going to go along with that approach. kennedy: dagen, let me ask you,ç obviously this is the white whale, this is the magnum opus, this is the gold in medal for any president is lasting peace in the middle east. so is the president in his final weeks trying to craft some sort of peace there, or, is this just some sort of needling defense israel for the bad relationship they have had over two terms. >> if the obama administration wanted peace and wanted to protect israel, they wouldn't have brokered that iran deal and handed $1.7 billion in a cash ransom payment to the number one state sponsor ofç terrorism. funding terrorists in yemen. funding hezbollah. and firing missiles by the way, earlier this year that carried the hebrew message, israel must be wiped out. let's not forget that. why is this happening now? why didn't it happen before now? because of the politics. because if democrats had heard