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Agenda coming from the most extreme elements. that's a pretty blunt message. >> look, as aaron said, very long speech. but the core summed up pretty i think concisely which is, when he said that while prime minister netanyahu publicly supports a two-state solution, that word "publicly" underlined, his government is pursuing settlement policy that infect render it impractical and effectively extinguishing it. that choice, kerry argued in the long run will leave israel less secure at home and more isolated internationally. a passionate, and by the way, offered not only stick in that sense, more ...

Rightful capital and there's what they call an end to the conflict which means all arab states if there was a peace deal would recognize israel and what secretary kerry argued in his speech is that even though israel has been improving relations with arab states such as those in the gulf such as saudi arabia, qatar, the united arab emirates because of threats posed by iran, he said israel will never have peace with its neighbors if it doesn't make peace with the palestinians and his larger argument is this settlement policy, pam, this expansion of israeli settlements on lands the palestinians ...

Think the trump forces will overreact in order to prove how pro-israeli they are, move immediately to move the capital and recognize jerusalem as the capital. that would really, as you well know, cause explosions all across the middle east. >> peter, you've been extremely critical of israel's settlement policy. how do you view this? do you think there is any value in calling out israel on a public stage for an issue that, frankly, republican and democratic administrations have criticized? a policy the republican and democratic presidents have both criticized. >> yeah, first i would just say i ...

Democratic congresswoman jan shakowski of illinois. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> you talk publically about your deep connection to the state of israel. i have to ask about friday's u.n. security council resolution, the abstention from the united states. do you support the move from the obama administration here? >> i do. it's u.s. policy that we don't support the extension of settlement building in the west bank. that's because it will diminish the chances for a two-state solution. it's also important to point out though that barack obama only once in the most recent...

>> we didn't know what was going on. >> the mall was placed on lockdown for a while. scenes like this lit up social media. there's no word on what might have sparked this trend. >> tensions are growing between united states and israel after vote condemning the jewish state with settlement and declaring settlement and continuing building illegal. israel insisting that the u.s. government was behind the resolution and the white house has been denying that. embassador john bolton said this, quote, last friday on the eve of hanukkah and christmas, barack obama stabbed israel in the front, the depa...