so tell us stein can also pursue that approach as well and they are considering both these steps in ramallah today because of the boss just just returned home from new york so i believe they are currently evaluating the situation and deciding how to proceed from here sure and you just mentioned before this that you know. the obama white house. tried to veto this this last year france as what do you think the likelihood of palestine going forward with actually charging israel now that they have the potential to join the international criminal court do you think that the u.s. is going to try to block this i mean the u.s. and israel such tight allies here obviously the u.s. u.s. was against against as a vote from the beginning i mean what do you think's going to happen once they do move forward with these. but actually we already did it after operation cast lead i advise president obama. to accept the jurisdiction of the international criminal court under article twelve paragraphs wary of the world statute which he did do and then palestine filed a complaint with the i.c.c. great operation cast

you can get ramallah to bethlehem in the south by going around e-1. if there's true peace between us and the palestinians the problem is solved by a cloverleaf or tunnel underneath the road that links them to jerusalem but it was a way the israel government set down a marker. the palestinians violated agreements with us and united states by going to the u.n. all agreements state there's no tuttle active to -- alternative to direct talks. we're ready to have them today. if not we have to take measures that enable us to defend ourselves and citizens in the future. >> i just want to button up the issue of e-1, which you put your spin on it, the u.s. talks about it driving a wedge into the west bank and making it more difficult to have a viable, contiguous state. the question is, is israel necessarily going to build on e-1 or are you saying it depends? >> it's a preliminary stage that was announced last week. it could take years to fulfill that. let's see if the palestinians come back to the negotiating table. we're ready to negotiate today. here in washi

. >> a treaty that fulfills the aspirations of the palestinian people is through jerusalem and ramallah, not new york. we made it very clear to the palestinian leadership -- you know i met with president abbas last week -- that we oppose palestinian efforts to upgrade their status at the u.n., outside of the framework of negotiations to achieve a two-state solution. >> reporter: for now, nothing has really changed, but it could give palestinians some clout, if they take israelis to the international criminal court. it could also force the question of the fate of jerusalem, or the fate of hundreds of thousands of israelis, who live in their biblical homeland of judea and somaria. chris mitchell, cbn news. >> george: and protests rocked egypt as morsi moved to expand his power. he issued a decree giving him control of all branches of government. >> wendy: and he backed the constitutional assembly two months early without the input of christians or other minorities. now some are calling morsi a new pharaoh. once again, highe here is chris mitchell. >> they want morsi either to step down or

. >> palestinian leader mahmoud abbas got a hero's welcome in the west bank town of ramallah today after winning a vote in the united nations to upgrade the palestinian status to observer state. that move did come at a price. today israel halted the transfer of $120 million in tax revenues to the palestinian authority. >> coming up, the recipe for the all-american kitchen. >> it's a commonly heard sentiment, buy american. the logic that it will spur demand in job growth at home. but as sharyl attkisson shows us it's not always as easy as it sounds. >> reporter: kitchen remodels can be daunting. but when eva decided to fix up her charleston home she added an extra challenge. >> everything from now on i'm going to put in my kitsch sen going to be american made. >> reporter: that was good news for the owners of dna cabinet work the local cabinetry company, they use regionally sourced wood and made to order. >> most people just go into lows and pick a cabinet and go with it. >> reporter: in the last seven years adam and dustin have only seen their business grow thanks in part to customers wh

ramallah and the other west bank cities. what about the united states? are we taking a hard enough line with israel? this was a total surprise and i understand that u.s. officials are very, very upset about it? >> well, the timing was -- is very difficult for us, especially after the u.s. took a principled vote which many in our country disagreed with, to oppose just this aspirational vote on palestinian statehood and we were there with israel and seven other countries, canada and a number of other small countries. this is difficult. as you know, andrea, this is just a preliminary step and there are lots of permits to go and this housing may never be built and it is certainly u.s. policy to oppose more building like this. i think it's -- we're at a tough step and i don't think public argument is helpful. hopefully behind the scenes a the lo of conversation -- lot of conversations going on not just between the u.s. and israel but the u.s. and our allies who are obviously dismayed by israel's actions. >> speaking of behind the scenes conversations, what ab

abbas telling the thousands gathered in ramallah that this is a historic achievement for palestine. he said he hopes the u.n. bid will help restart frozen peace talks with israel. but it is refusing to negotiate so long as israeli settlement construction continues. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying peace talks must resume immediately, but without preconditions. netanyahu also announcing a decision to build 3,000 more homes in the west bank. a tragedy in kansas city. nfl linebacker jovan belcher fatally shooting his girlfriend and mother of his daughter, kasandra perkins. afterward, belcher shooting himself in front of coaches outside the team's training facility. despite the shock, the chiefs winning their game just one day later. what better way to reach the masses than by tweeting? pope benedict xvi joining twitter with the handle @pontifex just in time for christmas. the first tweets will be answers to questions on matters of faith, and will be in eight languages, including arabic, english, and spanish, with more languages possibly added in the future. the account

and their story is that they are lying through their teeth interest saying in ramallah i know that you were there so you kind of saw this all go down firsthand can you tell us i mean i know that he wasn't the only one how many people were arrested and my understanding is that he wasn't even the only journalist no you're absolutely right liz now there are nearly three hundred people arrested during this raid know most of these i mean virtually everyone was a peaceful protest or while we were there we didn't observe anybody raising their hand or throwing anything at police and as you mentioned besides the journalist who is suing the city of los angeles currently there were. other journalists who were arrested and including tyson heater who we talked to afterward i mean he was seen with a black eye and bruises in the coming days after his treatment from police and we also spoke to investigator investigative reporter yasha levine who was also arrested kept in jail for a couple of days and according to him he even got scabies from his time in jail following this raid and as you mention thes

aimak ramallah and there are deals. i know-- i am out here and there are deals. i know sometimes you have to go to bed early to get ready for the morning show. how about some newsletters? those are on sale. a lot of people are waiting until the last minute to get their holiday shopping done. we have seen many people coming in this morning. the store has been open several days straight. they will be open until 6:00 at the macy's in tyson's corner and many stores stay open till 10:00 tonight. retailers hoping this will be the final push for the holiday season. many hoping the a 41-day black friday stretch would be the big time for shoppers to get out but it turned out to be a little-weaklittle- the four-day stretch. deals of 25% to 50% off at macy's. you have a matter of hours to get it under the tree. back to you. >> thank you. your scarf looks good with your outfit. what size are you in slippers? >> size 10. >> and don't forget your macy's coupon. >> many d.c. area kayakers and voters are upset. the lease for jack's boathouse has been terminated by the national p

jerusalem, to meet with the prime minister and members of the inner cabinet, to go the next day to ramallah, then back to the prime minister's office, and then to cairo, and we were able to play a role in enabling the ceasefire to occur. that fragile ceasefire is holding. the skies above israel are clear. and we are beginning to see the efforts to rebuild and resume daily life. but the world knows -- and always will know -- that whenever israel is threatened, the united states will be there. now, that's a good thing, because we believe in our shared values. we understand we both live in a complicated and dangerous world. we're in the midst of a transformative moment in the middle east, one that offers as many questions -- in fact more questions than answers -- and one that poses new challenges to israel's place in the emerging regional order. as the story unfolds, all of us must work together to seize the promise and meet these challenges of this dynamic, changing middle east. in the past month alone, we've seen both the promise and those challenges. we've seen post-revolutionary egypt work

. >> when you call this strategic, effectively the settlements that would strategically ramallah from jerusalem, this would sort of impede any sort of two states, wouldn't they? >>s no necessarily, deborah. you have to see, they're claiming, the palestinians, the west bank and gaza. there's no security whatsoever between gaza and the west bank, they're talking maybe about some kind of passages so things can be addressed to this issue of continuity and certainly this is not any impediment to peace and negotiations. the real impediment is the lack of understanding by the palestinians that they also have to compromise. >> the palestinian authority recognizes israel's right to exist. whereas hamas does not. so buy not make every effort to come to some port of solution or negotiation that is reasonable with somebody that it least seems to be a more willing partner than hamas which arguably is gaining great strength in the region. >> we have trieded, for four years, this government and previous governments have tried, with the fatah and with mr. abu mazen in twooi2008 received the generous

israel buss -- ambassador to the un said it goes through negotiations in jerusalem and ramallah and not new york. >> what is the reaction for the people of israel and whether it would lead to meaningful negotiations? >> i think they are disappointed that the palestinians instead of coming to the table turned to the community and united nations where they have an obvious majority. it doesn't mean anything . no operative power. palestinians, have done everything but sit down with israel since august 30th, 2008. they haven't responded to the offer. people of israel want peace and hopefully the palestinian people do. they need leadership to deliver it to them. >> obviously the prime minister and hillary clinton expressed disappointment in the un action. this will only delay the lasting talks over peace. absolutely. let palestinians have said that they want to come to the table. we have waited four years for them to come . especially after the election we'll have in israel. netanyahu will be in a place to make concessions that he hasn't made in the past. but not to hurt israel security. >>>

meanwhile, in the last few hours the palestinian president mahmoud abbas arrived in ramallah from the u.n. vote in new york. he received there a hero's welcome. there were thousands and thousands in the main square outside the government offices. many held up the picture, balloons, the palestinian flag. abbas told the crowd and i quote "palestine achieved historic achievement at the united nations." meanwhile, the palestinians celebrated, israeli settlement construction on the west bank continued today. in response to the u.n. vote, israel said it was planning for additional construction in the same area where the pict the actual work, that could be years away. government gave green light for construction of 3,000 units in east jerusalem and elsewhere on the west bank. weekly cabinet meeting today prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismissed criticism of the settlement construction saying and i quote, "we will carry on building in jerusalem and in all areas on the map of israel strategic interest." if israel proceeds with the settlement plans the palestinians say it is going to make it

whole works and fought out there in a blackhawk helicopter which had to do a big sort of detour around ramallah because the israeli army was convinced that the palestinians shoulder-fired ground to air missiles. when we landed, we landed in a halo of gunfire. i have not seen anything like it since lebanon. the brigade commander, as i landed, got shot in the head. got a 7.62 bullet in the head that was stopped by his newly- issued american kefla -- kevlar mel met. the bullet stuck in the helmet. i quickly got myself a kevlar helmet. >> have you been wounded? >> very slightly. >> does it ever feel surreal? one day you're at your desk at home doing your work. where do you live? >> in jerusalem. >> next day in a uniform. >> the worst part is coming home. it takes a few days to make that switch. it's bizarre. you get a phone call. you know, this week i'm celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary. i got married on august 5, 1982. as i came home from my wedding and i was unwrapping my gifts, i got a call from the army saying listen, in three hours we're going to pick you up in a jeep outside your house

meanwhile, palestinian president abbas arrived in ramallah to a hero's welcome, about 5,000 people rallied outside the government headquarters and the u.n., historic achievement. meanwhile, as palestinians celebrated israeli settlement construction on the west bank continues. in response to the u.n. vote israel says it's planning for additional construction in the very same area and the actual work would be years away. the government gave the green light to construction of 3000 other units, in east jerusalem and elsewhere on the west bank. at the weekly cabinet meeting, prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismissed settlement construction saying, we will carry on building in jerusalem and all places on the map in israel's strategic interest. if israel continues with the plan palestinians say they'll destroy any chance of them having a viable state. the u.s. has said the settlement announcement is counterproductive to the peace process. harris. >> harris: david lee. thank you. a deadly tunnel collapse killing at least six people and sparking a frantic search now for survivors. it's our top st

here in washington, ramallah, jerusalem to work out the core issues between us and one issue is jerusalem, and the question of settlements, which are part of the territorial issue, for us and we are willing to talk about all of it. >> chris: a different negotiation about the palestinians, not over the final solution, but, the cease-fire in gaza. a couple weeks ago, il agreed to it. and, through egypt, agreed to talks to try to settle the issues, they want to loosen the blockade and you want to stop weapons being smuggled into gaza, missiles that end up being fired on israel. two questions: where do the talks stand? what do you make of the remarks of hamas's political leader, who this weekend said, he will never recognize israel's right to exist. >> about the talks, they are going on now. literally as we are speaki and we're working out various issues and, the most important, stopping the flow of iranian missiles and other weapons into gaza. >> chris: has there been progress. >> we are discussing it openly with egyptians and it is key. that is the bottle neck, the weapons from the libyan o

i used to say, less now than what i said this 15 years ago, that if a palestinian kid falls in ramallah and skins his knee, you'll read about it in the "new york times," but you can be tortured to death in cuba or north korea, and nobody finds out about it. we all do our bit. when i was a college student, there was a lot of yapping about human rights, some quite good yapping, but i'll tell you what the people around me meant primarily. they meant human rights in chile and philippines, and above all, a partide south africa. that was the great human rights cause, the grt moral cause of that time. i knew who the players of south africa were very, very well, the name of political prisoners, the political actors, and i think i knew the politics of south africa better than the politics of my hometown. there was great concentration on south africa, banned from the olympics for many, many years. in the meantime, the olympics were held in moscow, ect.. a couple words about cuba and our relative indifference to the suffering of cubans, ordinary cubans, but also disdense, people of conscious, peop

. >> we're joined from ramallah in the west bank. what does this u.n. vote mean? some thought it was symbolic, but it seemed to me much more than that. >> absolutely. it's more than a symbol, although the symbolism is very important to us. but the thing is this is a recognition of our determination. this is a recognition of the palestinians as a nation with a right to their own statehomo, and tlr, we're under the protection of international law. our land is occupied. it is not disputed, and therefore israel doesn't have a free hand to an annex, to chan the ground unilatry and so on. that's one thing. two, that provides us with access to all sorts of international organizations, to treaties and conventions, to bilateral relations. access to even venues for accountability and judicial accountable. it gives us some sort of protection. it empowers us internally as well as externally and it begins a whole new phase in which there is no longer the power that controls us exclusively and can act with impunity, that there is law there, and international law must be obeyed

the proposed construction would effectively cut off the west bank from cities of like bethlehem and ramallah, will cut them off from jerusalem. and that's important for the palestinians, it would mean that they couldn't get to east jerusalem, which they would eventually claim as the capital of their nation if that is to be. the large israeli settlement town of ma ale adumim would be connected to jerusalem directly. vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. always good to talk to you. israel defined as i international opposition mounts. do you buy the political posturing aingele? there's an upcoming election. it's a short-term domestic tactic, wider damage is being done to relations with the u.s., eu and concept of a peace process, which is just a consent at the moment. >> it's true, michael. look, the reality that is benjamin netanyahu's current circumstances, his politics and his ideology all conspiracy to basically create this most recent move on settlement activity. not only conceptually go ahead with e-1, but to increase th

the proposed construction would separate the west bank cities of bethlehem and ramallah from jerusalem. essentially cut the west bank in two. the area israel wants to develop is known as e-1. that stands for very simply east one, east of jerusalem, and it would connect the large israeli settlement town of maiale adumim. they have summoned israel's ambassadors to this country to condemn this plan. others also speaking out, including germany. a senior israeli government official says prime minister benjamin netanyahu has signed off only on planning and zoning for future construction on e-1, but the bulldozers have been there tearing up the ground yesterday. now, the palestinians, of course, see this as the ultimate threat to peace, and certainly a two-state solution. the chief negotiator says nblg e-1 would destroy the two-state solution, establishing east jerusalem as the capital of palestine and practically ends the peace process and any opportunity to talk about negotiations in the future. let's bring in fred plankin who joins us from east jerusalem. this has been a red line for years

it's seven miles between jerusalem and ramallah. let's meet here and talk. >> when you put that in perspective. seven miles. wow. martin fletcher this in tel aviv. thank you so much. >>> now a whopper of a sink hole for number four of our first five web stories. the crater in dover, ohio is reportedly as large as four football field. the department of transportation thinks dredging near a pond may have eroded enough land to lead to this collapse. several nearby homes are threatened by the unstable ground and a damaged interstate is now shut down indefinitely. s. i put'em in my shoes, i put'em in my car, i put'em in my vases. girl, i been put'n'em for as long as i can remember. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ woman ] sheets, i put'em! [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? is bigger than we think ... sometimelike the flu.fer from with aches, fever and chills- the flu's a really big deal. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescript

as ramallah spoke publicly when he explained that given the speed of events in the pace of the attack, that there simply was not enough time for u.s. military forces in the region to have been used effect to really to avoid what happened in benghazi. >> was there a military liaison or attachÉ in tripoli? >> yes, sir. >> he should have been the one to court made any response from a military standpoint, working with the department of state? >> yes, sir. the military was involved and chartered a plane within 2.5 hours of the attack beginning in tripoli and moved reaction force of 730 personnel from the embassy in tripoli to benghazi that night. they moved quickly and professionally as the report makes clear. >> let's assume there were military personnel in the area that could have responded. were there any international agreements or overfly rules that provided from taking place? >> now, our priority at the time if we could have moved forces fast enough to make a difference in that attack, that is certainly what we would've done. as you know from the report, the first intensive part of