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There have been. there been strains in the u.s. israeli relationship during various administrations. i remember in 1990 george h.w. bush was president, james baker secretary of state. they weren't happy with the new israeli president. and baker was testifying before the house foreign affairs committee in '90 when that irritation publicly burst open. >> everybody over there should know the telephone number is 1-202-456-1414. when you are sere s you about these, call us. >> reporter: what happened a year later, even made that relationship even more tense. the israelis were absorbing tens of thou...

Reside on them coming to a deal with border security and dealing with both sides whether they need to think about mutual interests. that is not happening. they are saying look into the abyss and how bad things can be for both sides. the problem is that neither side senses that it has that accountability for the other. they are escalating each side incrementally and that netanyahu solely in israeli interest or abbas solely in palestinian interest, this is an escalation that increases the stakes for israel's potential misbehavior as israel increases the support frequently when the palestinians m...

In seeing major gains from negotiations which collapsed earlier this spring. and his political space is weakened within his own party. he's got the challenge from hamas in the gaza strip that criticized the move and wants the palestinians to do even more forceful measures through the u.n. so i think he was trying to get some sort of propaganda victory, but i fear it ends up making him seem weaker in this context. it mystifies people they went to this vote at this time with some of the new members coming on. the nonpermanent members next year which may have been more supportive like malaysian. ...

Right things, what happens next? that is the question israelis and palestinians are asking now. craig? >> diana, that's the view from the israelis. what was the view from the palestinians' perspective of the president's visit? >> we were expecting that a president who has given billions of u.s. dollars to israel that he would have come with a message telling the israelis that it is time to completely stop their settlement activity and if they don't stop their settlement activity urge the u.s. dollars no longer going to flow to israel. he didn't do that. he talked about resuming negotiations as...

Obama term what he said very clearly was that israel's settlement activity had to stop. he made it home demolitions had to stop and what he is now saying is that it is not so much that home demolitions have to stop, and he didn't even call for a settlement freeze. instead he said that there should be no conditions placed before negotiations, and in other words what he is saying is that israel is allowed to continue to eat up palestinian land and the palestinians have to sit down and deal with it and this is not going to be a recipe for moving ahead. in fact, what he did is rather than move the...