israeli politician michael oren says quote the americans are punishing the palestinians in order to make them return to the table what table is that by the way because there doesn't seem to be anything to return to what are you willing to actually offer the palestinians an actual state well we're not going to start negotiating on television and michael oren has his interpretation would you admit mine is a little bit different i have ideas and i've sat with palestinians for years talking about alternative models for solving this problem let us get to a table and let us put those ideas out and let's try and resolve this once and for all in one's very important sense what president trump is doing he's trying to introduce realism don't start believing that you can get five million refugees to return to israel it's not going to happen and if you start believing that propaganda you'll never negotiate a solution which people are going to accept being treated like this year after year decade after decade as the palestinians have you're only going to make them much more nationalistic than they al

michael oren. deputy to israeli prime minister. it joins us tonight exclusively.eet from the president. he's morning syria not to go after this rebel stronghold. one of the provinces in war-torn syria. as you know better than anyone, previous times that the president has more in syria, for example after chemical weapons attack he has followed it up with military action. >> we certainly appreciate the president's robust position on syria, always. it's been israel's position since the outbreak of the syrian civil war back in 2011. syria is a hostile country. it has tried to destroy us in three wars of national construction. we bear nor no animosity. we do not want to see them suffer more. over half a million people massacred their end anything the united states can do to limit that suffering would be welcomed by the people of israel. for our part we have offered medical assistance to many thousands of syrian refugees irrespective of what groups they belong to. some of them may be even from jihadist groups and israel will defend itself. it will defend its borders to