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>> earlier in the west bank, president obama met with the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. only hours after a stark reminder of the region's dangers as militants in gaza fired several rockets into southern israel. in ramallah today, the president also reversed course, no longer demanding that israel freeze settlements before peace talks resume on borders and israeli security. >> and that's not to say settlements are not important, it is to say that if we solve those two problems, the settlement problem will be solved. so i don't want to put the cart before the horse. >> and "meet the pres...

This relationship to continue in a way -- we won't be able to fully extract ourselves from pakistan because it's a nuclear armed nation on one of the most dangerous fault lines in the world with india. but there's a limit to the robustness of the relationship, and i think that's what we're going through right now. >> for americans who think of the israeli-palestinian situation mostly metaphor for unsolvable, term things -- >> a big ulcer. >> yeah. can you explain sort of the base level importance of what president obama said today about it? >> hugely important. no president of the united state...

This relationship to continue in a way -- we won't be able to fully extract ourselves from pakistan because it's a nuclear armed nation on one of the most dangerous fault lines in the world with india. but there's a limit to the robustness of the relationship, and i think that's what we're going through right now. >> for americans who think of the israeli-palestinian situation mostly metaphor for unsolvable, term things -- >> a big ulcer. >> yeah. can you explain sort of the base level importance of what president obama said today about it? >> hugely important. no president of the united state...

Approach is a back door to solving both the settlement problem that has the palestinians upset, but it also helps solve the hamas problem and the other islamist problem, because you want to set up a security issue. it doesn't solve the problem. it sets a framework that we've seen david mckoskie, has been a chief advocate for what president obama put on the table today. and even though we've seen many republican candidates come out and blast president obama for this, and some jewish leaders, the american jewish committee, the adl, the general jewish defense council have all come out with praise...

Done over the course of the last eight years for obviously good reasons, this is like a last-minute fire being burned. it's a lot better when you're setting up the next president-elect for success and also standing strong with our nation's greatest allies and israel is a beacon of freedom and liberty in a very dark region of the world. we should be standing shoulder to shoulder with them and not helping the palestinian efforts to ethnically cleanse east jerusalem. >> let me play for you a little bit more of what ambassador power said at the u.n. yesterday. >> but it is precisely our commitment...