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About trade with israel. they have a free trade agreement between europe and israel. israel has been violating that by including within that agreement goods and produce that is made on israeli settlements in the occupied territories. illegal settlements. by saying in this resolution that all the settlements are illegal, that they have no valid basis, they're setting the stage for a whole new initiative by europe. that's what makes it so important. >> phyllis, a quick question before we go. are you -- is it your notion at this point that benjamin netanyahu has given up a two-state solution, thi...

Settlers, that it is going to lead to some kind of civil war. >> when you say one state. give us a practical sense. israel claims the west bank for its own and says this is now all israel and then the palestinians living there before citizens? >> a one-state solution would look like that would annex, including the west bank and gaza strip which give them full citizen rights. which means that they're allowed to vote in the parliament, allowed to participate. >> john kerry said, if that happens, israel faces a choice. if you're one state, you can't be both democratic and jewish because you would...

This one resolution this past week. so i think that there was a bit of a misreading of where public opinion is versus opinion inside that washington bubble. the second thing that he was trying to do was to defend or protect this idea of a two-state solution. at a moment when i think a lot of people believe that the two-state solution is over and done, it's dead. it's been killed by settlements. there is just no land left for a viable palestinian state. and this notion that we're headed towards a one-state solution i think is missing the boat that we already are in a one-state solution. it's ri...

We can be supportive of a president-elect trump regarding israel, but i will be critical of him and cast a wary eye his way on everything else he does here in the united states. >> let me take it in steps. why are you so concerned that the u.s. let the u.n. security council pass a resolution critical of israel? previous u.s. administrations have done so in the past and they have done so more often than the obama administration. >> i think in this specific situation, you have to look at the timing and wording of the resolution and what's been going on the last several years here. i personally t...

That murder jews and now we are giving them the currency, the palestinians currency at the negotiating table with israel. it is insane. >> the curtain has finally been pulled back on how the administration feels about the israelis. the secretary of state spent the majority of his time blaming israelis for building settlements and claiming they were a part of a one-state solution. that israel wanted to take all this palestinian land and make it their own and there would never be a two-state solution. therefore, the united states had to come in and save the palestinians are from what the big, ba...