it was part of perception that we are going toward a comprehensive peace with the palestinian, probably with other neighbors, and israel takes upon itself much more security risks than usual, and america can come too. a lot of people believe speaking of bre shinskie among them, that the obama administration should put forward its own settlement plan. its own plan, a peace plan, and then tell the two parties, let s start from this point, rather than just endless process. does that make sense? i don t know. i prefer something that emerges genuinely from the players when they are in the room, over something that is put on the table. if we wait for the players to do it, we ve been waiting for 43 years. i don t think that we have, even for the three months or for the yeah, hopefully not even for three weeks. but we have to move.
israel announced the new settlement plan during a meeting between mr. biden and israel s prime minister. mike tobin is live in jerusalem. mike, all right, so this was something, it s an interesting dynamic, because vice president biden didn t want the expansion of these settlements, yet it was announced while he s over there. is this telling us something about the relationship? reporter: yeah, clearly there s no love lost between the two parties, and you should see the headlines in the hebrew press, they read with words like embarrassment or the slap heard around the world. as you mentioned vice president biden was in a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, when one of the ministers came forward with this announcement some 1600 new apartments will be built in disputed east jerusalem, a sharp contrast to the u.s. call to stop call construction in disputed territory. now, it gets pretty complicated there, because netanyahu s government has long insisted east jerusalem is not
we re not been in the some settlemen settlements. it is a powerful deception that we are going toward a comprehensive peace with the president and israel takes opponents of much more security usual and america can come to. a lot of people believe speaking of brzezinski among them, that the obama administration should put forward its own settlement plan, a peace plan and then tell the two parties, let s start from this point rather than just endless process. does that make sense? i don t know. i prefer something that emerges a genuinely from the players over something put on the table. for the players to do it, we ve been waiting for 43 years. i don t think that we have,