. >> secretary william hayes. >> mr. speaker, with permission i'll make a statement on the crisis in syria. the time has come to announce to the house necessary developments in our policy and our readiness to develop it further if the bloodshed continues. two years after it gans -- began, 10,000 people have died since i last updated the house in early january. that means more people have died in the first two months of this year than in the whole of the first year of the conflict. the total estimated death toll is now over 70,000 people. the regime has used scud ballistic missiles against civilian areas and there's evidence of grave human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity including massacres, torture, summary executions and a systematic policy of rape and sexual violence by the regime forces and its militia. a year ago one million people needed humanitarian aid inside syria. that figure is now up to four million people out of a total population of 21 million. 40,000 people are fleeing syria each w

. >> secretary william hayes. >> mr. speaker, with permission i'll make a statement on the crisis in syria. the time has come to announce to the house necessary developments in our policy and our readiness to develop it further if the bloodshed continues. two years afr it gans -- began, 10,000 people have died since i last updated the house in early january. that means more people have died in the first two months of this year than in the whole of the first year of the conflict. the total estimated death toll is now over 70,000 people. the regime has used scud ballistic missiles against civilian areas and there's evidence of grave human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity including massacres, torture, summary executions and a systematic policy of rape and sexual violence by the regime forces and its militia. a year ago one million people needed humanitarian aid inside syria. that figure is now up to four million people out of a total population of 21 million. 40,000 people are fleeing syria each wee

steve hayes, senior writer for the "weekly standard." juan williams, columnist with the hill.columnist charles krauthammer. he didn't say unconditional negotiations. it sounded like he was headed that way. >> as the statement you just showed one of the most important ever made by a president of the united states about arab-israeli peace. what essentially you said to the palestinians and the world is settlements are a problem. but the main issue is israeli security and palestinian statehood. if you can achieve that. in other words, if you get peace between palestinian state and jewish state you draw the line. everybody understands when the line is drawn between the territories, israeli settlements -- the israeli settlement on the palestinian side will all be evacuated. so he is saying the problem will be solved if there is a peace agreement. it's not an obstacle. because as in gaza, all the settlements were removed. there will not be settlements or jews on the palestinian side of the line. this is a way to truly undercut the palestinian argument. and this is what abbas has been

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