when the ira was attacking you in london they were under fourteen ok so your argument is prison and you expect me to sit here and defend the british government's treatment of irish i mean maybe not i'm just saying it is a killer we really don't like to write but ok here is a killer killer is a killer she literally on every little detail of the response of the killer is one of those children are killers but ok let's go back to the audience the lady here in the black shirt for the. am very confused about something and like some clarity if israel is an apartheid state how come there there are christians which i really appreciate being a christian serving in the idea and better when also drew i'm not talking about jews i'm talking about the druze ok how does that work the two people who made the claim about apartheid and i'm with one of you like to respond to the lady's question about how can it be apartheid if there are christians and arabs and bedouin serving in the idea the question is whether the system is apartheid and it is an apartheid state and the fact that we are sitting here and while we're sitting

here danny has greater privileges in that country than i do makes it apartheid so i don't know if we're going to go back to what is really about today with this gentleman there with a jacket yes the question is very simple do you think the days where everything israel does and everything it says by both the muslim community many of the people are coming to an end where in fact there's going to be great to support for israel this was seen even though in the united nations thank you thank you well i would say that certainly we see shifting grounds i would say most of the arab countries to certainly all of them a great muslim countries see israel is the solution to the problems and not the problem they see the palestinians as the problem gentlemen in the beard has been waiting for a disaster word. thank you maybe my question to done is isn't it true that the two state solution is dead because of israeli illegal settlements in the west bank in its apartheid walls because is there always blames the other side it doesn't take any responsibility so should we just forget about the two state solution think about an alternative a one state solution thank you i for one do not think so i do not think so i think

. there can still be a truly is and i think i hope so i think what killed the two state solutions is again is the arab refusals for any compromise for them it's all or nothing and secondly when the roadmap to peace came i was one who was privileged to be a part of writing it it talked about two states for two peoples i do not see the palestinians who talk about two peoples they're talking about two states what does it mean to arab states the problem is again i'm telling you all the success you want two states for two peoples who are the two peoples jewish people and published so they shouldn't many palestinians in israel is of course not not of course they are literally just said you are not to be lower sarah but the jewish israeli who is israel for danny israel is for its citizens mostly are jews because it's a jewish state you're the one who said you wanted two states for two peoples i was just clarify the florist palestinians and israelis told me oh you know you switched to really no no if you use and doesn't mean that non jews cannot live there can i

ask a final question just one last question about you who famously was asked what would you have done if you'd been born a palestinian and he said to the reporter i probably would have joined a palestinian militant group to fight against israel for my freedom but that's what barak said a moment of honesty from israel's most decorated soldier i just wonder sometimes do enough israelis put themselves in the shoes of palestinians living in gaza and try and understand why it is that they're protesting or they're frustrated or they're violent or is it all just do you really just say how much how much how much how much and not try and think about what their goal is short answer is yes i can definitely do that and you know what i would do. best to get rid of. dunning we're going to have to leave it there to show our thanks to our audience here in the oxford union thanks to our panel here and thanks to danny arlen for joining us head to head will be back next week.

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burying the dead funerals in gaza as on an easy calm settles across the territory. rebels evacuated from syria south begin arriving in the north of the country. the i.m.f. chief is met with angry protests on the streets of bonus ira's. also where muslims in the southern philippines put their hopes in a new law set to be signed by the president brokering go to turkey. twenty four hours after it came into force a truce seems to be holding between israel and gaza a deal was brokered after a deadly friday on both sides of the fence that divides the two parties israeli airstrikes and tank fire dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred. one thousand

wounded from gaza stephanie decker reports. hamas is military wing because some brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of his wounds sixty sites belonging to ham ass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in a week i don't think. would last for a long time i think it's better for us. unfortunately we will have just. through this or. after that we will have. many problems over the. people in. the pattern of

escalation ceasefire as elation ceasefire between israel and hamas well i continue on the long term plan to alleviate the situation for the people here almost two million people are living under this blockade and everyone says the same thing how impossible life has become here. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around a thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night ma that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated the confines work people have to straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there is no electricity this is really painful and sad. palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either in gaza or israel no one wants another war but as one woman analyst us what

do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza well mohammed in west jerusalem he has more on the israeli government's response israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could

could spark something and it could be a wider conflagration really at any time. well living under occupation in gaza has left many desperate for change even if it does mean risking their lives eleven years of a land sea and air blockade imposed by israel has restricted all areas of daily life at least ninety five percent of the territories water is unfit for human consumption and unsuitable even for agricultural use gaza only gets four hours of electricity most days the world bank says unemployment is staggering more than forty five percent of adults between sixteen and twenty nine are out of work one reason why unemployment is so high many gazans who used to work in israel before the blockade and cut off from their jobs. is a fellow at brookings institution's center for middle east policy he says both sides are nowhere near making steps towards a peace process we used to talk about

a failed peace process. four five years ago now there is no peace process whatsoever there is no international community or mechanism that can intervene and attempt to find a political resolution and a pathway out of this this crisis that simply doesn't exist and you also have a vacuum on the palestinian side the palestinian authority in government in ramallah is. pretty much completely disengaged from the situation in gaza they are bystanders for the most part but also i think complicit in the crisis the humanitarian crisis that exists there because of the sanctions imposed by mahmoud abbas four boats carrying aid for gaza have left italy the freedom flotilla coalition campaign says his goal is to peacefully end the israeli blockade

of the palestinian territory it's expected to take just over one week to reach israeli waters and they'll then and over one boat to gaza and fisherman. syrian rebels who gave up their fight in the southwest have now begun arriving in opposition held areas of the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of broke in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connect it's a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces have retaken much of the south. the rebel held area in hama where those rebels and families from have now arrived. to the evacuation buses carrying people displaced from connector have arrived in however province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connector and will be followed by many others the total

numbers will be more than thirteen thousand going from south to north this displacement followed a wave of offensives by the syrian and russian military it takes place after negotiations between opposition groups and the government which resulted in the opposition surrendering heavy weapons and allowing people to leave from south to north syria this will take place today tomorrow and the day after there will be more people coming here coming from south to north there will need to be a lot of resources and a concerted effort to accommodate such numbers of people they will initially be taken to already prepared shelters in northern syria. france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern syria russia has agreed to facilitate that delivery the aid will arrive on board a russian plane government forces retort the eastern good to reach and from the rebels in april after besieging the area for several years little aid has entered the area since april around five hundred thousand people living if the aid from

france doesn't arrive it will be the first time a western country has delivered aid to government controlled areas of syria with russian help let's get more on that from joshua landis joshua is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he joins us now from rochester in the state of vermont joshua landis what's emanuel up to here. well is a very important this sort of it important indicator of course a small amount of aid but it it indicates that france is willing to engage with russia and with assad in order to supply a good many policy makers and said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no one gauge with a side it will object in my eyes him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back he ron they want to squeeze on assad and bring about regime change hence big economic sanctions but this little feeler

on the part of the french to engage with the russians and with assad and just a small amount of aid many people are going to be hoping that it's going to open the doors towards greater acceptance of the fact that assad has won and we've seen us with you know with trump's meeting with putin with the israelis telling the russians that they're willing to accept assad if if the russians can keep iran away from their border that increasingly the international powers are accepting the fact that assad has one and they're beginning to look for ways to help refugees return they're worried that jordan and lebanon might below that the pressures are too great we saw big demonstrations in jordan demonstrations in iraq trade has to be started again between syria and iraq syria and jordan lebanon and the west's desire

to squeeze syria is really counterproductive pudney for coughing there in your. clearly nuanced is important might critics of france critics of emanuel micron's say look if you work with russia you are siding with russia therefore this domino effect if you work with russia you work with assad therefore u.s. siding with bashar al assad. well that's what critics will say and of course the counter to that is look at this is humanitarian issue we're taking eighty into that the who to area which had been a rebel area was smashed devastated by russian airplanes the on assad regime and therefore this is a humanitarian effort to stabilize syria help refugees go home but of course there's a fine line between humanism and acts that ultimately are going to shore up the regime and it's very difficult in many ways people are beginning to turn to leith

and accept the fact that they have to think of refugees first how can they get home how can they get schooling how can you get health aid the very basic infrastructure that will help syrians were turned home is perhaps more important than he's bigger you know geo strategic problems of are we going to be able to hurt the russians hurt the iranians this sort of thing how are the russians still managing to polly what they bring to the table here into being a diplomatic super power i mean they're their weaponry that they've got at their disposal their air force is not as molten new efficient as the turkish a force point number one point number two in the russian economy is one tenth the size of the u.s. economy and yet everyone says a lot of the a putin is a superpower. well he won in syria and syria is a key geostrategic position there's lebanon there's turkey there's iraq there's israel

there's jordan all the neighbors of syria all the highways that connect this neighborhood run through syria so if the west is blockading syria and squeezing in economically none of the neighbors can grow and if there's big demonstrations in southern iraq big demonstrations in jordan the lebanese of course are groaning there is no trade the whole region could blow up in revolution as in regime change unless syrian economy begins to take over the united states is sitting in the middle of the main highways between iraq and syria.