it led to hamas getting more power. and destroyed unity within the palestinians. >> there are two arguments. the right wing argument says we should never have left. the left wing argument, by not negotiating, by just leaving, you're basically legitimizing leadership, and allow hamas to rise in gaza. that is the strong argument that has been made about why he is probably responsible for the rise of hamas. one of the things, we a pivot moment in 2006 when he had his stroke. we don't really know whether that is the reason hamas rose. we don't know many things. >> one of the ultimate ironies about his life is that his last significant act was interpreted by his foes as an active capitulation. he left gaza without getting anything in return. that is a legitimate critique. his belief that the palestinians would not negotiate under any circumstances let him to take this unilateral step, which was interpreted by hamas as a victory for their brand of terrorism. whatever failures, the fact the matter remains today there are no is

there is also this, this idea that the withdrawal from gaza was a huge mistake, because it led to hamas getting more power, and destroyed any kind of unity within the palestinian political -- >> there are two arguments whether it was a mistake, the right wing argument says we should never left what is our, the left wing liberal argument which is that by not negotiating with the palestinian leadership, and just leaving, you basically deleo legitimate sighed the leadership in ramallah and allowed hamas to rise in gaza, so that's the strong argument that has been made about why he is partly responsible for the rise of hamas, and, you know, one of the things that when jeffrey was talking about was a pivot moment in 2006 when he had his stroke, we don't really know, in fact, whether that is the reason that hamas rose or whether hamas would have risen anyway we don't know many things and whether he would have been able to go ahead with planned pullouts if in fact they were planned they were talked about for sure. one of the ultimate ironies of ariel sharon's act was interpreted by his arab fo

as part of an agreement between hamas and israel. originally from nablus and the waistband key is starting a new life in gaza. for he was sent after spending twelve years in israeli prisons. since his release he has married and now has a young daughter and son of a community event and one time ago when he was poisoned. when you would prefer. go to leave the child is a blast. her mood. what is happiness does not stop there he has installed an entirely of machines and workers on the ground floor of his building. they are full time pastry makers and the supply of the three restaurants also owned by his former prison inmate. nothing is too difficult when you have the willpower. those who knows what he wants can accomplish the impossible cos most of it. i've achieved great results in one of the match double success in just a few. more details how he put to good use to cash pavement of several thousand dollars given by hamas on his release from prison. i was a murmur from the stomach with the mind of the need to get to start from scratch.

what i was told was that hamas is not a terrorist organization now there are some people out there who believe that hamas is not a terrorist organization but according to myself and also the united states government ofac in the most democratic countries in the world they are a terrorist organization. so. you know it was the newsroom you know. the knew exactly what was going on in the. you know they did not want anything for instance we could not put the word suspicious in the alert or investigation that we did in any write up the word suspicious could not be put in because that could alert a regulator and they don't want that so what you're talking about with the transactions going to hamas has what kind of money are we talking about what kind of transactions where are they and what was the cash coming from. you know we're over all we're talking about billions of dollars but. for instance you know a great example is the creepy supermarket example i mean so you had these supermarkets they're operating out of out of africa they were you know selling regular you know groceries and people

hamas, stop working with they tell us that mahood abbas as part of his government -- hamas people will not negotiate with them. separated, we do not represent all the palestinians. united, -- you have hamas as part of your political system. >> there's this historical fact. the former israeli prime , to this day he says that he negotiated a deal that would have delivered to the palestinians, much of what they want and abbas said that he will take it back and that he did not accept it. that is one more example of camp david and other things were in the end, the palestinians would not accept what many people thought was a reasonable solution. >> that is partially accurate. what happened then is that the prime minister was deposed from the position of premier. had been in power, there would have been a better chance of continuing the discussion. we might have reached an agreement. ideasgested constructive -- >> but all of the issues were of contention. >> they had a discussion, and you dropped something like this and you say that -- you put it on a piece of paper like that. that is not neg

be able to see the difference in hamas immediately. there you go -- [laughter] for more on this we turn to senior women's issues correspondent kristen schaal. kristen -- [cheers and applause] very nice of you to be here. >> my pleasure. >> jon: kristen it seems like doors are opening up left and right for women now. >> yeah and i want to apologize for that. we just didn't realize how hard our success would be on men. >> in this femininized atmosphere in which we exist today guys who were masculine and mass cue lar like that in the private conduct and old fashioned tough guys run some risks. you are in constant danger of slipping out and saying something that will get new trouble and make you look like a sexist or like you see thuggish or whatever. >> that is so tragic, poor incredibly manly, muscular man's man britt hume. it was not our intention to femininize the atmosphere by coming in with cut flowers and breast milk fax machines. >> jon: you fax breast milk? >> am i going to fax formula? i'm in the a monster. >> jon: men are not th

they are partners with hamas. i believe with hamas being weakened, the stir of us has abbas haspower -- mr. much more power to bring to his people a good peace agreement for the palestinians. i hope we will see it by next september as the u.n. recognizes palestine as a state by all international communities, including israel. >> we will see. it looks positive. the coming days and months will show. when hee remind you leaves jerusalem in a few days, he will come to paris to meet with all of our foreigners -- mr.'s of foreign affairs to to meetthis process -- with all of our ministers of foreign affairs to discuss this process. >> things are continuing. >> they are moving in the right direction. hopefully 2014 will be a good one. >> a positive view from you. they give for joining us. for viewers at home, you can also find more on the latest mideast peace talks and other topics on our website, of course at our website. www.france24.com. it is time now for sports. just fine on his own, judging by the ease with which h

>> we know that gaza is controlled by hamas, correct? >> yes. >> israelis constantly make this point in conversations with me and other journalists and in public forum. we ended the occupation of gaza and look what happened. what do you say to them? >> well, first of all we told the israeli authorities in the year 2005, let us negotiate the withdrawal from gaza. they refused to do that and they did a unilateral redeployment of their forces. >> rose:. >> so that was a unilateral action by them, so they are responsible for this unilateral action. however, we are saying that if we have peace with them, that we can resolve all final status issues and end this occupation and allow for the independence of the state of palestine then i think that all the issue that never raising with regard to in the only the gaza strip but to the other part of the occupied palestinian territory will enter into a new stage of phasing them out and, therefore, the worries that the israelis have will start to evaporate. >> rose: how reasonable is it do you think f

twitter has suspended the accounts of the military wing of hamas. able to communicate with its followers via its account and then twitter pulled the plug on the act. hamas blamed israel for its twitter problem reading it rail well not prevent us from deliver trying to the world. there was also a response from the official account of the israeli arm that i wrote that hamas is a terrorist group that uses social media to attack. they attack one another especially at the heist the 2012 israeli war on gaza. typically, twitter does not comment on why it suspends accounts but said that sus suspensions can occur if there is a violation of its contents rules. press freedom advocates are worried about the development. the london-based index on censorship says gaza is not a half phone media. journalistists: >> a veteran, egyptian columnist has been forced to backtrack from comments that he made on live television calling for the slaughter of americans. on january 13th, he appeared on the privately-owned channel vcv and spoke of an alleged plan to assassinate t

just like al qaeda and just like the brotherhood's palestinian branch, hamas.designate them a terrorist organization. they are the modern godfather's of his -- islamic terrorism. number two, the brotherhood groups here in america, care, isna, et cetera. shut them down. that's very harsh, i know, and we have freedom of speech, but freedom of speech to me when it extends the group that is subversive with terror ties to groups that hate america and want to destroy this country, when that's the case, i think we might have a problem. i don't like the column effect that is for him. we had in the cold war with the soviet agency or. that was also alarmist and. they work here. well, we have islamist agents of influence here. so i think, i hope you read a book, and god bless you. thank you. [applause] >> we do have some time for q&a. as moderator i want to ask the first question. >> it better be easy. .. actually a genius strategy. they employ a command in your iranian press that, ahmadinejad is gone. the shia iranians being originally. so, it is really quite genius beca

this is one district in hama seen in september 2012. this is the same place one month later. this is part of the capital close to the military airport seen in february last year. move forward to july, the contrast is clear. human rights watch says it has spoken to the owners of some properties, confirming the demolitio demolitions. the group alleges the government has systematically targeted residential areas. >> the government says it's part of approved urban planning. >> i did not thing this is urban planning. it's mass destruction of civilian neighbourhoods. what the report points out, and in my own research is that this urban planning is done in areas where the free syrian army had a strong presence, and has hunkered down and difficult to drive them out. >> the authors of the report say there is no evidence of such demolition taking place in areas that generally support the government. the u.n. now says that almost 6.5 million people have been displaced inside syria, and 2.5 million refugees left the county since the war began. >> that is one aspect of the terrible diffic

joining us is a hamas leader based in gaza and thank you, sir, for being on al jazeera. how is the legacy influenced where we are today with the middle east process? >> well, actually, sharon will be remembered through four regimes. the first is the one that demolished hundreds of palestine houses in gaza and then the legacy of the butcher, the one who is responsible for the -- and also the one enemy of peace as he killed the chances of peal with palestines and maybe hundreds of people being killed and others injured and destroyed all hopes of these with israel again. >> some of the ewologies are casting him as a peacemaker and great force for peacemaker and softened the stance for the paem with the palestinians, a move that eventually lead to hamas taking control of gaza, do you agree with that? >> no. sharon is the enemy of peace and sarcastic to call him a man of peace. i know mr. bush said that. but it is sarcastic to call this war criminal as a man of peace. he's responsible also for all of the things that the division that happened between west bank and gaza and re

i think too long going back to the hamas election in the gaza strip back during the bush administration, democracy's just not about holding elections and counting votes. democracy is much broader than that. it's cultural, it's a way of life. that's what we have to take into account. too often, we have not done that. >> all right. so you're for the obama administration on this cutback or against? >> well, i think a lot of these programs are not so much democracy promotion as they are rubber stamps that get taken out because that's a popular thing to do. i think we can look at a lot of changes to our bilateral foreign aid program in this region and this may well be one of them. >> ambassador, nice to see you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, get ready, 100 million of you, because you're in the path of the storm, flights already canceled from coast to coast. a live report on this massive storm. that's next. >>> alert, the first major snowstorm of 2014 is here, and with a vengeance. more than a foot of snow expected from the midwest to the northeast, and already more than 1,800 flights cancelle

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when you look at lebanon a failure it created has been a law we go look at gaza and then you have hamas now you have the radicalization of the shia in lebanon we have you bring in iran into the equation this is all the work the handiwork of missed. sharon well i you know i think one of the real turning points was the massacre to be that we heard about in one nine hundred fifty three and sharon had been given orders to create as much destruction as he could by ben-gurion he went and he exceeded anybody's expectations the americans condemned this act there were seventy you know largely women and children killed they condemned the act of said the person who perpetrated this should be punished and so forth there was a tense moment and then give there's a famous film clip of ben-gurion going up to sharon pinching his cheek and saying he's a good boy and that encapsulates i think. he has your own established this policy of smashing the palestinians and the arabs and hitting them ten times harder than they could hit israel believing that in the end this would change the attitude of the arab wo

. >> i have to read this -- hama it all comes down to rules, rule or die, one man triumphs, the other is weak. i am convinced there is only one man in israel assad ever feared and that is ariel sharon because assad knew sharon was willing to play by hama rules. would you agree? >> assad is afraid of me, maybe that is something to avoid in the future, but it is not the right one. i do not believe in it, i do not believe that -- it is something outrageous. i cannot accept that. i never believed in this violence and terror. i think about the man, assad, who in order to overcome a certain resistance destroyed may be one of the oldest cities in the world, leveled the city, killed 25,000 people, assad is a tyrant. nothing about democracy. i can see what they're doing now in lebanon. >> do you think assad fears you? >> that is what tom friedman writes. if assad fears me, that may be a good thing. the strength of israel, enough to misjudge israel, to the result -- the way that we restrict ourselves, but when it comes to military strength, i think it is better to be careful. if he fears, i thi

iran -- hamas. iran is actively engaged in subverting the government in several countries in the middle east right now. the intention of u.s. negotiators right now is to try to focus very narrowly on the nuclear aspect of this. we can talk about whether or not this is a successful approach. when it comes to the iranian perspective, i'm not sure that they're looking for friendship -- i think the intention of u.s. negotiators right now is to try to focus very narrowly on the nuclear aspect of this. we can talk about whether or not this is a successful approach. when it comes to the iranian perspective, i'm not sure that they're looking for friendship with the u.s. they want to get out from under the burden of these sanctions. i don't think they see themselves as ending up as aligned with the u.s. at the end of this process. they look to other countries in the world as their natural allies such as china and russia. host: let me summarize how "time" focuses on this deal. the easy part in dealing with ir

in hama seen in sent 2012. and this is the same place one month later. this is part of the capitol close to the military airport, seen in february of last year. move forward from july and the contrast is clear. human rights watch says it has spoke ton the owners of some of the property whose confirm the demolitions. the group alleges that the government has systemically targeted residential buildings in areas which support the opposition. the got says the demolitions are merely part of approved urban planning. what the report points out saw that 24 urban planning if you like, is strategically done in areas are the army had quite strong presence, and was hunkered down and difficult to drive them out. >> the offers of the report say there is no evidence of such demolitions taking place in areas that generally support the government. the u.n. now says that almost 6 1/2 million people have been displaced inside syria. and that almost 2.5 million refugees have left the country since the war began. dominic cain, al jazeera. >> really happy update to a story of

. >> i have to read this -- hama it all comes down to rules, rule or die, one man triumphs, the other is weak. i am convinced there is only one man in israel assad ever feared and that is ariel sharon because assad knew sharon was willing to play by hama rules. would you agree? >> assad is afraid of me, maybe that is something to avoid in the future, but it is not the right one. i do not believe in it, i do not believe that -- it is something outrageous. i cannot accept that. i never believed in this violence and terror. i think about the man, assad, who in order to overcome a certain resistance destroyed may be one of the oldest cities in the world, leveled the city, killed 25,000 people, assad is a tyrant. nothing about democracy. i can see what they're doing now in lebanon. >> do you think assad fears you? >> that is what tom friedman writes. if assad fears me, that may be a good thing. the strength of israel, enough to misjudge israel, to the result -- the way that we restrict ourselves, but when it comes to military strength, i think it is better to be careful. if he fears, i thi

in them are also liberating with the one hamas and hezbollah and they've been doing so for. decades we figured that out against the united states of america are we have life our culture our flag this is a war it's an invasion it's up to treated well was say. you can't be first was a race is. won't care i want to thank all you guys this is a tough tough assignment livin and working in the tents is very important for me one thousand nine hundred three i said we're going to put tents up korean war and tents we did thanks for all your great work they're still there. three years ago the state of arizona legislature passed two laws human smuggling laws and the employer sanctions were the only agency enforcing those two laws thanks a lot a lot of you guys we have over forty five thousand people we have a den of five arrested. investigated or detained in a jail tough as i don't tough is. jails in the united states were like number three in the whole country and all they get is. it's not nice but you guys know if you do something wrong you want to hold an old shell around here. it wa

the terrorist group hamas teaching high school students in gaza how to wage jihad.ore thoan 13,000 teenagers jus completed the one week program that trains them how to use weapons and throw grenades. of that number moish than twice the enrollment than last year. they will limit sexual orientation in racial profiling that is according to new york times. new york city mayor bill deblasio and eric holder met yesterday to discuss the plans but did not discuss when the rule change would actually be announced. >>> two men from mexico are in custody after they found hundreds of pounds of marijuana in their vehicle. they found a man with 113 packages of marijuana weighing 213 pounds. on friday they arrested 32-year-old man smuggling 376 pounds of pot. >>> a school bus caught in the the crossfire of a shootout during rush hour. ten students between the ages of 6 and 13 were on their way home when a bus was hit by two bullets. no one was injured and no arrests have been made. >> a water war between a school and their school district finally coming to an end. the water will be

the spokesman for hamas which runs the gaza strip says this, "ariel sharon is a criminal whose hands are smeared with the blood of our people" a lot of diverse thoughts on this man. >> nick schifrin live in jerusalem. >> as nick mentioned not everyone is mourning the death of ariel sharon, for many palestinians his death was a reason to rejoice. zeina khodr has more reaction from a refugee camp. >> the streets were littered with mutilated bodies, dead people, women, elderly, the children. palestinians killed in the infam awes shabra and shatilla massacres. people are celebrating once they heard of the death of ariel sharon. he was defence minister in 1982. the israeli army was in beirut, they lay siege to the camp and said they were pursuing fighters belonging to the palestine liberation organization but an ally entered the camp and carried out the killings. most of the survivors are rejoicing his death. no one is mourning his death. what they wanted to see was ariel sharon taken to an international court, tried for what they see are the crimes committed against them. it never happen

the islamists of hamas took over , and other extremist factions acting out there as well. criticize thatis move it however, international leaders criticize how that move was done, which was unilaterally and without negotiating with the palestinians, therefore weakening the secular libels of -- >> thank you very much, gallagher fenwick, reporting from jerusalem. world powers have been meeting in paris, discussing next week's peace talks for syria. the geneva ii talks should bring together this -- the opposition and the regime. >> on a visit to lebanon, iran's -- er the iranian government announced the foreign would visit moscow this thursday to discuss its nuclear program and the war in syria. the u.n. and arab league envoy, the u.s. and russia met in paris this monday ahead of the planned peace talks in nine days' time. iran's art is a patient is a sticking point. the country has long supported syrian president bashar al-assad -- iran's participation is a sticking point. the country has long supported syrian president bashar al- assad. >> iran is a very important country i

how sad is that the young cost in human society and the hamas ruled gaza strip. and in the lebanese city of tripoli the scene of bloody sectarian violence. leaving the country's first female traits. this is the chinese seconds. don't allow more families to have two children from twenty fourteen all its decision will be a change to almost thirty five he is the one child policy still restrictions remain in place couples. i kneeled to have two children and only if one of the parents comes from a single top family. we'll be hearing from our correspondent in beijing in just a moment of this statistical conclusions can salvage. will the chinese one day be allowed to have as many children as they want to know yet. the bjp has loosened its one child policy under the new legislation if one of the parents as many siblings. the couple can have two children. full. it was a neat possible with my parents was single children and live in china there are currently sixteen million euro for every year. the policy adjustment that cotto will be an extra two million barrels a year. it

. >> the large-scale demolition of seven neighborhoods in syria's and argest cities ,hama damascus, wesed satellite imagery. in the course of just a couple of weeks, entire neighborhoods have been erased by the syrian government. put this into perspective, the area demolished is about 145 hectares. singletake every building that was erased and put them next to each other, they would fill up more than 200 soccer field. many of these were several stories high, as many as eight. we are talking about thousands of families that have lost their homes and most of their personal belongings. he was from human white -- human right watch. heels in, dragging its iran on giving up its chemical -- dragging its heels in syria on giving up its chemical arms. dozens have been shipped out of the country for destruction. bashar al-assad had agreed to give up chemical arms in august, this to avoid a possible u.s. airstrike. now to ukraine, where the army is calling on the president to take urgent steps to calm the ongoing clinical crisis. the country faces its deepest turmoil since it orange revolution. i

the general feeling is israel ended up having to go back in a war because hamas took over gaza and might well have bean mistake. part of the reason it might have bean mistake is how much it depended on him being the prime minister. he was the person who personally guaranteed that if there were terrorism that came out of the gaza strip he would go back in. his successor chickened out, didn't do it as was necessary and, you know, you can't really make historic policy based on your own personal because who knows what will happen. a stroke can happen and then things go south. >> yeah. was it his belief that israel really had to chart its own course, its own future. >> that's the story of the gaza disengagement and the war that he waged on the second intafatah. they believed there had to be a deal with the palestinians that was negotiated. what he decided in both cases no. he would do what he thought was in israel's interest by ending the war, by building the security wall and pull israel out of gaza, whatever the palestinians said that that is what israel should do and didn't have anything t

this is the question. >> just everything regarding settlement and strengthening hamas, what is -- >> i'm trying to understand what is the question? why do we not reach out more? >> okay. so let me answer it. it is a very simple answer. first of all of courses, as you understand i want us to reach out more but i think we have to reach out in a sensible, realistic way. one of the problems is that the peace thinking and the peace concept weret not renewed in reality refuted them time after time. of i think we need fresh thinking. you will not try to sell today as a new car a 12 five-year-old chevy. okay? so i think itto is time to think afresh. and describe it in a sentence. . . and to describe it in just a sentence. when israelis open their hearts and decided to go to peace in 1993 the result was a waive of terror and buses exploding in central jerusalem. when israelis took a giant step forward and the peace agreement in 2000 the result was the worst suicide bombing terror offensive ever. when the israelis opened their hearts the third time and we withdrew from the gaza strip and the r

government has been demolishing thousands of houses here, in other parts of damascus, and in the city of hama. the report uses these satellite images to show how extensive the damage is. this is the district seen in sent 2012. and this is the same place one month later. this is part of the capital, close to the military airport, seen in february of last year. move forward to july and the contrast is clear. w confirm the demolitions. the group alleged that the government has systematically targeted residential buildings in areas which support the opposition. the government says the demolitions are merely part of a proved urban planning. >> i did not think that this is urban planning. this is mass destruction, and civilian neighborhoods. what the report points out, and in my own research, is that this urban planning if you like, is strategically done in areas where the free syrian army had quite strong presence, and was hurricanerred down and it was difficult to drive them out. the authors say there is no evidence of such demolition taking place in areas that generally support the government. t