to this american university. we have a lot of people from the gulf frrks iraq, from syria, from israel. we believe in education, we believe that children, muslim, christians, and jews, when these children study together, play soccer together, eat together, i think that's the best dialogue we can start. >> he describes himself as an arab christian. h was born in jordan. he and heidi worked with the israeli consulate to get land mines removed in bethlehem last year. now they're planting white roses as a symbol for hope during the middle east conference. >>> the tsa says they've kaud passengers trying to carry on 35 loaded guns in just the past week. that's not all. the agency's instagram page features truly bizarre items confiscated earlier this month like the ball and spike chain weapon known as a morningstar taken from a passenger in chicago. a passenger from washington, d.c. had two throwing knives in his hollowed out book. we've got an impromiezed explosive device training kit. the ied is not real but it's not

someone did a search and found that there are 900 courses in american universities in which his books are a side. there are courses at universities like georgetown, ucla, entirely devoted to the thought of edwards i need. there is even a cambridge introduction to the top. his thought amounts to a complete intellectual fraud. it is not just something i disagree with. it is something that has no legitimate intellectual standing whatsoever. if the world what to look at it with clear eyes, why do i say something that drastic? it boils down to the idea that you can see the contradictory idea that all white people are inherently racist. he did not say exactly those words but said the same thing. he said, every european in what he could say of the orient was a racist and imperialists and almost totally ethnocentric. and you went about his most important book proving this brought thesis by allegedly examining the work of scholarly oriental this committee essentially people who study the muslim world. and he purported to show that there were all races and imperialists. what he really did was j

a middle east analyst and professor at the north american university in beirut joins us. give us an idea as to whether these clashes - would they be a one-off incident in kabula, and does it reflect divisions within the shiite community in iraq. >> clearly there are divisions among the sheates. they are not a united group. there are clear political parties, religious movements, tribal all movements and militia, and they don't always agree. we see this with the big arguments going on about replacing nouri al-maliki as the prime minister. he's the shiite and has 40% of the government. and there's no agreement, the mummingority of the iraqis don't agree with one candidate. clearly there are divisions, and it could at some point lead to confrontation on the street. you have nouri al-maliki's forces fighting at one pint, some years ago. this is something that needs to be inspected, but will be minimised because the greater threat is the break-up of iraq, and the forest of militant sunnis, the i.s.i.s. or the islamic state of iraq and levant. that's the biggest challenge. >> i

. >> you teach at an american university. ou ask american jew and israeli jewing the same question, do you think you'll get similar answers or does distance distort reality? >> that's an interesting question. i think in many ways the distance sometimes distorts reality, at other times gives you a better perspective. i think that there are many israelis who are far to the left of many american jews. i think in a certain sense the americans are really more unaware of the day to day reality of what occupation is. most american jew us - not all, but most - don't have a relationship to palestinians. most american jews when they visit israel, it's one of the things that the defense has done. it's kind of cut off the two societies. israelis - there's a strong right wing position. but on the other side many israelis are sympathetic to the palestinian cause. i agree with you. it's one of the comments that we got is from an israeli who had powerful words. i want to play them. >> there is no doubt that the current war is tragic, that a l

host: we are talking with benjamin jensen from american university school of international service.ake your calls and comments as we talk about iraq and the future of iraq. the phone lines are open -- fromll start with dave rome, georgia on our line for independents. caller: good morning and thank you. we never talk about the iraq war being alive. the surge was a failure and that's the cause of the problem. during the surge, billions of dollars was paid to these sunnis. once these people left and they stop paying them, all of this began to rise up again. the united states did not actually win the surge. the surge was won by the sunni awakening, the same people disgruntled by what al malik is doing. we headed out billions of dollars in these people were giving out money like candy. can you respond to what happened during the surge and how much money was paid out to these people? how do you think these people are going to maintain this without this money? al maliki took the money out. call: thank you for that and helping us think about the complex strategic history of the search. at o

he's director of the institute for public policy at the american university. mr.being with us. there has been so little condemnation of israel during this military operation. i guess one of the reasons is because hamas rejected that egyptian-backed cease-fire. so is israel right now when it says it does have international backing to continue with this assault on gaza? >> that's very debatable. i think there's been huge outcries of anti-israeli, criticism, demonstrations, if you look in europe and other places there's been tens of thousands of people demonstrating. the governments basically have been saying that any israeli response should be proportional and should respect the rules of international humanitarian law. but israel has strong backing in the united states, which can block security council resolutions, at least in the u.s. government, and that seems to set the tone for the israelis, who believe they can do anything they want. but the criticisms against israel's overreaction have been really quite prevalent all over the world though they're not often rep

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i want to talk about that with director of institute at the american university of beirut who joins meia skype right now. who else is fighting here apart from hamas and israel? >> well, you have overlapping ideology cal and political conflicts and tensions both within palestine between fatah and hamas. you have it within the egyptians, jordanians, others who want to help one side or the other. sometimes with hamas, sometimes against hamas. indirectly lined up with israel, though not exclusively obviously. and you have other players further afield. iran, turkey. and israel has the same issue on its side. israel and the united states have a love-hate relationship in many ways. so you have a complex overlap of concentric ideology cal and political interest and conflict, and this has been going on since the 1950s. >> in terms of resolving it, if there was a resolution to this particular conflict, away from what's going on in iraq, away from the arab spring, as we described it, could that potentially resolve tensions throughout that region? >> well, i would first say it's not really that is

it was started two years ago by the american university of nigeria as an attempt to reduce violence. as one of three states under emergency rules. it brings together the community leaders. there's a muslim imam and a bishop. >> without peace we can't have process. with peace we have development and coexist with people and live in peace. at all costs. >> reporter: once a month they gather to look at ways to help. in this meeting among the topics discussed was offering scholarships and those that managed to escape boko haram's abduct of 270 schoolgirls. in houses of worship, they preached tolerance. members of the peace initiative says religion is miss used to people. the message they want to send, no matter how difficult conditions are, violence is not the answer. the focus in this class. >> people are listening to the interpretations of this, they would definitely understand that what boko haram is doing is not the right thing. >> with this being one of the poorest region, building piece requires for and they started jobs in training programs and reached out to hundreds of uneducated

joining us from beirut is a lecturer on international affairs at the american university. good to have you again on al jazeera. what began on thursday night as a limited ground invasion is turning into something more extensive and a dangerous faz for both sides in the conflict. israel, despite the condemnation over what happened, and there was 70 palestinian deaths, is moving ahead with the campaign, intensifying it. what does it suggest, what is the ultimate goal here? >> israel's ultimate goal is to figure out what in the world it should do been several million palestinians, displaced in 1947/"48, and has had been refugees and attacking and bombing, occupying them, sieging them, doing everything possible over and over again. ground operations, air attacks, every means of assault. the only response is stronger determination politically and technical proficiency by the groups. this is the dilemma. the palestinians suffer, and the israelis politically and morally because they cannot win this militarily. the only answer, clearly, is a political resolution to a political conf

our bell in washington he's a scholar in residence at the center for israel studies at the american university in new york we have norman finkelstein he's a political analyst and author and in amsterdam we crossed him when rabbani he is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies are gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it norman if i can go to you first here how did we get to this point israel says it began when hamas kidnapped and murdered three israeli teens what's your take. i think if you don't mind i'd rather have. a question because he's closer to the situation there ok due deference when we go ahead. well the fact of the matter is that so far we still don't know who abducted and killed these three israeli use israel immediately blame thomas and we also now know that these really government suppressed evidence had very early on that these three youths had been killed in order to claim that it was seeking to resolve the hostage situation and use that as a pretext to launch a military rampage throughout the wes

. >>> joining me live now is an electorate of international affairs at the american university of beirubeirutwhy did this ceasefire fail? >> it failed because it didn't meet the conditions of both sides or the legitimate requirements of international law, which is not to occupy and colonize other people. going back 30, 40 years, the normal situation, unfortunately, the status quo between israel and gaza or palestine has been a situation of israeli occupation and siege and palestinian resistance. that's the normal situation, and this will continue until a political settlement can resolve the conflict and give both sides, the israelis and the palestinians, their legitimate right, which includes the right to live in peace and sovereign state hood. >> it's likely -- i know you are going to say it's likely that political settlement is a long way off, so in the short-term who or what could persuade hamas to stop firing rockets if not the egyptians? because the egyptians and hamas, shall we say have an uneasy relationship at the moment? >> they do have an uneasy relationship, but it's in both of the

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we are joined by then jim and jensen from american university -- by benjamin jensen.'s start with the outlook on the future of iraq with militants proclaiming islamic state in iraq and syria and leaders of iraq, that kurdish is going from a referendum -- is calling for a referendum. is it possible iraq could break into three different countries? >> that's a great question and on the ground, iraq is already broken into up to three countries. for a long time coming you had the kurds having a defective state in the north and this got stronger as they searched for exports further crude oil. toy grew closer and closer turkey that has energy demands. independente facto kurdish governing area that is increasingly distant from baghdad. with the advance of isil is sunni tribes in a negative coalition, groups opposed to a malaki-dominated shiite government and baghdad formally controlling -- formerly -- formally controlling territories but it is gaining significant pace as they marched to encircle baghdad and established itself by declaring a califet,. host: there is a full pag

in washington he's a scholar in residence at the center for israel studies at the american university in new york we have norman finkelstein he's a political analyst and author and in amsterdam we crossed him we rub on me he is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies are gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want my very much encouraged norman if i can go to you first here how did we get to this point israel says it began when hamas kidnap.

amanda frost, a professor at american university school of law to jinder singh who argued before the court and trevor burris, a research fellow at the center for constitutional studies at the cato institute. welcome. i want to begin by having you identify for your own self the case of the term, what got your attention, what was assign post for you about what this court is like and how it works. amanda frost? >> well, for me, the case of this term was nlrb versus canning, the recess appointments case you mentioned at the beginning of this segment. i picked that case for a couple of reasons. first, it's a very important case about the president's power to make recess appointments and it was a rebuke, not of, i would say, this particular president, but presidents generally who had been using the recess appointments clause very broadly to bypass the senate confirmation process. a second reason i picked that case as a good example of this term is that it's damage example offun animity. but nottun animity in r.n.ing. it differs as to how they would approach a case. this nlb versus canning

in washington he's a scholar in residence at the center for israel studies at the american university in new york we have norman finkelstein he's a political analyst and author and in amsterdam we crossed him when rabbani he is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies are gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it norman if i can go to you first here how did we get to this point israel says it began when hamas kidnapped and murdered three israeli teens what's your take. i think if you don't mind i'd rather move that question because he's closer to the situation there ok due deference when we go ahead. well the fact of the matter is that so far we still don't know who abducted and killed these three israeli use israel him.

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january of 1997 i chaired a meeting by then been lisa anderson who is today the president of the american university a dialogue with the first delegation of the taliban that came to the united states. this was a delegation that came to new york about three or four months after they had taken control of kabul to ask the

even before my organization and i now have a reporting center at american university there are eighteen at universities teaching young people how to do it as students but also working with the new york times the washington post leading out this front line and other places so i see in call creating these values with a new generation but i also see partnerships we jointly hard a reporter a pulitzer prize winner with the washington post we didn't have enough money to arm ourselves my investigator porton workshop posted and so we did it together and we're sharing his salary a lot of creativity now in finding new ways to do deeper longer better stories the media landscape or in america is very barren i mean you have virtually no funding for organizations like yours i mean how do you train. people who are working with the center for public integrity to operate without conflicts of interests for future practices you disclose for a nonprofit you just close your donors it's very very important to do that you make sure the money is either general support just for the act of doing investigative re

it was started two years ago by the american university in nigeria as an attempt to reduce violence and promote peace. under the three states of emergency rule. it brings together community leaders who have been focusing on and empowering women, there is a muslim imam and evangelical bishop. >> without weigh peace we cannot continue offering help. >> reporter: in houses of worship they have been preaching tolerance. members of the initiatives say people are being used in this part of the country. >> the main focus in the interpretation class. >> they would definitely understand what boko haram is doing is not the right thing. >> but with this being one of the poorest regions on earth building peace require more, and that's why they started jobs in training programs. it's to help a generation facing minimum prospects in the shadow of persistence violence. al jazeera, nigeria. >> let's get more news from europe. >> adrian, tens of thousands men and women have been taking to the streets of northern ireland for the annual jul july 12th commemoration. with violence and riots previous years t

the american association of state colleges and universities. the american council on education, the association of american universities, the association of governing boards, the association of jesuit colleges and universities, the association of public and land grant universities, college and university professional association for human resources, the council for christian colleges and universities, the council of graduate schools, and the hispanic association of colleges and universities. that letter so much speaks to this issue. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: thank you. i would yield myself such time as i may consume. and let me just say, i ask unanimous consent to place in the record letters of support for the legislation from the american association of community colleges and the association of community college trustees, as well as the u.s. student association, united states student association. the speaker pro temp

. >> one out of four girls enrolled in american universities are raped or have sexual abuse while she's in college. only a fourth are reported, 1/6 as much in the civilian environment. >> and the other is the military. >> the military. >> you were a navy officer. what do you think -- >> a commanding officer doesn't want to admit in his chain of command in his company in his battalion that a lot of sexual abuse takes place. so he discourages the women from reporting it when they are taughted. same thing happens to the college presidents, to emery university or hard o harvard orf chicago or so forth. >> prosecution of sexual assault out of the chain of command -- >> i'm really disappointed. they made some slight improvements about how much you can harass a woman who is raped in court. there was a very horrible case of a midshipman in the naval academy where i attended, she was interrogated by the football player's defender, lawyer, 21 hours in three days and she asked to be left off, that off for the next day, because she was tired. and the judge ruled against her and made her testify on

. >> the following june, kennedy gives the famous peace speech at american university in which he talksnging our attitudes toward the soviet union. >> for in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. we all breathe the same air. we all cherish our children's future. and we are all mortal. >> kennedy and his people waited for any reaction from moscow at all. and then, they got the teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american president covered a complete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? let's give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. >> big deal soviet union, the same as united states and he was very proud we stopped testing and poison atmosphere. >> man's long hopeful quest for peace will cease to be only a