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Disaster. when you look at policy, tends to be a series of bad options. and right now, the obama team, secretary clinton coming out of afghanistan, thats probably the only option were playing out. it may end badly but its hard to imagine he wants to run and maybe win and have to be forward in his policy on afghanistan. >> as you say, series of bad choices lie ahead. theres a point of excerpts released from mitt romneys address saying almost every -- every policy calling for tough sanctions on ir...

Because i knew that he had supported the two-state solution publicly. >> as has both parties. >> which has been the policy for almost 20 years. if you watch the whole three- minute, four-minute answer, he goes on and on, detail passionately about why that solution cant work. he says all the palestinians, not just some, are bent on the destruction of israel, and the best we can do is just sort of lean on them forever and hope that some day they come around and then maybe theres peace. i have yet ...

>> ear here he is in may at that fund raiser in boca raton with a lot of wealthy people arguing the best thing to do was accept that it remained an unresolved problem. lets watch his very different approach to people he viewed, i think, as more hawkish even than him. here is mitt romney behind closed doors. >> i dont think the palestinians want to see peace anyway for political purposes, committed to the destruction of israel and these thorny issues and i say theres just no way. what you do is y...

Publicly. >> as has both parties. >> which has been the policy for almost 20 years. if you watch the whole three minute, four minute answer, he goes on and on, detail passionately about why that solution cant work. he says all the palestinians, not just some, are bent on the destruction of israel, and the best we can do is just sort of lean on them forever and hope that some day they come around and then maybe theres peace. i have yet to see, because the 47% remark got all the attention, i have ...

Picture of foreign policy? >> well, at the moment, the peace process is dead and both men also talk about a two-state solution so again im not sure that its one that will really differentiate the candidates. but it is true that mitt romney has a much stronger relationship with the prime minister of israel and theres almost open hostility between president obama and benjamin netanyahu. >> it does seem that often in campaigns that we talk about the lack of foreign policy experience for many of the...

Understandable to use the offense and turn it into violence. i think he didnt need, at this point, to have 60 bilaterals at a time when most leaders who would be coming here themselves realize that the u.s. is in an election campaign. >> dennis, while weve been sitting here, abbas, the palestinian leader, has taken to the podium, after him one other speaker, and then the prime minister of israel. if they keep to the current schedule, what president abbas has been saying is that he has only one c...

More to try to thwart irans march towards nuclear weapons than any president in history, including george w. bush. he did not put sanctions on oil sales. this presidents done more to try to thwart that, and i think that israel understands that. and i think the american-israeli population does. look, im a jew, i believe in a two-state solution, and i also believe trying to inject a foreign leader into an american political campaign is inappropriate, its wrong. i think benjamin netanyahu would not...

Watching this race very closely. elected officials, the consultant class, financial people. theyre looking at it and they want to know, is this guy in a downward spiral? the polls are still close. mitt romney can still win this race, but if you remember back in 1996, chris, there came a point, and it was a long way before election day when the republican party said were done with bob dole. hes not going to win this race, we got to take care of ourselves. it was -- >> were not there yet. >> no, w...

Israeli political opinion that think that the palestinian problem is unresolvable. thats one aspect of it. actually, it doesnt help israel to be isolated like this. it doesnt help israel to have american leaders disengaged. you know, you have to go back to the bush administration. i suspect we all know who the secretaries of state hes been talking to are, theyre republicans. the last republican secretary of state, condoleezza rice, believed that peace was within reach, and president bush needed ...

More. they could have achieved more to achieve a real peace there. whether or not thats real, engagement makes a difference. >> two months after the fundraiser, romney visited israel and told an israeli newspaper that he was hopeful for a peaceful resolution. he says, i believe in a two-state solution which suggests that there will be two states, including a jewish state. thats not what he told his donors. are we to believe that or is this lip service? >> he doesnt give a time frame. maybe he th...