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Dead end. president obamas first sustained on the ground peace initiative apparently includes assurances, given to the palestinians towards a palestinian state. >> we are confident that president obama and his administration will guarantee at end and before two years we will have a two-state solution. >> reporter: palestinians continued small demonstrations in the west bank against settlement expansion including building in east jerusalem. palestinians say the u.s. has given guarantees regarding...

Jerusalem. >> reporter: it was expected and now its official, the palestine liberation executive committee medicine and theyve given official go ahead now for the palestinians to participate in american brokered peace talks with the israelis. at the meeting today, palestinian president abbas received support for the first peace talks with israel in almost two years. already officials in both camps are saying the talks are expected to last four months or so and that they are likely to be a dead e...

Capital of the palestinian state. if they reconcile, whats wrong with that? is it better or worse than having permanent warfare and uncertainty regarding israels long-term survival. >> where do you think the wous is in items of this notion that the president should put forward the contours of a peace plan? >> i dont have any direct knowledge of that. but my sense is theyre toying with the idea. they are aware that if theres no major movement by the united states, the thing will deteriorate and t...

Defense secretary robert gates is meeting with ehud barack a day after the president reassured israel lets defense -- israels defense minister that our country has -- where do they stand on efforts to achieve peace in the middle east? >> reporter: well, president obama, jane, told ehud barack that the united states has an unshakable commitment to israels security, also talked about peace in the middle east. heres the president from last night. >> despite the inevitable difficulties so long as i ...

With leaders. while both sides wont declare an understanding but the white house sounds as if the obstacles have been removed. >> the meetings have been productive in moving this process forward, as we talked about for the past many weeks in getting two parties to the table. >> reporter: at yesterdays cabinet meeting netanyahu offered this on the peace talks. "we want to start the peace process immediately. many the coming days we will know if the peace process gets underway. i hope it will." pa...

While both sides wont declare an understanding but the white house sounds as if the obstacles have been removed. >> the meetings have been productive in moving this process forward, as we talked about for the past many weeks in getting two parties to the table. >> reporter: at yesterdays cabinet meeting netanyahu offered this on the peace talks. "we want to start the peace process immediately. many the coming days we will know if the peace process gets underway. i hope it will." palestinian offi...

Israel favored the two-state solution in 1948, 1967, 2000, 2001, ended its occupation of the gaza and the palestinians have done virtually nothing towards peace. they wont even come to the negotiating table. most important, the rift has to end. its an artificial rift between friends. the only people happy about it are iran and americas enemies. america and israel have to stand together. >> i guess the point for me, i think it is artificial. thats the comforting news. thank you so much for your w...

Change the incentive structure so it makes it more and more interesting to the palestinians to again accept the two-state solution as the template, which they have been moving away from, to reject hamas, which is a deal breaker for israel. its really a deal-breaker in any kind of negotiation. to continue to invest in palestinian industries, the palestinian economy is finding. >> the core of your piece, basically as i see it, you phrase it more delicately. a strike on iran in return for the appro...

And similarly, with the palestinians, it also has to change the incentive structure so it makes it more and more interesting to the palestinians to, again, accept the two-state solution as the template, which theyve been moving away from, to reject hamas, which is a deal breaker for israel. its really a deal breaker in any kind of negotiation, to continue to invest in palestinian industries, palestinian economies, finally rise -- >> the core of your piece is basically, as i see it, you are sayin...

Is no longer possible from a practical point of view, and when youre talking about settlements, i know that the focus today is on 1600 new housing units in a particular area in jerusalem, ramat shlomo or whatever. but you felt the fact that israel has been building across the green line in east jerusalem for the past 42 years and we will already have more and that a quarter of a million people living across the green line in jerusalem in east jerusalem and in the surrounding areas. now, i dont s...