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The u.s. perspective? >> if the release of jonathan pollard would induce the prime minister of israel to fundamentally change positions on jerusalem borders, security and refugees -- >> so-called final status issues. >> well, absolutely. wolf, it won't. and you remember in the fall of 2010, the administration, in order to secure a two-month extension of the settlements freeze, wouldn't etch give the israelis f-35s and a lot of other military equipment for a two-month extension. this, wolf, is a tactic in search of a stratstrategy. pollard is like a fallen soldier to them. they abandoned him. a...

You could take that as hello saudi arabia, hello syria. you could take it as a hello to the others in the region who the president knows could undermine these negotiations through any number of actions. david mentioned jimmy carter. that was 32 years ago, wolf. 32 years ago the historic peace agreement between egypt and israel. since then every president has tried. we both covered bill clinton. he got as close as any president has ever come to getting the israelis and palestinians to put ink to paper to a peace deal and it collapsed in the end. in part, one of the important reasons, said the r...

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