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he said he respected joe biden's decision. and the partnership between the countries is entering a new phase. afghans are going to decide their future what they, what they want, what they want, but it won't be for lack of us being help in the sense of violence has to stop, but it's going to be very difficult. but we're going to stick with you and we're going to do our best to see to and you have to pay a 159. people are still and accounted for after a building, partially collapse in the u. s. town of surfside on thursday. at least 4 people have died and rescuers are using heavy machines, dogs and their own hands to sift through the rubble official. still having determine what caused the wing of the 12 story building to come down. we'll have more news at the top of the hour. it's back to jerusalem, a rock and a hard place on al jazeera. ah,

ah, i cannot claim today that i'm respecting is read because it's not possible to respect and up to him and system which brings me and justice. and when i organize lawyers and i try to show what we are, a confronting is actually a very drastic and speedy transformation of our city. wherever we go. in this dutifully majestic damascus gate, we see ours of police station would say, comrades microscope set to watch and to monitor the youth and the people walking in the streets and not that political door. but i just want you to see that there are soldiers everywhere. there is a very ugly scene today into the snow, which i try not to beautify but to be indifferent to these ugly scenes and to show

what's left of the beautiful palestine and the treasures of the city. these are gonna be on by that and this is how he made his house. and he never actually i mean we are here in the muslim course are you cannot fill in it unfortunately because there is an occupation because before the occupation of tomorrow was open for everybody. because i think the most difficult and the most challenging part of the occupation do ah, ah, ah, what i want to do now is take you to the center of west jerusalem and just show you

how the occupation is not part of the lives in the fossil people here it is as a visiting go home. i'm originally from from with gentle. are you from where the so come visit the old homeland? although zionism played a role in that i was able to come here. you know, i'm like probably the revenues aren't able to come here. you know, i thought the idea of israel wasn't such a bad idea if we could accommodate with the palestinian. and i really believe that we could find a way to live together and so on. graders are able to dismiss and they don't think about it. it's the land of israel that's it's in the bible. it's unproblematic, it's ours. we came back. you guys. palestinians are intruders. you know, and you know, this whole claim that actually isn't true,

but the whole claim that there's are a gathered tie between the israelites and the hebrews of the bible. and jews of today was what makes that tie. so you know, this is our land. just go back and look at the bible the and that's where is your course gets a lot of support from christian fundamental. not just from the jewish community and abroad. i don't use the word palestinian. we talk about arabs in a very undifferentiated way. we never use the word occupation. you don't talk about settlement their community. you don't talk about settlers, their jewish residents of community. so the whole language has fantasized everything. if you talk to people, what is the occupation, where is the occupation, what is the palestinian people wouldn't know what the hell you're talking and that's for israel has really one. it's insulated people so much from the political reality. that's 100 meters away. and so in that sense, israel women,

because it's taken the whole issue of palestine off the table for years, right? they don't even think about ok. so we have to talk about alright, okay, great deal. ah, the logically assuming the but it, if you of the argument issue mad is included in the blessing and in the promise of the multiplication, this is biblical to the problem is if you try and you do succeed in having an ideology imposed on politics or mixture than just mixture of and this is by the way for all christians muslims, and jews does not forget, it was own up more than 1400 years ago. in the 658 approximately. he allowed the jews back in july, so they were prohibited from living. and juice, and for about 5 centuries,

1970 demolished the modem in order to expand the area in front of the western war. daughters demolishing everything historical buildings, including a mosque including school. and they have ultimately used graders to so that the level that man i i do this by the idea that we have one define all the way from lying to where you have basically major christian sites that almost infirmities, for example, who live in the christian court just when you say christian quarter, also, of course it doesn't sound right to build on what the for most of i said, my name is irma named after i'm out of the pub, or the city and christian from one of the main christian families of jerusalem. i

was named after a month as many to the beautiful relationship, answered the beautiful fowler and has express with his encounter with the throne in my mother's breast had our christian name. but her name is let me because my mother referred me. so we became brother of brother with sisterhood. that is not on the line. and someone from roman time they had the strategy that divide and conquer and the british and implemented the 1st, the g very one me . we came down from the neighborhood that i live in good infrastructure, the new u. s embassy, and then you drive down. and 1st thing you get is a police station, a border police that kind of clarify from this point on. we need to be in control and then you drive through the neighborhood, but because there's a settlement here,

the settlement behind this, then you see those good infrastructure, there's lights, the sidewalk, and then the entrance to the settlement comes. and just after that, and there's no sidewalk you're in the policy and neighborhood, and you really see the and the fact that nobody cares about the infrastructure from that point on. because really it's about infrastructure for jewish population that is rarely planned to have a minimum people here as possible to be able to keep the jewish majority. and if you want to be a jerusalem, that is, i don't know worth living in for everyone in it. then it has to be one that is free of those concepts of racism. but dynamism ah, i grew up in a kind of classic sinus, less household. so growing up,

knowing the way again for the patient, but having no idea what the occupation is for me, one of those like a hum moments of understanding what those consequences are was actually years ago. i have a sister this younger 10 years younger than me and we were on this trip with different families. so it was just me and her and then different random israeli families and were together for a week. and there was a dinner and we're all talking about, you know, whatever small talk and i was $22.00 at the time. someone asked me, what did you do in the military, which is the normal is really small talk conversation. and just before i answered, i saw my sister kind of her face turning into the really like that. we have to get into this argument again. like does it have to be like this every time? can we just not just be normal? you know, and that's part of what being a dissident in different ways. mean it's saying no, we can't ever just be normal. me

. ah, ah, english, my name is side is the default, right? so, so choosing to step out of that is choosing to be different and to define yourself the different and it has different consequences that are beyond prison. it's choosing to be an outsider. that is the problem there. it's just a feeling that's fair and it's an it's heavy and sure, but it's nothing. right. i did that for a few months. housing in sit in prison before they're even convicted in, in most cases just for the duration of a trial and for years on when they are sentenced. right. then you think that these measures make the people of july since the 1st building was checkpoint, more like a military police the we live in

a state of fear and we are told to continue to be afraid regardless of what the reality is. i think that this is very strong within disraeli mentality. i mean security, we need to be strong, we need to have and we need to be always in control and so on. it's also very evidence within the education system, the holiday system, and so on. even when you ask israeli officials, what is it about the wall that had to do with security like israeli security officials say very clearly the world doesn't prevent people from coming in. inequality is inherent part of the city, 40 percent, almost of the city or not citizen the of the state. they don't have the, the right to vote to be elected. but more importantly, they can lose that. like that's what's on is it looks like a jury because that's what the state looks like. leverage that is the key thing we need to create. it's putting resistance. and we can hope that that resistance will be popular and will not be armed and things of the sort when we talk about boycott

campaigns about divesting campaigns is about creating different frameworks of power that policy and have to leverage to tell israel you want this to and you want this to change. ok, let's go to the table. let's talk about what you give for that. that's not the discussion that's happening today. ah, the 1st thing that struck me really the heavy weights of history that everyone here bears that somehow feels that you know, people who live in jerusalem comes from time and so their lives just to carry the burden of its history. ah many, it is true, some face pressure and a threat to,

to move out. but if i can take the opportunity of this interview and speak through you directly to them, i would say despite the cost and despite the difficulties do not give up. never given. because palestinians are not people who are coming through this land, just just renting their apartments or their houses for a short period of time before they move on. they are part of this land, they're part of this landscape. one of our pete and founders of said the in is the bishop desmond to, to from south africa. and he has this famous saying that there is an elephant, the stepping on the mouth. and you leave it for the elephant and the most to figure out your thing, the size of the elephant. and this is, i think most of us are the things we feel that the mission and community observing us while we are on the margins and we need help with asking help. and you're right to do that. you're absolutely right to, to,

to demand that from the international community and just to ask for it in any context, this would never be an association between equals so how much should we wait as palestinians, or can we wait? we feel we are drowning their own. we refuse to drown. i think that's the that's the question that you posting and have to answer. and hopefully we will. mm . welcome to present at the buffer. i think it's always good to see you on the continent. this is not really, it's pete. so we call it installed africans and preventative off of that, but it's the present. and it's amazing of an embassy. we see the completion part of what we supposed to be doing is hosting the palestinians to our home. most

palestine is i can host them at by elizabeth potter was vitality is to hold people at rest and also as part of the primitive work. but we are denied fundamentally as south africa. we actually eat what was called the peachy arctic trout. those that imposed packet came together and we realize they were common principles and i think palestinians have to realize they have little in common than that which divides to interestingly we will call those so called terms said we, we're a people know line up to meet us people want to benefit from our experiences, even the international communities, and i would name countries who have asked us to engage palestinians across the board. but don't you think that russia community, when it comes to south africa, the regime was racist and it had to go away. and there was trunk solidarity when it

comes to us, palestinian, it seems as one has impunity. she had the masses of own destiny at the end of the d . yes, it is true. international solidarity did play a role, an important role in terms of bike or sanction, and whatever else. and i solution of a party, south africa, but it wasn't the south african collective who took to the streets. the palestinians have to work is a collective. you're going to have a math movement in gauging is really a pockets. and we engage people in terms of the common values that we have in terms of dignity, in terms of human rights, in terms of democracy. and these common values will bring us together underneath the golden done of today that has to be respected is the foundation, the sound of the will mount, mariah. and yes, there is something there today and every religious jew believes that one day in the future there will be the 3rd temple were told that by

our prophets was seen, the deserts bloomed in getting the exalt we have returned home. but there is something that in the hand of god. so the 3rd temple itself very much in the same position that abraham attempted to sacrifice isaac with the 1st temple was of the king solomon. and the 2nd temple will also be the surgeon. but there's some things at hand by god, not in man's hand. having a jew go to the temple mount today to pray, to walk around the whole these place the jewish people in a place that mohammed never visited. the 1st temple existed 1700 years before the dome of the rock was even built. some things in the process as we left to god that a person has begun with the tunnel thing. you know, it's nothing to do with the table man's any one tunnel and it's a parallel to the wisdom all nothing to do with the temperament itself. it's absurd, hysteria from the world. i'd be more concerned about the legal arab building on the

timble man. that's a disgrace, and yet they've managed to get away with the huge boss on the temple mount destroying things with sick in general period. that's something that should be discussed not what the jews do walking on the outside of the general mount. i with by the jewish people have some responsibility to act in a certain way and according to the laws that were given by the bible itself, it's very difficult for me to know exactly today. as many rabbis found it, difficult to know exactly what was the specific thing the god was angry with the jews about the people that know the future of profits and foods. and i'm neither me

one of my favorite places to be here in jerusalem without a doubt is this casual, the old roman road that used to look like that is twice in israel. christian for muslims anyway. we're not talking about sovereignty. can compromise on sovereignty. no one hands away their home lives. this is not a multicultural democratic. decide this is not another astray or america or friends . so english no. this is a jewish day. the jewish people ah . so we are now in the can you still pm, which translates to the church of that as that action. every the very early in the

morning the muslim permanent was open the doors of the church because the church is divided by different christian denomination. and there was a dispute on who should have the key for the for the door. so they divided the church, but when it came to the consented, they agreed. and on the muslim feminine, they knew that this was the family, it was expected. just look like now. i mean, i've seen him both you as efficient and i as a very, very tiny minute. you know, when we are sitting where it just like it does not speak in the past. we used to worship in this church. the church is the center of the world because of the important the empty tomb of christ. for some centuries we have been forced to make space for pilgrims and foreigners and we were moved to one of

the churches outside the complex of the church. that is actually the same thing at the next one most put example notice would be, you know, 10 the way is just go through the model, can gate restrictions on muslims, even those who have jerusalem ideal and civil ship, my nephew and my new dream is to come to jerusalem, they don't have a 30 minute. their dream is to come to the church of the holy liquor. mm. the guys that they are trying to do die east. jerusalem. you are the only one that can save the city, and if you will not do it is now a fear that in the future will not be nothing to save because they said to live the working secretly systematically and they are taking everything they can. so you should do the same, think immediately in the cities and their risk.

ah, i was one of the founders of a settlement in the guys us 3 net setting nixa lee, me with this. and i was one of the founders of necessary me. it's incredible. lay feel during this days. so throwed to be a factor there. it takes. who, who are the 2 years before i realize that something it doesn't work. each ideology has the price and the price that we are paying for the idea. ology of the great israel is, is too much just too much. oh,

i do, man. after arrive, i enter it into the army and go to the army because they said that this is my role. zionist should go to the army and fight for the country, knocked over 72. he, you know, the young people war started 2 weeks after a or a and jarred in front of the dirt egyptian army in see night. it was in, in the hospital for several months when i start to look around me and to see people dying medium, they all speak. and not there is that they lose their sands or sans they lose their fathers. then

a started the process that it takes me from the right thing to, to the left to desire just left at the beginning and after then to do de none the value nice left. this is the place where i am now. it was very hard to me to leave my writing friend. i change my mind, but they couldn't change my social group and it takes one year before i say ok, no more, right rings. it's easier to change your mind than to change your social environment. you. i was alone in this, in the country. we've been traveling for a week and we've seen was that on the ground in general, it's miserable. you've met the politicians, they, there is no hope. you meet the united nations, they say literally,

there's nothing we can do. it is up to you, we must remain resilient. we must overcome justice for the palestinians and end of the occupation joined the civil society of the city and community initiatives like economy can sanction kind of major thing be should be the so on. we cannot give in to the powerful decision makers and that allies, the trump, and the powerful in the world. we must come together. we always not only for us or for jerusalem, holy place for religion, but for the future generation. empires come and go. but the people remain and this is the story with what has happened throughout every empire blue cross. they have disappeared and became ruined. but the people still stand.

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sunday. let's talk about the active whether we do have the risk of flash flooding through the midwest in these storms flaring up. we'll certainly not help draped across into the southern plains on saturday, off to central america. and we are also tracking the potential to see some tropical development here just off the coast of southwest mexico. it's about 200 kilometers away from acapulco now it's going to throw a lot of rain toward the south west of mexico in the days to come off to south america. or heavy rain will be ecuador through columbia and venezuela on saturday. but i want to take you further to the south because we do have some rain hanging around southern areas of brazil into northern areas of argentina on saturday. the news in india has been devastated by the covey. 19 pandemic. the one i want to make the frontline work risking their lives to treat the in very the day the one

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