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The truth is, between ramallah and jerusalem, the distance he's going to have to travel, when he travels in his motorcade, it's about 15 or 20 minutes. so, it won't be too bad a problem. remember, kissinger did this kind of shuttle diplomacy. it's not unheard of. the idea is that the palestinians refused to sit down at the same table with the israelis as long as settlements were continuing to be built. they're continuing to be built. we do have a right-wing government in power in israel. this is a way to get them to some form of a table, even though it's not a direct talk. >> do you expect any...

And jerusalem, the distance he's going to have to travel, when he travels in his motorcade, it's about 15 or 20 minutes. it won't be too bad a problem. remember, kissinger did this kind of shuttle diplomacy. it's not unheard of. the idea is the palestinians refused to sit down at the same table with the israelis as long as settlements were continuing to be built. they're continuing to be built. we do have a right-wing government in power in israel. this is a way to get them to some form of a table, even though it's not a direct talk. >> do you expect any hope? will they ever agree to move the ...

>> as smoke rises over jerusalem. >> since israel's founder, 12 presidents have struggled through a series of wars and peace processes to solve the rubik's cube that is the israeli-palestinian conflict. central has been the fate of jerusalem. the difficulty compounded after israel with its victory in the six-day war of 1967 unified the holy city. >> every president for the last number of presidents, large number, they've come in and they were going to do it and then all of a sudden they decide they don't want to get involved. >> the democratic convention platforms of 1972 and '76 advocated for...

In 1917 the british took over jerusalem. a movement called zionism started. it gained some stuff with the goal of creating a jewish state. understandable because of everything that happened in the holocaust. the british wanted this thing to look like. it was submitted to the united nations in 1947 and the hope is that they were going to split jerusalem between muslims, jews, and christians aiming to create a jewish state and an arab state. with jerusalem itself not governed by any one country. now, arabs subject to the plan said absolutely not. arab countries surrounding the state of israel at...

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