she touches onhese in her book about how credible olmert was.investigation on criminal charges. it was clear he was not going to be for much longer. this was a make it or break it deal. he said i want a yes answer from abbas or the deal is off. it was kind of a survival moment for him and not just for the middle east. rather like what happened in 2000 in his negotiations with arafat and bill clinton. all that said, it shows you just how close to a settlement you can come in the middle east and how far back we have slid in the years since. >> you say her book offers more insight than she realized. she talks about hurricane katrina and having come to new york on a vacation and a shopping trip and planned to go to the theaters and the day after the storm hit, the airwaves were hit with devastating pictures of new orleans. the faces of most of them were black. i knew i should never have left washington. i called the chief of staff and said i'm coming home. then i called the president. mr. president i'm coming back. i don't know how much i can do. we

. >> rose: by olmert yes. well, i said to you earlier the leaders lack the courage to do what they know in their heart of hearts they have to do. the doctors are cowards. >> rose: where do leaders get courage? do people have to give them the courage or you have to find leaders who have courage or leaders who have courage will l find... >> leaders who have courage have stood a chance of swaping the majority behind them and recruiting the majority behind them. doesn't always work but it di work a few times in history. it can be done. when anwar sadat camed to israel grabbed israel by the neck and said "let's make peace." when menachem begin contrary to his convictions gave back sinai, that was courage. when charles de gaulle gave back algeria, that was courage. when gorbachev dismantled the soviet union, that was courage. israel's full of examples of... history is full of example. >> rose: how old are you? >> 72. but being the israeli of my age is equivalent to being an american of 360 years because i saw the bo

on in the corporate world the bakers of wall street the power of money in literally read the bill olmert sex runs the government j.p. morgan chase base of america they were only government this nasty stuff. sir flounders from activist group international action center says the u.s. is preaching democracy around the world while forgetting about the rights of its own citizens. this is really a police after to shut down mass the sense here see u.s. government they claim to speak for democracy all over the world are dropping bombs on people and many many countries and here at home when people are involved in democratic protests and demonstrations against the domination of wall street representing really the interests of the vast majority of people the latest polls today's show that seventy five percent of the population is sympathetic to these protests. thousands have marched through the northern of british city of manchester in another protest at austerity cuts to public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with of

the holy area which is one square kilometer, and that's the toughest nut to crack, olmert put forward a proposal for internationalization of that area. this was the idea back before the first u.n. resolution. i believe it's the only way to go with the holiest areas where an international committee including israelis and palestinians and others oversees and administers so that all religions have free and equal access to their holy sites. so i think there is a resolution. it requires sharing a state that i love and that i think is the holiest place on earth. but so do other people. where is the political arena? i'm talking about the political arena of the united states, and i'm talking about that being opened up so the discussion can take place freely, so that america's national interests can be pursued, so that all sides of an argument can be heard and so that q r -- we don't have resolutions passing that don't advance america's interests and passing by 400-5 because 300 members of the congress feel intimidated into voting for something they don't really agree with. that doesn't serve

olmert in his proposal in 2008 offered to divide jerusalem and accept thousands of palestinian refugees. benjamin netanyahu took up the same essential position when he said in his speech to the u.n. general assembly about a week ago was that israel would accept compromises, quote, "compromises 245 will be hard to make because no matter what, they involve parts of our homeland. it is not a strange land. it is the land of our forefathers." israel, on the one hands as ken stien said if you listen to the speech -- one should not say president abbas because the chairman was abbas there as representative of the plo. he said he came from the holy land where jesus lived and from when mahamed ascended to heaven, no other religious group that may have had ties 20 that location. his repeated references were references to 1948, not to 1967 in the 67 borders. there were no similar developments on the palestinian side, development towards the understanding of compromise. the key events, the refusal of peace offers from barak and the death of arosfat and succession in the 20 years followed by the hama

in fact, olmert offered that, or offer that and more. in 2008. the difference is that we do see this history of readiness on the part of israelis to move positions, if it's in exchange for prospect of real peace. we haven't yet seen that on the other side. >> let me to a question after the panel. i wonder if we, i mean, the europeans, others come on not insufficient attention to the fact that we live in a time when islamism and jihadism has ideologies are a send, therefore if mahmoud abbas had been sitting in the back of them all the and at this point of the discussion said you know what, i'm persuaded. they deserve to have security and freedom. the only way we will achieve that is to come to a settlement of borders. i know i can't overwhelm them demographically. the jewish people are not going to want to be a minority in own country. that's not going to work. so let's get this done. is there one member of the organization of the islamic conference, 56 countries, now called organization of islamic cooperation, a wonderful pr move, that was a what

nevertheless, even 2008 the prime minister olmert made another state proposal to the palestinian leader abu abbas. this went even further towards meeting the palestinian demand and that proposal was given to the palestinian president of six months before he left office. but mahmoud abbas never replied to the offering. he ignored it. since then the united states under the obama administration has made restarting the peace process and achieving a to state solution a cornerstone of its middle eastern policy. the prime minister netanyahu in his first public address on the policy at the university in june of 2009 had the two state solution the official policy of the party, no small achievement. he removed hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints from the west bank facility the emergence of a very robust palestinian economy. he froze the building in the settlements for ten month period it's a moratorium the secretary of state clinton called unprecedented and netanyahu has repeatedly offered to meet with mahmoud abbas withheld any preconditions anywhere whether jerusalem or ramallah to resolve a

in fact, under rabin, barak, sharon, olmert and netanyahu, israel has moved and lived again.it was eight years ago -- around an out of the broke with the so and parties passed and said, quote, it is in israel's interest not to govern the palestinians both are the palestinians to govern themselves in their own state. that was by the way new position for the united states as well. when i worked in the reagan and industry should under george shultz, we were firmly opposed the creation of a palestinian state. .. >> now, as ken stein has said, if you listen to the speech by, actually should not say president abbas, because the speaker of the u.n. was chairman of abbas. he was there as the representative of the plo. he said he came from the holy land. the whole land where jesus lived and from which mohamed ascended to heaven. no mention of other religious group that might've had a tie to that particular location. and, of course, his repeated references were references to 1948, not 1967 and 67 border. they are were no similar developments on the palestinian, developments towards the

i mean, it was just an amazing capitulation that olmert made that went beyond even what the saudi youth proposed. and give it adamantly reject it. it just -- and it wasn't an especially serious effort. it stopped. it didn't have the real support even of the year of countries although they did propose that. >> that is included but amounted to the demographic destruction of israel, and there are? >> with regard to pessimism, what relations -- [inaudible] what do you think the likelihood that the probability that can potentially inflict israel? >> as of right now, the train at the flick in the united states. i mean, you know, a major american talent is moving to israel break now. it's a better economy. it's a more attractive entrepreneurial environment. it's got a better regime. it's got supply-side economics. and recently, one of the leading oil exporters in the united states, someone named banneker highest on elliott to israel and claims that there is enough oil shale in israel to create a saudi arabia petroleum in israel. and israel has been drastic early increasing its advantage over t