must take responsibility to do that. we have repeatedly and emphatically stressed to the palestinians that all incitement of violence must stop. we have consistently condemned all violence and terrorism. we have strongly opposed unilateral efforts to delegitimize israel in international fora. we have made countless public and private exhortations to the israelis to stop the march of settlements. literally hundreds of conversations with prime minister netanyahu i have made clear that continued settlement activity would only increase pressure for an international response. we have all known for some time that the palestinians were intent on moving forward in the u.n. with a settlement s resolution. i advised the prime minister repeatedly that further settlement activity only invited u.n. action. yet the settlement activity just increased. including advancing the
two-state solution. and both sides in this conflict must take responsibility to do that. we have repeatedly and emphatically stressed to the palestinians that all incitement to violence must stop. we have consistently condemned all violence and terrorism and we have strongly opposed unilateral efforts to delegitimize israel in international fora. we have made countless public and private exhortations to the israelis to stop the march of settlements. in literally hundreds of conversations with prime minister netanyahu, i have made clear that continued settlement activity would only increase pressure for an international response. we have all known for some time that the palestinians were intent on moving forward in the u.n. with a settlements resolution, and i advised prime minister repeatedly that further settlement activity only invited u.n. action. yet the settlement activity just
to do this. now, within the realm of terrorism, they haven t come out and actually stated it but all of the facets of this attack have the hallmarks of a self-radicalized individual who for some reason, not a strange reason but for some reason had decided it was time to take on all the readings he had been getting on the internet from anwar al-awlaki and the exhortations from al qaeda and isis to do your own attack and he carried out an attack that was a small version of what we saw in nice last year and what you see in israel about 50 times, that s using a vehicle as a weapons system and then after he rams the people on the sidewalk, gets out and carries out this individual weapons attack with a butcher knife. w the fbi will see if he s externally linked or self-inspired. he was born in somalia. lived in pakistan for seven
your other beat is national security, home-grown terror. there is this general warning out there about the fourth of july. explain it when it comes to worries about terrorism. it s isis-based and it s been out there for, well, several weeks now. attorney general and fbi director had a meeting with or homeland security director had a conference call with police chiefs. they re very worried about isis social media inspiring people in the united states to take terror actions and they re concerned about this fourth of july period for a couple of reasons. one is, the obvious fact that it s a holiday and a potential something that would rally people but they ve seen in these messages exhortations to do something now. you ll probably see more of that this week. pete williams, thank you very much. big week for you and another big one coming up monday when it comes to redistricting. we know it s coming. we know it s coming. as we bring in the panel, i wanted everyone to see how th
coordinating it to the extent they typically are in military organizations, but this is not necessarily good news for us. fragmented organizations are notoriously difficult to destroy and you have to knock them off piecemeal. takes a long time. we heard concerns. you think this holiday there should be a higher alert level than any holiday? isis is very much into symbolism symbolism. these attacks after exhortations that its ramadan and try to make things as miserable as possible for inthe fainfidels. none of this the makes it easy. we re an open society. it s diflt provide physical security every time. these attacks were on relatively soft targets, a beach full of people a mosque a work place. how much can you really do to prevent them? it s impossible to protect especially a country like the