kimberly hawkins for that reporting from the howell. joining us here is al jazeera senior political analyst, matawan bichon. am i wrong on that point? that's a kimberly made. so the u. s. president did spend about a day and a half with the israelis and who spent about an hour with the palestinian president . talk to us about what the israelis and palestinians got from this visit. these rate has got a lot of concrete support these. busy got a lot of better seniors got a lot of words. the policy has got some nice words. i think present biden's a sweet talker is what is free talk these raise his sweet talk to the finance but is i continues to occupy palestine and i think it was difficult for president by then to sweet talk. busy apart paid because that's the situation we are left with. he comes, he goes, but apart, paid stays, and sweet talking apart ages basically impossible. so i think in the end of the day present the bus is happy to have a photo op with the american president. i think the, the, the entered on prime minister is right, is also happy to be, to have this quote off with the ame

our white house correspond, kimberly hawkins as more. well, what we know is, is there is right now no change to u. s. policy. the united states is sticking firmly to is one china policy and other words that taiwan is a part of china. but where things get murky is that under us law, there is also an obligation of the united states to defend taiwan a if it is attacked in any way that is something that it would be obliged to help support. and so that is why there is a bit of a diplomatic problem for the united states. if nancy pelosi were to visit the island, the potential that there could be some sort of military confrontation, given the fact that right now in the c surrounding the island are not only the taiwanese military, but also the united states military and also the chinese military. now in terms of the phone call, there was a very strong word of caution by the u. s. president to chinese president. she's in paying that any sort of effort by china to try to absorb taiwan our, to in any way. try and obtain the island by force would be

i want to come back to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins says, stephanie, they're pointing out of the fight. that in no time he actually mentioned the palestinians by name that would probably indicate that there is going to be some sort of backlash within moments of that helped him landing in israel. that is the thing that i noticed as well in a slightly different context. it the, the fact that he is underscoring already out of the gate from the moment that air force one has touched down in israel, that there is already a bit of a failure before this trip has even started. and that is the fact that this is not going to achieve any sort of breakthrough in any kind of way between some of the elephant in the room. and that is the, this breakdown and discussions between the israelis and the palestinians. the white house made very clear even before the president left washington, that there would be no shuttle diplomacy, as we've seen with other presidents, there wasn't even an attempt to even try. that certainly is a glaring. oh that something obviously missing from this trip. t

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bringing us up to date from west jerusalem or join me. onset now is our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. now, when the president was speaking just a few moments ago, he talked about his personal connection with israel. he talked about the shared technology that the both countries have. he also briefly mentioned the 2 state solution. what he did not do in any way was refer to the palestinians by name or in fact in any other way. but what do you make of them? well, he also acknowledged that there would be no sort of agreement in his words, in the near term. that's almost essentially admitting that he has no impact on bringing these 2 sites together, which has been a foreign policy goal of most american presidency in my life time. and so that doesn't look good for joe biden, coming in here. it almost projects weakness. as soon as he set foot on the ground, and that is exactly, it was the opposite of what i think this administration was hoping to project. the white house has been very clear that what they were hoping to do with this visit is to strengthen dead, the ties that exist between t

let's speak to our white house correspondent chimney hawkins, who joins us in the studio. kimberly, from a foreign policy point of view. what exactly is u. s. president biden achieving from this trip? well i'm, he's not achieving a whole lot and i did want to comment on what we just saw there at the tail end of what joe biden was speaking about, because it was really notable. we didn't catch all of it. but the little bit that we did catch where it seemed like somebody in the audience was talking about wanting more justice and more dignity. i was just trying to see on twitter if there was anything, any sort of reaction. but it looks almost as if the president was confronted a little bit as he was speaking, that palestine hospital will have to try and see what more came out of that. but it forgive me for breaking away here from your question, but it speaks to the fact that ah, the president perhaps was confronted with the elephant in the room, is that he's bringing nothing to the palestinians with this trip. and it's, it's obvious. and there's potentially a little bit of outrage as a