that the folks on ground there can do more. one other point. salam fayad of the palestinian authority has done an amazing job of standing up a palestinian security force with our support and the support of the jordanians. it s well trained. it s keeping peace in the west bank. and economic development there is at record levels in the last several years. people don t know that story. and i think palestine is in much better shape with leadership from president abbas to embrace this moment. and i think the same is true, really, of israel. and i suggested that the coalition might change for bibi netanyahu, but i think there s an opportunity to do what a majority of israelis want, which is move toward a two-state solution and a jewish state of israel with secure borders that the united states has already sworn many times to help israel protect. let me put the two of you on hold here for a second because we have to take another break. when we come back, palestinian representative to the u.
with one another, president obama, and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. did president obama s message today strike the right tone? today, the president tries to calm the waters. reaction from israel s ambassador to the u.s. michael orr orrin, and then from the chief palestinian representative to the u.s., mayan ar acat. analysis. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. in his speech, president obama addressed the controversy from his thursday s speech. that was my reference to the 1967 alliance with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion s share of the attention, including just now. since my position has been misrepresented several times, let me reaffirm what 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps means. by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. that s what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well-known formula to all w
did president obama s message today strike the right tone? today, the president tries to calm the waters. reaction from israel s ambassador to the u.s. michael orr orrin, and then from the chief palestinian representative to the u.s., mayan ar acat. analysis. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. in his speech, president obama addressed the controversy from his thursday s speech. that was my reference to the 1967 alliance with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion s share of the attention, including just now. since my position has been misrepresented several times, let me reaffirm what 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps means. by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. that s what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. it allowed the parties themselves t
palestine for the many decades since the late 1940 s it has played center stage in government policy, public perception, and the wake of officials and political leaders from the dialogue of the country. . . the issue of palestine and israel is complex from the stand point of any egyptian it is first and foremost a question of justice. the egyptians look at the question of palestine as an injustice committed and continues to be committed. it is a matter felt at all levels of society. it is an issue that can affect streets on cairo. it can threaten domestic stability despite the size and strength of the security forces in egypt. it could force the government to give the question a certain amount of latitude and safety to the population at large. second, the force have taught egypt a vitally important lesson. that is that the egyptians cannot bet the farm on the resolution of the palestinian question for on over committing egypt to the question of palestine. egypt must, and th
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