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mr. bard presents the argument in his book. >> author mitchell bard argues while the israel lobby is charged with overly influencing the united states foreign policy goals in the middle east, the real power lies with the arab lobby. he presents his book at the skirball cultural center in los angeles. >> thank you for making this possible and all of you for braving the traffic here. i lived here for awhile and i can sympathize, but now i live in washington which also has bad traffic. it's nice to get a warm introduction. to be honest when you speak as much as i do, you can't always be...

is this one book, anne frank's diary.t miep gz gies is the woman who saved the diary, she's the one who preserves it, and when ottia to frank came back and said my daughter's dead, she never read the book. she kept it for anne frank, shee handed it to her father, and she said, this is your daughter's legacy to you, and that's the. reason we have anne frank's diary. .. gies saved it. >> host: quick, how much political research goes into the thrillers? >> guest: listen, i wish we didn't live in a world where we don't get our news from comedians, and we get jokes. i realized over the ye...

this setting at the white house. in 1979 just behind me on the north lawn, anwar sadat sat down with jimmy carter and signed an accord. both of those gentlemen, sadat and rabin paid for that agreement with their lives. they were both assassinated. all the emotion and seemingly never cycle of violence in the middle east. martin, let me turn to you. when we look at issues like attacks that just happened, one jewish settler a pregnant woman killed there, four of them killed in total, how influential can mahmoud abbas be with these hamas hat are willing to take these lives? >> reporter...

Can president obama succeed on middle east peace where so many other leaders have failed. i would like to hear your thoughts. you can watch me on twitter or facebook. joining me now is the executive director of the american israeli cooperative enterprise. mitchell bard. mr. bard, how can president obama succeed in pushing forward on middle east peace? >> well, as your correspondents mentioned it's very difficult given the context that we just saw yesterday. the crux of the problem is the continuation of violence and while most israelis have expressed a desire to reach a two state solution with...