you know mahmoud abbas the so-called president of the palestinian authority perhaps. has reached a point of compromise that most palestinians really disagree with. and i personally find his compromises very appalling considering what of our people have been going through all that said someone like mahmoud abbas still couldn't find common ground with benjamin netanyahu a very good or lieberman and many others because this guy has made it very clear not only they don't want negotiated peace and they don't want a settlement that abides by international law they are doing their own thing and they are not abashed at all by doing the fervent buildup in is drusilla i'm the settlement freeze of this book about last year has all been made up for and there is more under construction throughout the west bank in the legal settlements than in any other years in the last five years and that's according to peace now which is an israeli organization so the israelis have given no indications whatsoever that they are keenly interested in peace they only want to get back to the so-calle

let's for a second here imagine what could possibly go through mahmoud abbas's and by oh by the way i disagree with so many things about us has been has done but for a second here let's try to indulge yourself and think what mahmoud abbas would have said to alan at this point and i would say that he would say listen we've been doing we've been talking for a better twenty years now not only did we waste so much time and we achieve nothing but we are actually regressing palestinians during that time lost so much more land the number of illegal settlers in oakey pide is jerusalem in the west bank has doubled gaza is under siege and is going through a process of protracted war thousands of people have been killed and injured since then and our economy is worsening our our situation our disunity there is so much that happened as a result of of the so-called negotiations maybe for benjamin netanyahu and others it's really the matter of sitting around the table and playing the same old political antics for the palestinians who are enduring for the palestinians who are losing great deal as a

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i do not been these are compromises that mahmoud abbas can make. on the israeli side, it would be to get a coalition. i might be wrong, but my read on these groups is that for two years into the netanyahu government, she is thinking about being his successor and not his foreign minister, and i wonder if he -- if she would really join the coalition. the answer i think your question, jackson, -- the difference between what ariel sharon did in gaza and the thought that i had is the settlers in outlying settlements that are not possibly going to survive as part of israel would move back, but it would not be involved in the entire west bank, so you would not have another gossip. >> that came up in a book about condoleezza rice, and according to the book, condoleezza rice over world ariel sharon. you talked to jackson about this and illustrations approach to syria and about the idea that it is inevitably about replacing it with a sunni elite, and that would distance itself probably from iran, but in 2005, this outlines the possibilities for the bush admi