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Part to be on alert. elizabeth: wow. good advice, bryan. thank you so much to. >> reporter: of course to. elizabeth: leland? leland: ahead of the president's visit to jerusalem, the palestinians have become a charm offensive of sorts saying they're ready for peace and telling mr. trump he is just the man who can do the impossible. but israelis say the media to fencive is disin-- offensive is disingenuous at best while they celebrate the bombers and gunmen that have taken so many israeli lives. to talk about it, david keyes joining us as we overlook the old city. great to have you. is this a ne...

Refusal to recognize a jewish state. israel's prime minister has called on president abbas to meet hundreds of times for direct peace talks. he even invited him to speak in the knesset. president abbas said no to recognizing israel as a jewish state and no to direct relations and no to condemning the hate speech that is a daily occurrence on palestinian media. instead of focusing on the actual barriers to peace, this has basically done a bait and switch where people think -- >> we have a problem with our satellite there. can we get david keyes back? he's back. so, mr. keyes, i think you got th...

>> these are the final status issues which need to be worked out between the parties. i can't negotiate right now live on cnn. that's for president abbas and prime minister netanyahu to sit down and work out all these difficult issues. you can't work out difficult issue physical the other party won't even sit down with you. ramallah is a few minutes away from here. i would much rather be there right now negotiating peace with a palestinian leader than talking to you, no offense. but the palestinian leadership has said no to literally hundreds of calls. this rejectism -- i understand that. they...

Record, to push back, but in some ways a lot of the speech was either talking to the historical record or digging out talking points from two years ago that they had on the shelf sitting there, and just said, well, for the record, we're going to put that out, too. >> hala, reading to you the statement from the spokesman for netanyahu. david keyes which we just got. "like the security council resolution that secretary kerry advanced in the u.n., his speech tonight was skewed against israel." obviously it's night in israel. "for over an hour kerry obsessively dealt with settlements and barely to...

Largest ever security aid package to israel was authorized. we're talking $38 billion over ten years. so you do have this spat. it could have, perhaps, some of its roots in a very difficult personal relationship between the u.s. president and benjamin netanyahu, but strategically speaking it's difficult to argue that the united states is somehow turning its back on israel under president obama, because the aid, the strategic relationship is still very much there. so coming from the netanyahu government, it is expected we'd hear from david keyes say something like that, but really practically t...