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league summit a lot of arab countries proposed to exclude the arab peace initiative from the existing legal framework for a peace settlement and we were against it because we don't see any alternative just think about it there are three possibilities war no war no peace and peace how do the arabs want to go to war no if the reason no war but no peace it will only bring more misery the arab peace initiative introduces opportunities to secure peace but how can we secure peace we now have a viable initiative for the first time since one thousand nine hundred forty eight that israel hasn't responded to it yet and the arabs didn't bother to promote it hammer it's home to these railways and the americans no arab state took the trouble to tell the world well here's the arab peace initiative please read it it's only one page long and then many people could have realized that yes it is in fact a peace initiative but if the arabs had been serious they would have made sure that mass media all over the world buzzed about the arab peace initiative well the idea is simple if israel refused to adopt

what we have to be an arab member of the israeli parliament and also the leader of the arab movement for change dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. what is your reading of the recent elections israeli seem to have voted more same to end not as far right as was earlier predicted would you agree with us we thought that this knesset the nineteenth knesset will be much more radical than the eighteenth but i am not sure this impression is the right to the victory of the party of european there is a future his at it is. in the victory of the center. of liberals of the seculars he instilled. in large meant and strengthening the liquid does that mean good news for breakthrough in peace talks i'm not sure of that. usually israelis are in love with the process not with the peace they are talking a lot about peace but doing nothing nothing in order to achieve it there are fascinated with the along with fatah or with talking with negotiations as to see that this is the goal. but it is their tool not the goal and its tool to achieve peace meanwhile israel is trying to rearrange the

its arab minority we are the elected legitimate leadership of the arab minority we managed to stop or to change some of this is motions other motions we will not be able to stop the arab communist leader tough exam said that one demonstration is worth more than a year's work inside the israeli parliament what do you think sometimes yes sometimes not when we were here in the knesset and supported the withdrawal of israel from the settlements in gaza it was much better than thousand demonstrations but both can go together the mystery sions and parliament and that's what we are doing palestinian refugees in syria are caught in the middle of the fighting there many of them are now becoming refugees a second or third time over there is talk of them coming back to the west bank do you think israel will allow this i doubt there is a single palestinian president is willing he demanded that he does that but those are it is a reluctant. there is a tragedy for the palestinians in syria as it was in iraq as it was in kuwait we had one knocked about in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight we're

serving under our mayor lee who i would like to make a invite to make a few remarks in honor or of arab heritage month here in san francisco. >> thank you, thank you joaquin, thank you, welcome to our orange city hall. i want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and it's my pleasure to join us here and many of us know that we are such a lucky city, and we are lucky because people around their world make their way to fraction, find hopey until the city they know that we celebrate our diversity and find strength in the different cultures that pretend together and now, i ask you also to bring me talent from the arab america communities to make me and help me lune run the city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's

iraq is, whether sunni or shia, is profoundly an arab state and for many years was the vanguard of arab nationalism. i think we are going through an interval here wear because people lack a regional or international balance, iran has a disproportionate influence in iraq, but i think the farther they pressed that influence, as i saw during my time there, the more iraqis tend to push back and resent it. so i would seek probably a prolonged period where this will play out. iranian coverage is going to produce an iraqi backlash. they will have influence. they will not have control. >> let's talk about syria. there is a tendency here in washington to view maliki's acquiescence to overflights because of pressure. maliki has his own reasons for wanting to have assad in power. is a kinship between shia and alouites, is a concern that if his government is toppled it puts pressure on sectarian tensions within their record to help us understand why the maliki government is taking the position it is, regarding the conflict in syria. >> you look for simple explanations. many international jihadis en

these bus ads have a dramatic affect on the muslim arab community here. as a son of a muni bus driver, it really -- it affects me on a very personal level. talking to my father and hearing his reaction to the bus ads and other bus drivers from other nationalities and/or engines, so much hate and violence in our city for everyone to see has a negative effect on our community as a whole. all applaud the steps san francisco has taken. these ads are part of a pattern, a nationwide pattern of hate and bigotry that goes from different cities, new york, chicago and our city to take this kind of stance, it shows the leadership and the right thinking of our city officials and leaders. and these ads have the effect on the community which is why i stand in affirmation for this resolution and hope to see the report get funded. i hope to see this environmental report get funded because it will show the different layers and dynamics and complexities of these ads and how they result to the arab muslim community in san francisco. whether student going to the school and b

i am a first-generation arab in this country. she wanted to see me married to an arab. i married an arab and two months after i was married, she died. >> hinojosa: your mom... you know, and i guess you want other young women to say, "look, even if your mom doesn't show you love and criticizes you and maybe turns away..." what, "plod forward"? "it's okay"? "there will be a hole in your heart but, you know, it will make you stronger"? you know, the fact that you talk about having the arab immigrant roots, that there is a real strong sense of patriarchy and men having power, i think... i'm like, do you want young immigrant women to be reading this and saying, "wow, i never thought diane rehm was a daughter of arab immigrants, but i'm going to learn from her"? >> i think that writing finding my voice, people have asked me, "was it catharsis?" and my response is, no, it was revelation. it was revealing to myself who i was, where i came from, what influenced me growing up. and the extraordinary part was that finishing that book, maria, i began to realize how much courage my m

it was just a reminder of that, but i think the arab spring, the chapters around the arab spring are a perfect example of what this book is trying to do. it's trying to bring the reader into, or give the reader a front seat row to diplomacy in action. it's a great way to travel around the world, sitting in your chair, getting a history lesson on international affairs, and learning how to connect the dots, learning how one crisis affects another, another region. how what happens in far-flung areas actually affects people in the united states. and trying to do in a very accessible way that makes it engaging for people thinking in the florida or oregon or not quite sure why they should care about the arab world drama it's an interesting topic, jumping off point for the discussion of american power. for all this talk of american decline, you write in the book that no matter how maybe some people in the region didn't see america as always a benevolent force, in the midst of the storm for these revolution, no one was calling out to china for recognition. they were still going out for ameri

intimate life in a arab world.or joining us. >> my pleasure. >> what can we learn about the transformations in the arab world from their sex lives? >> well, the sexual and the political are intertwined. and so for example, the patriarchy, just because we got rid of the father of the nation in egypt or tunisia doesn't mean that the patriarchy has gone away. and so it is much harder to stand up to the father of the family. and you see this reflected in sexual life. so for example, many of the wives i met were longing for more romance, more communication, more spark in the bedroom. yet they felt inhibited to actually express this to their husbands. many young women, for example, would love to see that their bodies are their own. that they're not the question of the family's honor under the control or the supervision of their father or their uncle or their brother. the patriarchy is alive and well. and what i argue in the book is unless we can start to change these attitudes in the bedroom, it will be very hard to chan

the arab league welcoming these syrian main opposition leader into the fold. hello from doha. this is the world news from al- jazeera. more protests in cyprus. the banks remain closed and now, word of resignation from the bank of cyprus. building a new order. south of africa hosting a summit from the world's leading emerging economies. china roaring back to the no. 1 spot. --it feels good right now tireder roaring back. i was crawling from iphone of all the people who have textrted name with all the messages that say thank you. >> we begin meant breaking news out of cyprus. ward is commander that the chairman of the bank of cyprus has submitted his resignation. we're going to go straight to one of our correspondents about this, john, what can you tell us? are we talking central bank or one of the commercial banks? the governor of the biggest commercial bank in cyprus, the bank of cyprus, not the central bank. -- >> this is the governor of the biggest central commercial bank. he is reported to be saying that the refinancing and restructuring plan that the bank of cyprus, which

in troy the arabic to find out more visit arabic. the arab league summit currently underway in qatar has affirmed the right of member states to give military support to the syrian rebels and that is according to the gathering's draft resolution britain france and recently been pushing for direct arms supplies to the opposition let's get more now from the editor of the online blog the syria tribune dr ali mohamed. the gulf states have been allegedly sending arms to syria's rebels for a long time now anyway will official resolution actually change anything. the mother of the girl. they wanted to be. the two for the opposition they could only have been saying they were things in large quantities and they have been sending him sam. i don't think they can do any more if they were just keeps him they were they have been sending. and media coverage at the moment the show is that what they are doing is legal and covered by the arab league would also mean perhaps if it is now legal that would get more weapons coming from those states and woul

but moving on the arab spring. showed that other things that are going on that aren't focused on the conflict, and arab spring dominated a lot of her time as secretary of state. it happened suddenly. no one was anticipating it happening, at least at that moment. maybe they believed down the road stability would not be maintained with the dictatorships. what was it like to be covering the state department at the time of the arab spring and how is the state department handling all these things happening at once. >> guest: they were scrambling to keep up with the change. everybody was. the europeans, the russians, the chinese perhaps to a lesser extent. they're much fer their away and their own domestic concerns, but going back to the point i was making at the beginning, it was reminder that the superpower is run by human beings. we're people. what are we going to do? what are the long-term consequences, how should we handle this? what about mubarak. what happens if we say to mubarak, you have to good. what happens to

the arab league has given the syrian seek to the opposition council. one of many countries to recognize them as the legitimate representatives of the syrian people. we are just the sight of the meeting. >> the meeting is ongoing, but i can say that an arab official attended based on the seats from the syrian national coalition. remember in march the call on and now theon were kind of forced for some several months i would say to you the back seats. another thing to talk about as the prime minister and concern that the leader of the syrian national coalition in the therim will be attending arab league summit on tuesday and wednesday. >> how do you see these developments out of the arab league? developing and impacting those countries in syria? i am not sure it will have a direct impact on the ground, but definitely on the diplomatic front at least there is some sort of community within arab states. i need to mention those three countries from the meeting being represented by the foreign minister in algeria and lebanon, either the state or the expression

or in arabic music ajan, a-j-a-n, ajan.een those three two notes, and i'm referring to the third note i played, or i can fit another interval in between that we call quartertone. [guitar strumming] and many people think it's kind of weird or it sounds out of tune, but it is not. it's a quality that, if you are born in certain region that practice this type of music or if you get used to it, like many american students who study with me for years and years-- they got used to it and they perform it perfectly. [spirited violin plays] i went to school in the early '80s, at manhattan school of music, and i specialized on violin, and one of the top violinists then used to come and give us master classes was heinrick szering, the polish violinist. in one of the master classes, i was supposed to perform i think it was a beethoven sonata on the violin and piano, and after i finished, he said, you know, he commented on my playing, and before i leave the stage, i asked to play another piece of music. so i took the violin again and the

>> arab states agreed to armed syrian troubles. you are watching al jazeera. takearriage protesters their fight to the steps of the u.s. supreme court in washington. the new chinese president cements trading ties with south africa. it is the main ingredient of cocaine, but bolivia has big plans to commercialize the coca leaf industry. the arab league has given a clear signal of support to this jury and the national coalition -- to the syrian national coalition. in its annual meeting, they've also agreed to arm the rebels. 24th arabrt of the league summit, leaders honored -- trying to find a solution to many regional issues. the spotlight was on this man. invited him to represent syria at the summit. the summit on behalf of the syrian people. >> we thank all of the government to supported us. the role to be played by the united states is much bigger. nato s.requested allies of innocent civilians. we do not wish to fight, we want to protect innocent civilians. >> the war in syria has dominated the summit. qatar called on the war to act. >> -- on the world to act

it is is a global religion it's not it's not confined for instance to arabs or to sit to mashonaland to you know so when we talk about islam. it depends. and how it's been conceived how it's been understood when it was conceived in the right way it managed to build a civilization still one of the bests of civilizations in history where even westerns it was through the students used to come to. in spain they come to the highlands of of the middle east just to. chemistry you know this was the real islam which respects the human mind which. human beings with with the mission to be. the holy fits of god on this earth you know that they'd be creators they'd be peace the creator of peace had cheever's that they be peace lovers you know this is that he had a message of islam you know but sometimes it's misunderstood though misinterpreted by others and this misinterpretation or misconception sometimes gives a very distorted picture of islam and at the end some sort of very negative stereotype results as the one which associates islam with terrorism street islam with cordons. with a ten ten a

>> because he was trying to curry favor with the arabs. >> rose: he thought the arabs would not favor if he made a speech in cairo and made a speech in jerusalem. >> i think that was right. >> rose: was that the correct judgement. >> no, it was a huge mistake. i think he would probably admit that it was a mistake now. but it was a-- it wasn't just an error of scheduling, because for the next three and a half years he barely spoke to the israelis. he gave i think one television interview. he had a foreign service officer whom he didn't even know as ambassador to israel. he didn't send his own ambassador to israel. >> rose: that was george mitchell. >> and he appointed george mitchell to go off and do this. but george-- but essentially, he, the president of the united states after 16 years of president's showering unalloyed affection on the people of israel, bill clinton, george w. bush, comes as president, cold in nature, was distancing himself to israel. the message the israelis got across the spectrum was he doesn't like us. he doesn't talk to us. and he doesn't care about us. >> ros

the question of islam is very acute in every country that underwent the arab spring what kind of islam and democracy plenty you envisage for libya you see first of all. it is is a global religion it's not it's not confined for instance to arabs sort of to sit in nationality you know so when we talk about islam. it depends. and how it's been conceived how it's been understood when it was conceived in the right way it managed to build a civilization still one of the bests of civilizations in history where even westerns it was through the students used to come to. in spain they come to the highlands of of the middle east just to learn chemistry you know this was the real islam which respects the human mind which. human beings with with the mission to be. the holy fits of god on this earth you know that they be creators they'd be peace the creator of peace had cheever's that they'd be peace lovers you know this is that he message of islam you know but sometimes it's misunderstood there misinterpreted by others and this misinterpretation of misconception sometimes gives a very distorted pic

welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: why do you use the term arab awakening rather than say arab spring. >> that's a very important question because i have the very beginning i didn't buy the fact that we were witnessing the spring and even revolutions. from the the very beginning i said i'm cautiously optimistic about what is happening saying that yes there is something which is irreversible. that the people in egypt, libya to start with and then other countries, are now aware that it's possible to get freedom through leaderships and it can change. this is something that should happen now. in political terms and as to the future we still have a lot to see and to do over there to get something which has to do with the democratization process. >> rose: you believe that in fact what has to happen is that middle east has to produce new models of democracy. >> yes. i think when it comes to the principles, you know, all the discussion about is i lam compatible with democracy. that's this question we have to start w i think that nothing in the democratic principals are against the islamic promis

the arab league suspended syria's membership in the arab league and at that time lebanon did not take a position on that. the country is too rise stand any position by the government will only bring more problems, it says. the prime ago minister was criticized for his position on syria, saying that positionrees and says p is stated only by the foreign minister. >> in kenya, under the elections officials from across the country have been flown into the capital nairobi to help count the votes. more than 300,000 ballots from monday's election were ejected for failing to follow strict voting guidelines. that is delaying the announcement of the results. let's go to our correspondent in nairobi where young kenyans are using technology to monitor what is happening around the country. what is the latest? when do we expect results? >> we just heard from the iebc with a statement saying 53 of those returning officers are now in nairobi. the rest of them are still to arrive. we are expecting them hereby road and by air. once they arrive, they will give their results, which will be verified and m

i'm here to support the resolution standing with muslim and arab communities in the face of anti-arab and anti-muslim bus advertisements, item 35 on injure agenda. we thank the supervisors on this resolution and urge the full board to pass it. and you may be able to do more. as you know, the sfmta accepted the first ad, the savage ad last august after the u.s. district court ruled that the new york mta which had refused the same ad did not have a legal right to do so. however, in that opinion the judge said, today's ruling does not disable city authorities from adopting rules that hold ads on buses to a standard of civility. today's ruling instead leaves and is intended to leave mta, the latitude to investigate and experiment in alternative mechanisms by using ad space on city buses, productively, profitably, and constitutionally. perhaps reflecting this part of the judge's ruling in their press release on the savage ad, the san francisco mta said, going forward we will review our policy with regard to ads on the muni system. but the mta has agreed to put these new discriminatory ads

i think the arab spring, the chapter around the arab spring is an example of what the book is trying to do. it's trying to bring the reader into, or give the reader a front row seat to diplomacy in action. it's a great way to travel around the world sitting in your chair, getting a history lesson on international affairs and learning how to connect, learning how one crisis affects another, another region and how what happens and far-flung areas affects people in the united states and i tried to do it in a very accessible way that makes it engaging for people sitting in you know florida or oregon who are not quite sure why they should care about the arab world. >> host: an interesting topic jumping off the point in the discussion of american power because of this talk about american decline the rate the book -- in the book no matter how some people in the region see america as always a benevolent force in the midst of that storm or of these revolutions no one is calling out to china for recognition. they are still calling out to america in some way or another. yes go they are and when

the arab world gave us 9/11. the arab of arab world is the heartland of islam. we don't-- there wasn't much to fight over in afghanistan. afghanistan was a place that a bunch ofis arabs jihaddists and financiers hijacked and rented out. if you want to engage in the reform of the eastern world, the reform of the-- then hutow come into the heart as many of thew bush people would say the heart of the middle east, the heart oh the arab world. m so i think that that really was the battle. the battlet was not in kabul. the battle was really inat baghdad. >> let's go back to syria. here we have a humanitarian catastrophe. 70,000 dead, you know, which ish probably a low figure at this point. and we are, the united states largely sitting it out. we're largely watching from the sidelines as thisapps.si and the longer this war goes on, the bad effects of that war are going to spread into jordan, into iraq, as we've already seen, spoa lebanon, and we're just watching. and i think we're just watching because of iraq. we look at syria, and we see iraq, and we see, look, if pr

it is is a global religion it's not it's not confined for instance to arabs or to sit in national t.v. you know so when we talk about islam. it depends. and how it's been conceived how it's been understood when it was conceived in the right way it managed to build a civilization still one of the bests of civilizations in history where even westerns it was true the students used to come to. in spain they come to the highlands of of the middle east just to learn chemistry you know this was the real islam which respects the human mind which. human beings with with a mission to be. the holy fits of god on this earth you know that they'd be creators they'd be peace create a peace had cheever's that they'd be peace lovers you know this is that a message of islam you know but sometimes it's misunderstood though misinterpreted by others and this misinterpretation or misconception sometimes gives a very distorted picture of islam and at the end some sort of very negative stereotype results as the one which associates islam with tourism seat islam with cordons. with a ten ten a come and learn t

programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots skiffy ip interviews intriguing story for you to. see in trying. to find out more visit our big t.v. show it's called. thanks for staying with us here on r t twenty one minutes past the hour now china is officially reassigned its top jobs ushering in the new premier and president lee qui carrying has become the head of the government xi jinping has assumed the presidency in a once in a decade transition of power there the newly elected president already held phone talks with u.s. president barack obama and said it was about mutual respect washington's been trying to gain a stronger foothold in asia continuously seen as one of its top foreign policy goals and show support to regional allies japan and south korea it's been expanding extending its military region the region china expert martin jake's been famous thinks the move the more china grows in power the more concerned the u.s. may become that's the whole way now in which the chinese leadership

>> item 35 is a resolution standing with muslim and arab communities in the face of anti-arab and anti-muslim bus advertisements. >> thank you. colleagues, last week i introduced this resolution to stand with our muslim and arab communities in the face of antiarab and antimuslim bus advertisements. i want to just take a moment and thank all of the co-sponsors here on the board as well as the 75 organizations who came together on this issue that represent our diverse ethnic community, civil rights, labor, social justice and religious organizations and ask for your support. madam clerk, could you call the roll. >> on item 35, supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. there are nine ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. colleagues, we have one additional item on our calendar and that is our 3:30 special commendations related to women's history month. why don't i suggest that we recess for