secretary s suggestion a short time ago. this was part of what he had to say. take a listen. this conflict is not about houses or communities in the west bank or gaza district or anywhere else. this conflict is and has always been israel s very right to exist. that s why my hundreds of calls to sit with p abapresident abas. that was incorrect. president abass was willing to negotiate with the government if there were guarantees that he seize of the negotiations. lets not forget that this is a prime minister who ran on a tick and won a n election based on on that s a hard press to negotiate with the person that s
as well. lets just start with in broad terms here. mr. kerry s speech, what do you make of it. i think it was consistent with american policies since 1967 and since the occupation. there is nothing in the policy as many men noted it is just louder. it is ambiguous statement and on top of that, i think he emphasized as israel allies of the danger of continuing with the policy. of course, he s very worried of the next organization that seems to want to depart from the american policies onset settlem on the last 50 years. the pronouncement of the statement that loudly was and anticipation of the next administration. benjamin netanyahu reacted to
gave to israel which is that israel as you were saying ther,. israel can no longer hold onto the 3 million palestinians. he s saying that the settlements are not obstacle to peace. he defended the united nation s votes. the united states is holding to its values and abiding to the principal in a two state resolutions which he says is in clear jeopardy. secretary of state is warning israel and laying out the path forward and making sure that the world knows why the united states upheld that education at the united nation for the security council resolution. benjamin netanyahu quickly addressed that u.n. vote and
here. good to have you with us. good to be with you. how would you characterize our relationship especially compares to where it was 15 or 20 years ago? at one level, things are extraordinary close. secreta secretary john kerry made the point that until now, the obama administration has blocked the resolutions and critical of israel. we heard of a 30 billion package. and, yet, obviously, the tension is between benjamin netanyahu and particular and obama and others have been enormous and benjamin netanyahu has been pursuing settlements in ways that s deeply frustrating to both obama and kerry and i thought kerry given an excellent
the administration mad made how different israel is going to be under president trump. how different will it be and what does an in coming trump administration and what does it do to the process and part of the world? it is clear just from the last couple of days that president-elect trump has said on social media that there will be a change in tone in the relationship between israel and the united states. he s also appointed an ambassador to israel who does not support to a two state solution and had been a friend politically and financially to the settler s movement which suggest of the in coming administration is not going to expand a significant amount of time and energy and prestige on two-state solution. of course, it could be something different, it maybe the opening bid of the trump administration to demonstrate gang before launching we ll have to find