weeks ago. we objected to this announcement, because we are committed to israel and is security, which we believe depends on a comprehensive peace. reporter: the announcement set back george mit s plan for shuttle diplomacy and triggered violent processes some conservatives blame the obama organization for boldening extremists. bolton said the president is too hard on israel. he has a different view on how to solve the problem. the president s view is israel should make more concessions. reporter: the group secretary clinton spoke to agrees with her and called to immediately freeze new development projects in the west bank and jerusalem. her spokesman said mrs. clinton wasn t judging israel s claim to east jerusalem. jerusalem is a final status issue. the sooner we get into former negotiations the sooner we can address the specific issue. reporter: today secretary clinton sharply criticized
co commended for putting the conversation in place. we shouldn t under estimate the difficulty. they are far apart on the status issue. security and border and jerusalem. that will take a very heavy lift. the politics on both sides of the israeli side and in sessipan side are not moving to sett settleme settlement. the fact the president is engaged and putting a focus on this is a good thing. if you get people talking about it, it is good. and tony, before we get to a.b., why was the relationship fraught with president obama? we heard the abo. anybody but obama. people are welcoming in saudi arabia. people are welcoming president trump because they are happy to have this turn of a page. give us a little bit more context of what had gone wrong and what president trump can now
importance of the holding of the arab islamic american summits. your excellency, mister president, once again we reassert to you our position of accepting the two state solution on those borders, the state of palestine with east jerusalem living alongside the state of israel and resolving the final status issue, based on international law, the resolution and respecting agreements which set the tone for the implementation of the arab peace initiative in accordance with what has been reaffirmed in the most recent arab summit in jordan.