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The box, no withstanding, prime minister netanyahu's statement to apec about building in jerusalem. that is not being contested. it is not doing provocative things in jerusalem that will create problems for the negotiations about to start. that part is being resolved. the big question now is how those negotiations will proceed. i hope the prime minister will share with the president his vision of how he wants to achieve an agreement. on that basis, they could perhaps now construct a new partnership. >> for the benefit of folks who weren't there at the conference, let's run a little bit of what...

Internal affairs. and yet he wants to publicly criticize israel for what its doing. he's sending secretary of state clinton out to be the attack dog. >> if you look at the implication of the u.s. support for israel and the obvious animosity towards israel and the balance of the middle east and america, the high-wire act that is that three-way relationship has been in place since the relationship has existed. do you get any sense that we're any closer to resolving these sorts of back-and-forths than we ever have been? >> no, i don't. i would just say to the comment that you led into with, that ...

Israel. are we at a boiling point? and a new super-eated set of rhetoric coming out of the deep right wing. we begin with today's closed-door meeting between the president and israeli prime minister, benjamin netenyahu. just over an hour from now, the two leaders are going to discuss israel's decision to build housing units in east jerusalem, an area that palestinians want as a capital of their proposed state. these developments seen as a direct provocation in this debate. the obama administration opposes this development. netenyahu, however, will not budge. >> the jewish people were building ...

That revealed simmering tensions between the two countries. netenyahu refused to yield to u.s. pressure to halt construction of housing units in arab east jerusalem. here are the back-and-forths. >> the jewish people were building jerusalem 3,000 years ago. and the jewish people are building jerusalem today. jerusalem is not a settlement. it's our capital. >> new construction in east jerusalem or the west bank undermines that mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first step towards the full negotiations that both sides say they want and need. and it exposes daylight betwe...

Before the powerful lobbying group aipac, the american israeli political action committee. that revealed simmering democratic tensions between the two countries. netenyahu refused to yield to u.s. pressure to halt construction of housing units in arab east jerusalem. here are the back-and-forths. >> the jewish people were building jerusalem 3,000 years ago. and the jewish people are building jerusalem today. jerusalem is not a settlement. it's our capital. >> new construction in east jerusalem or the west bank undermines that mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first st...