peter beinart, the book is the crisis of zionism.

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and my guest peter beinart has a new book about the future of israel. yarmulke jet pack. atlantic city has a new slogan, do ac. meanwhile anderson cooper has a new slogan. what are you doing, get off me. there is the colbert report captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) . >> stephen: welcome to the report. thank you for joining us. how wonderful. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, steve be en, stephen! >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. thank you so much. i am not surprised. i have to tell you, folks, i am not surprised by the people in this room. excited. >> thank you so much. folks, i hope, i certainly hope like me you've got lotto fever. i've actually got lotto rash. but to say i'm doing a lot of scratchoffs. and tomorrow, folks s the drawing for the megamillions lottery. $540 million. now to put that into-- to put that into perspective, if you laid 540 million dollar bills end-to-end you would regret it because people would definitely just come and take it.

peter beinart, a writer for "the daily beast."israeli government has put off any attempt to stop iran's nuclear effort by military action for at least a year. >> yes, there is a report this morning. now, there are been lots of reports about all of this. who knows if this is right. one school of thought in israel that says if netanyahu was a fundamentally cautious person with war. >> "the crisis of zionism," the question, why we can't find a pathway to agreement that would lead to a two-state solution. in your judgment, in this book, what's the principle impact? >> i think there have been huge failures on both sides. in the book i call decision to acquiesce into crime, a corrupt dictator who may not have had the moral authority to bring his people where they need to go. i think those of us who support and love israel have to recognize that the continued building of israeli settlements in the west bank makes the two-state solution harder and harder and imperials their future as a democratic state. >> why do they do it? >> just as ou

. >> president clinton is calling "the crisis of zionism" -- pleased to have peter beinart here.has put off any attempt to stop iran's nuclear effort by military action for at least a year? >> yes, there is a report this morning. there have been lots reports about all this. who knows whether this is right? but there's one school of thought in israel that says if benjamin netanyahu is actually a fundamentally cautious person when it comes to launching wars, he didn't do it in his first term as prime minister and actually he's not as eager to do this as some people suspect. >> the book addresses the question at the heart of the israeli/palestinian questions. why we can't find a pathway to an agreement which would lead to a two-state solution. in your judgment n this book, what's the principle? >> there have been two huge failures on each side. it talks about a corrupt dictator to bring his people where they needed to go. but those of us who support and love israel have to recognize that the continued building of israeli settlements in the west bank makes the two-state institution h