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national security has few people convinced the slip. this is the document that's ruining lana's life it makes no mention of a university degree a husband or two children it's simply states she's palestinian and therefore illegal and wanted in israel i have a stay here now i. don't have any rights just to breathe. and drink and for me it's not allowed but lorna chooses the nonlife because it's where her husband and children live by law very israeli whereas the rest of her family live across the border in janine palestine. during the week. long ago through rip of. what. i have to walk. until now

known as move between the two worlds with temporary visas issued by television but she's afraid there could stop as the government tightens its grip on a law denying permanent citizenship to palestinians married to israelis it's trying to limit the graphic. growth of the arab citizens encourage. citizens who marry palestinians from the west bank in gaza or from jordan to actually immigrate to actually leave israel israel says the law is for security purposes and it's trying to prevent palestinians from taking advantage of being able to get an israeli id through marriage and then carry out attacks on israeli citizens but human rights groups don't buy that they petitioned the law arguing that in the last fourteen years more than one hundred fifty thousand palestinians entered israel because of family ties with israelis only fifty four of them were ever found to be a security risk. in upholding the so-called citizenship law these really supreme court president said it was one of the most difficult questions in the state's

history the battle against terror while at the same time maintaining the nation's democratic nature we are talking about thousands of family that as a result of the decision of the supreme court that validated upheld the law they are now living under the tangible threat of being forcibly separated from their spouses from their children from their parents so we are indeed talking about a huge issue with a huge effect of thousands of people this law is thinking about it. i mean one of. degree before having your very you are jewish. but in the meantime it threatens to tear families apart as lawn interests now face the very real danger that they might not be able to continue living together policy r.t. israel with winter still in full swing moscow looks every bit the fairytale city

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hour from now here on t.v. twenty three and a half minutes past the hour know business is next with. welcome to the program on the business program at this hour gold is losing value on stronger dollar lifted by fresh warez about the european debt crisis however the sentiment has been generally bullish for the bug him with the price up around ten percent this year well from capitals as no reason to think a call bubble is developing and the prospects for the metal all still go. gold is twelve percent if it's noise we should just record it in december it's only ten percent off it's hard it's been very volatile but if you look at the long term chart for gold going over the past decade were reported to be fifty. two thousand dollars an ounce now that's been a very consistent run and in many periods over that period of time it's been going

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and russia's public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential vote by forming the voters' lead to monitor elections that challenge now is to stay impartial. but to bring it up to date for the moment i'll be back with more on those stories and more news in less than thirty minutes from now though it's time for opinions to fly a sky high with cross talk next. if you. still. want to. follow in welcome to crossfire can you talk about the fate of and the battle for syria the international community is as divided as the syrians themselves when it comes to resolving a situation that looks like a civil war with every passing day should there be an international intervention to stop the violence or would doing so make the situation even worse.

and you can. start. to cross out the future of syria i'm joined by james carafano in washington he is the director of the heritage foundation's allison center for foreign policy studies in amsterdam we have nick autons he is editor of the atlantic sentinel and a special correspondent for the soul times and in los angeles we have james morris he's a political analyst commentator and editor of america hijacked dot com or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jim and i to go to you first it seems like western powers have an agenda here they want to get rid of assad but they want to stop the killing as well aren't they mutually contradictory. well this is a common problem we have seen this over and over again around the world we've seen it in libya just recently but you have to remember we had a similar situation in liberia we've had a longstanding problem in the sudan so in a sense it's not

a new problem i'm not really sure of the world is of i think generally people agree that the syrian government has been excessive in its use of force and constructive so i do think in a sense there is yet unanimity and the people think what this government is doing is wrong ok what do you think about that james in los angeles here because we have kind of a new situation right now the u.n. security council didn't vote for the any kind of intervention a removal of assad is a precondition to move forward here so we kind of have a deadlock obviously i mean what what's the next move here because we're going to get a coalition of the willing that will just go its own way like the west dating led by the united states into iraq. well peter thank you for having me on crosstalk what you have here in the middle east basically is an ongoing situation where we're fighting wars for israel and you have a divide and conquer their agenda that goes back to the israeli likud nick voted you know on paper readied written

a strategy for israel in the one nine hundred eighty s. and that's what these neo conservatives are following my good friend dr stephen snow gossipy haddad's has written about this in a book his book titled the transparent kobol and what we have are these neo conservatives which are the vanguard of the pro israel lobby in washington and they've started with iraq and they wanted to basically divide and conquer israel's enemies they base that iraq conflict an invasion on the clean break agenda gins of the jewish institute for national security affairs which colin powell had mentioned was in control of the pentagon if you look at the washington post editor karen de young biographical book about him you can look up jones in the index people like richard perle who are associated with. douglas feith david wurmser and they all pushed for this invasion to secure the room for israel and it was based on the couldn't go to you know and divide and conquer when i would say this is jason jason really well but can you answer my question do you think that now if we look at the the not the libyan president but the iraq president that the united states and its

allies in nato may try going it alone having a coalition of the willing and just bypassing the united nations because there won't be a u.n. resolution supporting any kind of intervention. well what i think will happen here peter is you're going to have basically joe lieberman who's also part of the pros a lobby a pact american israel public affairs committee and similar and also senator john mccain has been a neo con hawk as well basically a mouthpiece for the neoconservatives i think the next step will be open arming the you know we have we've had arming of the rebels covertly coming in from turkey a former cia field officer and friend of mine field role is written about that i think you're going to basically see a call now for the rebels to be armed in syria they're going to try to engage the syrian regime or the endgame of this for the neoconservatives in the rest of the pros are a lot b. is a take down that syrian regime before we go to war with iran for israel ok that's in the autumn why ok now and so i let me i don't know for sure you know and i'm going to make an answer damn here i mean it i find it very interesting is that i

don't think i'll agree with jim in washington d.c. i don't think there's any love lost for this regime in damascus here but i think there are some countries important country in the world they're worried about what's going to happen afterward just because assad leaves it's a parent that equally it doesn't mean it's the violence is going to necessarily stop it actually could get worse yes actually i think everyone worries about what happens next in syria and which is why the russians and the chinese in particular they don't want to see the regime gone necessarily but to answer your previous question. i don't think that the united states and western powers nor israel particularly want to intervene in syria exactly because they fear what comes next we have a very unclear understanding of what's happening on the ground. in fathers because the syrian regime limits international media entrance into syria. i don't think we know what they getting ourselves into. if we were. the libya scenario it's very

interesting you mention that jim if i can go back to you in washington it seems to me that we could have the possibility of a partition of syria well because i think a lot of people seem to forget that seventy percent of the country is sunni and the alawite so i'm with in damascus supporting the current regime i mean there is no love lost between them either could you potentially see a partition there like this and they're selling necessarily mean it's good for anybody in the region or israel or any other country in the neighbors syria. well i think i think those are all very good concerns and questions actually if you go back and look at iraq and say two thousand and five and two thousand and six and the problems that you saw come to the surface what happens when you take away a government which really doesn't provide much governance other than oppressing its own people we have deep sectarian divides we have all kinds of other divides we have a democrat sions when you have access from transnational terrorist groups when you

take that away you get iraq and in two thousand and five the two thousand and six syria would essentially be iraq in a very small place it would be a very very difficult and problematic situation and i think that's why. people talk about this but i don't think anybody has a real appetite to go in there i must tell you i think from the u.s. perspective although the u.s. has interests in how things turn out in syria i don't believe you should only use force when it's in your vital national interest and i don't think that the u.s. has a vital national interest that would that would justify u.s. and u.s. military intervention we have. there are four countries that border this country which are very important. iraq israel and turkey we have very good relations with those countries turkey iraq and israel they have very vested interests in a solution that doesn't make that part of the world worse i think primarily what u.s. policy be doing is working with those three countries working on getting them on

a common agenda and doing what is best possible for the region and for the people of syria but i think this discussion about a direct military intervention by a coalition of the willing is premature and and again very likely to lead to a really really difficult situation that make things look like somalia and other countries are just bad and i just remind people you know the closest we've had to this is bosnia and if you remember about the one thing about the european intervention in bosnia the europeans went in basically after the killing stop. i mean after the worst genocide was over after the sides had had split off and after everybody was exhausted then they went in and going in on the front ends a very difficult and very different scenario very interesting james if i go to you in los angeles it already appears that the the united states and its allies in one degree or another in some of these countries are more directly involved have chosen the what's called the opposition there are a mixed group of people here whose agenda is not particularly clear and if i may

have said that assad has to go it's ratcheting things up you can't turn around and say now all he can stay ok i mean do you think this is one of the fundamental mistakes had been made in dealing with syria because they they start from the wish the most important thing they want and then they work down instead of the other way around and jim pointed out and in washington very good point you know this is the bosnian situation in reverse yeah but you also have to look at peter what's happening with all this we had we have a genuine situation in syria we do have ethnic strife i mean you've got the alawite it's in control of all assad and you've got the sunni with the muslim brotherhood and then you've obviously got christians and whatnot and there are sectarian groups there that actually you know nobody believes in dictatorship i certainly don't i'd like to see democracy there as well but there are many sects there are at least several sex there that are comfortable with the status quo and there they feel very strengthened if that regime is overthrown but let me draw you to a website the passionate attachment dot com and there's

a poster at the top and it's titled there's a lobbyist role in pushing for regime change in syria i think it's very important and you can also go to the web site that many of my c.-span and similar calls appear neo-con zionists red dot com it's very important to distress who's pushing this who's encouraging i'm not saying who started it from the beginning what not or per se but who's encouraging this and again it's the pro israel lobby in america through its components such as you know the ned the national endowment for democracy you've got a former a.d.l. researcher there karl. gershman who's into troll that again go to that post israel lobby's role in pushing for regime change in syria let's look at the target it's not about dot com let's talk about israel nic do you do you see that the israelis have a huge interest in seeing the assad regime go down because i find that a bit dubious i mean they preferred that to deal with the devils that they know ok they liked working with the they like you language i mean let me finish a question they liked working with a mubarak in egypt because he was he was the devil that they knew go ahead nick

what do you think absolutely and look at the situation in egypt now the israelis absolutely not they're happy about this they don't know what's going to happen they don't know if israel if egypt below its base to to hit israel and afraid and for good reason that is assad goes in syria and there is a sunni dominated government that is really more aggressive toward israel and will probably continue to support hamas in developing it out of this so so i don't buy this argument that the israeli lobby in the united states is pushing for regime change in damascus what do you think about that joel nick nick you are right james go. ahead jane you've got to look at the nick you've got to look at and you've got to look in the james bamford's a pretext for war book then and what he talks about with the clean break agenda that was our co-author eyes by three a leading sponsor of the of the of the iraq intervention richard perle douglas feith and david wurmser i'm not saying everybody

bill in israel believes this i'm talking about live could next that are following this you know and strategy like i said it was it was time of the strategy for is wrong the one nine hundred eighty s. and that's what these neoconservative warmongers are pushing now i agree with peter it's not necessarily a favorable situation if you talk if you topple assad because you can get the muslim brothers are here we're going to we're all going to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the unrest in syria state with our. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency

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come across a computer all about remind you we're talking about the unrest in syria. but to go back to jim in a while in washington d.c. with the failed u.n. security council resolution jim what do you think the possibility is now on am very hypothetical again that we can we will see some kind of settlement on the ground instead of outside elements playing a role i mean does this give an impetus now i know the violence is horrific there but does it give it an impetus to have the parties sit down somehow the russians are trying to mediate and we can see where that will go you know if there isn't hopefully i don't like to see an international solution with the use of force but

is it telling the syrians that you have to start drawing lines and you have to start talking because every conflict is resolved with the gauche ations eventually . well i will make a prediction and i do take in this situation what's going to drive advances the internal events within syria as opposed to the extra pressure syria is in libya because it was kind of the end of the world nobody really cared about his regime he was very isolated syria's very different syria's very good ties with syria they have good ties with iran they have access to the rest of the world so they're not completely isolated regime they can hang on i mean they've they've proven determination hang on last time an uprising like this of ten thousand people were killed and we i think estimates are about half that now so you know the regime may just hang on and crush everything else the regime may collapse and they'd evolve into civil war but my guess is it's internal events and.