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Different places. it is impossible to destroy them and they are so underground that are protected. >> what does he need to do to satisfy the palestinians? >> a lot. he needs, i think president obama said and gave a speech in cairo in 2009 when he said the american people will not turn their back to the aspiration of the palestinian for a better life, dignity, a home of their own. and their suffering is intolerable. and he with walked away somehow from the speech domestically, remember when he ta...

U.n. but the only way were going to be able to achieve that two-state solution is through direct negotiations. >> abbas has also threatened to report israel to the international criminal court for human rights violations. do you think that overall that this trip is really a lot about sort of managing relationships more than solving problems? >> well, i think the relationships are extremely important. if the palestinians went to the international criminal court, that would set back, i think, the ...

Benjamin netanyahu who has shifted to the right and youve got the palestinians pulled by hamas to a more extreme position as well. so its hard. the facts on the ground are harder. >> you cant get a two-state solution just with abbas. gaza is now control paid group that we wont talk to. so thats a result of you know, the desire to have an election in gaza, in 2006. which resulted in because of lack of economic opportunity and corruption, in fatah, it resulted in hamas winning that election. its a...

Enormous amount of the responsibility for that. if this president doesnt want to be the president on whose watch iran gets a nuclear weapon and the two-state solution expires, hes simply going to have to figure out a way to work with netanyahu and the new government and that, that new start, i dont like the word reset. but that new relationship begins this week. >> but at the same time, tommy, when the president was asked by israeli television about his relationship with netanyahu, he described ...

Rating among that group. i think the president, weve seen the limits of the presidents ability to sort of find a middle way with such a difficult situation here. he initially went in thinking that he needed to show daylight between israel and particularly took up the issue of settlements, pushed back hard against the settlements in those initial meetings with netanyahu. and the palestinians looked at that and said, well youre showing daylight, but youre not willing to show any muscle to actually...

Dysfunctional as ive ever seen it. most of it is not the fault of this president. but the reality is this israeli/palestinian issue still resonates. its the one issue that emotionally, ideologically, politically, still unite as dysfunctional and divided arab world. the problem the president has, ill sum it up very clearly -- the two-state solution right now is too complicated to implement. and yet, its too important to abandon and its within that space, i think that barack obama, secretary kerry...

Within each of these two territories to make this happen. its a political will on each side to make it happen. what makes this really tough is, its hard to imagine that the next leader of the palestinians is going to be as empowered as abbas is to get a two-state solution. it is also harder to see a settlement building continues in places like the west bank. how that isnt changing the calculus of a two-state solution. and i think the president fears that you have a window that is closing. but th...

The end of my administration to deal with palestinian and israeli peace. were going to start now. >> instead, not only did the peace process go nowhere, its actually taken a step back. when the president sets off for israel on tuesday, he travels with very low expectations. thats probably the bit of good news. from the outset the president pressed israel hard on what a two-state solution would look like. >> israelis must acknowledge that just as israels right to exist cannot be denied, neither c...

Negotiator thinks israel has to want a solution sooner rather than later. >> the alternative is so much worse. look at the demographics. in just a few years there are going to be more arabs than jews living in the region between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea. if that happens and there hasnt been a two-state solution by then, israel will face the awful choice which they should never have to face of choosing between being a democratic state or a jewish state. up next, new faces on t...

Hes not bringing with him any senior advisors and a new peace plan in terms of a two-state solution between the palestinians and the israelis. this makes this trip more about optics than it is approximately ticks. president obama only the fifth u.s. president to go to the state of israel. among the first things he will do after he gets off a air force one, they will roll out one of those iron dome missile defense systems, heavily furnded by the u.s. in helping israel secure itself from incoming ...