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Mahmoud abbas government, his authority, will it continue with this coalition with hamas which the u.s. regards as a terrorist organization? >> what we have is government of national consensus. we are preparing for elections, which hopefully will be held within the six to nine months from now. and the palestinian people were begin the choice to elect their representatives. i dont understand why anybody would be against the palestinians exercising their democratic right of electing their represen...

I wish when president obama came to power there was an israeli administration not the netanyahu which is to the right. he doesnt have any ability for a two-state solution. his cabinet officials, bennett and lieberman, a foreign minister, against the new palestinian state. perez two-state solution. now against the palestinian state. the idea of a two-state solution may have been dead years ago but the reality is forget nelson mandela and martin luther king and its about one person, one vote becau...

Passionately and i think in the middle of this crisis, this should not take away from the fact that israel isnt an important ally for the united states and the middle east for a number of reasons, but, in particular, that were both democracies and that we share values. and although the two-state solution may appear to be over and we want to shift to helping resolve the crisis, lets not forget that the united states is an organizing force in the international system. and especially in the broader...

And well do what it thinks it can get away with in order to make it happen. thats why it seems so frustrating that weve been doing this for 40, 50 years and havent gotten anywhere and, indeed, when we talk about a two-state solution, its really kind of interesting because youve got possibly a three-state solution over there, even though hamas and the politician authority have sort of coalesced for the time being but not exercising the kind of influence they can. any more than the united states c...

There may be factions within gaza who want to escalate. among the israelis, clearly its not just that you have some military people like the ones who killed theyouth, but also y have militants within netanyahus own government who want him to take harsher measures, and they are playing for the next elections. so each side is going to have to do a lot. thats where i think american diplomacy could kick in, and thats obviously where the u.s. sees the sense of urgency that has been created by these t...

So while governments can say we will monitor rallies. we will monitor things like that, what do you do about a facebook group that gets 35,000 likes within a few hours. and the problem here is that it creates an atmosphere in which these politicians have to deal. the end point for the palestinian process is simple, everybody knows, it a two-state solution. we know roughly what the contours of that state would be. the problem getting there involves a lot of painful concessions on both sides, so w...

Authority if mahmoud abbas wont cut ties between his government and hamas. what would actually happen? the palestinians -- you know, this is obviously a very impoverished state. what would happen? >> you throw them in the lap of the likes of iran and extremists. this is how you really throw more palestinians into extremism, by threatening if you dont do this, well cut off the aid. and if you dont listen to us, our demands -- what demands have been listened to insofar as as stopping the settlemen...

Abbas did condemn the intolerable act of killing the three israeli teenagers. but im not so sure there was a clear condemnation by the israeli prime minister for the killing of the teenager palestinian, which is, again, something that people will look at. i dont know if things will go farther now. its a rather difficult situation for all, but i am very worried about the future of the peace process, the future of the two-state solution because there has been no clarity that the israeli authoritie...

Suspects, destroyed their homes overnight. so how can you be so sure? you say you have evidence, but youre not saying exactly what the evidence is. >> well, when all the truth comes out, you will be as sure as i am. >> okay. lets move on and talk about the nonprofit "j" street, a group that favors a two-state solution. he writes in a cnn.com op-ed today, he said if israel undertakes targeted measures designed to punish those responsible for this terrible crime, the world will be with it. if it t...

Rada? >> well, first of all, we were so glad to have rick with us, and i was pleased to have a chance to get to know him and look forward to working with you, rick, in ways that we can bring about peace. i think thats the bottom line of what we all want. but i do want to say what we adopted had several points to it. not only was it the divestment but included in our motion and acceptance was that we reaffirmed israels right to exist, we reaffirmed our desire to invest in companies in israel and ...