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An american political terms, that was irresponsible of netanyahu. i think he thinks hes getting somebody who will rubber stamp anything that he wants in the white house. and he, he will. he will get that. israel will be determining u.s. foreign policy in the region, which is not the way it should be. not that we shouldnt be israels strongest friend and ally in that part of the world, but if we lose any ability to broker between the various states in the middle east, that will not help the nation...

Israelis i would argue thats right. it was a parting shot in defense of what the obama administration and secretary kerry believe to be the waning hopes of a two-state solution. my concern however is that this is going to produce the opposite impact of what the administration intensed. i cant even imagine that president-elect trump has even waited to tweet and disavow and to distance himself personally and after four weeks from today, brooke -- >> 27 days. >> four weeks from today, right preside...

One of his partners declared the era of the two-state solution is over. at the same time, the prime minister is still committed to pursuing a two state solution. one cannot multily champion expanding settlements and a viable two-state solution to end the conflict. . in 2011, the united states vetoed a rez lesion that focused onsetlements like they were the only factor harming the states of a two-state solution. insurgency 2011, settlement growth only accelerated. they have repeatedly warned publ...

By obama abstaining, she essentially sending a message. we got off a call with the white house and they reiterated five or six times that president obama is still the president and he is the one who will be making the decisions. they talked about how president obama has done more for israely security than any other president. he repeatedly stood up for them and always a posed settlements and just negotiated a historic agreement that with a huge, huge amount of money, he believes and has believed...

Trying to stop this yesterday and by coming up so publicly on the un? >> he has been against any un resolution that would stop the israelis from extending settlements. he has been on the side of netanyahu. we believe netanyahu put in a request to say something about this to try to influence the un. he has been against the obama administrations attempts to create a two-state solution. he also said that jared kushner, his son in law could potentially negotiate peace between the two sides. we have ...

Stands on this issue and this makes it clear that the embassy will move probably for the first time to jerusalem. what sort of ramifications does that have in the mideast? we will have to wait and see. one of the reasons why it never has been moved, we dont want to provoke any middle eastern reaction against our embassy and think we are not on the side of negotiating for peace. we are hearing the state department say that. they dont necessarily agree with every aspect of this resolution, but the...

And he, he will. he will get that. israel will be determining u.s. foreign policy in the region, which is not the way it should be. not that we shouldnt be israels strongest friend and ally in that part of the world, but if we lose any ability to broker between the various states in the middle east, that will not help the national security interests of the united states, and thats what were moving toward, on top of which, hes nominated as ambassador to israel his bankruptcy lawyer who accused ot...

Middle east peace. you know he had the failed bid for peace talks and so the u.s. was looking to put its finger on the scale as it left. how would that change president-elect trumps calculation? it could have pushed him more into the arms of israel. weve been talking about how he would have a very israeli-friendly policy. david friedman obviously supports settlement expansion, annexation of the west baorld b not supportive of the two-state solution but president-elect trump himself said he wante...

President-elect. >> well, look, mr. friedman has said a lot of controversial things. but lets -- his positions on things. >> yeah. >> so lets dive into some of those. first he wants to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. what do you think? >> so im for that. i mean, let me say generally before i get to that that i think youre going to find in the weeks ahead in the confirmation process on david friedman that its going to be very clear that he wants -- he and president trump want to...

>> hold on one last beat on this. does mr. trump support a two-state solution? >> well, i dont know. incidentally. thats the important question. because david friedman may have a point of view. but, when he -- if hes confirmed, as the ambassador to israel, he is the representative of the president of the united states. >> right. >> so its really a question of what the president of the united states has done. let me put it this way, incident, to be very clear i strongly support a two-state soluti...