At csis. Just a few points of order for housekeeping purposes. Well be taking a transcript so as best you can use the microphones when youre asking questions. That would be great. Well go through the first rtion of the trip p followed by our Department Deputy director will take us through the remainder. Following that well open it up for questions. Hopefully we can get to everyone here. Okay. Without further ado ill hand it over to tony. Thank you very much. Normally when a president goes to israel you have a very pleasant public profile and usually an announcement of some new form of u. S. Aid or assistance to israel. The problem you have here is there are also a lot of underlying issues and how many of these will actually either be dealt with publicly or during a president ial visit is pretty hard to estimate. Some of them are fairly obvious. There is the question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. There are all the issues relating to the settlements. Wi
Dr. Corpsmen is going to take us through the first portion of the trip and followed by our Deputy Director of the Europe Program senior fellow will take you through the remainder. Following that we will open it up for questions so hopefully we can get to everyone here. Without her there but do i will hand it over to tony. Thank you very much. Normally when the president goes to israel you have a very pleasant public profile and an announcement of some new form of usaid or assistance to israel. The problem with that is there a lot of underlying issues. How many of these will actually be dealt with publicly or during president ial visits is pretty hard to estimate. Some of them are fairly obvious. There is the question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. There are all these shoes relating to the settlements. Will the u. S. Take a stand on the twostate solution and its so what . But kind of sequel will follow and how will he be discussing what is a very tense
Fellow will take us through the remainder. Following that well open up for questions so hopefully well get to opens. Without further ado, ill open it up to tony. Tony thank you, colm. Normally when a president goes to israel, you have a very of pleasant public profile and usually an announcement of some new form of u. S. Aid or assistance to israel. The problem you have here is theres also a lot of underlying issues and how many will be dealt with publicly or during a president ial visit is pretty hard to estimate. Some of them are fairly obvious. There is the question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. There are issues relating to the settlements. Will the u. S. Take a stand on the twostate solution . If so, what . What kind of sequel will follow the abbas visit and how will he discussing a tense situation between israel and the Palestinian Authority and what is happening in gaza . There is the problem for israel of what is happening in egypt which is equ
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