today i'm talking to you 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 think 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 argued for man yasser arafat who open 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 occur. corrupt they are

repressive so back to the flotilla a point that you made it's a little gesture that says you know we're really with the with the palestinians that's what president carter world called b.s. bullshit but not 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 of sixty seven lines would do so and 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 let me have a story the other day what it means is the salvation of the strangulation of the people of gaza more slowly and maybe not. is a good time to talk about the differences between zionism and judaism as you can see the key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between judaism is 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 sectarian colonial enterprise 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 zionist meaning and see the colonial

enterprise without being in any way shape or form any semitic anted 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 and elsewhere the palestinians israel is being perceived by the people of the world as a prostate so what we're witnessing is the rise of and israeli ism now that is not anti semitism it is anti israeli ism in other words it is designed this colonial enterprise. that is promoting anti semitism now that actually is what zionism wants sun 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 for 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 good has told him to go to hell he's back 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 term because after that the funding for the mid-term elections starts. the second opportunity was in the last year his second term if he had won and let's go back to the region for a minute is another of israel's issues at the moment is iran do you think that iran is justified in being worried about a nuclear threat from iran i don't think they have any interest in developing nuclear weapons but maybe some of their number now saying look we all. to at least have the capability but let's just supposing iran had one to 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 palestinian authority now decidedly divided entity with hamas in charge of one part that's an important corrupt irrelevant it is there any chance of a t. 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 said jews and arabs have equal rights but in my view zionism will never allow that to happen because it amounts to the. nation palestine. i think israel's leaders will invent a pretext to drive the palestinians off the west bank and into jordan syria or wherever. and the blood will flow the west bank will be sowed 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 nessus 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 his row to behave in its own best interests as well as those 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 us is going down this road until an american president gives the lead. to a. lot. tonight

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arya hit with a big fine after appearing to give team orders during the german grand prix. while the big guns misfire both manchester united and big spending city lose in america. goals goal or we'll show you all eighteen goals for this weekend's russian premier league. stars formula one and four are you 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 apparently told him to let along as overtake alonso edged past the red bulls sebastian vettel had started in pole position most and was ahead of a long as i was then told by his team along i was faster than you can you confirm you understand moments later massa seemed to allow his teammate to go past him such orders are against f one rules inside the sport's governing body fine for ari

meanwhile that all this search for red bull lewis hamilton was fourth and still leads the drivers' championship from jenson button to his face alongside despite sunday's result is a victory for so far in. their fingers already mr ingersoll for the team. top three in qualifying. in the race you know the best feeling as well is that they've got good been proven. over saul and down to their word on this one 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 i'm scoring some strong points for the team. staying on the track ok renzo has won motor g.p.'s he was crime free it was his sixth victory in eight race. is this year and extends his lead to seventy two points in the championship a spaniard came home three and a half seconds faster than his nearest rival casey stoner on defending world champion valentino rossi finished third despite stories of the broken leg. i make i

was just tired but suddenly they they were taking me so weak. and i don't understand. why but i found myself in the position so i. i tried to do it big enough but she will be. and then i put in that position i. make a mistake you would take him and then deep down he was big you saw how are they pushing the social march and i knew that if if i keep pushing like him maybe he can make a mistake and at the end he made it and then it was much easier to do the end cycling now and alberto contador says he's relieved to have on the tour de france the spaniard won the race for the third time in four years after beating andy schleck by thirty nine seconds all russians denise and shove also made the podium by finishing third overall contador had given himself

a vital lead in saturday's time trial and was able to drink the traditional glass of champagne as the riders headed to the finish in paris the last stage was won by britain's mark cavendish pulled away closing meters on charlie's a five stage wins for him this year but it was confidant who received the greatest applause and twenty seven years old still has the chance to become one of the greatest riders ever the greatest of them all seven time to a winner lance armstrong was twenty third overall and announced his second retirement from the sport after this contador said it was one of the toughest tours he'd won. thanks a lot to everyone for showing this tendon this is never a moment it was a very very different very. the times i felt not as good as i would have wanted to from a physical standpoint and in a psychological level hard moments as well. golf now and a great loss ran source we didn't call patterson when the canadian open he started

the day four shots behind american dean wilson but just picked him at the end it was a single shot victory for patterson who sank six in eight holes and that even allowed him the luxury of a bogey on the final hole it was his fourth when on the p.g.a. tour also and patterson a place at next month's u.s. p.g.a. championship. it's also went down to the last hole of the scandinavian masters another swede richard johnson sinking a thirty forty five birdie and victory. to pay off argentina's. johnson who was without his normal caddie lance ten broke his play at the british savior open opted for his friend local radio d.j. and was to more also enjoy the win. football and manchester united suffered a surprise defeat after losing to want to major league soccer side kansas city wizards as over fifty two thousand fans turned out to watch this pre-season

friendly in the united states and kansas did it with ten men for most of the game we got the first goal with davey are no possibles after night expanding that they may mass. but united will level just before the break dimitar berbatov was attended by jimmy conrad. you know i sent off and a penalty was awarded. which the bulgarian scored. but soon afterwards the wizards were back in front hey come are up with a header or there's some confusion as to whether it's across the line a goal just given to one was how it finished going to continue their tour of north america for the match against the m.l.s. all-stars in houston on thursday. alan is also a memorable two one win for the new york red bulls who beat expanding manchester city in the final game of their the season torment the box his new challenge the red bulls have new arrival teary on reinvests darting line up in the home side went

ahead as de richards said to my cool but kandji. ten minutes after the interval seeking a level through joe we got on the end of greg coming across that richards netted the winner for the red bulls with a spectacular thirty yard strike city losing both games in the tournament. and the event was won by sporting lisbon on goal difference from top them off the two sides drew two to robbie keane netted the open if this first after twenty three minutes about just two minutes later sporting equalised through mathias fernandez and his diving head. then and maisie run from jaime valdes put the portuguese side to one up. came intercepted jonathan a beaker three to finish from him just twenty minutes to go. to to the finest. meanwhile the caesar delegation

shadow to visit russia next month the stopped over in australia to evaluate their bid to host the world cup in twenty twenty two coming straight from south korea chile and football federation president harold may nichols and his assistants were welcomed at sydney's opera house by the head of australian football frank lowy and other officials while an aboriginal group performed a traditional smoking ceremony will feature a delegation will be down on the death of three days before moving on to other countries finally won the world cup now twenty eighteen or four years later after russia invent the usa as well as joint dates from belgium in the netherlands and spain portugal are in the running for president want to stray or has opted to focus only on twenty twenty two. we just need to be made to show the whole we are what we are it's not a. competition between the other countries it isn't our way but i think what we have to offer is unique and very needed to point those things out when.

i think we realize we have a good team here. i believe and i live to be impressed with what we can do. finally we put together all the nets bulging action from this weekend's russian premier league so sit back and enjoy this space week fourteen action. thanks. live

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