you heard secretary kerry talk about the most extreme, the extremist, the settle lers really dominating the political scene. they saw the two state solution was slipping away and see whats happening in this country. donald trump was elected. he spoke about moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he pointed a hard line ambassador. >> who dismissed the two state solution. >> talks about annexing the wes...