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Solution and israel will not accept a terrorist state next door. contactly have who secretary kerry called out in this speech saying it's the settler movement leading the israeli government. something bennett already responded to and something we can expect prime minister netanyahu to respond to. one of the things we listened to here, what are kerry's ideas, specific solutions how to solve the complex issues. refugees, jerusalem. where we were looking for a lot more detail and specific answers what he would do. in fact, comparing this speech, jake, to clinton's parameters, clinton gave more de...

In the u.n., jake? >> suzanne malveaux a minute ago alluded to the tweet benjamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel wrote. wrote, thank you for your warm friendship, president-elect trump, put the u.s. and israeli flag emojis. the question is -- with this obviously very fastly solidifying relationship between netanyahu and trump, why even bother giving the speech today? everybody knows the obama administration position on the settlements and the u.n. vote last week made it pretty clear? >> partly kerry wanted to push back at the israeli criticism that the obama administration was betrayin...

Demographic realities that exist on the ground. they would have to be factored in. but if more and more settlers are moving into the middle of palestinian areas, it's going to be just that much harder to separate, that much harder to imagine transferring sovereignty, and that is exactly the outcome that some are purposefully accelerating. let's be clear. settlement expansion has nothing to do with israel's security. many settlements actually increase the security burden on the israeli defense forces and leaders of the settler movement are motivated by idealogical imperatives that entirely igno...

Mind of the incoming trump administration, signals a different course. >> seemed to signal not. right? >> not. but this basically was designed i think to help seed or perhaps change the direction of the debate inside of israel as the u.s. begins to move in a different direction. >> david what do you think is the most important thing we heard here? >> i think how he squarely went at the settler movement. xoidnary to have the united states secretary of state making this appeal. i agree with ron, largely to the american public. netanyahu came to the united states, made a similar appeal to america...

Increased including advancing the unprecedented legislation to legalize settler outpostthat the prime minister himself reportedly warned could expose action, before deciding to support it. in the end, we could not in good conscious protect the most extreme elements of the settler movement as it tries to destroy the two-state solution. we could not in good conscious turn a blind eye to palestinian actions that fan hatred and violence. it is not in u.s. interest to help anyone on either side, create a unitary state and we may not be able to stop them, but we cannot be expected to defend them. an...