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victory. ukraine says it destroyed 16 iranian made drones launched by russia toward kyiv on friday. falling debris hit one of the buildings in the capital. south korea says the north has fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea east of the korean peninsula. it is the latest in an unprecedented level of missile test by north korea this year. this after north korean drones cross into south korean airspace. brazil has declared three days of morning after the death of football legend palais p --ele, who died thursday at 82. thank you for watching. ♪

♪ >> benjamin netanyahu back to power in israel. some may have a sense of déjà vu, but this time he will lead the most hardline government to date. what are the intentions of this new government and what does it mean for the so-called peace process with the palestinians? this is "inside story." ♪ welcome to the program. after two months of political wrangling, israel's most right wing and religiously conservative government in the country's history has been sworn in. the coalition is led by benjamin

netanyahu, returns as prime minister for a sixth term. his appointment comes 18 months after he was ousted from power, and while he is facing corruption charges. netanyahu says national security will continue to be his top priority. he says he also wants to normalize relations with more arab countries and expand illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. most of the important ministerial post have been filled by conservative leaning or ultra-orthodox politicians. >> we have four main goals defined in my speech. i will repeat them because they are important. first, stop iran. this is an existential question. first of all, we care about existence and security. second, to restore security and governments in israel. third, take care of the cost of living in housing crisis. the fourth thing, i believe also in reach, is dramatically expand the circle of peace. >> last year we saw a lot of

mistakes from the government and we come back with a lot of energy to change the reality for good. >> let's take a look at israel's longest-serving prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and the ideology of his new government. the 73-year-old gun ---year-old joined in 1988. his first robust was deputy minister. in 1993 he was elected party leader. during the 1990's he started israel on a path toward a free market economy. his government worked with palestinians on security. he later conditionally agreed on a two state solution. the new is really is deeply conservative. its members come from ultranationalist and ultra-orthodox jewish parties. ♪ let's go ahead and bring in our guests. from west jerusalem, the deputy mayor of jerusalem. an israeli politician.

and the secretary-general of the palestinian national initiative and former palestinian information minister. a warm welcome and thank you for joining us. from your perspective, what were the intentions of the new government and are you concerned about the fact that this is the most far right conservative government in israel's history? >> first of all i want to say i am not concerned at all. i am glad we have a government, a good led government and i think in the last year with the divisions we've seen and the government here earlier, they could not make a single decision because of the very contradicting views from the different views. it's good we finally have a stable government in israel. i believe there will be two

major policy drives in this government, and that will be dealing with a threat from iran, a threat that gets your everyday as they continue to slaughter their own people, and the second is the continuation and development and growth of the abraham accords. >> most of the important ministerial posts have been filled by conservative leaning or ultra orthodox politicians. what does that mean for the so-called peace process with the palestinians? >> this is the death of the peace process. netanyahu made sure to kill it in previous governments. this new government is the most racist, the most extreme, the most right-wing, the most fundamentalist, and not only the worst government in the history of the region, but includes fascists. those people have been accused

of terrorism before even in israeli courts. the movement they used to belong to was classified as a terrorist movement in the united states and israel. this man was not allowed to serve in the israeli army when he was 18 years old because of his extremism and he is now the security minister. this government declares openly and bluntly its main goal is to -- and expand -- and then ever happened before. that means the killing of the possibility of the so-called two state solution, preventing palestinians from becoming free from occupation, and preventing them from having a state of their own, and consolidating a system of racism based on what the government declared that the land of historic palestine

against historic israel is exclusively only for jewish people. that means they are consolidating the system of apartheid. >> i saw you reacting to some of what was being said. i've heard you say before today it is your view that israel is heading in a very dangerous direction. where do you see things going from here and how concerned are you? >> first of all, i am very concerned and even anxious. i will be even sharper than my friend here. this government is pursuing violent this place -- displacement. it covers -- carries out a coup d'état. it's changing not only the government, it will be a full-fledged fascist regime with neo-nazi components and i want to emphasize that. the so-called party, the

religious zionism party, consists not only of full-fledged fascists but also neo-nazis. they have not only -- they don't only support the ongoing militia's murderous occupation and the apartheid that has been carrying on for ages, it also supports erasure and jewish supremacy. this is what this government, this is the character of this government and it is a very dangerous situation. we will continue our struggle in the parliament and in the streets against these fascist governments, coup d'état,

occupation, and against plans to exile, clearly ethnic cleansing of indigenous palestinian people. we will not let them do that but we need the international community on our side. we will not succeed stopping those crimes if the international community doesn't stand with us. >> you heard him calling this a coup d'état, he said this was a full-fledged fascist regime and i saw you reacting. you look like he wanted to jump in. >> i don't understand, he doesn't understand what democracy looks like. he is calling for a coup d'état because this is how the israeli public votes. we have to analyze why the israeli public voted the way they did. a year ago they voted for a different government and this is the system we are living in. the main reason that people got

fed up of many things that he wants to attend don't exist, and the palestinian authority wants to pretend it doesn't exist. that's not -- if this is such a horrible, fascist government, why didn't the palestinian authority make peace when they could have with other governments? there were governments that looked very different and still the rejection -- >> because the governments wanted to keep the occupation -- >> the palestinian authority is the reason we don't have these. ultimately the palestinian authority -- >> really -- [crosstalk] >> i think i deserve to finish without interruption. >> i am just saying i'm going to let you finish your point -- >> without interruptions.

the palestinian authority, the reason we don't have peace today, this is what everybody keeps forgetting or sweeping under the carpet, the palestinian leadership has still not accepted emotionally the existence of a jewish state. this is not about not having a palestinian state, it is about accepting we are not going anywhere. so a left wing government wasn't good enough. more of a right wing government that still gave them 97% of what they said they wanted still wasn't good enough, and another left wing government, still wasn't good enough. what do you want the israeli public to do? it doesn't matter what government we have, you're not ready to sit down and talk about -- [crosstalk] >> you are lying. >> please everybody, i'm going

to allow a reply. i was trying to say before that i was going to let you finish your point and then give the floor to our other guest if you had allow me to finish what i was saying. mustapha, please go ahead. >> your guest is telling lies. of course this is the usual rubbish narrative the party keeps spreading. anybody if they want to know only needs to read the newspaper of the israeli government pay -- government. it was the israeli governments that continuously wanted to keep occupation of east, wanted to keep occupation of the jordan valley, did not want palestinians to have sovereignty. that's when we don't have peace. it was netanyahu, the leader of this party, who blocked all of

these talks since 1996. you can just look at what they say. they say they want to annex the west bank. how can you have peace if you want to annex the palestinian territory of the west bank? how can we have peace if the whole land of what they call israel which is palestine, is exclusive for jewish people only? how can we have peace when you have fascists in charge not only of security but other activities? when they are calling for ethnic cleansing of palestinians? why we don't have peace is because israel and is really groups have conducted the worst act of ethnic cleansing in 1948, which are guest would deny. more than 70% of palestinians were displaced from their land. why they are not allowing these

refugees to come back to their homeland? why did they destroy palestinian villages? why are they preventing us from being free from their occupation? she speaks about iran. the issue here is not iran, the issue is their occupation of palestinian land. the issue is they have established a system of apartheid and racial discrimination and that's what the courts and reason for establishing sanctions of this is really government, which as i said, the most racist, the most extreme, includes fascists, and it is going to build the road toward an explosion not here but -- not only here but the whole region. >> i want to ask you, you mentioned in your last answer you were hoping to get the international community on your side. what does that look like, what must the international community do from your point of view -- but also i want to ask about the

fact that there are many who are concerned right now that israel's global standing might be damaged by this new government. do you expect it will? >> i expect to the extent that i hope it will, because that's part of the solution. i have to say a few words regarding the former speaker, there were things former speaker said, if i may. on top of the lies that the speaker -- sorry, i don't remember her name -- said, we have to emphasize, endorse everything that was said. one thing is that this government and most of the parts of this government don't care about security or no security. they don't care if the palestinians are free or are posing any kind of threat to the israeli people, which they are

not. they only care about what they conceive, their fundamentally fascist perception that god as it were, cilento the jewish people and because of that they are entitled to control the whole land by deporting, or ethnic lensing, the indigenous palestinians or even kill them. this is explicitly what they have been saying for so many years. they think israel as a jewish state should control the whole land and make the palestinians slaves if they don't -- and if they don't except their lot they should be killed or exiled, because god promised the land to the jewish people. that is the point, it has nothing to do with security. the main threat to the region and the world and of course for the palestinians and israeli is not iran, which i do not

sympathize, by the way. it's the israeli government itself. if israel is so interested in democracy, and rights, why in addition to the occupation and other crimes it has been carrying out, why now under this government, this specific government only to declare it's going to involve laws with racist blocks and parliament, what does it have to do with the threat the palestinians post israel? why do they want to enact or amend the discrimination also it will allow businesses and doctors to refuse to service people like arabs or disabled or lgbtq. why does it support gender

segregation or abolishing the high court? because this is a fascist government with neo-nazi components. if i could just finish one sentence with your permission, the community understands that we should stop this madness because the international community, if they don't stop the madness and doesn't limit the liberation -- the occupation and the liberation of the palestinian people, not only will people in the middle east pay the price, but the whole world. this will explode and the blame will be on the international community as well. >> we are starting to run out of time. fleur, c want to jump in.

>> i find it sad that he doesn't believe in a state with the jewish people side-by-side by the palestinian people, and neither do the palestinian authority representative. not talking about occupied lands, or talking about the existence of israel that these other panelists do not respect. it is an empty debate because if they don't accept the jewish people deserve their own homeland, ancestral homeland -- >> not if it is racist. >> -- if he doesn't believe in a jewish and democratic state could -- to the aquatic state. [crosstalk] >> if you could just let her finish her point.

>> he spoke at length and nobody interrupted him. i think what is the saddest thing about the whole thing and that's why the abraham accords are so important, for 75 years, the palestinian leadership has not taken responsibility for one thing. everything is always the blame of israel. we fight defensive wars we did not start, somehow it is our fault. we leave the gaza strip and leave the land to the palestinians, we get rockets and somehow that is our fault. this info totalization -- infantilism ration of the palestinian people is the real racism here. >> in the past, you have said all palestinian forces should join together in a bid to

boycott and isolate this new israeli leadership. is that going to happen? what are you hearing from various palestinian political groups and factions? >> yes, of course, i think now the formation of this new israeli government that is very dangerous not only for palestinians but also for israelis, should be a factor that pushes palestinians immediately. i hope this will be achieved soon. especially that now it is clear that this new israeli government has no intention of getting close to anything called peace. let me explain. i think your guest is really self deceiving. she is deceiving herself and trying to deceive the whole audience. she claims that palestinians are responsible but she would not be able to deny the fact that israel is occupying palestinians.

she cannot deny that israel conducted ethnic cleansing against palestinians she cannot deny the fact that israel is the one that has established, according not to me but to amnesty international, human rights watch, president jimmy carter, and even the israeli human rights organization, israel has rated the worst system of apartheid ever in human history. the longest occupation in modern history and the worst system of apartheid and oppression and racism and discrimination against palestinians. so she cannot claim that others are racist when she is defending the most racist system in this region and probably in the world. on the other hand, let me tell you something very clear, i do believe that when she says, your guest says that mr. conceive cannot be a member of the -- she reflects the kind of fascist

thinking this government and israel has. they want even to exclude people from having the right to democracy -- [crosstalk] for them, the palestinians are all terrorists and anyone that supports palestinians are accused of anti-semitism. if it is a good jewish person voting for human rights and respecting other people like palestinians, they call him a self hating jew. this is the kind of racism reflecting on the israeli people and it is a dangerous government and i do share the hope that the world will realize how dangerous this government is for israelis, palestinians, the region. >> may be the world will wake up and realize the palestinian

authority government -- >> we are about to run out of time and i have a question. >we have about a minute left. from your perspective, can this government last? is this coalition strong or fragile? >> we will do the best we can in the parliament and in the streets to stop this government and to change it. i surely hope the government will not last for more than a few months. it may be wishful thinking but we do our best to realize this wishful thinking. as i said in the beginning, we need the international community. it is impossible, it is unacceptable that so many states around the globe, especially the united states, support israel blindly, even when it commits crimes against humanity. i surely hope the international

community will wake up very soon and stop this madness because if it doesn't, everybody's going to pay the price. first of all palestinians but also israelis. and eventually the whole world. it's not only a moral decree but also in the interest of the people of the world. they should join forces with us against everybody who supports one or another kind of supremacist him. jewish supremacist him, arab supremacist him, whatever. and the speaker, unfortunately she is one of the supporters of jewish supremacy. >> i'm sorry -- i'm sorry to interrupt but we have run out of time, i apologize. i want to thank our guests, the discussion must come to an end. thank you to our guests.

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