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I'm willing to do that. i gave a speech. you heard my speech. i wouldn't say it was a softy speech. it was a tough speech, but conciliatory. here is my hand. reach out, grasp it. let's make peace. if you ask me, what is the main thing, the simple thing, if you strip away everything in all the arguments, the fact is, david, you can tell me now, you can ask me a question. are you willing to sit here, change your plans have president abbas come here and start peace negotiations right now on the sunday show? well, in the afternoon. it would take some time to reach him. the answer is, yes. i would ...

Remind ourselves that peace is not just the absence of war. true peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living to do that, we must confront the common enemy of humanity nuclear weapons and poverty, ignorance and disease. these forces corrode the possibility of lasting peace and together, we're called upon to confront them. to lift the speckter of mass destruction, we must come together to pursue the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. over the last two years, we've begun to walk down that path. since our nuclear summit in washington nearly 50 natio...

With its neighbors. and friends of the palestinians do them no favors by ignoring this truth, just as friends of israel must recognize the need to pursue a two-state solution with a secure israel next to an independent palestine. that is the truth. each side has legitimate aspirations. and that's part of what makes peace so hard. and the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes. each side can see the world through the other's eyes. that's what we should be encouraging. that's what we should be promoting. this body, founded as it was out of the ashes of w...

Year. that basis is clear, it's well-known to all of us here. israelis must know any agreement provides assurances for their security. palestinians deserve to know that the territorial basis of their state. now i know that many are frustrated by the lack of progress. i assure you, so am i. but the question isn't the goal that we seek. the question is how do we reach that goal? and i am convinced that there is no shortcut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. peace is hard work. peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations. if it were that easy i...

Sense of common humanity. one delegate to the san francisco conference that led to the creation of the united nations put it well. many people, she said, have talked as if all that has to be done to get peace was to say loudly and frequently that we love peace and we hated war. now we have learned no matter how much we love peace and hate war we can not avoid having war brought upon us if there are convulsions in other parts of the world. the fact is, peace is hard but our people demand it. over nearly seven decades, even as the united nations helped avert a third world war, we still live in a