next we take a closer look with veteran british journalist alan hart who spent decades covering the arab israeli conflict do stay with us. today i'm talking to alan hart veteran middle east correspondent we're going to start by talking about israel's blockade on gaza and the aid ships that are trying to get into the region allan hart that's very much for talking to r.t. let's talk first about israel's blockade on gaza and the eight chips that are trying to get in and israel insists that that blockade is legal what do you thing well let's first of all say that the purpose of the blockade is the collective punishment of the whole people of gaza to try to wean them away from hamas now collective punishment by definition is a war crime it is absolutely illegal. the only benefit of the attempts to

break the blockade is not really assisting the people of gaza but it is helping to make israel be perceived in the world to people as more and more state and who is set to gain the most from that p.r. exercise has a very simple truth that most people don't know when israel was created and closed the palestine file after its picture on the battlefield in forty eight. the whole establishment world wanted that file to remain closed in other words zionism. and the western powers were not only of one mind the arab regimes behind closed doors were one mind they wanted the file to remain closed the palestinians were supposed to accept their lot as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency and then along came this average man yasser arafat who opened the file

and it stayed open so the file is opened but it's deeply embarrassing for the arab regimes because they are divided they are impotent they are corrupt they are repressive so back to the flotilla a point that you made it's a little gesture that says you know we really with the with the palestinians that's what president carter once called b.s. bullshit they're not and what part do you think the palestinian leaders should play in trying to allay fears that those supplies are not in fact going to feed the people of gaza but they're going to arm them well first of all how many rocket attacks on israel have there been in the last year or so and if we go back take a step back and say why did israel invade gaza in the brutality at the end of. two eight and the beginning of two zero zero nine. actually kept the ceasefire for six months the ceasefire was actually broken by israeli action they had been

looking for a pretext to move on gaza to try to break the will of the palestinians so the idea that the. hummus represents a threat to israel is plain stupid hummus is real position and it's on the record is that they would be willing to accept a two state solution based on israel's withdrawal to sixty seven lines with the use of them preferably an open city in the capital of two states now they're on the record as saying that now why is that the hummus position. because the how most leadership is very pragmatic like arafat was it may not like it but it knows that's what the vast majority of palestinians would still accept so they have no choice but to go with that but maybe we'll talk about their plate or the two state solution is dead let's let's go back to the blockade for a second there israel says that it's now easing the blockade and allowing certain

supplies to reach garza seemingly in response to its national international press or do you think that the timing of that is evidence that israel accepts that this blockade is unjustifiable to the international community well i have a yes or no answer yes answer is zionism i hope is the point we can talk about different judaism and zionism zionism is becoming terribly worried about its image in the world it realizes of course it is being perceived by people as if not governments as something of a prostate so you can say yes to a certain extent they're playing their own p.r. to bend to that to say look we're not all that are reasonable but i would quote one of the better independent writers on it jonathan cook who writes out of israel palestine only have a story the other day what it means is the salvation of the strangulation of the people of gaza more slowly and maybe now is

a good time to talk about the differences between zionism and judaism as you perceive them the key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between judaism and art some simply stated judaism is the religion of jews not the jews because by no means all jews are religious and like christianity and like islam it has as its core a set of moral values and ethical principles right now that is judaism zionism. is the nationalism of some juice it's a sick tarion colonial into prize. which created a state in the arab heartland for some jews by terrorism and ethnic cleansing and in doing so it made a complete mockery of the moral values and ethical principles of judaism the truth in summary is that judaism and zionism are total opposites now why is the knowledge of this important because when you know that you can understand two things why it

is perfectly possible to be passionately and design is the meaning and the colonial enterprise without being in any way shape or form and the semitic you why is that important today. because of israel's behavior in the world since ninety forty eight but particularly in the last decade and a half its wars in lebanon elsewhere in the palestinians israel has been perceived by the people of the world as a prostate so what we are witnessing is the rise of anti israeli ism now that is not anti semitism it is anti israeli islam in other words it is designed this colonial enterprise that is promoting anti semitism now that actually is what zionism wants son is and needs anti semitism in order to go or justify what is doing and what about israel's position in the rest of the world

do you think that it's reaching a turning point where the us may be forced to say at some point in the near future enough is enough only an american president has the leverage required to cause or try to cause israel to be serious about peace on terms but we all palestinians and most other arabs and muslims could accept the problem is that an american president has his hands tied by the zionist lobby the zionist lobby really does control in congress. american policy israel posts are not saying the whole middle east i'm saying israel palestine now if you look at obama i think obama meant well possibly means well but i think he was naive and inexperienced he came into office quickly challenging netanyahu over the settlements in jerusalem and as soon as not only those goods told him to go to hell he's back to president carter once made

a comment to me he said that any american president has only two windows of opportunity to take on and have a chance of defeating the zionist lobby in congress the first opportunity was in the first nine months of his first because after that the funding for the midterm elections starts. the second opportunity was in the last year of his second term if he had won and let's go back to the region for america is another of israel's issues at the moment is iran do you think that iran is justified in being worried about the nuclear threats from iran i don't think they have any interest in developing nuclear weapons but may be some of their number and now saying look we ought to at least have the capability but let's just supposing iran had one two three dozen nuclear bombs do you think you would be stupid enough to launch

a first nuclear strike on israel of course it would because the whole of iran would be devastated the real reason why israel is playing up the iranian threat is to deflect political and other attention away from what it is doing in the occupied territories but the only real problem. is if you ron did possess nuclear weapons it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region and its all about the future of the region with the. today and also are seen now decidedly divided into a with hamas in charge of one point that's an important corrupt irrelevant it is there any chance of a two state solution though the two state solution is long ago dead the two state solution never would've given a fair complete solution to the problem it's now much too late to happen i mean israel's colonization of the west bank is is about forty two percent of the land

area and it's stretching so there are now in my view only two possible outcomes. either there will eventually be a one state solution and which as i've said jews and arabs have equal rights but in my view zionism will never allow that to happen because it amounts to the zation palestine i think israel's leaders will invent a pretext to drive the palestinians off the west bank and into jordan syria or ever . and the blood will flow the west bank will be so with blood and it will be mostly palestinian blood and if there be honest reporters around they will call it a zionist holocaust now i fear that's where we're going because that wouldn't be the end of the story. it would so inflame. a muslim masses that you would be opening the pandora's box of

a much wider conflict well as i think i suggested earlier the only person with the real power. to try to influence israel to behave in its own best interest as well as those of the world is the president of america now yes it's true that europe russia there are lots of other countries with the same power the same leverage economic sanctions whatever but no other government on earth is going down this road until an american president gets the lead.

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hello and welcome to the sports news here from r.t. in moscow these are the headlines f one punishment for arya fined one hundred thousand dollars after appearing to give team orders during the controversial german grand prix. and second slip pace got lose again in the russian premier league defeat at home by spot technologic. while the big guns misfire both manchester united and big spending city lose in america. all that will need to come but first we start with formula one and ferrari have been handed a one hundred thousand dollars fine after their controversial success at sunday's german grand prix fernando alonso won the race ahead of teammate philippe massa but only after ferrari a power he told him to let alonso overtake and logs on edge past red bull sebastian vettel had started in pole position and last up was ahead of a long as i was then told by his team alonso was faster than you can you can set you on the stand let us later massa seem to allow his teammate to go past him with

such orders are against f one rolls and so the sport's governing body fine ferrari meanwhile vettel this search for red bull wrist hamilton was fourth and still leads the drivers' championship from jenson button whose fifth almost describe sunday's result was a victory for far and nothing else already mr ingersoll for the team. top three in qualifying. in the race you know the best feeling as well is that the make up you've been proven harder saul than to the weather can be soon or do anything about this i would performance from the team and hopefully next week in hungary we can do our i want to we can as well been scoring some strong points for the team staying on the track and jorge lorenzo has one mo to g.p.s. us from pre the last. victory in eight races this year extends his lead to seventy two points in the championship the spaniard came home three and

a half seconds faster than his nearest rival casey stoner defending world champion valentino rossi despite still racing for the breakaway. i make i would start but suddenly they they overtake me so weak by the outside and i don't understand. why but i found myself in the foot position so. i tried to do it they got enough but she will be. and then i put in that position i. make a mistake i would take him and then that he was big you saw how are they pushing social much and i knew that if if i keep pushing him maybe he can make a mistake and at the end he made it and then it was much easier to do the end. football now and the russian premier league where taste missed the chance to go second after slipping up again this time suffering a two on time defeat despite that no trick it was the visitors who opened after

just eight minutes to sit adze received pinpoint glass in the box and last of the ball into the top corner and the minutes before the interval dog attack dog who are they've now to get comfortable to go advantage with another super hope strike. but in first half stoppage time to mash that city called a goal back with a shot from outside the box. but i don't know where to go so to all these how it finished dramatic side. meantime spacek moscow managed to pick up just one point in samarra say that they still get better in the table yes of out of this just in red and white had more chances to score please keep us has got intact in the ninetieth minute spot act aleksandr should call this even the second yellow card for the five percent off this didn't really influence the outcome scoreline remains the same no mill.

hands in the teeth remain undefeated after five games for a two two draw at severe how about this for a free kick by alexander i leave sixty minutes in for the opening goal under a strike into the top one corner thing for it say let's take a day and if you're thinking this is a replay it's not it's a leap second from the same place fifteen minutes later the keeper should have done better this time around in the second half though back came the hosts first and that's when the very definite one back from the corner and if you haven't seen enough long range drives here's another one for you dimitri walsh for in home city is an equalizer to all the fun sport. elsewhere saturday the relegation threatened one mill then he's going to serve only goal in the twenty second. this pass so that's a. g. entertained in a bloody cast cast because of problems with their home pitch that she added so i

have scored fifteen minutes from time for one you know when angie seven points above the relegation zone. so this is how the table looks after fourteen games played in it is still the top without a loss to their name so far the defending champion will be in a second they are seven points behind all the army men are in third struggling c.d.'s and previous events are still in the relegation zone. meanwhile manchester united suffered a surprise defeated their own after losing two one to major league soccer side kansas city wizards as over fifty two thousand fans turned that torch is pre-season friendly in the united states and kansas did it with ten men for most of the game they got the first goal when davie are no political posturing understanding people they know most. but you're not to the level just before the break in todd berbatov was attended by jimmy connors he was sent off. a penalty was awarded. to the bulgarian sport. but soon afterwards the wizards were

back in front come our at the head of there was some confusion because the other did cross the line let's go and speak to one was how it finished united continued their true north america for the match against the m.l.s. all-stars of course to how first day. was also a memorable two one wins the new york red bulls who beat big spending manchester city in the final game of that the season torment the coffee's new challenge the red bulls had a new arrival cherry on really their starting line up and home side went ahead with a richards set up kanji. terence out of the into a city level three joe who gets me like come in and cross richards netted the winner of the red bulls a spectacular thirty yard strike to teens and by the stands this woman's. only offense is done by sporting lisbon on goal difference from tottenham after the two sides for cheechoo robbie keane netted if its first after twenty three minutes

that's just two minutes later sporting equalised ts fernandez and his diving head up. then and maisie run from jaime valdez the portuguese side to one up. if i came into septic tanks and i think it's really cool for me from him with just twenty minutes to go i to to the finest. cycling now and alberto contador says he's relieved to have won the tour de france the spaniard won the race for the third time in four years after beating andy schleck by thirty nine seconds while russia's denise menchov also made the podium by finishing third overall contador had given himself a vital lead in saturday's time trial and able to drink the traditional glass of champagne with the riders headed to the finish in paris the last stage was won by britain's mark cavendish from the way in the post it just shows in these

a side stage wins for him this year but it was contador who received the greatest applause and twenty seven years old still has the chance to become one of the greatest writers ever the greatest of them all seven time tour de lance armstrong was twenty third overall and announced his second retirement from the sport after his contador said it was one of the toughest horse take one. dollar more than over to grandmother's thanks a lot to everyone for showing in the stands and there's never a moment it was a very very difficult times i felt not as good as i would have wanted to know him a physical standpoint and in the psychological level hardman just minor you know more and more golf now and a great loss rance or sweden's call pattison win the canadian open he started the day four shots behind american dean wilson we just picked him at the end it was a single shot victory for patterson who sank six baddies in eight holes even allowed him the luxury of bogey on the final hole it was his fault when on the

p.g.a. tour and also in patterson place at the expense of u.s. p.g.a. championship. and also went down to the last hole of the scandinavian masters another swede richard johnson something that he felt that a victory would have argentina. johnson was without his knowing how do you want him brett he was playing the butcher saying you're right but it's a lot different his friend and local radio d.j. and are still also enjoyed the win. and finally tennis where american mardy fish has won the atlanta championships by beating can patrick john is now officially be a full six foot storm back in the second to take it by the same scoreline forcing it to slide at a twenty eight year old one on a tie break claiming the match on this one meant this was his tenth straight win second title on the a.t.p. tour this year and the unseeded under a guy who both beat the odds to win the german open in hamburg the twenty three year old soft the number three seed you're going meltzer in sunday's final six

three seven five was the school the world number eighty two prevailed in three sets so in straight sets to win his first a.t.p. tour title and of course two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars in prize money. very quickly but first by the special hearing on clay court i remember expect for them my first thought that there's going to be on clay but i play romeo i believe room myself and. and that's all sports and i join us again for another update in two hours time see that. great for the field we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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