. >> we conclude this evening with dan senor's conversation with shimon dotan and daniel gordis about israeli past and present. >> we appreciate that the two state is the only solution in the region but i think to put the blame on the palestinian, for that matter to put the blame on one side is ignoring the facts on the ground. israel is the authority in the region. it is the strongest power. israel does not face any military threat whatsoever in sponsibility to extend the hand, to take the initiative, we have to recognize that we leave now in the west bank where the reality is 2.7, 2.8 million palestinians, and the midst of them more than 400,000 israelis. this reality is terrible from the standpoint of israel, not only of the palestinians. and to ignore that and to wait for the palestinian to some of israel's demands, i think it's quite a short side of the phenomenon. >> politics, film and israeli when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by r

daniel gordis is the author of "israel: a nation reborn." book of the the national jewish book awards. thank you for being at this table. a movie about the settlements. a perplexing problem, the settlements that has been around , for a while. why now? what is you choose to do this now? >> and now is as good as ever. especially now because it is constantly at the center of discussions whenever anybody talks about israel and the region. in many cases, that conversation is missing. i thought it would embark on a project that would present the history of the settlements, the ideological and religious elements that drove it. i hope the documentary is on the screen and has a proper representation of israel. dan: daniel gordis, your book, "a precise history of israel." one could say, another book about the history of israel -- what was missing from the discussion that sparked your interest in another book on israel? daniel: there are not as many as one would think but there are a number of others. he is right, everyone is talking about the settleme

dan: daniel gordis, your book, "a precise history of israel." what was missing from the discussion? not as many as one would think but there are a number of others. everyone is talking about the settlements which is a critical and complicated problems. settlements are not the whole conversation. the conversation about israel has become very conflict-centric. everyone has to know -- everyone wants to know, will trump the good or bad for israel, was obama good or bad for israel? they are thinking about the conflict. imagine someone came to us and said, i don't really understand what america is about. i know there are proud that -- another a profound ideas at the core. i would say to that person, there was a war in 1776, a civil war in 1660. a second world war. there are others. but i haven't told them anything about what makes this country great. i haven't told them anything about thomas jefferson and his dream of a new government and democracy. hiff ofven't got a wf what's in the settlement -- what's in the federalist papers. they haven't read about the worries on the rule of the mob