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Disappointing. >> they didn't vote for them. they abstained. >> by abstaining actually what you said is correct because usually the u.s. stands with israel and apply the veto power it happened in 2011 and 2014. without the veto the u.s. blocked the resolution. now when the u.s. abstained, all the rest voted to support the resolution and it passed. when you read the resolution, it's so one sided, we have no legitimate right to the wailing wall, to the jewish border with jerusalem. this is insulting. >> are you planning for the possibility of president obama potentially pushing more anti-israeli...

Outgoing administration take these kinds of actions, or inactions in abstaining from vetoing this ridiculous resolution, this is an insult to americans. >> he was challenged, donald trump was challenged on the campaign trail, i take you back to february 2016. marco rubio, ted cruz hit him on this hard. he was asked to pick sides in the conflict between israel and palestinian, he said, quote, let me be sort of a knneutral guy, have friends of mine who are really good negotiators and they say it's not doable. that stuck with him for a while. >> as a businessman, the art of the deal, he does want...

T -- abstaining from the vote was a mistake. >> would have been wise to veto this resolution not because of policy implications but because of the timing and the circumstance that it leads to with respect to trying to get the parties together. we have a new administration coming in. they will make a new initiative. unfortunately this moves israel further away from being willing to negotiate with the palestinians and makes the palestinians less likely to negotiate which is difficult. >> george mitchell, a man who knows of what he speaks on this issue. as for the kerry speech today, we had netan...

Point. >> let's talk about the domestic audience for this, because there are after the abstaining from that vote in the u.n. security council last week, there were both republicans and democrats in congress who were taken aback by that decision. let me read from you a statement from democratic house whip steny hoyer and put it up on the screen. now it is my understanding that secretary kerry in the last few days of his administration intends to outline the parameters of an agreement between israel and the palestinian authority. this flies in the face of the united states' long-standing positio...

Each american administration has considered israeli settlements as an obstacle to peace so what we saw last week at the united nations security council was nothing new. >> well, other than the u.s. deciding not to veto the resolution. >> even that is not new because in 1980, i can just cite one of several united nations council resolutions, resolution 471, the united states stained against a very strongly-worded anti-israeli settlement resolution. that was in 1980. there have been other resolutions. so there has been nothing new in the united states abstaining from a resolution on settlements....