israel's plan as creating more settlements in order to push out palestinians altogether to create just one state. kerry says the u.s. is trying to prevent that and promote a two-state solution. what is your reaction to that? >> i think this focus on settlements is almost an obsession. israel gave back 90% of the territories that it captured in a defensive war, the six-day war, when it returned the whole sinai peninsula. there were settlements in sinai in the north and in the south. but that didn't stop egypt and israel from reaching peace. we had a whole issue of disengagement from the gaza strip. israel withdrew all the settlements, all the settlers, even withdrew the bodies of people who had been buried there. that didn't create peace. it set the stage for rocket attacks on the rest of israel. so the real challenge is how you move peace forward but you keep