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What the president is doing now is quite acceptable and appropriate. let me tell you why. when vice president biden went to israel he was greeted with the announcement of a very large settlement. ever since the founding of the state of israel, settlement activity has been against the policy of the united states again, whether it was republican administration or democratic administration. the reason is because creating facts on the ground forecloses opportunity to exchange land for peace under 242 rand 338. that is the only real basis you will ever get peace between arab and israelis. >> mike: ...

The detriment of everyone, including our own interests. jon: we mentioned you have advised six secretaries of state and five presidents, i believe you said. if you were advising mr. obama, what would you tell him the next step ought to snb. >> number one, don't take the united states for granted. i mean, the rest of the world may judge israel by a double standard, but the united states does not. you can afford to alienate your enemies, but you can't afford to alienate your friends. so don't be reckless and don't be indisciplined with respect to settlement construction. jon: you're speaking now...

>> jill, what potentially could happen now? we know the u.s. is demanding all settlement activity. israel is saying it's not going to happen. how do you see a breakthrough emerging here? >> it's hard to see a breakthrough right now, campbell, because what we're seeing right now is complete frozen situation. the whole idea of having the trip by the prime minister here was to bring things back on track, at least that's what we thought. what do we end up with? basically it's the same thing as two weeks ago. the issue of the settlements hasn't been resolved, there's been no stepping back by benjam...

Are considering more settlement activity. megyn: there you have it, a contentious back and forth between robert gibbs and several members of the white house press corps wondering about this procedure. the house is looking at passing the healthcare bill without voting on it. they will instead deem it passed. and sort of say that it's passed and send it to barack obama for his signature. way is raising all 70s issues about whether -- which is raising all sorts of issues if that is what the white house promised, and ebb if it's constitutional. even though it's something that has been youd for man...

Anger the u.s., it's martin who served as the u.s. ambassador to israel during the clinton administration. he's author and vice president and director of foreign policy at the brookings institute. thank you for joining us. listen, i want to ask you, do you think that first of all was this intentional? did he do this to embarrass the vice president? >> no, i don't believe so. i think it was just business as usual. it's happened many times on previous occasions to other secretaries of state starting as far back as secretary james baker in the bush 41 administration with right wing governments in...