turning to tragedy. that's not liberation at all this is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did it become a gateway to islamist terror. the sort of gutter more city has. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines the sights of fire starts april eleventh on g.w. . yes i'm sure and feel here in tel aviv covering the national primary election of israel's to december to have liquid sponsor about one hundred twenty party members on choosing candidates for the list that liquid will run in the country's parliamentary election on april ninth. the party leader and incumbent prime

minister benjamin netanyahu is likud's top candidates and he also has a good chance of winning the parliamentary election. since giving him but in a time yahoo is facing tough competition and he's also dealing with several corruption investigations highest this election and the coalition negotiations afterwards promised to be dramatic extreme bondage to be had for the next tough how al be talking with several guests about the election and what it means to them in the mud we should just let him in his story ends motion or cinema. the security experts area. imagine all the docs have them on a family and arab israeli singer mariam two can. israel's fragmented society is reflected in the large number of political parties in the knesset or national parliament prime minister netanyahu. party has been in power

for years and now holds thirty out of one hundred twenty seats. the current government coalition is led by likud it includes several parties whose primary goal is to preserve their religious and social traditions another member of the coalition is the jewish home party which favors israeli settlements in the palestinian territories the party leaders include the current education minister naftali bennett. there are four position parties that represent israeli arabs who make up about twenty percent of the population taken together these four parties are one of the largest groups in the opposition. to support for the opposition labor party has collapsed in recent she is they lost the twenty fifteen election despite joining a short lived coalition with a party led by former foreign minister tzipi livni. a centrist party

headed by former finance minister. has now joined forces with the israel resilience party which is led by benny gantz the former chief of staff of the israeli armed forces against is trying to bridge the political gap between left and right and could pose a serious challenge to netanyahu senior military officers are widely respected in israel some have even become prime minister as. a number of smaller parties have teamed up to try to get around the election threshold law which requires them to win at least a three point two five percent share of the vote to qualify for seats in parliament . some of these parties could end up in the next government coalition. i'm guessing that's how it sounds we've seen the campaign leading up to the april ninth election has been a dramatic one to. find out more about the current political mood in israel i'm

joined by professor moshe similar. he's well known in germany he's been a visiting professor at several german universities and his academic research work has won him several jimena wounds. in two thousand and five professor silliman was appointed to a government commission that investigated the role of the german foreign office in the holocaust. professor symon the political landscape in israel has changed substantially in the past several years why did that happen and what will it mean for the election. political ideologies are no longer relevant in israel. it all boils down to the battle between netanyahu and his opponents. voters are either on one side or the other. you either support the prime minister or you don't. and those factors are shaping the

political environment right now. they would like israel to the right. that's true for a majority of israelis. of course there are political parties on the left and in the center but the left is rather weak in israel right now. they usually win only five or ten percent of the vote. the centrist parties are actually center right here so in the final analysis it all comes down to how much netanyahu and the parties that support him will win by. well why have the israelis moved to the right. side. and many countries today right wing nationalist or semi fascist parties are on the rise. that's the case in israel as well. there's a sort of siege mentality here israel is defending itself against the palestinians and iran. and if that's the way you think that's the way you'll vote

a lot of people aren't thinking about peace from the. base huge israeli election campaign billboard show was benyamin netanyahu with donald trump the president has expressed support for the prime minister's reelection in december twenty seven teen the u.s. announced that it would move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. it was a controversial decision. and it's prompted to find the demonstrations in the palestinian town and trains the palestinians want to make east jerusalem the capital of a future state. calling netanyahu appears to have abandoned his commitment to a two state solution. and he supports new settlements in the israeli occupied west bank. this is apparently

a concession to the nationalist and ultra-orthodox parties that netanyahu will need to build a coalition government. and israeli arab m.p.'s are upset about the new nation state law which they say discriminates against them. many israelis are deeply concerned about security right now and netanyahu has promised to address their concerns he has even taken on the additional post of defense minister and has promised to enhance cyber security. the prime minister says that iran poses the greatest threat to peace in the middle east and president trump agrees with him. since reigning military has recently launched a number of asteroids against iranian forces and their allies deployed in syria.

and tensions are still running high in the gaza strip there have been frequent clashes in the last few months between palestinians and israeli troops along the border fence. still netanyahu can take credit for a growing economy under that one employment but critics say that the gap between rich and poor in israel continues to grow. by mid thirty's when i hear it by an explainer in central tel aviv to me to my next guest. is an author political scientist and spokesman for the israeli intelligence ministry honestly wouldn't he was born in germany and raised in berlin his parents are jewish immigrants from iran he studied political science at university. and emigrated to israel in two thousand and one. toward the. israelis are

concerned about national security and prime minister netanyahu has identified iran is a major threat and clashes continue in gaza how would you assess the current situation . completes its extremely complicated israel is stronger than ever and we have discovered and destroyed a number of hezbollah tunnels along the border with lebanon. the situation in gaza remains tense. but we've managed to push back the iranians and syria. with us i'm not so it's clear the one hand israel continues to provide a deterrent force in the region and that helps us to keep these threats under control to explode you but at the same time iran and its hizbollah allies continue to cause trouble. especially in syria. and gaza so there's a very real possibility that we could be drawn into a multi front conflict the primary threat right now comes from the could force. her

unit of iran's revolutionary guards and report directly to iran's supreme leader. so we could be placed in a situation where israel a small country is attacked from lebanon syria gaza and possibly elsewhere. but who knows house this is just this effect the elections as i was to hope to be a major factor is that the politicians have to address the security concerns. the team under pressure and a lot of talk and it's have held senior posts in the military. certainly has and so has netanyahu oh. i was following the prime minister is friends with some of the world's most powerful leaders. trump. in brazil. so a lot of israelis believe that netanyahu is the best person to lead israel right

now. the right wing candidates who are running in this election position themselves by saying they are even tougher than he is on security and domestic policy. older. but it's netanyahu is also facing three different corruption investigations in the first the prime minister and his wife are accused of accepting expensive gifts in return for political favors. in the second investigators say that netanyahu tried to influence the publisher of a newspaper that ran stories critical of the government the prime minister is said to have promised to support legislation that would cripple the circulation of israel's most popular newspaper. in the third case netanyahu is accused of backing regulations that would have benefited a major telecom corporation a company executive was recently detained in the investigation police say netanyahu

wanted the company's news website to provide more favorable coverage of his government. netanyahu has categorically denied any wrongdoing and says that even if he is indicted on these charges he will not resign. in january the prime minister went on national t.v. to criticize the investigation which he called a witch hunt carried out by the media police and prosecutors. attorney general mandel bleats a former netanyahu cabinet secretary and military prosecutor has recommended that charges be filed but has not yet actually done so. work told me that people just aren't worried about corruption anymore. it's not new for politicians to take bribes. it happens all the time. who had

famous politicians who took bribes of vibe hundred thousand euros. yes that's sad. that the accusations against netanyahu aren't all that serious and we've known about them for some time people have made up their minds are they they say that's terrible like we do or they say the politicians are always taking bribes. with armed to the city of rana not not far from tel aviv to meet with a modern orthodox family jenny and aliyah half a man and the three children leave i am. sure you have jenny have in mind is active in the israeli liberal party and is using social media to try to get more young people interested in politics. those mere human lloyd to. see also the founder and c.e.o. of an organization that brings together young entrepreneurs from germany and israel

your mum and yeah and i have a man is the son of sabella i have a man on the german singer songwriter both be a man so he was born in east germany and moved to the west in nine hundred seventy seven have a and converted to judaism and emigrated to israel in twenty ten now let's listen i t expensively for an israeli company jenny and i would like to find out what you both think of the political situation right now in israel. then i guess i might actually well first of all the cost of living in israel is very high compared to europe. by the way we consider ourselves your opinions and certainly most israelis. yeah but food is really expensive and there are political reasons for that. we can't trade with neighboring countries. should go and that's one of the things that makes living here expensive. the signs are going to be friends and

their taxes are very high and the politicians haven't done enough to cut them what's more the business monopolies are much too strong the state should do more to regulate them. so this election is about both domestic policy and clipping the high cost of living and foreign policy for the sake of this assault gets caught him by con what was the theme out there was far from our reaching out foreign policy certainly seems as though the middle east peace process is dead in the water and talks on a two state solution are on hold. but you told me that some israeli arabs work at your company and everyone gets along fine so i don't know if those five almost never meet well you know who supports this new law. what's it called the nation state law it's an honor to do this if the group went off and discriminates against israeli arabs. after i'm going to one of my arab colleagues told me that

the law hasn't affected him at all. his friends are still his friends and his job is still his job so he's exactly the same guy he was before. but this law has caused a lot of emotional pain. or the actual wording of the law doesn't seem so bad. the worst thing about that law is what it doesn't say to me. what you mean exactly. so now it's really declaration of independence says that we are all citizens and you had. after the knesset approved the law prime minister netanyahu said that this was a defining moment in the history of the israeli state. legislation sans that the jewish people have the right to exercise national self-determination in israel it also states that hebrew is the country's official language and downgrades arabic to me a special status and it says that the state will continue to promote jewish settlement

as a national value. on talking about discrimination in many. ways. and women and minorities are experiencing and it's getting more and more. whenever we are seeing the control of the right. and medic right wings in the country and if i'm talking about the daily life i'm talking about discrimination in the. places of the students from structure many things like we have less sources less funds lists. that we can take and improve our daily normal life this into we've come. to the town of apollinaire haifa to

me to sing a whose voice has captured the hearts of israelis mariam too can she was the first person to sing in arabic on the israeli t.v. some competition show a star is born. how mariam is an arab christian and now she's devoted her vocal talents to an organization called women wage peace a group that brings together people of all religions and ethnic backgrounds to create a mutually binding political agreement to end the israeli palestinian conflict. one can see. the organization was founded shortly after the end of the gaza war in twenty fourteen. it also supports a un resolution that reaffirms the role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts. only this year the group organized a peace festival in the port city of jaffa women wayne peace has twenty four

thousand registered members and tens of thousands of followers on facebook the festival featured performances by mariam to cannes and the israeli canadian singer el take about what. they perform around the world and use their music to inspire positive change and to support nonviolent efforts to resolve conflicts. through. yet else best known song is prayer of the mother was about the women's peace movement. i wrote this song because i felt the heart of the matter is what together of the movement of women which case i met with them and then i felt their earnings and i wrote this.

they sing in hebrew and in arabic about mothers who hang out the noon train in the shadow of an israeli security wall and about a mother who sends her child off to school as war rages near find. the song ends with a call for peace. it's . everyone still waiting for the middle east peace plan that president trump promised no details have been released yet. what are the prospects for this peace proposal. and i'm not going to get my hopes up. a lot of people certainly side with netanyahu you know they're. there maybe some proposals in the plan that the right wing parties will complain about. implementing certainly won't

be implemented before the israeli elections or after the elections for that matter . so. i describe it as a lot of hot air and it probably won't be very practical. to go proxies. when was i going to understand the pun thomas demands haven't held parliamentary elections for more than a decade and then there's the ongoing palace struggle between hamas in gaza in fact and in the west bank five so israel may be right in saying that even if a peace plan were proposed they'd have no one to negotiate with. so i've been. able to feel because all israel has made sure that there's no one to negotiate with . you know the divisions between fatah and hamas were caused to a certain extent by israeli policy. and the government wants those divisions to continue. all. of the life that will give them the opportunity to

say there's no one on the palestinian side they can talk to. this kind of you know . so until hamas and fatah are able to resolve their differences and present something that resembles a united front of all israel won't be able to negotiate with them. and also their goals before no harm can be done within. in their moment at the same time even if the two sides settle their dispute and as long as hamas continues to reject israel's right to exist israel won't negotiate with them or. lloyd to go by so either way israel can say that it can't talk to the palestinians or the wall and that will be just fine with netanyahu. and. you know. this is the hour run t.v. hospital in gaza city. the facility has been hit by the israeli blockade of the gaza strip and also by hamas mismanagement. the conditions here are miserable for

the patients run for the medical stuff like doctors find yet el masri. the room is ready for crowded and the at conditioning doesn't work as a deep sense of frustration. you see the conditions not what set off. with right tourists as you noted. today the hospital laundry can't provide fresh bed sheets this woman has stomach cancer and can't get the medicine she needs. to feel village we were. running out of morphine and all kinds of other pain killers the food for the most such. things is the hospital's pediatric ward many of the children here suffer from leukemia but they can't be properly treated that's an enormously frustrating for the parents. of more newly us gunsight was

approved by both. the spider for disease would be to successfully what could do to a shortage of being supplied from the we have a. job that's fear in the suv that it gets right there and there was some. policy it's all in that fear was something that was spying. the collapse of the health care system in gaza is just one of the many unfortunate consequences. you seem to have see on the palestinian as the israeli elections approach the politicians on not paying attention to the problems of palestinians in the west bank and gaza all the breakdown of the peace process the political parties have turned just social media to get that message to the voters it's following next on gallo's likud first image. recently launched its own t.v. channel on facebook of facebook but as the political establishment turns away from

traditional media there are concerns that digital sources of information could be manipulated by hack as you know them logs buzzard's for. cyber security. israel's domestic intelligence agency that recently is huge just such a warning. that director a man said that an identified foreign country intends to intervene in the upcoming elections. off towards the prime minister and security officials trying to reassure the public netanyahu said that israel definitely has the technological capability to prevent such cyber attacks. russia said it would never intervene in a foreign election. but internet data can also be manipulated

in other ways. a google search will turn up different results for different uses that content may also be accompanied by advertising but there's no way to tell how the google algorithms choose which content will be shown. he provided the advertisement. expert saying that the internet must become more transparent and not just when it comes to election campaigns. we gained about your election forecast. this is almost like a hollywood movie. you want to keep up with election campaign news every day to see what one candidate or another has said or done. it's a close race and there are actually top candidates not just two. so the main question is who will be able to put together a coalition government. a

centrist or center left parties don't join forces i think that netanyahu will be reelected. he's going to win. his for crime. historian so i always take the long view in situations like this you know and i think about what effects this election might have on my grandchildren and that's a cause for concern. at the time i was born there were no military conflicts between jews and the palestinians and other arabs and his lawyer but it's going to end all of a little bit i'll bring you that in the seven decades that i've lived in israel here so if i've seen one war after another and now the peace process has collapsed . at some point something really terrible is going to happen i think. most women even when you know three or four things are going to be more fanatic and more negative and then people can be more aware and. have

a desire to change. to make the sport change. so this is what we are doing now. the women a women makes peace to see. israeli arabs. are the first. jewish to go there for making. another reality. bites we've heard a number of different voices in this report but what unites all these people is the how and then now for the state of israel.

more nuclear weapons in europe. here's a deescalation and dishonest. mutual trust between more powers he's fast disappearing there's now an increasing risk that atomic weapons could be this deployment times currently talking germany or europe acquiring its own nuclear weapon. are we heading into a new cold war. seventy five minutes on d w. should. link from africa to the world join us on facebook at g w africa.

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