countries. reporter: but for all of the niceties, netanyahu drew a line in the sand. he said israel will not house palestinian refugees or negotiate with the palestinian government supported by hamas. it s not going to happen. everybody knows that it s not going to happen. and i think it s time to tell the palestinians forthrightly that it s not going to happen. reporter: despite words that the u.s. and israel will remain tough allies. robert is with the council on foreign relations. there is a great deal of mutual affection there. they have met a number of times and nonetheless they have not succeeded in establishing a close bond, a working relationship and there is not a great deal of new trust, it seems. after the meeting, jay carney
israeli relationship. but these are close allies and it s intriguing to me that even before the president delivered the speech, the obama administration notified the izzy government on the sensitive issues what he was going to say. as you would expect, these things go through diplomatic challenges and before the speech giving netanyahu what amounts to a heads up. but it was a tense phone conversation we re told and that netanyahu clearly did not like what you heard and that was why you saw his statement released before he got on an airplane to come on over here. the question, of course, is what did the white house then do? hill clinton has to notify the president of the united states that israel is upset about this but it seems to me that if you look at the language, the language in the speech was not
that s why i like the speech. you know assad needs to get with the program or or go. the president did a good job of explaining the arab spring. now is the time for a broke nation like the united states to invest in this new election in egypt. every 6,000 years you get a chance at democracy and egypt. when you look at it this is the first time in 6,000 years egypt moved towards democracy. egypt will adopt democratic principles, rule of law, tolerance, role for women. it changes the arab world. to president obama, i will help you provide aid to egypt, tunisia, i will help you keep troops in iraq if that s the best way to secure iraq. i will help stand by you to make sure we get it right in afghanistan. when it comes to israel and the palestinian problem, mr. president, you are doing a lot of damage to the process by singling out individual issues like the settlement and borders. i don t think the president quite understands that the
running for the nomination who is on record saying the current democratic president has brilliant analysis of world events and honored to work with hillary clinton. you worry about that? how do you get conservative republicans to think i want this guy as my guy? occasionally you write thank you notes which for a lot of people is an important tradition. i believe in civility and i believe we ought to have a civil discourse in this country. you are going not going to agree with people 100% of the time. when they succeed and do things that are good, you can compliment them on it. i think we immediate to come together more on the issues and really do matter. i believe in civility. i believe in complimenting people when they do a good job. reporter: again, he is running for the nomination of america s conservative party. jon huntsman says he does not like labels. he calls himself a pragmatic problem solver. one break he made clear if he were president of the united states he would not
someone said this is like a small library, if you will. that s what you heard, millions of pages? you know a lot of some of this is video material and some is pornography. however, clearly it is a huge amount of information. in way this is interesting because at the same time you got admiral mullen said we should be talking about this operation less. operational details. have you the president saying look, we have all this material. so there is informational information aspect of this useful against al qaeda to get them scared and running. what do they know that we are going to finish the job. we are going to defeat al qaeda. he made that commitment. let s see what happens next. thanks very much for coming in. in syria today, security forces fired on anti-government protesters. human rights activists report at least 34 people killed during demonstrations across the country that followed friday prayers on the muslim holy day.