get everybody something that they are not going to go for. parts of this plan have leaked out and the administration says that they are trying to have something economic as a carrot or a sweetener to say look at all you can get if only you go with this plan that by the way we re not talking about. you re reading the palestinian interests wrong. that s not what the palestinians are worried about is economic vitality, they are worried about the status of jerusalem and statehood. they are hoping that the palestinians can ultimately be bought. that s the trump approach tom things and they feel, and some others feel, too, that this what the palestinians will be order. you don t get what you want politically. get a big chunk of money, take it or leave it and if it doesn t work we can say we tried. okay. we ll see. appreciate boast you coming in. up next, ford motor company announces big layoffs. we ll talk about who is affected. that s next. my avocado. and a dressing fit for a goddess
two state solution. and that the final status of jerusalem will be determined through that peace process. the prime minister defended his move. here s what he had to say. fundamentally it is the right of every country to determine its national capital. that is why the government asked the question about the position we have long adopted in relation to jerusalem. reporter: s reporter: so george, the international community at large saw jerusalem as a city that will be determined through negotiations between the israelis and palestinians initially when jerusalem was designated as an international city by the u.n. back in 1947, and that designation really hasn t changed for most of the international community although you have had some countries make certain declarations.
building crude rockets that have managed to hit israel s territory. a lot of those have been taken out by iron dome, but that still can become a harassing fire. i think you also have to look at the larger picture of what this could do across the arab world, though. it there is a new generation that wasn t really paying attention to the status of jerusalem. they were paying attention to things like syria. that was the generation that fueled the arab spring protests. now, this could become a new cause celeb that not this week, not this month, but in the long-term helps fill the ranks of extremists and also helps weaken u.s. allies who are sticking their neck out to people like king abdullah in jordan to work with the united states. there is that striking picture this week of king abdullah standing next to bibi netanyahu. senior adviser to the president, his son-in-law jared kushner who
and seriously considered, they would have sent someone with serious diplomatic experience. maybe nikki haley should have gone to represent the united states but instead we get the president s daughter, who was appointed after a lifetime of working for her father in the real estate business and two pastors, whose record is filled with condemnations of the jewish people. these are pastors who say that only evangelical christians of their sort of favored by god and everyone else is damned for eternity. so for this and many other reasons, this spectacle yesterday was incredibly painful for much of the world. and all of it was done with no reciprocal exchange on behalf of the palestinians or the peace process. president trump just bargained away the status of jerusalem and got nothing in return.
u.s. voted for and that presented the state from moving its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, and also it says jerusalem is outside the negotiating table. you know it very well. you know that jerusalem is the heart of the two states. ambassador, they say they re not necessarily concluding all status of jerusalem. yes, the u.s. is moving the embassy to jerusalem, but they re not completely ruling out the possibility of the palestinians having control of parts of east jerusalem and having a u.s. embassy in east jerusalem for the new palestinian state. when you hear no, i only have it from you now. jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people. it s not even the capital of israel. as i said earlier, a clear religious interpretation of