he had invited the egyptians to command his army. he put his army under egyptian command. the egyptian commanders received word in cairo that the israeli air force had been destroyed and the egyptian ground forces were proceeding toward hebron and jordanian force were to enter the war immediately. they opened fire and shelled jerusalem and shelled the outskirts of tel aviv. when israelis feared that the jordanian army would move into west jerusalem as it had in 19 4r8, that's when they struck back. they began to strike back on the west bank and jerusalem. that's how that stage of the war began. >> how bad did they hit them? >> the jordanians fought value incidently. eventually israeli forces overwhelmed the jordanians and took the west bank. in a bloody battle, they took east jerusalem. >> what kind of planes were the jordanians use stphg >> hawker hunters, british. mostly never got off the ground. >> syrians? >> migs. russian planes. >> israelis? >> french. >> egyptians were flying russian planes. >> mm-hmm. >> there was one point where he said the russians were proisrael

christoph schÄfer is taking on the egyptian competition.nts to be able to sell his potatoes in the spring,too. >> we're building a potato warehouse so that we can sell our potatoes year-round. that's our current project. we want to store our own potatoes, and then sell them on the market. >> in cairo, wholesalers go to the al um market to buy potatoes. the shish family has been dealing in potatoes for generations. they prefer to sell to russia and europe, where they get top prices. >> egyptian potatoes are higher in quality. that's been demonstrated by objective criteria. there are quality controls, and in the end it's the customers who decide which potatoes are better -- the german or the egyptian ones. and the egyptian ones are better. >> in spring 2011, egypt exported ten thousand tons of organic potatoes to germany. in the future, they hope to export even more -- to generate export income and private investments that are sorely needed in egypt's economy. >> these profits come at the cost of the environment. today, agricultural operation

- get more egyptians behind him as he tries to kickstart the egyptian economy? >> that is the million-dollar question. economy is what will suffer the most of the next few months. it is what has been on everyone's mind. this is what most egyptians are thinking about beyond issues of politics. it is not clear how far mr. morsi will get, particularly if he does not try to build consensus with other forces in the country. i think the economy will be linked to how far mr. morsi can take the political spectrum here in egypt and i think that affects out egypt is pursued overseas. and that affects the egyptian economy at large. >> joining us live from cairo, thank you very much. simmering sectarian tensions have erupted into protests in iraq with thousands demonstrating in the country's western heartland. they are demanding the release of bodyguards for the sunni finance minister who were arrested on thursday. protesters say this is another example of sectarian policies. we have this report. >> a show of support for the iraqi finance minister. a defiant message from th

it is the primary issue that most egyptians are thinking about. it is not clear how far he will get on that particular issue. the level of angst about the economy i think will be linked to how far mr. morsi can build alliance. that impression also carries overseas. we shall see how that actually affects foreign investment as well as the help of the egyptian economy at large. >> thank you for being with us. >> secretary intentions have erupted into protests with thousand demonstrating. they are demanding the release of bodyguards assigned to the finance minister. it is another example of the shia led government. >> a show of support for the iraqi finance minister. a defiant message from the city's. the local council has called for a civil disobedience. thousands have blocked the highway. did they are demanding the release of nine body guards of the finance minister who were arrested on thursday. they are calling this suit their secretary and approach -- to their secretarian approach. >> what politicians are doing is polarizing. it is based on secre

fighting egyptians. the commander of the republican guard said they are not taking sides. what they are trying to do is separate the opposing forces, not to oppress them. they ordered them to leave the presidential palace and morsi supporters did so. the opposition to a lesser extent. they continued to uh mass outside the palace. at this time the situation is tense, but calm now as the president of egypt speaks to his people. shepherd? >> what the opposition has been asking is he step down and they start this process over again. any sign that might happen? >> reporter: not right now. -- >> not right now. we don't know where the president is going in this address. they want him to reverse that decree that gave him ultimate authority. and they want a postpone meant on the referendum for a new and very controversial constitution. as of now he was expected to speak last night. what caused him to speak now? that's not entirely clear. i can tell you since november 22nd when he issued the all powerful decree, s

is giving the egyptian government 20 f-16 fighter jets.r, which will be delivered in just six weeks. it is part of a billion dollar military aid package that was brokered with former egyptian president hosni mubarak back in 2010. but mubarak is gone and president mohammed morsi is clearly playing a different and dangerous game. given the current situation protesters are storming the palace. more than a dozen dead. hundreds are injured. why on earth are we handing over 20 advanced fighter jets to a regime we don't exactly trust? we have a money power panel, mideast experts to explain. mike barrett, diligent consulting firm. judy miller from the manhattan institute. a fox news contributor. michael rubin, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. mike barrett, let me start with you. why are we doing this. >> i have a hard time explaining this. i've been on the show before and talked about it. in general giving some money to the military is a good idea because they're somewhat moderating force in egypt. giving more training, wea

the tomatoes into just about every egyptian-. it has doubled -- egyptian dish. it has doubled in price. people were not expecting a miracle, but they certainly did not think their lives were going to get tougher. about one in four people is unemployed. young people, the very people who manned the barricades during the uprising. there is a real sense that the politicians have forgotten what the revolution was all about -- egypt and its people. >> let's discuss some of this. the movement, april the sixth movement, very much a part of the uprising. you are being accused by many of the president's supporters of being part of a conspiracy now to unseat a man who was elected by the people of egypt just five months ago. >> he was ejected -- elected by the egyptian people a few months ago. he was elected to save the country, but he did not do that. president mohamed morsi divided the egyptians into two parts. there is a president, a regime which supports him. but all the egyptian people do not support president morsi. >> for the opposition, there is a very real challeng

the egyptian commission is looking into allegations of fraud. it is expected to release storm tuesday. >> it did accused president morsi are driving this through without any input from secularists or christians. they claim almost two-thirds voted in favor, albeit in a low turnout. we're joined now in studio by an egyptian political scientist and author living in germany. what you think of the recent developments, especially the prospect of this new constitution? >> are not really disappointed because i know the realities in each of and democracy cannot be born overnight. we have many layers of dictatorship. we have military dictatorship, a religious dictatorship, and the people of egypt and uncover one layer after the next. >> egypt still remains hugely divided. what can we expect going up to the elections? >> parliamentary elections will still show this division but i do not think the islamists will get the majority this time. the opposition is trying to unify itself and offer economic progress and that is what the muslim brotherhood is doing.

he is a former egyptian jihad member. he was released from an egyptian prison in march of 2011.e is now leader of the jamal network and setting up training camps in libya and egypt with financial help from al-qaeda and yemen and trying to set up al-qaeda in egypt. hillary clinton will be heading to capitol hill. an independent review board should have its work done soon and secretary clinton will testify after that. >> i have been in conversations with department of stated. there is indications this will happen as soon as the report is complete which is expected to be done in the next days or weeks. we have every expectation she will testify, she will do so in an open setting and that perhaps the leaders of the report, the lead investigators may be testifying before in a closed setting. >> molly: democratic senator john kerry, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee says secretary clinton will appear before that panel. >> heather: molly henneberg, reporting live in washington. >> gregg: another story from the middle east, an ominous threat from the egypt's military as

the governorates so the egyptians are quite divided at the moment. but it's now very critical for the political to realize that and to try to continue their call isolation by moving ahead towards institutionalizing the politics of this and to not have a parliament constitution and therefore and elections for for the parliament by two is the opposition really being listened to though. the opposition is very concerned about the constitutional declaration which gives the president sweeping powers and especially to protect his decisions from judicial review and there is no trust between the opposition and the presidency but right now where the president said that. this constitutional declaration would be only valid for two weeks because on fifteenth of december they would run at a file on them on the constitution and once the constitution is in place assuming that the people of egypt accepted except and voted yes for the constitution at this point you would have all the constitutional declaration of the president and the previous one of the supreme counc

on november twenty second egyptian president mohamed morsi issued a constitutional declaration in which he expanded his executive powers beyond judicial oversight morsi portrayed his decree as an attempt to protect the transition to a democracy but tens of thousands of egyptians were outraged and they took to the streets widespread protests this past week the violence heightened when seven people were killed and hundreds more wounded in direct clashes between the muslim brotherhood and its opposition morsi took a surprising turn this past weekend and ellen decree which would have granted him such sweeping powers however he maintained his refusal to postpone the december fifteenth constitutional referendum that his political opposition claims does not safeguard individual freedoms so are we seeing more sees opposition strengthen and is it possible that egypt could even evolve into a civil war to talk about all that and more i'm joined by a doll is condor media an arab studies professor at georgetown university and author of the forthcoming book egypt in flux essays on an unfinished revol

something that he he had stated publicly posed before his election he had also promised that egyptians would have at least two months to review the document i mean you are talking about hundreds of articles and you can imagine any country's constitution there needs to be sort of an open dialogue almost like in a national convention if you will to discuss the articles in the constitution the majority of egyptians even those who do have the wherewithal and the knowledge to understand it have not had an opportunity to read it it takes hours and hours to process and of course you need constitutional experts to really sort of parse out the details to figure out what's right from wrong how this materializes what what it produces and for the most part every international human rights organization and domestic organizations of the sword and civil society groups have come out and condemned it for variety of different reasons not the least being the fact that it violates human rights so you can imagine the first constitution for a country that had a sort of a glorious uprising the glorious revol

we know the egyptian military is a reflection of egyptian society. people quite clearly sympathize throughout egyptians. they sort of try to do with this by a discourse that included islam. the military is that the songs principles. the whole justification for taking part in operation desert shield, desert storm to protect the two holy places of saudi arabia. to the extent there's any data or any inkling of how many words that could possibly have been, we don't know what's been going on at that lower level. we know there was during that transition between mubarak and morsi significant happiness to keep people quiet so that there wouldn't be dissension in the ranks. [inaudible] >> is historically been a strategy. from the very beginning they said we need the military in order to advance their political agenda. >> thank you. eric. >> -itis on tobacco with steve said. our constitution is an invitation to struggle among different branches of government. this constitution is invitation to struggle among islamists in egypt and the definition of sharia abou

on a track that egyptians can agree on is far from over. for some reaction now from cairo based political sociologist side subject thanks for joining us arundhati yet now at the mercy supporters have taken to the streets of egypt on mass as we see well this lead to a direct confrontation with the opposition do you think. well as long as the police but vents. crowds. meeting each other all. prevent the islamists coming formed government rates if you look at the picture from the people coming from are supporting dr morsi that the solution is the countryside and the opposition is an urban areas areas are looking into her ear and whoever controls the frequent pools and and can keep it that they represent the evolution and that's why in the early against. the pool mohseni camp tried to take over the wheel or drive to unseat the those who are having a sit in strike in the wheel and i think the place and that was difficult because it would give violence now they decided to stay away from the harir and the police is preventing anybody for leaving t

on a track that egyptians can agree on is far from over. tom barton for the well current political sociologist side said they told us egyptians know better than to trust leaders who soon so called temporary sweeping powers. nor any of that. in the world. will tell you it is a temporary thing if there's full emergency call does the same same thing city use of war under president obama and we stayed under emergency law for sixteen years and it was all the syria excuse at the simpering it was a short period egyptian people in two thousand and twelve are not the egyptian people in two thousand and ten didn't have change there was a political culture that has changed a lodging such like social networks and strong you cannot lie to them and you do not trust this group also defined that the muslim brotherhood looks to be a part of the by the united states and if it succeeds in egypt it would see that all the arabs who go to this and americans will be able to establish an islamic. america we seems in the area to policing the all of the horses who h

muhammad mursi, the egyptian period called for talks.refused to attend meetings with the g. the political crisis started two weeks ago when mursi gave him dictatorial powers. at least they went so far during all of this protesting in the last two weeks and they stay they will not accept a vote on december 15th on the draft conversation that mursi government put forward . a spokesman did hint of a compromise . where that is going with the two groups and refusing to talk to each other is anyone's guess, uma. >> thank you for the update and more on the fall out in of the looming fiscal christ u cliff. there will be no deal without tax increases . art lakker former member of the reagan advisory board said it is not good economics and it will contribute to more lay offings. he predicts despite the protest, the gop will lose and the president will make good on his promise. >> we want higher tax rates on the higher income earners and that the worst place to raise tax rates. they are employers and purchasers and they're the job creators and the

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can agree on is far from over a car a based political social attests says egyptians know better than to trust leaders who a seamless temporary sweeping powers. you nor any of the good the big hitter in the world help global selenium deal with tell you all it is a temporary thing it is full emergency told us the same state same saying sixty years ago under president obama and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years and it was all over the syria excuse it was then bowing it was a short period egyptian people in two thousand and twelve are not the egyptian people in two thousand and then they have changed their is political culture that has changed in a lodging different satellite social networks and store you cannot like lose them and they do not trust this google also the fact that the muslim brotherhood is looks to be a part of the grounds by the united states and if it succeeds in egypt it would succeed in all the arab spring countries and americans would be able to establish an islamic appall american teams in the area who policing the whole of the horses who have fairly am

queen of egyptian military is a reflection of egyptian society.there are people who quite clearly sympathize with the muslim brotherhood. they sort of try to do with this by a discourse that included islam with islam's principles. the whole justification for taking part in operation desert shield, desert storm was a mission to protect the two holding places of saudi arabia. to the extent there's any data or any inkling of how many or could possibly happen. we don't know what has been going on at that lower level in the rain experience we know there was during that transition between mubarak and morsi a significant amount of unhappiness and they were funneling resources to keep people quiet so that there wouldn't be in the rate. [inaudible] >> it has historically been a strategy in the part of the muslim brotherhood. from the beginning they said we need the military in order to advance our political agenda. >> eric. >> i just want to echo what steve said. is that our constitution is an invitation to struggle among the different branches of governme

protesters have been camped out in town for a square since last week since egyptian president mohamed morsi if you decree granting himself sweeping new powers that kicks off a wave of protests by the more liberal sections of egyptian society not just here in cairo but in cities across the country some of those spilling over into violent protests we're seeing take gas thrown and stone exchanges between the protesters and police a number of protesters have died hundreds more have been wounded across the country in those protests the clearance of it the roots of it a constitutional crisis here people in the basij when they had their revolution nearly two years ago to overthrow hosni mubarak last week after this declaration of how much more see the current president backed by the muslim brotherhood said that the reason for that was to try and get a new constitution last in a process that dragged out for a long time for egypt's however the constituent assembly that drafted that is dominated by the muslim brotherhood many other representatives of more liberal representatives coptic christia

the egyptian president morsi is. the democratically elected president of egypt. but the will of the democratic will of the egyptian people was not something which many of the revolutionary expected nor definitely what the west expected from the democratic process in egypt. what we see now is not so much an arab spring but rather an arab fall which may turn into the arab winter. the majority of the arab street which is really now the driving force of change or legitimization regime in egypt is. a slab asst of a muslim brotherhood it is more islamist we would expect there also. aligning themselves with the salafi parties and movements which are the second largest and they form a ruling bloc which is not for democracy. there is a paradox of democracy in which was no one even to plateau. majority can elect a dictator and there were many instances in history when the majority elected dictators . the kind of the constitutional regime where they are getting now is far from being liberal it is democratic in the sense that it reflected the will of the people but the will

well cora based political sociologist aside sadek says egyptians know better than to trust leaders who assume so-called temporary sweeping powers. you nor any of the big people in the world helped love you will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency they told us the same same thing six years ago under president obama and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years and it was all serious simpering it is a short period egyptian people in two thousand and twelve are not the egyptian people in two thousand and ten the have changed it was political culture that has changed it a watching different satellite social networks and saw you could not like it was them and you do not trust this group also the fact that the muslim brotherhood is looks to be a part of their grand study by the united states and if it succeeds in egypt it would succeed all the arabs and americans would be able to establish an islamic. america we seems in the area loosing the all of the horses who had feel america in many ways was new horses that would oppose the people inside but serve american strate

and coming up as we promised also discusses the ups and downs of the egyptian revolution with former presidential candidate and secretary general of the arab league. that sometime very short break. live . play live. live live. live . lol ugh. live players her mother. even though the speech. she played. her. live. i wish. it looked. like a missile good luck play lists let's look at him. a little bit of a little. he and some to see explain destruction without the legacy. of what could have been just ruins lives saved by a great sacrifice and gameplay and restored by human jets it's. a remarkable reminder of courage and selflessness. proves to be empty is a people. playing golf the russian a sight. to see this live. nearly two years after the revolution that shocked the world and removed hosni mubarak from his long tenure at the head of egypt the egyptian revolution is going through some strange times perhaps some would say some dark times with us to discuss this is none other than. a presidential candidate himself and a former secretary general of the arab league mr most of thank you v

try to and we come full circle back to the egyptians now they're a go egyptian train you may be waiting for a long time but hey if you miss that thing you have missed your opportunity gentlemen thank you so much for being on the show i really appreciate all of your insights. are going to try and figure out a way to hit nicaragua at some point my lifetime it looks beautiful. but you have no intention both in the country and africa and i you know we can you know fashion a makeshift studio down and not too much trouble i like it i like it all right all right thanks so much you guys think you. are let's wrap up with loose change dimitri with a fiscal cliff negotiations continuing one thing that we hear about relentlessly is taxing the rich. the rich pay as a percentage of their income less than the middle class does we have a tax system that needs entire over a home and he made clear that the rich must pay their fair share meeting taxes will go up to the top two percent who would talk about no one talked about reform just tax the rich more ok well a new study is being written about today it

the egyptian pound continues to fall against the u.s. dollar despite financial authorities tried to hold it from sliding. mohamed morsi expects that it will stabilize. >> political turmoil has sent worried egyptian scrambling to change their currency into pounds and dollars. they are imposing controls on how much cash can physically be carried out of the country. >> the latest attempt to stabilize the currency has had little impact on it slide. beside reserves in its currency auction, the egyptian pound falling to a new low. the currency have been losing value since the unrest began. two major factors are a drop in tourism and in foreign investment. many egyptians fear their cash will continue to fall in value causing a run on a changing the pound for dollars or euro. president mohamed morsi says it should stabilize soon and the central bank is warning they could run out of central bank currency reserves. egypt is still waiting for an imf aid package. >> we hope the talks with the international monetary fund will continue in january. the

>> i'd like to say that we have the first constitution in the egyptian history that egyptians went to the polling stations and put their voices and choose the first document suppressing them. maybe there is some sort of disagreement for some points or some articles and the president choose to have a meeting and the dialogue and calling for a dialogue for all political forces of ours to sit together in order to discuss these points or these articles. and these promise to be committed to offer these articles to the next parliament in order to amend if there is a dialogue a dialogue between the political parties. >> warner: what can you say to opposition leaders like el bar die who say freedom of religion and protection for minorities and women are being curtailed here? >> we find this constitution protects basic human rights. if you read article number 34 you will find personal rights which is a very important article and achieves equality and the social justice the people need. there is no for some points that elbaradei and others mentioned. we are holding the civil democratic and mode

if this referendum is adopted, is approved as expected, where does that leave egyptian society? >> it produces a very divided, polarized egyptian society, one in which many of those liberal secular voices will feel that the constitution is an illegitimate document, and that certainly is not healthy for democratic consolidation in egypt. >> warner: for an egypt still waiting for the promise of the revolution to be fulfilled in its citizens' daily lives, that would be a bleak prospect indeed. we asked two experts to weigh in on the discontent in egypt. read their responses on "the rundown." >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: a gunman walked into an elementary school in newtown, connecticut and killed 26 people, including 20 children. the killer then committed suicide. it was the nation's second deadliest school shooting after the virginia tech massacre in 2007. an emotional president obama called for "meaningful action" to prevent such shootings. and our coverage of the tragic shooting continues online. hari sreenivasan explains. >> sreenivasan: we will file up

egyptians strong have a pronounced dislike for the u.s. and u.s. policy. but what i would argue is that if that pronounced dislike is there even when we're playing a hands-off role we might as well have egyptians dislike us and try to do something good in supporting democracy in their country and it could have been really helpful now. if morsi was aware of where the u.s. had its so-called red line, if he had a sense of that before november 22nd, meab he would have thought about doing it differently. >> i'm going to use the chair's prerogative and just add my own two cents on the very good question because i think we've heard two very thoughtful views stability in ejimentjipt is essential for stability in the region and for the stability of key relationships in the region that are of deep interest to the united states. and we saw that very clearly in the way the u.s. very assertively stepped up in the gaza crisis to work with egypt on stabilizing the egyptian-israeli border. if stabilization is the priority for the united states, then i think we have to rec

turnout was low by egyptian standard and the opposition claims varies irregularities. as we've seen, washington was marred by violence. headquarters of a secular party attacked by islamist despite 20,000 troops in the street trying to keep the peace. >> what's the government saying about this? >> government's response to that is not too strong. they're pushing forward, which is basically what critics are saying, they're ramming it through. now they're ready for the next vote. this is a constitution that's divided this new democracy, favored by mohammed morsi and the muslims defenders say it's needed to gain the protection. next saturday's voting will happen in the rural areas of the country, favorable to the conservative islamist party. so at this point it seems this constitution's going to happen. there are a chances for the opposition to modify it after the fact but that's difficult. the new constitution also means there will be a new parliament voted in but islamists on that side are well organized. the fear is that the opponents, the critics, will again have to tak

people in two thousand and twelve are not the egyptian people in two thousand and ten did have change there was a political culture that has changed a lodging such like social networks and strong you cannot lie to them and they do not trust this group also the fact that the muslim brotherhood looks to be a part of a grand strategy by the united states and if it succeeds in egypt it would see that all the arts we go to this and americans will be able to establish an islamic. america we seems in the area to policing the whole of the horses who have feel we are in many ways was new horses that would open with the people inside but serve america. those in the area from outside. washington at it israel for authorizing three thousand new settler homes in the west bank in east jerusalem israel's move came a day after the un general assembly upgraded palestine to being a nonmember observer the u.s. called the construction decision counterproductive to peace negotiations on a two state solution palestinians say the lands in the west bank in east jerusalem which were occupied by israel in the n

for the syrians to start building their own democracy the big word on everyone's lips as regards egyptian foreign policy is sinai what on earth is really going on there when of course then i need to be secure as a part of egypt and the sovereignty of egypt would be supported so why all this talk of a deal with the palestinians if us have no vested trying to help put a scene is one big tool to affect this of interview to another thing from all points of view humanitarian point of view economical to your political point of view that we have to do as we are i'm so happy for the resolution that you know about that but there is an assembly this should be part of the foreign policy of egypt also but the point of course if you took this to effect conciliation between the hunt hamas with india but as yet i can fight and the west has to change its position on that and not to oppose this conservation we were talking about syria but a sign is also an issue that has to be. attended to and very quickly i'm going to ask you to just briefly crystal borges where do you see egypt's revolution going. that