Page 395 - Two State Solution News Today

Tolerate. now, at the same time, we have to be clear about what is happening in the west bank. 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. the result is that policies of this government which the prime minister himself just described has more committed to settlements than any in israels history, are leaning in the opposite direction. they are leaning towar...

Legitimate security needs. and we have called for significantly easing the movement and access restrictions to and f)m gaza with due consideration for israels need to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks. so let me stress here again. none of the steps that i just talked about would negatively impact israels security. let me also emphasize, this is not about offering limited economic measures that perpetuate the status quo. were talking about significant steps that would signal"r1 progres...

In the end, we could not in good conscience protect the most extreme elements of the settler movement as it tries to destroy the two-state solution. we could not in good conscience turn a blind eye to palestinian actions that fan hatred and violence. it is not in u.s. interests to help anyone on either side create a unitary state, and we may not be able to stop them, but we cannot be expected to defend them. >> joining us live from jude m jerusalem, what its your reaction to secretary of state k...

Bitterly opposed to calling for a gaza cease-fire in 2009. i think the larger context here is that barack obama believes that the two-state solution is dying. and many of israels own leaders believe its dying. we now have two former israeli prime ministers, and two former top security officials, who have said that israel is on its way to being an apartheid state. you also have barack obama -- >> trumps choice for israeli ambassador has said -- >> james -- james -- right, james mattis, in fact, a...

The law itself. i mean, were glad that the u.s. did not veto, and we think this is important because we have to build on it in terms of moving ahead, whether in the 15th january international conference called for by france or whether in terms of the international criminal court and other venues. >> "the new york times" is reporting that israel is defying this u.n. condemnation and continuing to build settlements in east jerusalem. whats your response to that? >> yes. yes, theyre not only escala...

They initiated this resolution, demanding it be passed in some ambush, is what the israels call it. take a listen to deputy national security adviser ben rhodes speaking on israeli television yesterday. >> by definition, its not an ambush when president obama and secretary kerry have been saying in hundreds of conversations and in public comments that israeli settlement activity was pushing into the west bank in a way that was making the two-state solution unachievable. >> reporter: and thats wh...

We won the cold war in effect because we had a series of administrations who embraced the same strategy of containment toward the soviet union. ultimately that paid off and i dont see that here. thats why i have this fear, i think peter was right on a lot of things he said, by the way, but i do have this fear, peter, that donald trump is going to be tempted now to go further over to prove his faithfulness to the israelis and make it much more difficult to get back to a two-state solution process...

This u.n. resolution where abstained by the u.s. >> thats right. basically when if first came out, he condemned it and said theres a new sheriff in town on january 20th, things are going to be different. over the weekend he got slightly more somber and serious about it and tweeted that, saying "the vote will make it much harder to negotiate peace. too bad. we will get it done, anyway." i have to tell you, jim, its not just the israelis that are hoping that president-elect trump when he comes int...

Not another u.n. resolution is actually going to do more harm than good. they had a list of things they wanted to do before the end of their administration, laying out the peace parameters was one. the u.n. resolution on settlements was another. thats probably enough. theyve sort of made their points. you know, they dont need to add insult to injury. but for the israelis, this is simply most important thing that they have to deal with in the next three weeks. theyre going to try to fight it and ...

Are and they stick to them and pursue them pretty relentlessly and that seems to work. we won the cold war in effect because we had a series of administrations who embraced the same strategy of containment toward the soviet union. ultimately that paid off. and i dont see that here. thats why i have this fear, i think peter was right on a lot of things he said, by the way, but i do have this fear, peter, that donald trump is going to be tempted now to go further over to prove his faithfulness to ...