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now five thirty pm here in moscow. will do you have lines now. russia's republic of chechnya a group of militants told me the parliament killed by security forces three more people died in the attack and seventeen were injured. the russian president has promised the french and german leaders he will attend next month's nato summit . in france is welcomed as a step to closer ties with the e.u. . russia is horrific car crash the district's come calls to review its driving education system and so many incompetent drivers bribe their way onto the roads. well former u.s. president bill clinton believes it's in fact russian immigrants in israel who present an obstacle to peace with palestinians spotlights here coming up in just

a moment. hello again and welcome to spotlight and today my guest in the studio is mark levin . the recent verbal attacks on the immigrant jews by former american president bill clinton have added to the rising nationalist divide in israel he accused them of not willing to find common ground with palestinians and hampering peace talks in the middle east what do the serbian born jews have to answer here is mark levin

executive director of and c s j which advocates on behalf of jews in russia ukraine the baltic states and. the world appears to be fostering a more tolerant attitude towards jews and vice versa the new exhibition in berlin on hitler and his power over the german people has been welcomed by the country's jewish community they see it as an important step to a greater understanding of the holocaust but in israel itself nationalist feelings are on the rise and soviet born jews are often blamed for the us foreign minister avigdor lieberman was born in ukraine. after the pacifist tone of a recent european delegation he told them to settle conflicts in europe first before advising israel how to deal with the palestinians. living thank you for being with us well first of all we're

a news channel so so i want to start with a where where were the news related subject which is this first ever exit bush an ad of that that has opened germany's the first ever post war exhibition of this kind it's in the national history museum germany the jews org. as ation have always been very sensitive to such things and as far as i've heard today the jewish organizations in germany have already protested against this exhibit how insulted do you think these things that are well i think it's of great concern. i haven't seen the exhibition so i can't comment comment on on a first personal belongings mostly personal belongings of i don't think little i don't think at this time in in the world today it off or needs to be commemorated in any fashion whether it's by museum or any other entity but what is what is the

line between between not getting between history historical facts and commemoration as he put it part think that the there is a distinction between learning from the lessons of the past and commemorate commemorating what most of the world considers one of the worst tragedies in twentieth century history. do you think that this exhibition as some people would say i quote can true vile i say there in the eyes of young germans i hope not i hope that. those who are whose responsibility is to remind people of. the horrible mistakes that were made don't trivialize or don't. reduce it to. almost a comic book ok another another

a news connected with they with not forgetting or commemorating have the germans in the second world war was the recent visit of the of the german president to russia had he visited the german cemetery and. seven soldiers and he laid flowers and this was. the press tried to think if it was an official at a symbolic act or just a personal act and they came to a conclusion that it looked rather official and rather symbolic and a large percentage of russians according to the recent polls felt insulted by a german president coming to moscow and laying flowers to to the to the nazi and nazi and had nazis and central here do you think that was the right thing to do well i think what's important is that the germans and russians over the last sixty years have tried very hard to normalize relations and have come

a long way in doing that. but i think that the. this would be you know something that obviously was discussed of time with their russian counterparts and the. must of been accepted by sure it should know the russian about i believe there was nothing wrong of course and the foreign ministry they they they they for the winter with these things but but. what i want to now is do you think that do you think that the. like a. large percentage of the russian people who felt that this was insulting do you did are the right things to be there to feel insulted by such things or or they should like like we say swallow it and say well that no no i don't think it's either or. and unfortunately millions and millions of

of people lost their lives. including awards number of of germans and i just think it was again not knowing of the event itself like thank you these are just your own who support and nothing more ok only. i've. always thought and i was taught this way that germany is one of the most or maybe even the most anti fascists anti nazi country in the world today according to laws according to public opinion but here is the recent recent polls that say that according to these surveys one third of germans would send foreigners back home if there weren't enough jobs do you think that this shows the the really the far right attitudes are are on the rise that there may be a risk of the rise of the far right and maybe even now a knight says but i think i think one of the great challenges in the world today is

to combat rising nash ultranationalist arms and for being extremely extremely awesome around the world it's something that my organization is very concerned about in this particular area to the fact not only in germany or not all of these so there unfortunately whether it's because of economic or political reasons. the extreme elements of the political spectrum seem to be gaining ground is it done on purpose by certain politicians or do you think it's like like a reaction of the public to difficulties and stuff you're asking a chicken in a garden at the end. and in this case. of the two handed economists that it's both of it's both ok now another survey another survey in germany says that one six out of the germans think that jews have too

much influence do you feel that jews have too much influence and do you think that this result shows that also not only is in a phobia but also anti-semitism is undermined so i should have mentioned at the summit to something which has been a growing problem for a number. years and it's something that the united states government russian government and others have focused a considerable amount of attention on and i would hope i would hope that through education through. implementation of appropriate legislation and learning what learning the moral lessons of the past would counter the ability of extremist views from taking hold but this is really have anything to do with the real amount of influence the speech community has and i'm not now absolutely not that the then what's the reason why you should have been thinking about the reasons

of this rise of wealth and unfortunately anti semitism has been a part of life for for centuries for for for longer and. the jewish the jewish people unfortunately have been scapegoats for any and the number of tyrants and dictators. and and others we are a small people. in the global village and we i think that we are given far too much credit. for for the successes as well as the failures of. of different issues well small but pretty influential he she should have made that the jewish lobby is very influential all around the world not only in america where everyone has bad but been other countries too. you know i smile

when and when i hear the jewish lobby because it really isn't a jewish lobby it's organisations and individuals who are exercising their rights as citizens in the united states and elsewhere to make their voices heard and if in some cases we're able to get our. you point across i think it's because we are able to to argue the merits of the case so so so you don't you know what you're saying is that you you deny an existence of a jewish lobby at all and there's no such thing and you're making it sound sinister among even though i don't like you but that doesn't i mean this is what it was about even the american papers are writing this this is the result of the obtuse lobbying on the device but it's not in that context you know you're it could be the it could be that healthcare a lobby or the or the educational. you know on issues of

concern to the american jewish community we are well organized i think we could do a very good job of presenting our side of the argument and have been able to gain the support of our elected officials and depending on the issue you know we reflect the views of the majority of americans nothing nothing unusual muffy outlandish but still you say that that opera the anti semitic problems today and even in the night. despite then flew despite of the organization despite the ability to fight back and stuff yes yes that it and there is there are two trends two types of anti-semitism prevalent today one is the traditional semitism that has existed for centuries and culture.

and what we what some have referred to as the new anti semitism which tries to demonize and deal with as the jewish people in the state of israel says mark eleven ad executive director and see as j. which advocates on behalf of jews in russia ukraine the. altered states and your asian spotlight will be back shortly white also break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in less than a minute. wealthy british style. sometimes.

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welcome back to spotlight. in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is mark b. eleven executive director of and see as jay which advocates on behalf of jews in russia ukraine the baltic states and other countries on the continent. mark for more than twenty years russian jews had no problem with immigration from this country from russia but it was your organization that lobbied the jackson valley commandment in the seventy's and it was it it was

a restriction on trade with russia until the soviet union allows jews to emigrate freely so what do you do to repeal this amendment today or did you do anything absolutely. we like to say that countries should be removed or graduated from the amendment and for the last eight and a half years and c.s. jay has been on record in support of the russian federation's graduation from the jackson family commandment. have all the other former soviet republics been for this amendment no now only i believe only four have been removed from the amendment i think ukraine was removed frayne georgia the kurds republican army and the rest are still there yes including the baltics no not all to. the baltics were removed with the dissolution of the so called you're hearing him because united states naval record they said the soviet takeover of ok well let's take

a look at what the jets and vanna commandment is all about and reported by spotlights you learn that to me that. between one thousand nine hundred seventy five and the collapse of the us. in one nine hundred ninety one half a million soviet so left the united states and twice as many immigrated to israel there were many more who wanted to leave and get in and that is it these are was not simple one of the obstacles was the so-called diploma tax introduced in nineteen seventy two it meant before getting permission to leave you had to compensate the state for the higher education you received in the u.s.s.r. the sum was astronomical one hundred times the average salary and although the diploma tax did not exist for long it wasn't enough to cause international protests to pressure the soviet union to allow integration the jackson then a commandment was adopted in the us it put certain limitations on trade relations

with the soviet union while the fact of jackson vanocur on the soviet union is questionable it does affect modern relations between russia and the us although since one thousand eight hundred nine the amendment has been regularly waived it's still in force now after the collapse of the soviet union russia sees it as unjustifiable trade discrimination standing in the way of its accession to the w t o china was also subject to jacksonville and it but it was removed from the legislation more than ten years ago. so mark. there should be political forces in the us who support this this chesterland i commend the good because whoever asks including you say we are fighting against it with think we think it makes no sense with think if it had various trade relations between the countries the business says no we don't want it so that who does well

we we say that the russian federation has fulfilled the requirements of the amendment and that should be recognized that it should be seen in a positive way and they're for. the amendment should no longer apply to russia there are a number of organizations. entities who continue to oppose russia's graduation for a variety of reasons including the what they see as broad base to human rights violations and questions about russia's commitment to democracy in addition there are many in certain parts of the american business community community who believe that russia should not be removed until all of the negotiations for the beauty of membership have been completed but i think the

removal of this of this amendment is that will will go automatically with russian inclusion and deleterious day they can con co-exists no to it well now it's know what will happen with the accession to. all the members of the w two zero zero will enjoy. the trade benefits with russia except the united states until the amendment is no longer applied to russia ok ok now another thing in the end of the subject we've talked about intelligence we've talked about germany we've talked about zena fell be had and semitism but what about israel itself what do you agree to what many people write today in the press in this country that that this is even a phobia is taking hold of the israeli society itself how would you explain the right wing shifts in israeli politics i think israel is one of the most open

democratic countries in the world today and any accusations about it to. being extremists to society are way off the mark so you. i don't see any worrying signs in israel. that israel. many other democratic countries in the world is different. no have. they have the ability to see political shifts take place over time. but they never see you know what but the political shifts go center left or center right i don't see an extremist element taking hold in israel today well actually it president bill clinton former u.s. leader he does see. signs of the rise of the n.f.l. we have in israel and here's how he tries to explain it. an increasing number

of the young people in the israel defense force are the children of russians and settlers the hardest core people against a division of the land this presents a staggering problem it's a different israel sixteen percent of israelis speak russian. would you agree that israelis of russian and soviet our region are really less tolerant than the rest of the jews absolutely not i think that. israelis of russian origin may be more on the on the conservative side of the political spectrum but i don't think they're any less the less tolerant and i think having had the privilege of working with president clinton in his administration for eight years on these types of issues i suspect that his words of. not by you but the original report may have been just misinterpreted or misunderstood

right out of the context so maybe out of it because this quote was all over the press not only lost a lot of the absolutely but i think i think the point president clinton may have been making is where where are the israelis of russian origin stand today in political life and nothing more maybe maybe what he means i'm just suggesting is that is that the russians who came to israel to live for good they want to be as the french say. least clear what i mean more and more jewish that the jews no i don't i think. that for many israelis of russian origin who came particularly in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's they have a healthy skepticism of. of too much government

influence. and believe in a strong national defense. mark do you happen to. prefer mr liberman and his finest i've had the opportunity to hear him speak. and i have met him on a couple of occasions but i want to know him but yeah ok well he has a russian origin and it and some. commentators describe him as the as the aggressive as the rightist face of israel would you agree to just such a suggestion i think he has very strong views that he articulates in a very strong fashion and. and again in a free society he's able to express his views and try to gain support for for those views and then having been elected as part of the majority coalition of the

government has obviously convinced enough people to support him. as a person who worked with bill clinton you may agree that after that after the bad my distraction came to power the. relations between washington and jerusalem have become tel aviv have become well less less war a month sort of a chill is there would you agree to that not today not today i think that both the governments of major efforts to. try to improve the relationship and have done so and in fact i continue to believe that the united states remains is one of israel's if not israel strongest advocates but this was happening from for a period of time i thought i think i think there was a difference of opinion in. several. in several areas

and. as allies they work through those differences i don't you know whether it's a relative a friend a business associate i don't know of anyone who is always one hundred percent together. ok ok thank you thank you very much for being with us it was a pleasure talking to our thanks to you it's true it was my pleasure the bigger thanks that is just to remind that my guest in the studio today was mark levin executive director and see as jay which advocates on the often jews in russia ukraine the baltic states and europe asia and that's often after all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight and have someone in mind do you think i should get to you next time please drop me a line at al green of at r.t. t.v. dot are you and let's keep spotlights interactive will be back with more first other comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t.

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