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Though. not distinguishing between settlements in the west bank and settlements that we know are going to be part of israel if we ever get to a two-state solution. were dealing with so-called settlements in east jerusalem and so-called settlements between the barrier. israel does not consider these settlements they consider them home building and the palestinians look at it differently. this is happening less than 30 days before obama leaves office. not as if the president now gets to affect a c...

We saw it from benjamin netanyahu, who just yesterday let his feelings be known. >> over decades, american administrations and israeli governments have disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the security council was not the place to resolve this issue. as i told john kerry on thursday, friends dont take friends to the security council. >> reporter: and so part of what you see here is that israel acknowledges that the settlements are an issue in the notion of a two-state solution. israel...

Ambassador to israel is a big supporter of the settlements. he apparently raises money for those as well as questioning the two-state solution basically against night that is a very hard-line approach to take here. somebody like david friedman has the potential as ambassador to really go against the grain and really cause potential damage in the bilateral relationships in the other direction. so if this u.n. resolution, abstention from the u.n. resolution damaging our relationship with the israe...

Netanyahu administration is so upset with president obama and his white house theyre sort of willing to say anything. i really wont believe it until i see concrete evidence of that. i dont for one personally believe that is true. eric: what about the resolution and what it means for peace? you know critics of course say the settlements are illegal. that they break international law. other supporters say certainly not at all as they continue and the prime minister has shown basically no sense of ...

Undermines the security of -- on a very, very complex problem. and folks who believe in a two-state solution believes that the settlements are standing in the way. i think the obama administer is say, , for three or fordecades. this is just a much more pronounce pronounced -- >> joe, let me ask you this. he pushed back on the idea that donald trump was atypically getting involved. do you think it is noteworty that he has in fact been pretty vocal about this? >> well, i think that he has the

Netanyahu. >> the administration all along, as many folks have said, if we are to achieve a two-state solution at any point in our lifetime, this is an essential precondition for that. >> right, and that is -- for some people, a very controversial idea. you know, you have settlements in disputed areas and bricks to build houses, and then opponents who say critics are using bricks to start fights and wars and instigation. they see it as a false equivalence, to compare whats happening in the area ...

Two-state solution is a hindrance to reaching peace. the israeli government sees it very differently, believes that the palestinian officials are too far apart. this is their view. but at the same time the u.n. security council, because of its history, that world body of being, according to israel, anti-israel, netanyahu felt that the u.s. should have taken this out of that forum. so we also saw donald trump tweet after that vote the big loss yesterday for israel, referring to friday, in the uni...

Legalize, quote unquote, the outposts that were built illegally and a whole range of other policies and trump pursues his policies, cut money to the united nations. this could be a calamitous four year administration. >> the representative calls the vote a victory. samantha power was saying and im going to read a bit of her quote. some may cast a sign that may have given up on a two state solution and nothing could be further from the truth, pivoting to the future with this new president. do you...

Just say that were not going to stand for this nonsense. all we want is even handedness and fairness. and that resolution was so disgusting and so biassed, that the thought that the united states could ever not veto it, just sort of makes me sick to my stomach. i do think there will be a lot of talking across lines because people are just disgusted, we want to see, again, i believe in a two state solution, but two states for two peopleless and the palestinians have not embraced that. >> you are ...

Have a right to their state, but so do the jews have a right to their state. and he said he would meet with the palestinians, at any time in any place, with no preconditions, but the palestinians, unfortunately, have decided they dont want to meet, they just want to use the united nations to whip israel and to embarrass israel and for us to fall into that trap was a really grievous error. >> i want to bring in a palestinian voice, i spoke a few minutes ago to a senior palestinian diplomat. heres...