in september of 2000, ariel sharon made a visit to the temple mount that inflamed the palestinians. it was called the second intifada. now, some believe, president trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem might trigger the third. is that the biggest fear? tzipi livni: there is no excuse for terror, there is no excuse for violence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ sharyl: welcome to "full measure." i'm sharyl attkisson. this week, democrats demanded president trump be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct. republicans demanded the special counsel on conflicts of interest. meantime, new sexual harassment probes started up in congress in the past few weeks against congressmen blake farenthold and trent franks and senator al franken before he announced his resignation. today, we investigate what congress' ethics committees really do. are they hard core or a place in where ethics investigations a go to die? meredith mcgehee: people who live in glass houses don't li

the faltering peace process was derailed when former israeli prime minister ariel sharon visited temple mount in jerusalem that enraged the palestinians who consider this site to be islam's third holiest place that's when the second intifada began. it lasted five years. and was pushed down and little bit by some other events in the area. especially after the invasion of iraq and afghanistan and then all the other things and by the beginning of the second part of the arab revolutions in six countries in two thousand and one came nine eleven the worst terror attack in u.s. history. that completely refocus global media attention away from the israel palestine conflict to return and intermittently when the violence flared up. fast forward to twenty seventeen. therefore i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel israel and palestine i suddenly back on the agenda the world is in shock the u.s. is falling out with its allies this is you. this is a regrettable decision which france does not approve of and which contradicts international law the

ariel sharon is dead, yasser arafat is dead, yitzhak rabin was murdered.the roll call of names, maybe it does change the game. the immediate response amongst the younger generation of palestinian negotiators, there is no two state solution, we want to be citizens, let's play the demographic game. that could be a game changer. iran was mentioned. it is important to remember that over the last two months, there have been changes afoot negotiated by, not the state department book byjared kushner, son—in—law. he went to riyadh, saudi arabia. he has been three times, has built a relationship with the crowned prince. i would be very surprised if this hadn't been discussed in those overnight meetings. just picking up on that point, you can see this as a concession to israel's position, but others have suggested that it is not so much as a punishment to mohammed bass, the palestinian leader, because he went to riyadh and he was given instructions by the saudi arabian government, get this thing going. —— mahmoud abbas. he effectively said to trump, not on these ter

bush said to ariel sharon in a letter you can keep most of the settlements in any peace deal barack obama offered israel the biggest military aid package in history even while israel was bombing gaza twice during president none of those moments you didn't come out and say it's over now you're not impartial why now why do you sit someone say too little too late for the palestinian leadership because it was a limb is the heart of all the matter you're also limits thousands dying in gaza and that was happening with american. by israel that. was discussing politics now as far as a political strategic decision is the make it or break in jerusalem is the gate of peace or anxiety and confrontations we were we we were trying to believe and we were trying to hold against ok that the u.s. will come to one day to its role as a an equalizer mediator but to keep its policy which settlements are illegal find a solution is on the sixty seven borders and in the heart of that was the solution some people would say what do you have to show for coup. water of a century of peacemaker twenty five years or so

when you're talking about the second intifada there you're making reference of course to when ariel sharon went to the al aqsa mosque daniel levy in london explained to me if you can the recent israeli reaction to this because they were very hot for this then they got a bit lukewarm they're not cold when netanyahu was quite quiet on this topic. well i think the israeli position is and you heard it from the former prime minister barak. they should happen they're going to embrace it they are going to encourage it perhaps more vocally less vocally i think there may have been some hesitation in as much as they saw this playing out in american domestic politics more than it was playing out ves of the developments in the middle east and therefore some on the israeli side and certainly in the israeli security establishment may have thought. not a good idea now because this could undermine of the relations that israel has been quietly building in the region and of course i would add to what mr barghouti said that jerusalem does also matter to the approximately sixty million jews around the world i

we had ehud barak, ariel sharon, and olmert, and now netanyahu again.ot end up in court. and i hope this will be the case. i think that ultimately this will be the case here. sorry to disappoint you. well, you're not disappointing me. i'm just wondering if you're going to be disappointed. the bottom line is this — you say you want to lead the right, presumably, if you believe netanyahu's era is coming to an end sometime soon, you want to take the right into the next election. you do not want the israeli right to be tainted by sleaze. and right now, and again i'm going to quote are you somebody widely respected on the nationalist right, rabbi yuval cherlow, he went to the last big tel aviv street demo, asking for netanyahu to resign, and he said that the right should not force people to choose between their political point of view and backing a government that is leading a campaign against investigators and the free press. in the end, he says, people will choose their ethics and integrity over their political affiliation. that could be a big problem for

kind of entrenched positions the entrenched corners that they had even going back to when say ariel sharon went to the al aqsa mosque and that led directly to the last. intifada. indeed it is a case of wait and watch you've heard the comments from ismail haniya calling for a new interface either i mean one of the activists we spoke to yesterday said that the nature of this declaration in itself was different from what happened in july when israel imposed metal detectors at the al aqsa mosque compound and that physical imposition of such a hugely important and contentious religious sites was what brought so many thousands of people onto the streets for so many days in a row and that this more political slightly more removed declaration might not have that kind of intrinsic pull on people to bring them on to the streets in such a way but at the same time we did see those very widespread process on thursday throughout the uk by the west bank throughout gaza and there is a huge amount of anger frustration disappointment that this is happening that this city which is prized so highly by palesti

violence that will get out of control as was triggered by the visit of their opposition leader ariel sharon to the temple mount to rama sharif in september of. two thousand which launched the second intifada and once the violence began it was difficult to turn the clock back we have to hope that there will be restraint that there will be a continued an american attempt to give messages in the arab world and specifically to the palestinians that as president transparent speech in jerusalem status and future boundaries must be determined in negotiations the president did speak that if the parties do want two state solution the americans would support it and we have to hope that this speech by the president will not create the violence that will jeopardize our chances of ever getting back to the table again is there somebody that springs to mind who could bring all the parties back to the table a person an organization somebody that you think us could be that honest broker. i don't see that happening everyone's waiting now to see what trumps all to make a deal will look like he's supposed to p

territory among the major religions of the world for, you know, millenia, actually, and in 2000 ariel sharon set off the second inthat fad da. >> they know what a big speech this is. they said they did not reach this decision lightly. this is something they've been thinking about since the early days of the administration. it was a campaign says promise. but they do know this is a big moment. i would point out that the people who have got to this moment are a lot of newcomers to washington. of course, general mattis and general kelly, you know, are well steeped in these issues rex tillerson, jared kushner, greenblat, trump's real estate lawyer, the president himself, those are the people who have been involved in making this decision. so, while it has been a thoughtful one, it's -- it will tell if they know exactly what they're moving towards. >> we should point out, tillerson and mattis, according to my reporting, our reporting here, were against the decision but it was supported by vice president pence and nikki haley. shannon, thank you very much. thanks to eamon and richard engel, of cou

once he was in ariel sharon's house, we were standing right outside the door and as they were walkingll that the president had just gone into the rose garden and announced back in washington a whole new policy towards israel and settlements. not what the secretary of state was negotiating. then you have a situation where the secretary of state can never be credibly forceful with another foreign leader because they just say, i'm going to call the president, i'm going to call the white house. >> not that this has never happened before. it's that it's never happened with the kind of routine quality that it's happened in the past. >> on twitter, the velocity, the temp mental quality of don't waste your time. >> it's the context pipts the sound and fury, the little rocket man. it's all of that. what you say, andrea, about previous circumstances, absolutely true. it's what happens among grownups in government. but that's not what's happening now. >> when did we have grownups in government? as we go into this final week of congress, susan, and the politics of all this, it's clear that marco

peter, 17 years ago, we saw au ariel sharone, then the prime minister, a very conservative prime minister mode but actually more flexible than netanyahu has shown to be going to the temple mount, a holy site and it sparked the palestinians second intefada, revolt and a great deal of violence. >> we came close to something like that earlier this year when there was an attack at that same site and president netanyahu put metal detectors there caused a huge uproar. the trump administration helped defuse that. you see how volatile the region is, things that seem small to those of us over here or symbolic or unimportant have great, great impact in the region. that's why is this idea of calling it the capital may inflame things beyond what the trump administration hopes. >> eamon, i don't know if you've noticed this, but the u.n. general assembly president excoriated the u.s. saturday night in a quiet weekend move. the u.s. opted out of migration and refugee global talks which were to start in mexico in puerto vallarta. we're the only country that opted out of this just to be discussing the mig

and the armed forces were headed by men who now have senior minister ariel sharon's. in march nine hundred eighty three the chronicle state run newspaper published reports about defending the fifth brigade like ning the dissidents to cockroaches and bugs the minister said the bandit menace had reach such epidemic proportions that the government had to bring in d.d.t. to get rid of the bandits d.d.t. is an insecticide for decades victims like jane were lousy have been too frightened to talk jane still lives with physical injuries and having to watch her fourteen year old sister being raped and uncle was killed. cruel it's very painful as i speak it still hurts me those who took these things should come and apologize to us otherwise nothing has changed in current. special advisor to the president have this response to our report zimbabwe needs a break to continue as the erie diggins past to settle scores from the past is if it can not be the future is seemingly to and here for it's irresponsible energy away from what should be done every country's forwarded tortured his

bush said to ariel sharon in a letter you can keep most of the settlements in any peace deal barack obama offered israel the biggest military aid package in history even while israel was bombing gaza twice during president none of those moments you didn't come out and say it's over now you're not impartial why now why do you sit someone say too little too late for the palestinian leadership because it was a limb is the heart of or the matter you're also limits thousands dying in gaza was happening with american munitions and you were by israel that. was discussing politics now as far as a political strategic decision is the make it or break in jerusalem is the gate of peace or anxiety confrontations we were we we were trying to believe and we were trying to hold against ok that the u.s. will come to one day to its role as a an equalizer mediator but to keep its policy which settlements are illegal find a solution is on the sixty seven borders an image of the heart of that was the solution some people would say what do you have to show for a quarter of a century of peacemaking or twenty fi