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Two state-solution, but as we ve been talking about, he s an interim prime minister. he s heading into elections in november. and it is not clear if a future israeli government will move down that path. it s certainly something that will come up tomorrow when president biden is in bethlehem, speaking to mahmoud abbas, the leader of the palestinian authority. we are expecting the president to announce some measures to provide more funding for palestinian hospitals. there may be other moves to try to improve quality of life in the occupied west bank. but we aren t expecting him to engage with the really fundamental political issues that the palestinians want to see on the table. jose? raf, one subject that didn t come up during the news conference, the killing of the american journalist in the west bank in may. she said she was killed by accident by israeli troops. you spoke with her family about this. what did you learn? reporter: yeah, jose. her family is saying they do not ....
For the palestinians before heading over to saudi arabia. jose? hagar, let s talk about this next phase of the president s trip. so much has changed, as carol was saying, in the middle east. you know, just in the last couple of years. certainly israel s getting closer to neighbors, arab neighbors in the region creates a new reality. one that the president actually talked about today in his news conference. that s right. so, under president trump they did a series of normal sdmrags deals with gulf countries in particular and some in northern africa. so, you had the uae, bahrain, morocco and sudan all signed normalization deals with israel, on top of the peace relations they have already with jordan and egypt. they are still in a state of war with lebanon and syria. but what you have there is this huge that s a seismic shift when you talk about something a seven decade long conflict and you have these normalization ....
Should support. they didn t support it in 2015. so, you re going to see this similar dynamic play out here. what we are hearing from the president, though, is that they are united on the overarching theme of iran not acquiring a nuclear weapon. so, the president s really trying to emphasize that. but at the same time, their differences were very much on display. you heard the prime minister say, look, diplomacy is not going to work. it s not going to do anything to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. the only thing that will is a credible threat of military force. and then you heard the president moments later say, diplomacy still is, in his view, the right way to go here. so, they re not really going to be able to square that difference and come to an agreement, particularly when it comes to the nuclear deal. one big difference between 2015, however, and today is that israel has gotten much closer with its arab neighbors and there is this effort to try to have security more uni ....
Security against iran. so, that s a little bit of a difference here. the u.s. is very supportive of that. when it comes to this nuclear deal, they re not going to get on the same page. and, carol, i mean, this whole agreement and certainly getting closer, israel to some of its arab neighbors is a reality that is really changing much of the map of the middle east in so many ways. so, what s next for the president on this trip? reporter: well, the president is about to receive the israeli medal of honor from the israeli president here, and then he ll meet with former prime minister benjamin netanyahu, somebody that president biden knows very well. they disagree on a lot of things, particularly the iran nuclear deal. and that s expected to be a very candid discussion, according to white house officials. but so he ll have that meeting. tomorrow before he leaves israel, he will meet with palestinian leader abbas and he will announce humanitarian aid ....
244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with ....