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Questions today surrounding the fragile cease-fire agreement between israel and militants in the gaza strip ending eight days of horrific violence. now life seems to be returning to normal in that part of the middle east but all of that could change very quickly. our conor powell met with gaza militants. he is live in gaza city with more. conor? >> reporter: jon, islamic jihad is a hamas linked group here in gaza. they told fox news despite the cease-fire agreement will they ever stop fighting n...

Arming agent of hamas in the same way they have been the arming agent of hezbollah. and it is also viewed by many as proof that israel only makes concessions in the face of threats of violence, which is very much out of the iranian playing book rather than the playbook of fatah or western countries who would like to see a two-state solution achieved through diplomacy rather than threat of violence. >> do you see the united states and iran getting involved in bilateral talks? there are a lot of s...

Leaders. >> theres quite a constituency -- >> no one has mentioned iran. because there is a view that in some ways what weve seen in the last weeks, as a dry run. both in the sense of testing the military equipment, testing the anti-missile facilities, but also, in netanyahu testing obama and i think what weve seen is a president pushing back. we dont know the full story. but the back channel here is that the president said to the israelis -- no deployment of land forces. and in that, perhaps is...

Protesters are imprisoned, tear gassed and shot and killed by soldiers, away from the eyes of the u.s. cameras, were creating the conditions in which terrorism, the great evil we have pledged ourselves to vanquish, brings strategic benefits, while the path of nonviolence leads to a dead end what a sorry legacy for everyone involved in helping this come to pass. i want to bring in congressman steve cohen, democrat of tennessee. ka treata. and a senior fellow at the american task force on palestin...

United states helped fund the iron dome. >> a missile defense sort of rocket defense weapons system that was able to shoot down rockets that were incoming. >> 85% accuracy at best. >> i want to talk more about this and what the u.s. government can do to bring about a two-state solution if that is the stated aim after this. with verizon. hurry in this saturday and sunday for great deals. like the lucid by lg, free. or the galaxy nexus by samsung, free. this weekend, get the best deals on the best...

Did as you suggested as got engaged and managed to force the leaderships to get one. >> theres an institutional set-up. that the u.s. government says were for a two-state solution. thats always the official policy. and then theres a set of ngos and institutions and groups that say theyre from a two-step solution. apec. everything is for a two-state solution. theres no constituency for an actual two-state solution. >> nsa not true. theres a constituency for it and there continues to be among both...

If we did, as you suggested to get engaged. >> this is the spector i worry about. theres an institutional set up. the u.s. government says we are for a two-state solution. its the official policy. theres a set of institutions and groups who are for a two-step solution. everyone is for it. theres no constituency for a tuesday solution. its muldering middle. >> theres con stitch wan si for it. they just dont see their own government institutions or frankly our government institutions being able to...

>> heather, if you could wave a magic wand and create a magical space where the u.s. could do whatever, what would you want to see the obama administration do? if they are committed to a two-state solution, to have a genuine peace process heading toward an end point, what would you like to see the obama administration do? >> put in the resources to build real, legitimate palestinian government that would be an irresistible partner. that is both really doing the things and not necessarily with ab...

Magic wand and create some magical space in which the u.s. could do whatever, forget political constraints domestically, what would you want to see the obama administration do if the obama administration is committed to a two-state solution if were committed to a genuine peace process that is heading towards some end point, what would you like to see the obama administration do in its second term? >> put in the resources to build real legitimate palestinian popular government. that would be an i...

While unarmed people are imprisoned, tear gassed away from the eyes of the american cameras. we, in the u.s., are creating the conditions of terrorism bring strategic benefits while the path of non-violence leads to a dead end. what a sorry legacy for everyone involved in helping this come to pass. i want to bring in congressman steve cohen, democrat from tennessee, hussein senior fellow of the american task force and heather, former special adviser for president clinton and the policy planning ...