You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.

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