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Joining me now is our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. as we were saying, thus increasing level of violence but we are hearing reports coming through that israel is saying it is committed to stop discussing setting up any new settlement units for four months. what more do we know about this? this statement has come out from the aqaba summit, that has been taking place in thejordanian red sea resort. it is an unusual one. it has brought together experian and palestinian security officials, as well as political officials, as well as other officials from egypt, jordan and the us had sent...

One human rights group says the Netanyahu government's approval of East Jerusalem construction puts it on a "collision course" with the Biden White House.

Palestinians that peace may now no longer run through washington and palestinians have been looking to the international community more and more. >> orin, how is the white house responding to the expansion? >> white house press secretary sean spicer was asked for comment on the announcement of 2,500 new settlement units. and he basically said israel is a huge ally of the u.s. and they'll discuss it. he said prime minister benjamin netanyahu and donald trump a meeting next month and they'll talk about it. he didn't condemn it, he didn't criticize it. something we routinely heard when it came to...

And their stated purpose is clear, they believe in one state, greater israel. in fact, one prominent minister who heads a prosettler party declared just after the u.s. election and i quote, the era of the two-state solution is over, end quote. and many other coalition ministers publicly reject a palestinian state and they are increasingly getting their way with plans for hundreds of new units in east jerusalem announced and talk with major new settlement effort in the west bank to follow. so why are we so concerned? why does this matter? well, ask yourselves these questions. what happens if th...

We voted last week when ronald reagan was president. yet despite growing pressure, the obama administration held a strong line against un action, any un action. we were the only administration since 1967 that had not allowed any resolution to pass that israel opposed. in fact, the only time in eight years the obama administration exercised its veto at the united nations was against a one-sided settlement resolution in 2011 and that resolution did not mention incitement or violence. now, let's look at what happened since then, since then there have been over 30,000 settlement unit advance throu...