soon. to be. discovered. documentary. we're not at war with the high supreme court but more fully the cold i mean i'm sure the 2 god forbid know when you'll cooperate with the state of israel your your situation economic situation and peace is far far better than trying to attack us we will not give up an inch of security because unfortunately they flip on us there's turmoil in israel with mounting demonstrations against the prime minister huge the corruption and mishandling the spiraling health crisis my guest this week

from jerusalem is near bock out of form of matter of the city and the leading politician there mr netanyahu said they could party all the wheels finally coming off the prime minister's wiping. out welcomes of comfort zone promised and that you know who is under increasing pressure over accusations of corruption which he's denied and his handling of the pandemic the approval rating will not seems to have sunk just on the 30 percent how long before the party in the code party says enough and it's time he stood aside at least temporarily. well 1st of all shalom from jerusalem. i think the biggest challenge we have right now is the corner virus the economics the medical challenges we have

a 'd large government of over 70 parliament members supporting it in the coalition the issue you raised is not in the critical path of the challenges israel has right now. there are challenges on economics on the medical side and the trial which is happening in parallel is not an issue for us israelis here mr barak at he's on trial on 3 serious counts of corruption and come january the court expects him to be there 3 days a week you really want a prime minister who's half in half out of the dark at the same time prime minister netanyahu was doing a very good job in managing israel and so i think he's got a very strong support by the public has a wide coalition and everyone understands that we prefer the best prime minister and he will manage the trial he will manage to you will no doubt in my mind he'll be able to manage the country he's doing many many things simultaneously now he

will continue doing that with the trial remind you that he's innocent until proven guilty and everyone we want everyone that goes to court to prove his innocence he calls the whole thing a witch hunt what if he's convicted in the end you win the party would go down with him are you prepared for that. the likud party is the leading party in the country we have the right ideology the experience we have a wide range of talented a good people the likud party will continue even after netanyahu finishes his role i personally intend to run for office and replacement once he decides to step down the likud has a long history and a big future ahead of us you know do you buy into the kind of conspiracy that he says has been waged against him elements in the police and the prosecution joined forces with the leftist media to manufacture baseless and absurd cases against me

he said a conflict of interest that cries out to the have and leaving aside the rhetoric the melodramatic rhetoric do you really expect people to believe that state prosecutors colluded to do all that the state attorney several judges state witnesses all part of this grand conspiracy you buy into that well let's put it this way netanyahu don't believe this in this in a sense and he feels that he's getting an unfair treatment both by the press and many many other elements of maybe maybe also in the police and other elements of the 'd. legal system in our country that's what he feels and he's saying that. you know but if i can say such a rotten judge that is a system mr mr bucket is such a rotten justice system as he paints it why did he not find out over the last 10 years and do something about it turns out it's only a rotten system when it goes after him is not the truth. there are systems in our

country and i believe also in yours. needs to upgrade and change in time at any given moment in time we have to upgrade the legal system the court system the naturally the government parliament which i'm part of we must nobody has immunity from change and evolution and i think that part of the issues definitely we have to restructure some of the elements in the relationship between the parliament and the government and the legal system this is the 1st time mr barak at a serving israeli prime minister has been formally charged with criminal offenses why not do the honorable thing and stand aside in order to fight the indictment and clear his name or does this leak could lead government not worry about senior figures under investigation it certainly doesn't worry about past convictions of some of its members does it. tim we have

a law in our country and the law is specifically and explicitly says that the prime minister can continue serving in israel until the high supreme court decides otherwise and the reason this law exists is that if somebody wants to kick out a prime minister he could charge him and then what happens once the prime minister's found. that he's not guilty then you've overthrown the prime minister just by putting charges against him it doesn't make any sense that's why this really law says that he could continue serving his role until through until proven guilty by the 'd high supreme court and so we're just following the law and it makes a lot of sense you have to understand it makes a lot of sense of presence the letter of the law mr bucket but there's also a morality something which has brought mr netanyahu scathing criticism from judges on the israeli supreme court. said a situation in which

a defendant charged with serious ethical crimes forms of government and heads it raises a public and moral problem whose magnitude is hard to overstate just as the focal man said that for the knesset to choose a prime minister charged with bribery undermines the public's faith in its servants you have no qualms about any of this you're not interested in the morality that the supreme court is talking about here. the answer is that we had elections and all of what you've said was put right on the table to this very public israeli public decided to vote for prime minister netanyahu and the government the 70 plus parliament members that are part of the coalition out of 120 parliament members are the answer the public understands exactly what you're saying what the what some of the judges said and went to the ballots and voted that time the hour so the answer is we understand all that we understand that there is

a law we understand that other people think otherwise but the public decided to support an attorney in spite of these challenges therefore i feel comfortable that we are 1st of all working by the law enabling the public. to choose the prime minister the prime minister to now is able to create a large wide collision and that is the answer to the course the israelis that understand and well we were a democracy the only democracy in the middle east nobody around here well has out a strong you say that you say that but one of the judges justice and about and said that appointing by the prime minister who's indicted on serious charges doesn't accord with the fundamental principles of israeli democracy but you're not much interested in what the judges on the supreme court think are you that's not true the 'd fact factually you're wrong because give us an example let me give you an example what is what is particularly annoyed your party especially about the

supreme court is the fact that it struck down the law you passed in 2017 which retroactively legalized illegal settlements and that was something your party hasn't been able to forgive wasn't it we have howls of hysterical protest in june settlements minister tzipi hotter valley accusing the court of dilip clarin war on the right of jews to settle in the land of israel really declaring war on the right of jews is that what you think the. supreme court has been up to. we are not at war with the high supreme court everyone respects and they have some maybe sometimes an . extreme opinion on matters specific matters but we all accept the high supreme court judgments we believe that the 'd relationship between the parliament and the supreme court there are other places in the world that have different relationships for example in israel the high supreme court. for a few times ruled that laws that we are we've created in the parliament are really

go and there are other democracies in the world that don't enable the high supreme court to rule out laws that are defined by the parliament where you're setting then this man is going to take that status not the case you're settlements minister didn't accept the judgment from the supremes court do you accept what the court told you with that law that it legalised illegal building by jews in the west bank and had deeply harmful consequences for the substantive rights of palestinians question is then why are you passing laws that are so harmful for the palestinians for the sub's their substantive rights why do you pass laws like that in the 1st place 1st of all i respect the high supreme court i will always respect them even if i don't agree with them. on the other hand we are now in the parliament in the parliament member from the likud party i want to change the laws so that we have better quality of life you want to change the answer to her was mayor of jerusalem

that we want to bully the colinear go to the 2 there are 2 things god forbid no use at the time has come to receive or have thought about power between the branches of government what's that mean another attempt to bully the court. god forbid know the answer is that we look at other democracies in the world and we see that the relationships are different then the balance is different in the united states the president of united states he chooses the high supreme court judges in other places there's no there's different balances and we learn from other democracies so let me just focus on the point you said. injured in some area anyway you put a shovel in the ground you find jewish roots and jews are allowed to live anywhere they want in the world in new york in germany in london in jerusalem anywhere in arab countries they can live anywhere they want especially in places that any way you put a shovel you find our roots in our history in the bible and that's not in the bible

ok now from my perspective jews could live there and right now applying israeli sovereignty israeli laws on the israeli cities and towns into their sin area is the right thing to do from my political perspective of a large one to come i want to come onto the we want to martial law that i want to come on to the issue of an exception a bit later i want to talk 1st about the issue of hate speech which has been coming from your party this year state department report on human rights from your friendly trump administration accuses your party directly of promoting hatred it said during the april and september national elections last year the likud party deployed messages promoting hatred against arab citizens including a chat bot message on the prime minister's facebook page saying the arabs want to destroy all of us women children and men facebook have to spend it on the prime minister said he wasn't aware of the message was only could really so desperate in

those elections that it had to resort to such cheap tactics to i was mayor of jerusalem for a decade 10 years and only time i heard somebody. to speak hatred to any side i was always against it the party as a whole believes in living together in cooperation we have and in the likud party muslims christians and jews and jews and others we have all kinds of you know. reading which is ultra orthodox and secular we have it all we are a party that focuses on how to live together sometimes people may step off line in terms of their speech i will always be there to remind them that hatred is not the way that we are not part of our d.n.a. mr gandhi i did you did you remind. me of wilma did you remind them in the course of the elections which brought a torrent of false charges against arabs the prime minister himself said that if it

hadn't been for voting fraud in the april election the arab party ballot would not have passed the electoral threshold same from the tourism minister yariv levon the suspicions are that there are $100.00 polling stations that are heavily suspected of irregularities what was the reality nothing of the kind the director general of the central elections committee said a police investigation after the april election found suspicion of fraud in 2 polling stations in the arab sector not $100.00 just 2 and this fraud he said and then did not benefiting likud as well as shots another right wing party so these allegations that came forth during the elections i don't remember you challenging any of them but they were. breathtaking level of dishonesty from your party wasn't it. people get carried away in the elections all sides not just the likud practically all parties unfortunately sometimes get carried away in their election . in the elections unfortunately this is not just an israeli issue i think it's the

same in the united states and in europe in many many places. i the person that seeks to focus on the common denominator of people to unite people and i will always be against such statements yes but you know not how i mean that's really your your attempts at unity and not happening i said no wonder your president ruben rivlin commented in january this year when the nation witnesses its leaders spewing hatred at one another boycotting entire communities and seeking votes via a strategy of divisiveness what's left for them to believe in there's nothing in that statement of his for your party to feel proud about is there. tim i said earlier people get carried away in the elections i personally and i know that this is part of the d.n.a. of the likud is seek the common denominator and if people step on the line in what they're saying i will always be there and i always was there to say that it must we must focus and different ways to speak and this is not just for the could i'm

saying this is a liquid parliament member it's true for all our parliament unfortunately in elections people get heated up and sometimes mean misspeak it's just not just about elect local is not is about as it is it's not just about elections now where is the hardship that the palestinians live under more apparent than in the city that you ran for 2 terms as maggi recently again your american friends in the trumpet ministration a scathing about the lack of services for non jews in jerusalem the latest report says arab christians and muslims druze and ethiopian citizens faced persistent institutional and societal discrimination this is disgraceful enough isn't it but if you go back and look at previous reports this discrimination has been flagged up year after year and nothing was done to improve the situation why well i think you are describing the situation in the united states of america and many other

european countries i can tell you that there are traces relic of the fine i'm just saying that. if you look at the facts the quality of life of our residents in east jerusalem is far far better than any of the arabs countries around us and the reason they have not much of a comparison who has a city of jerusalem. of course it is the alternative they have is far worse and so all the nanda market democracies around us none of them are democracies their quality of life is far far worse if you look at the. home of the wages of people the arab israelis their wages is much much higher than in the in the ensign area the wages of arab israelis in jerusalem. residents is far far greater than in jordan and in any other world in egypt in syria or any other place and this is just the background what does that about accountability do that mr buck out the proof of

neglect and double standards lies lies in the statistics 1000 figures quoted by the state department from the jerusalem institute for policy research for 2017 show the dire conditions in which palestinians live in jerusalem 78 percent of our of residents there and 86 percent of arab children in east jerusalem lived that year in poverty and that's a policy decision isn't it are you proud of that. god forbid that's not a policy and by the way you forgot to mention that we have a huge a large altruist of doc's community in jerusalem that is very similar to the arab communities the arab communities around the country if you look at all villages in our country you find that there are social economic status is lower unfortunately now what i've done is i focused on education improve the quality of education there and unfortunately some of the arab residents choose the palestinian system dedication system which is far far less better than the israeli system we've done

everything to prove both quality of life infrastructure tourism went up before coronavirus to high high numbers and it's a big huge employer of their residents and the arab residents are much much better as part of the jerusalem united city of jerusalem than any other solution and the fact is the reality is that they understand that it's much much better working and cooperate in with the state of israel than anything else if they are can realize that when you cooperate with the state of israel your situation economic situation and peace is far far better than trying to attack us mr barker let's talk about the prime minister's promise last september nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank if he was returned to office a big announcement of july 1st timetable and the assurance in may to a liquid faction meeting we don't intend to change the deadline well the deadline has come and gone did you underestimate the international condemnation of such

a move. well 1st of all in any future deal with the palestinians there are no nobody goes out from their home all of israeli towns and cities stay where they are therefore in any city scenario in any situation applying israeli law on the israeli citizens living into the into matter is the right thing to do so we start for this is the right thing to do it's a bit more than that in point of account isn't it's a bit more than that because if annexation goes ahead it's the end of any hope of a functioning state for the palestinians isn't it the prime minister said in may palestinians nearly destroyed in the valley would not be given israeli passports after an extension but would be citizens of a future palestinian entity and subject to israeli security control you will continue to dictate the security conditions to palestinians that's what this is going to be about isn't it to listen there are 3 pillars of

cooperating with the palestinians into the end scenario the 1st is civil separation they manage their own cities and towns we manage this very cities and towns 2nd point 100 percent full israeli security we will not give up an inch of security because unfortunately they flip on us the 3rd element is a joint economy that we must develop because when we work together in. palestinian and israelis work together in our industrial zones and in tourism it is far far better for the palestinians and israelis and so the joint economy is something we must develop these are the 3 pillars of living together between israelis and palestinians in judea same area there we don't want to manage and we do not manage now bruce and other arab cities and towns and similarly they will not manage ours nobody's going anywhere we must learn to live together in peace and harmony and

when there is peace. this in any scenario is very long will apply and israel is a citizen tell mr brown it has the rest of the world there is an it has value and your comforting assurances the un high commissioner for human rights michele passionately summed up the prevailing view and it station is illegal period she said any annexation. and the amec sation well i totally disagree i totally disagree and the americans now understand that the land in judea scenario is all it is the land of the jews and we have no problem with the palestinian side by side and enable them to have their all civil they have their civil autonomy we don't want to get involved in their civil autonomy was it do the americans really understand that do the americans really understand that zippy hunter valley or settlements minister said last month there are gaps between the americans and us on this issue there are gaps what gaps 5 gap the gap is not around understanding that

the israeli cities and towns are legal americans understand that there are some gaps in with some of the americans naturally we don't disagree but they're not from my perspective they're not a game changer in terms of what has to be done the challenges are what how large with. so plain israeli law what is the map how it's going to look like and on these details there are challenges and we are working together with our american friends to define that we do not want to. rule the palestinian civil life we propose better cooperation on the joint economy and we will not give up the right to defend ourselves and make sure that we have full israeli security control on every inch of judea and samaria and this is just like you want. to get real peace if joe biden becomes president in november wins the election in november

becomes president next year you will have missed what the prime minister called a historic opportunity he is dead set against this annexation isn't the. well 1st of all let's say that he wins the elections and we will and any american president that will win we will sit with them and share our views and do everything we can to liquid party to do the right thing to. do to take place when you are an israeli citizen towns will be the right thing to do in any potential deal in the future you have one country as one of your commentators put it in the newspaper you have one country with 2 peoples for regimes democracy for jews discrimination for israeli arabs military dictatorship for palestinians in the west bank and prison for their brothers in the gaza strip you really telling me you proud of that. that's total nonsense with your permission the reality is that we will give a hand and create peace with our enemies we've done that with egypt for years we

have peace with egypt there with by far the biggest enemy of israel similarly with jordan and israel knows how to create real peace deals unfortunately look what happens in the hamas in gaza we left gaza one sidedly the israeli army left gaza and what did we get everyone talked about the future of gaza is being. you know hopefully a beautiful place for a business what do they do you have you laughing you left the grounds of by the voters outside and you are controlling everything that goes in and everybody who goes in and out all due respect i heard that gaza i heard that gaza will be the singapore of the middle east now the israeli army is not there what happened is exactly the opposite so people there are saying. what forbid if you leave security in judea and samaria we'll get the gaza hamas right next to jerusalem and all the stuff in the heart of israel all right we'll never make that mistake again

mr i was about because we could go on discussing this we could go on discussing this much longer unfortunately we've run out of time thank you very much for being on conflict so appreciate your time my pleasure thank you. my my. my. my. thank. you. to. you.

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