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To further unfettered settlement construction that we fundamentally oppose. so we reject the criticism that this vote abandons israel. on the contrary. it is not this resolution that is isolating israel. it is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. virtually every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. that includes many of the friends of israel, including the united kingdom, france, russia, all of whom voted in favor of the settlements resolution in 2011 that we vetoed and again this year along with every other member of the co...

And forth over this u.n. resolution and exactly how it came to be with the israelis of course out there saying that the united states was behind it, that they have evidence to that effect. the israeli newspaper herretz reporting this was a meeting in washington where they talked to palestinian leaders and essentially said if this language is balanced, it's all fine. we have not confirmed that reporting at this point. >> let me ask you about meetings on trump's schedule today. any significant or notable visits or meetings taking place? >> we know he has meetings starting right about now. we don...

For speech. we hope president-elect trump looking at this policy of the u.s. for 50 years against settlement building and understanding '67 borders are the demarcation line between peace and war. and that consolidating them helps the parties. erasing them like netanyahu government is doing harms the parties. we hope he will move those conditions. >> are you hopeful you will have a u.s. president capable? or givenhe tweets, it do not look like that? >> early in the campaign, he said he wanted to be neutral. we are in favor of negotiations. what we have refused are baseless and aimless negotiati...

Israel in a negotiation and an agreement. on the israeli side, israel's already isolated in the muslim world, which is about a fifth of the world's population now, in a few decades, it will be a third, and now the tactic followed by the prime minister of criticizing and doing something to the relationship with countries like britain and france and spain and new zealand risk undermining israel throughout the world. if i could just say, poppy, to my knowledge, i may be wrong, but i haven't heard of a single country in the world of the nearly 200 countries in the world, that have come out in supp...

Unprecedented legislation to legalize settler outposts that the prime minister himself warnled could expose israel to action at the security council and even international prosecution. before deciding to support it. in the end we could not in good conscience protect the most extreme elements of the settler movement as it tries to destroy the two-state solution. we could not turn a blind eye to palestinian actions that fan hatred and violence. it is not in u.s. interests to help anyone on either side create a unitary state. we may not be able to stop them. but we cannot be exen expected to defe...