and hart who spent decades covering the arab israeli conflict. 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 are beautiful 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 words 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 through seven 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 of 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 allowing certain supplies to reach gaza 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 as a 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 really 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 zionist meaning and see 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 and elsewhere hence the palestinians israel is being perceived by the people of the world as a prostate so what we're witnessing is the rise of anti israeli ism now that is not anti semitism it is anti israelis and 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 that 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. and 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 threats from iran i don't think they have any interest in developing nuclear weapons but may be 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 it's all about the future of the region with the palestinian authority now decidedly divided entity with hamas in charge of one part that's important corrupt irrelevant 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 de nies ation 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 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 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 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 earth is going down this road until an american president gets the lead. question is that so much different. from democracy doesn't stand a prospect of becoming a failed state it was claims it is an indispensable hour and its so-called war on terror.

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and goals galore we'll show you all eighteen goals from this weekend's russian premier league. but we start with formula one and ferrari have been handed a one hundred south dollars fine after their controversial success at sunday's german grand prix fernando alonso won the race ahead of teammate felipe a massa but only after ferrari apparently told him to let along as overtake a long edge past the red bulls sebastian vettel started in paul physician the most that 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 borders are against f one rules inside the sport's governing body fine for ari meanwhile vettel the search for red bull lewis hamilton was forced and still lead to the drivers' championship from jenson button to his fifth was a dispatch test result is a victory for our a. terrifying us already mr ingersoll. top

three in qualifying. in the race you know the best feeling as well as the risk of being proven. over saul and on to the work on the. good performance from the team and hopefully next week in hungary we can do our i want to we can muster are scoring some strong points for the team are staying on the track ok renzo has won moto g.p. as he was probably three it was his sixth victory in. races this year and extends the three to seventeen 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 still racing with a broken leg. i make i was just out but suddenly they they were taking me so quick . and i understand why but. i found myself in the

four position so. i tried to do it big enough but she will be. and then i put in the position i. make a mistake or you with him and danny was biggest or are they pushing social much 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 is relieved to have won the tour de france the spaniard won the race for the sir time in four years after beating andy schleck by thirty nine seconds or rushes denise and show off also made the podium by finishing third overall contador had given himself a vital lead in saturday's time trial 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 who pulled away posing me to chinese

a stage wins for him this year but it was contador who received the greatest applause twenty seven years old still has the chance to become one of the greatest riders ever the greatest of them all of seven time tour when i 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. thanks a lot to everyone for showing the stand in this is never a moment it was a very very very day. at 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 you know more and more a gulf now and a great loss ran source sweden's call patterson win 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 eight holes not even allowed him

the luxury of a bogey on the final hole it was his fourth when on the p.g.a. tour also at us and a place at next month's u.s. p.g.a. championship. also went down to the last hole of the scandinavian masters another swede richard johnson sinking a thirty forty four birdie and victory would pay off argentina's shouldn't take johnson who was without his normal caddie wants ten broke he was playing at the british t.v. or i could opt for his friend local radio d.j. and us to more also enjoy the win. football and manchester united suffered a surprise defeat after losing two 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 i got the first goal with davey are no records past and i could standing that they lost. but united were levelled just before the break dimitar berbatov was

up ended by jimmy conrad. was sent off and a penalty was awarded. which the bulgarian scored. but soon afterwards the results were back in front page come our after the header there was some confusion as to whether it's across the line of goals given to one of us how it finished going to continue their tour of north america the match against the m.l.s. all-stars in houston on says derek. and there's 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 tournament the box his new challenge the red bulls had new arrival tieri on reinvests darting line up in the home side went ahead as dana richards said to my kumar kanji. ten minutes after the interval city level through joe got on the end of great coming into cross. richards netted the

winner for the red bulls with a spectacular thirty yard strike cities in place games in the tournament. the event is won by sporting lisbon on goal difference from top end after the two sides drew to two robbie keane netted the opener for spurs after twenty three minutes but just two minutes later sporting equalised three mathias fernandez and his diving head. then an amazing run from jaime valdez which he signed to one up. came intercepted jonathan beaker three to finish the game just twenty minutes to go . to to the finest. meanwhile the caesar delegation shadow to visit russia next month stopped over in australia to evaluate their bid to host the world cup in twenty twenty two coming straight from south korea chilean 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 an aboriginal group performed a traditional smoking ceremony will feature delegation will be down on does the three days before moving on to other countries finally won the world cup for another twenty eighteen or four years later after russia england the usa as well as joint dates from belgium in the netherlands spain and portugal in the running for president want to stray has opted to focus only on twenty twenty two. just to be played to show the whole of what we are it's not a. competition between the other countries it isn't the way but i think what we have to offer is unique. to point those things out. i think we will live a very good team here. i believe and i live. this is

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