hopefully syria will be next. but it s a dangerous neighborhood. the peace process is not moving. i think president obama needs to rekindle it. israel is in a tighter security situation. the palestinians, you ve got hamas, others getting stronger. you ve got iran making trouble in the neighborhood. you know, it s not a good region right now, and we should be really diplomatic lee pushing as hard as we can with the europeans to make things better. jenna: we look forward to discussing that more with you how precisely we can do that. we appreciate having you on set we ll have to leave it there, governor, nice being with you. more happening now in just a moment.
days. then he could have given this policy speech after that meeting. if there are no specifics in this and it is just a general talk about democracy, some loan guarantees to egypt and tunisia, condemnation of syria and then a vague promise about rekindling israeli and palestinian hopes, there s going to be [ inaudible ] richard, that is exactly what we are being told. that the speech may mention the 1967 borders but that the united states is not prepared to engage in a specific peace plan because they do not feel that either side is really ready to deal. that in fact israel will not sit down with hamas, and that all the pressure that you are seeing from the arab world is being perceived as the wrong time for israel to be negotiating. israel is coming with a new piece plan, but it is to obtain control over some areas of the west bank to give up some, and to not negotiate with hamas. so it seems as though this
on the syrian front. how he couches the u.s. role in the mideast peace process now i think is what we all really don t know. as i had an aide say, you know, i m not going to tell you everything about the speech. well, for one thing it was one of the issues that was somewhat debated internally and between the state department and the white house. and on syria, the president signed executive orders yesterday authorizing sanctions against president assad. now these are unilateral, so unless the european union joins in, they won t have very much weight. but still, while criticizing syria while apparently deciding they can no longer turn a blind eye to the abuses that are taking place there, they re not specifically calling for him to step down, presumably because they have no muscle behind that and they don t want to be in another situation where they call on a leader to step down and then can t carry through. well, this is a case where, you know, they got criticized when they were say
and so now i expect you will see a speech that focuses more on the sort of pivot from osama bin laden s death to kind of the hopeful events in the region, that focuses on this economic aid package without, of course, anything that requires a congressional appropriation which is difficult right now. and talks about in more general terms some of the issues going on right now, hopefully syria, certainly something modest on israeli-palestinian peace but doesn t really get into the details. he s going to be meeting tomorrow with prime minister netanyahu. and then over the weekend, the president is going to be leaving for his meetings in europe, and netanyahu s going to be delivering his speech, almost a rebuttal to today s speech to the joint session of congress. faulk that. one talk about that. one thing netanyahu might do is congratulate the outside killing osama bin laden and saying this is a joint fight against terrorism and explain why, therefore, he can t negotiate with hamas.
been more out on n front on this issue. europe already imposed an arms embargo on syria. i don t think it s fair to say that the u.s. has taken a very hard stance and certainly doesn t appear to be aiming for regime change in syria. indeed. and they re going to be getting more pressure, the president will be getting more pressure from the british and the french on the libyan front to become more engaged militarily when he goes to europe next week. we ll take a break for a minute. a few messages and we ll be back. is is lara. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that s a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on. her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. have