. >> beth grossman from boca raton has concerns about the obama administration position on israel and asks is there any hope the obama administration might reconsider their current position. >> when you talk about 1967 lines, that is untenable for israel. now you are talking about the modern day state of israel would only be 9 miles wide. that is not feasible. when i talk to the leadership over there, there is uncertainty in the middle eastern situation. the saudi arabian is are really angry at america, because they saw what happened with costa mubarak. they believe now that are on their own. they are cutting deals with others. there are a lot of questions out there. they must vote against this unilateral declaration of a palestinian state. we have to veto it in the security council. if they intend to proceed forward with it, the funding has to be cut off from the united states of america. >> i have a question from i think a chef. how is the food in israel? [laughter] >> it was too much. let me say it was a very, very good trip. it was an incredible experience, the cultural aspect, th

mike meyer and martha born nick from the darfur interface network for making this possible and beth grossman. i'm also going to ask your indulgence as an audience. i know that there are some sudan experts here and, please, bear with me if i start telling you things you already know, but those lovely people at c-span are here to broadcast this and, therefore, i think that it's our duty to use this opportunity to get across the message about the serial genocides that have been going on in sudan. so forgive me if i'm telling you things that you already know. i know there are people in this room who think that it's perfectly appropriate as a dinner topic conversation to talk about genocide, but believe it or not, not everybody feels the way we do about that. i'm going to, first of all, talk to you about what's happening in abyei. over the weekend you probably saw that the sudanese armed forces occupied the region of abyei. they brought in 5,000 troops, an unknown number of tanks. they've been, basically, carpet bombing the city of abyei since the 19th of may. 20,000 people have had to flee for t