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Very difficult if not impossible. if you have more and more settlements being built in the area that is supposed to be the future palestine, it makes it harder to have the future p palestine. >> chuck schumer, and elliott angle, the top democrat on house foreign affairs. our correspondent has more on that part from this story in washington. >> good evening. secretary of john kerry's speech criticizing israel has drawn a robust response from benjamin netanyahu and some democrats. for over an hour he outlined president obama's plan to reach peace. and while he did criticize the palestinians for ...

Settlement building. the top democrat says that approach is misguided. >> it's easy for us to sit and point fingers saying the israelis should do this or that. i didn't hear much from john kerry about what the palestinians need to do. it's easy for us to do it. >> chuck schumer writes in a statement, quote, while secretary kerry mentioned gaza in his speech, he seemed to forget the history of the settlements in gaza and the palestinians responded by sending rockets into israel. some democrats are applauding kerry. the second ranking democratic in the house writes in a statement, quote, secreta...

>> reporter: it was a relatively quiet day here. until we got that response to the russia announcement. transition officials tell us to expect a flurry of activity in the next few days as they fill the four remaining cabinet level positions. all of the deputies and announce who america's next batch of ambassadors are going to be as well. >> peter doocy, thank you. the fraying relationship between the u.s. and israel is spreading across washington and around the world. many are weighing in and taking sides after secretary of state john kerry tried to explain why the u.s. did not veto a u.n. r...

He called out the palestinians for failing to crack down more on terrorism and glorifying terrorists naming streets and public squares after them. the majority of the speech was criticism of israel on the settlement issue. he said the government of israeli benjamin netanyahu is the most right-wing in israeli history with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements. shortly after the speech the palestinian president mahmoud abbas released a statement he is willing to resume negotiations if israel stops the settlement building. leland: he said don't take friend to the security council started ...

>> doctor, you have said that, and, and, and the -- you know the plo, you have to stop this settlement building before we can get to peace talks again before we can get move forward with this process. if you look historically back not that long ago 2009, the israeli government spent ten months with a complete freeze on settlement building, and the palestinians did not come to the table for months and months and months until the very end. what guarantees do they have that a freeze would be meaningful for moving the peace process forward this time? >> well, please, look, israel wants to be rewar...