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To negotiations. >> all the settlements together take up less than 2% in the west bank. >> we're talking about -- >> the west bank, andrea, that's not the issue. prime minister netanyahu froze all settlement building for ten months an the palestinians still didn't come to the nesh yagts table. he was willing to extend that period if the palestinians were willing to come back. they weren't willing to come back. there's no alternative. secretary of state clinton, president obama have said again and again, no alternative to direct negotiations. we uphold that principle. >> what would be the harm ...

Works together. there's a good story to tell here no matter what vantage point you are from, europe, united states or united nations. >> unless you're moammar gadhafi. >> there has been two issues here. do they do this through the security council where they know the united states will stop them, but the question is how do they do it, or do they go to the general assembly and try to get observer status which the israelis were nervous about. two bad choices as far as the u.s. is concerned. which was better? >> there are a lost bad choices. going to the security council, the u.s. has the veto, t...

>> oh, my god. >> please stay where you are. everybody, stay where you are. >> did you get it? oh, my god. >> keep your heads up. everybody, stay where you are. >> i knew that was in the stands, oh, my god. >> it could have been us. >> i know. in my mind, it was coming. >> joining me on the phone is the man who shot that video. he is brent wilson, he's back home in portland, oregon. brent, you know, we could hear i counted three "oh, my gods." i don't know if that was from you or your son. i can't imagine what you were feeling. if you can, walk me through your initial thoughts when y...

Palestinian state but an end of negotiations with israel. that's not what the americans want. >> part of the mystery here is that abbas may ask for statehood or go a different route. for membership, enhanced observer status. do we know at this point which may he may be leaning? >> it's all up in the air. at the moment all the palestinians want is recognition by the united nation of their right to exist as an independent state and they don't know how to go about it. abbas has said repeatedly that he'll go to the security council and ask for the security council to vote and recognize a palestini...

now "my take." the european crisis you have been reading about in the newspapers is worth watching very carefully. it has now morphed into something much bigger than a european crisis. it could batter the entire global economy, which is pretty fragile anyway. you read a lot about greece. the real problem is italy. you see, greece is a nano state and makes up about 2% of the european union's gross domestic problem. italy, on the other hand, is one of the seven or eight largest economies in the world. its debts are greater than those of spain, portugal, ireland, and greece combined. an...