00:00I'm just wondering whether you know there's the perception perhaps in Ramallah
00:04that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be given more favorable treatment. I mean do
00:09you think that's a fair fear that they've got? Well obviously the
00:15relationship between the United States and Israel and whoever is the leader of
00:19Israel is special and has its own characteristics obviously very close. The
00:25relationship with the Palestinians is different and I think it'll be really
00:29frankly up to the Palestinians to demonstrate that they have something to
00:33offer. That they're not just going to sit back and wait for peace and statehood to
00:38come to them. That they're going to help the United States and other partners
00:42build a new path because frankly after all that's happened there really isn't
00:48the kind of trust and confidence needed on either side to go back to the old
00:52formulas of Madrid and Oslo. There has to be new thinking for the new realities
00:55and if I were advising anyone I would say you know encourage the
01:00Palestinians to come up with some new thinking about how we go from here.
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