posed by the arab spring uprisings which shook the middle east political order starting back in two thousand and eleven on paleo said that obama s policies had diminished america s role in the region and harmed its longtime ally. these last witness convulsions from tunis to tehran as old systems crumbled and new ones struggled to emerge that happened here too. and at this critical moment america your long time friend was absent too much. all right i m joined now at the big table by he is with the german institute for international and security affairs you know it s good to see you again so we ve got this major middle east policy speech delivered today by mr peo what did you make of it well mr pump aoe already obviously wants to do two things he wants to reassure
institute for international and security affairs you know it s good to see you again so we ve got this major middle east policy speech delivered today by mr peo what did you make of it well mr pump aoe already obviously wants to do two things he wants to reassure allies in the region the states that he would call the moderate states israel egypt saudi arabia and some others that the united states is there to stay although it is withdrawing troops troops from syria and secondly he wants to build this alliance for a single purpose that is to exert met maximum pressure as he said several months ago on iran in his speech today pompei was emphatic that the u.s. is not retreating from the middle east but he at the same time he said that the syrian withdrawal is still going to happen so it is contradicting each other it
america your long time friend was absent too much all right i m joined now at the big table by barry he is with the german institute for international and security affairs you know it s good to see you again so we ve got this major middle east policy speech delivered today by mr peo what did you make of it well mr pompei or already obviously wants to do two things he wants to reassure allies in the region the states that he would call the moderate states israel egypt saudi arabia and some others that the united states is there to stay although it is withdrawing troops troops from syria and secondly he wants to build this alliance for a single purpose that is to exert measure maximum pressure as he said several months ago on iran in his speech today pompei was emphatic that the u.s.
with less than a month left in president obama s presidency, america s top diplomat, john kerry, making a speech today, with some tough talk for israel and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu calling the speech deeply disappointing. so let s discuss now with ambassador danny denon, israel s permanent representative to the u.n. welcome back. we saw each other, we spoke this morning before secretary of state john kerry gave his speech essentially saying that the israeli settlements put the two-state solution really in serious jeopardy. let s listen a bit then we ll discuss. the israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right wing in israeli history with an agenda driven by the most ex-teeteem respe extreme elements. policies of this which the prime minister, himself, just described has more committed to
aaron, i m going to start with you, it s december 28th. they re packing boxes at the white house. why would john kerry make a major middle east policy speech right now? i think the u.n. security council abstention, don, and the speech were designed because i think the administration knows what s coming which is basically the demise of what s left of the two-state solution and i think they felt compelled at least to put their fingerprints on it to create a frame of reference in which they demonstrated they ve done everything they possibly could and single out the enterprise even though john kerry admitted it s not the only or the primary obstacle to why we don t have a two -state solution to basically set the parameters and the and it s going and in the end, if i can, it s likely to produce the opposite of what the administration intended. sol, listen, let me ask you then, you served both democrat and republican secretaries of state.