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Where is the palestinian leadership condemination of this violen violence. condemn any part of violence on the israelis. do we need to see more of that on the part of palestinian leaders. >> to say the palestinians dont accept, yes, the plo recognized in 1993. >> but not as a jewish state. the point is not as a jewish state. >> but, yes, in fact, israel at that point did not ask the palestinians to recognize israel as a jewish state. never defined what it means to be a jewish state and the unite...

Meltdowns. its been glorious indeed. drumming said thanks donald for giving me the tears of every social justice warrior on the planet for me to drink. it was delicious. see you on the 20th. presumably january 20th. finally chuck tweeted thanks, donald, for showing the world that the mistakes of the last eight years can be undone in 100 days. dont set expectations that high. thats tonights twitter storm. for a while it looked from the outside that the president and president-elect were against a...

By the most extreme elements. >> reporter: pushing back washingtons digs not to veto the united nations vote condemning israeli settlements in jerusalem and the west bank. >> on this point, i want to be very clear. no american administration has done more for israel security than barack obamas. >> reporter: kerry defended the u.s. saying the prospects of middle east peace are at stake. >> the vote in the united nations was about preserving the two-state solution. thats what we were standing up f...

A country hat has enemies on all sides and in the west bank, the palestinians have vowed there will not be a single jew left in that region should they have the two-state solution. the other opinion is that this is a radical departure from our foreign policy vis-a-vis israel and the. ment issue and this only three weeks to go left on this presidency and a new president is going to have a different approach. >> make it more challenge for the new president. jeremy, why did they wait until now? cer...

Their use of the term "right of return" to put forward a position which if you really look at it calls for the expulsion of all jews or virtually all jews from the middle east. so its the extreme position that the palestinian state, not just hamas -- >> just a question for you, congressman. there seems to be conflated today. theres two separate issues. theres a question of does settlement expansion is that the obstacle to two-state solution or the obstacle to peace, thats one question. and the o...

Good to have you was. >> good to be here. >> west bank, east jerusalem, make a two-state solution, which john kerry wants and which prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he wants as well impossible do. you disagree with that assessment? >> yes, we do disagree. it doesnt make it impossible. look. this speech that was given by secretary kerry yesterday could have been given in the first year. im old enough to remember, willie, and you can duo back to the tapes. we had a crisis with the united sta...

That murder jews and now we are giving them the currency, the palestinians currency at the negotiating table with israel. it is insane. >> the curtain has finally been pulled back on how the administration feels about the israelis. the secretary of state spent the majority of his time blaming israelis for building settlements and claiming they were a part of a one-state solution. that israel wanted to take all this palestinian land and make it their own and there would never be a two-state solut...

Jewish settlements. abbas said he was ready to resume peace talks if the u.s. freezes settlement construction. the empty the israeli government agrees to cease all settlement activities including in and around occupied east jerusalem and agrees to implement the agreements on the basis of mutual reciprocity, the leadership stands ready to resume permanent status negotiations. what does it mean? programs towards peace? i dont think so. there are peace talks in january and benjamin netanyahu is not...

Just as previous u.s. administrations have done at the security council before us. they fail to recognize that this friend, the united states of america, that has done more to support israel than any other country, this friend that has blocked countless efforts to delegitimize israel, cannot be true to our own values or even the stated democratic values of israel. and we cannot properly defend and protect israel if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes. and tha...

Israel. they believe in one state. the two-state solution was over, and he said in good conscience, the administration could not protect the most extreme elements of the settler movement as it tries to destroy the two-state solution. now, clearly, this context of the vote, he said that is why the u.s. had to make this very controversial decision to abstain from that u.n. resolution condemning the settlements, because they feel so strongly about it. >> aaron, your take. youve heard more than one ...