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Palestinians and many others understood, if the text was more balanced it was possible we wouldnt block it but we also made crystal clear that the president of the united states would not make a final decision about our own position until we saw the final text. in the end, we did not agree with every word in this resolution. there are important issues that are not sufficiently addressed or even addressed at all but we could not in good conscience veto a resolution that condemns violence and inci...

Agenda coming from the most extreme elements. thats a pretty blunt message. >> look, as aaron said, very long speech. but the core summed up pretty i think concisely which is, when he said that while prime minister netanyahu publicly supports a two-state solution, that word "publicly" underlined, his government is pursuing settlement policy that infect render it impractical and effectively extinguishing it. that choice, kerry argued in the long run will leave israel less secure at home and more ...

Jake. we never told anybody how we would vote on the text of the resolution because we didnt know what the text would be until it was introduced by the egyptians. all the time we have conversations about different resolutions kicking around in the security council. we had not communicated how we would vote, we did not draft it. we didnt know what the text would be until it was put forward. the president didnt give her power to settlemecement it untiy of the resolution. we abstained because we be...

Hour and ten-minute address from john kerry? >> take it into the context whats been happening over the last several weeks and the context how secretary kerry is giving this speech. he made a nod to palestinian incitement, choices palestinians had to make, but a large chunk of this speech was about the semg settlements, secretary kerry made clear he thought was creating an impediment to peace making a two-state solution impossible and actually driving israelis to a one-state solution, which basic...

Israel, you know, that benjamin netanyahu is always looking over his shoulder to see where bennett is, and theres no two-state solution coming from that guy? >> well, theres -- thats the conventional wisdom, i understand that. but i think that it matters a huge amount parties are living for a while at peace the way the israels and the israeli arabs do, or whether theyre living only with guns lowered and in shelter, the way one has to on the west bank if one wants to live on the west bank, and i ...

Term the conditions arent right. heaven acknowledged that himself when he talked about the lack of leadership on both sides willing to do hard things. he asserted and profoundly believes that it is possible. when you analyze where we are and the gaps between the sides, i think in the best of circumstances we are looking well down the road for the two-state solution. i think the real purpose of the speech realistically wasnt to lay out a path where in the coming months or couple of years the part...

With those, giving a bit of a preview here. >> this is an issue in the middle east that hes worked on for many, many years. i think, you know, he feels its his duty. and his waning weeks and days as secretary of state to lay out what he believes is a way towards a peaceful two-state solution in the middle east. >> so, what is kerrys -- what is israels concern here, rather. the concern is that what kerry says which is to say, the paramet parameters, the issues he sets on resolutions could then be...

Iran on a path to nuclear weapon, and abandoning the only free democracy in the middle east, israel. its wrong. its immoral, but we will prevail. were strong. were fighting against radical islamic terror in the midst of the middle east, and we expected back wind and hope to get some. >> so lets focus on the settlements issue since it is what secretary kerry talked about and the folk is of the united nations security council resolution on friday. what is the -- building settlements, not the part ...

Senator, thanks for your time. >> ambassador dermer is strong and capable for the interests of israel and the views of prime minister netanyahu. i agree. broadly speaking that a two-state solution for two peoples, one where a demilitarized state recognizes the right of the newish homeland to exist. there is real tension between obama and netanyahu and some of that boiled over today in the speech that you heard delivered earlier by secretary of state john kerry. >> senator, did john kerrys speech...

Makes clear both sides have to take steps to save the two-state solution while there is still time. now, we did not take this decision lightly. the obama administration has always defended israel against any effort of the un or international fora or biased, one-sided resolutions that seek to undermine legitimacy or security and that has not changed, didnt change for this vote. but, remember, its important to note that every united states administration, republican and democratic, has opposed set...