part, of course, the core of the arabs praying was the arab countries and their revolts.at the beginning they resulted with true goals, first of the overthrow of the existing autocrats and the replacement of autocratic regimes with new democratic ones. where does this stand? well, four of the five argon. the exception is bashir. the worst of the lot. but the establishment of new democratic regimes has largely failed to materialize. what happened? obviously different factors in different countries have contributed. nobel we will explore those differences. here i would like to focus on egypt which seems to be the most crucial or important and also happens to be largely the focus of the article. first, the largest arab country and thus is looked to as our model. a genuinely democratic revolution in the sense that it held more less free elections, multiple free elections which produced a new regime. the islamist regime of the muslim brotherhood. a new regime whose character is so uncertain but who may amount to the restoration of egyptian and autocracy. what happens? how does

the arab regimes were sick and tired of the arab-israel conflict.'s give it back to the palestinians. let the palestinians fight their own fight from now, and that's when you have arafat emerging. and then, you have the physical reality that was different. israel had more than tripled its size in six days, extraordinary, and israel had the means now to bargain for peace. november, 1967 a few months after the end of the war, the un passes resolution 242, which implies a deal of territory for peace, which remains the basis for all middle east mediation to this very day. that was the document. israel had more than tripled its size in six days, extraordinary, and israel was later to get a peace treaty with egypt by giving back the sinai. if israel is to have a peace treaty with syria, it is because israel conquered the golan heights in '67. and even if there is to be a peace between israel and the palestinians, it will be a basis of a territorial deal that arose as a direct result of the '67 war. c-span: you told us that you're still in the reserves and

>> al jazeera arabic is the most watched arabic channel in the arabic world.l jazeera english, we were trying to give all sides of the story. i don't think we pushed one group head of another. i've been a reporter for 25 years. i don't have any allegiance to any group. i have no reason to stand by one group or another. we don'tay the same -- push one side more than other side. we are still trying to get all sides of the story. there is a huge crackdown going on in all of the media in egypt. the domestic press told the government line. we don't speak out against or they are in trouble. the international press, i would are muted now. they know that they really do run the risk if they start to push back those boundaries and interview people that the government does not want them to. or explore the points of view. they run the risk of being rounded up and put in prison next our guys. >> it is having a chilling effect in your judgment. >> a huge chilling effect. are considering closing their own bureaus in cairo. has are aghast at what happened today. the broadcast

the sunni arabs in iraq and aided and abetted by thew%@$áoÑy the forces of the sunni arabs and the arabld around iraq. they really had no apologies to offer. indeed they did the reverse and they began the war against the shi'a. the irony is they were sectarian vengeance and killing. where we are now, you're right, you are right in you take a look at the shi'a. suddenly now these a balance of terror in roork because the shi'a who are the victims now have their own militia. the brigade and the army have come into the fight and these are terrible forces. the forces of darkness, forces of bigotry. there are kids without jobs, and they dabble in sector tainer violence. but as a remarkable man, the president of the country said some of the sunni arab leaders in iraq, their responsibility for the violence against the shi'a. they never reigned in their community, they never understood having been the main stain of the saddam regem. you don't turn around and unleash violence against the shi'a. i think the images that framed the iraq war, one for me was april 9, 2003 the fall of the statute. and

for them an arab is an arab. in september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. ♪ >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >> i

arabic correspondent rima i will come da sitting down with me to fill us in on the latest economic happenings in around the middle east it's all done up to. our lead story today u.s. tax was always a white being sarcastic there now under new rules announced by the i.r.s. on wednesday if folks with offshore bank accounts don't disclose those accounts to the internal revenue service by august then those individuals are going to face dramatically steeper penalties than if they just fessed up to holding those accounts a couple months prior now starting august fourth taxpayers making such voluntary disclosures about offshore bank accounts we have to pay a penalty of fifty percent have fifty percent of the accounts entire value that's a lot of money and not. current twenty five point seven percent for sure now the penalties are among changes to the irises offshore voluntary disclosure program a program that has drawn forty five thousand account holders and six point five billion dollars since two thousand and nine this will particularly affect u.s. citizens of the one hundred and six swiss banks ba

for them an arab is an arab.september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. he the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking

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it does not meet with his sunni arab political partners when he had any. and his government does not provide much in the way of services to the sunni arab cities. share in the oil wealth. they do not have regular electricity. they do not have services. they were fired from their government jobs in favor of shiite cronyism, the ruling shiite parties, something called detoxification on the model of denazification in postwar .ermany high school teachers were fired, and so forth. you have unemployment, a lack of invest it, a lack of services, and the sunni arabs in parliament are given the message they are a minority in parliament and they will always be a minority in parliament and will always lose every vote in parliament from here on into eternity, so they are just not going to put up with that anymore. i want to turn to comments made by secretary of state john kerry on the crisis unfolding in iraq. -- >> i want to turn to comments made by secretary of state john kerry on the crisis unfolding in iraq. he was speaking monday to katie couric on yahoo! news. >

is highly unlikely given the arab world. , and iraq, a broader sectarian war in the region?> they are very worried about it. on the commenting situation in iraq and also more importantly in syria. withares a common border syria. we have seen spillovers. -- week if the nationstates collapse at some point in syria and iraq, if au look at a map, you have quarter right there that goes straight from iran to israel. a great situation indeed for many israelis. >> thank you indeed for the update. william hague has been paying a visit to iraq. a deep crisis in which sunni jihadist had overrun five. malki as well as the regional president, his message to them echoes what the u.s. secretary of state and john kerry told him earlier on in the week. voice calling for decisive action from baghdad. william hague was in the iraqi capital on thursday, urging the prime minister to form a unity government. calls have been ignored to bring all religions and ethnic groups into an emerging coalition. the position in iraq could only be political. >> we believe the single most important tactic that

maliki is fairly strong with the majority shia there sixty iraqis sixty percent only twenty percent arab sunni so you know in the long run the regime should be stable and i expect them to be able to resist the isis offensive from here on out but you're right to ask the question about u.s. involvement and my advice would be to stay out of it militarily the the maliki government once it organizes itself should be able to resist this i mean one of the reasons it wasn't resisting in the north was because of the sectarian factor the sunni people up there simply turned on the shia led army of iraq stephen in new york but my look he's had quite a few years to get himself organized and let's not forget about that twenty five billion dollars in military assistance and training i mean if he couldn't get himself organized the last eight years what why would we expect that in the next few months and well i think that's a good question i think the fact is that he has presided over a diminishing regime even though he was supposedly demur democratically elected he failed to include in his government ma

world in light of the arab-israeli conflict, and link that to the fact he chose the arab world as a place of refuge as well. >> i think that one -- it's very interesting, he had a large body of pseudo academic research he did about a group that he called the kazars which is an empire in what today would be ukraine and areas around that, saying that most european jews are actually converts and not september rick people from israel, and he has this report which says it is impossible to have antisemitism because european jews are not semites, and so he fit very much into the popular egyptian attitude toward israel and toward jews, and actually one of nassar's propaganda ministry employees or managers, omar amean, was actually mr. funlares who was a propagandaist for hitler so it was a neat fit in some ways for someone like him. the one that became more and more uncomfortable as the dynamic between israel and egypt changed over time. >> if i might add something to your second question, that the denial of the holocaust, i think, you mentioned that in the arab world. yes, that was indeed.

probably the greatest arab leader, the most charismatic arab leader ever. nobody to compare to him now. the short version of it is he brought 1,000 tanks and 100,000 egyptian soldiers into the sinai desert threatening israel's existence. then syria, jordan, same thing. again, the short version of the story is in six day as the jewish people defeated the combined arab armies, captured the west bank, captured jerusalem and the key moment of this, the emotional climax of this thing, i remember this vividly from 1967, when israeli paratroopers pass through the lion's gate, a gate in the walls of jerusalem and reached the western wall. there were moments of secular paratroopers who didn't know how to pray, baking their brother paratroopers to teach them how to pray and it was sort of an overwhelming moment in jewish history. the 2,000 year cycle, finally came to its conclusion at that moment. to me as a writer, you look for not just the surface stuffs. not just the actual events, the bourse for, the action scenes but what does it mean? we were talking about this

certainly our arab league orders have been crying about it. to have a dialogue in a different way that hopefully influence the debate, so by 2016 we have a bunch of americans who are truly interested in national security, international engagement, economic prosperity for the next generation. that i just don't hear. and that regard, i am looking forward to that challenge. >> as a journalist, the idea of having access to all that information, sort of like a kid in a candy store. are you starting to feel a period of withdrawal in terms of knowing so much? >> the problem was, things seem to get worse. in that regard, without the campaign moving over my head, i spend a lot more time down there trying to go through all of this. i've had my conversations by the way with the white house and expressed my concerns. we've had our disagreements and we had our agreements. and i think it was right that the president made the decision to send 300 advisors with the right mix of individuals that he did. good on you. now we have a lot more to do. but there come

war, there's a war staten the secular arab and al qaeda. the secular arab state is assad. he's fighting al qaeda. who should we support in that were? that is one of the reasons that this is so difficult. wins, weem is if assad fixed the al qaeda problem, but iran is the big winner. >> exactly. bigger problems. >> but if assad loses -- >> hezbollah and iran are the big winners. >> correct. if assad loses, we have this mess in syria. who knows? we have this mess in syria. it may break apart. al qaeda has a safe haven. the losers are ron and hezbollah , we are also big losers. there is a potential for spill over. a safe haven for al qaeda. >> levy put this into the middle of the table. this is not our problem. it is too complicated. we cannot make this work. madever mistakes have been , they have been made. you guys fight it out. >> i would say two things to that. one is that we -- one of our sitsallies on the planet in the middle of this mess, israel. that is a strategic interest for the united they and the political interest. 70% to 80% of the american public supports israe

arab league special envoy to syria last month.ermeen shaikh and i interviewed him yesterday from paris. dr. the biggest mistake was to invade iraq. know, invaded iraq, you would be probably very unfair, that am tempted to say every time there was a choice between something right and something wrong, not very often the right option was taken. want one instance of what was wrong, it is probably the dissolution of the army because the army was the backbone of the country. because the army was nonsectarian. majority of the soldiers were shia. and i think in the officer corps, it would be very interesting to take a look back, and you would find that there were a lot of shia in it. saddam was not -- i mean, did not care about who was sunni or shia. cared who was with him and considered, whom he as loyal 1000% and whom he does not. i asked some american friends a couple of times -- i don't know if you remember the deck of cards with saddam being the ace of spades. 54 bad guys in iraq, i used to ask my american friends whether they knew h

have they felt -- and this survey, this new zogby poll you've got, arab attitudes throughout the arabent, have they felt disappointed that he hasn't been able to deliver? is . >>> i think disappointment is the word. the plummet when the numbers were so high to 2011 where they sank to bush era lows. >> there are different at. >> uae numbers are very high. palestinian numbers are very high. they don't think he is going deliver. he went there and the speech in jerusalem, people remember the israel part. the compassionate speaking about palestine was forgotten by others. so one we say high, we're talking 30%. >> thanks for having me and continuing the conversation. >> years from now we will have another conversation. >> i hope sit better. >> we will see what happens. up next, it's been 100 years since the birth of commercial aviation. much has changed in the airline industry since then but one thing has remained constant. a delicate balance of highry risk and high reward. we will explain when we come back. >> in today's across the skies, richard quest looks at the challenges for an indust

we have a lot in common with some of these arab partners. of all, you know, they all want to calm the situation down. it's true, everyone does, except for maybe iran. and i think our first strategic criteria should be make sure that iran doesn't take advantage of the situation and grow their territory and grow their influence. >> okay, let's take it there, then. if you're talking about diplomacy, that makes a lot of people nervous, saying you shouldn't be talking to people who could possibly be terrorists. so, who are we talking about having diplomatic conversations with? who should be leading those conversations? where does iran fit in? because iran, perhaps, is standing by, waiting to take some ground because of the deteriorating situation there in iraq. so, how does this all work? it's very complicated. >> well, i would argue that iran is not standing by. they're already there. there are reports that they're already inside baghdad, really manipulating the situation. >> good point. >> so, what they want is they want maliki to stay. so, we

i have a chapter on arab identities. we have multiple aspects of our identity, which won the services to the top at any given time? i am multiple things. everybody is multiple things. the one that rises to the top is the one under assault. the one that is the most threatened, people rally behind that. they also rally behind the one that is most. against there going islamic state in iraq because they see how it is threatening to them as an ethnic group and the religious sect. people rally. the christian identity is rising . you are what you have to to defend at a given time. when the state is not there to defend you, what are you going to rally behind? let's realize that when people have no recourse, look back at the iraq iran war. hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the 1980's. have the shia breakaway and support them and it did not happen. they were loyal to iraq. the arabs toet live in iran along the border to breakaway and become agents of iraq and it did not work. they were loyal. these loyalties are conne

between the arab neighbors of israel. therefore, what are the options? >> i think -- your goal is number three. >> we have to go all the way for number three. going in, to me, means diplomatic negotiations at the highest levels. intense pressure on maliki and on the kurds. not only from us, but from the moderate gulf states that have been hands off. they do not like maliki. they will have to get over that. they will have to get over the fact that the shia have been in charge. they will have to deal with the new iraq. >> isis has to get rid of them as well. >> that is their incentive. it is not just diplomatic in my mind. there is a military play here. providing assistance to the iraqi military whether it is intelligence, equipment, or airstrikes or even putting guys on the ground in small numbers to help the iraqis make the right strategic decisions. that would reinforce the diplomatic piece of number three. is the united states -- it makes it more difficult for the iranians to come in. >> you would argue that based on the experience of what you have sai

arab and african leaders were there to show support for egypt's new leader. one of the leading judges of the constitutional court describes sisi as the man who saved the nation from what he called the tierney from the muslim brotherhood. >> the army and the people united against tierney on the 30th of june. it is an event celebrate today. it was not a military coup. it was a revolution of the people. >> now that he has assumed power, the new president faces a string of delicate issues. poverty, rising unemployment, and an economy in at that timers. his inauguration was held under tight security. the cust tree has been beset by violence and instability since the july, 2013 coup that deposed mohammed morsi. he was egypt's first democratically elected president. he is now in jail facing charges oftrieson. he has ruled out any compromise with the banned muslim brotherhood and insists we storing security will be his top priority. >> has led many people to worry the current clampdown against his opponents like this muslim brotherhood protesters may not end any time

those bases in those towns, which are along the so-called disputed areas between the kurds and the arabs of iraq. the forces which are kurdish forces moved in to make sure none of the military hardware would fall to the who understands of the isil and those and its allies. according to one of the sources we talked to, they seem to understand that the isil did not understand there were no more iraqi army per se soldiers in those bases. there was a big fight between the two sides, but the bases were held and the isil left. now this is a situation that's really concerning the kurds here, all these bases that are being evacuated even in kirkuk is full of military hardware. just one base evacuated, they find 400 armored vehicles and tanks which are sophisticated tanks given by the americans to the iraqi army. it is the position at the moment that we will not go on the attack, we are in self defense, but in our disputed areas and all the areas where there is a kurdish presence, we will make sure that none of these bases and none that have hardware falls into the hands of the isil or its allies

in troy arabic. visit arabic t.v. . and the rest. will be everything. now nato chief founders fogh rasmussen will soon leave his post and it's just this questions are raised over exactly how he got that job back in two thousand and nine leaked documents posted on wiki leaks suggest that does mark agreed to start proceedings to close an international kurdish channel for the been broadcasting from copenhagen that took place in two thousand and nine. at the time when rasmussen was prime minister of the country in exchange turkey reportedly promised to back him for the position of nato secretary general so why was turkey so worried about these broadcasts well ankara claims that raj t.v. was a mouthpiece for the kurdistan workers party which fights for the rights of the kurdish minority and is considered a terrorist organization in turkey and in the west the channel started broadcasting in two thousand and four and in two thousand and ten it was officially accused in denmark of promoting terrorist activities and then early this year the channels license was

arabic has said that the i.d.f. may have x. without any kind of documentation that proves that whoever it is raiding is in fact affiliated with terrorists but when he asked when there was proof that r.t. in fact was affiliated with any party that proof was very short in coming i can tell him no where is the intelligence that you've got to prove that r.t. was somehow or anyhow related to any political movement the i.d.f. has said that if after the examination of the discs and equipment that it has confiscated it is clear that there is no terror related content in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic israeli troops have shot dead two palestinians bringing the number of deaths to force and start of a cracked out on hamas but we go also saw three hundred palestinian suspects arrested in connection with the students abduction gideon levy a reporter for israeli newspaper ha'aretz thinks the idea of separation has gone beyond the stated aim of the finding the missing teenagers. i seeing that disappear ation went out of propos

problem in iraq the long term problem is the steve just pointed out this lack of of including the arab sunni in their leadership or the kurds for that matter in governance of all of iraq that's that's the key to the future whether it's maliki or another leader. but i don't see the u.s. playing a big military role apart from maybe intelligence and some advice. in the back rooms of steve in the islamic state of iraq in syria it's media it's played up is a very vicious terrorist group and there are some really vicious people in that group but if we look at the insurgency in iraq it's just a lot of people that are just disaffected by this government and i think western media overplays the terror element well i think that this terror on both sides i mean let's let's be frank about it but i think the problem is that i see this is considered more of a demonic than even the al qaeda group that apparently al qaeda has sort of warsaw its hands with isis so i think that it's fair to say that that that group is a fairly diabolical organization and is willing to slaughter what's they regard as reli

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arabic has said that the i.d.f. never acts without any kind of documentation that proves that whoever it is raiding is in fact affiliated with terrorists but when he asked where it was proof that r.t. in fact was affiliated with any party that was very short in coming the spokesman of israel defense force was claiming that israeli forces never. never acting without any documents without any exact specific intelligence well i can tell him now where is the intelligence that you have got to prove that r.t. was somehow or anyhow related to any political the i.d.f. has said that if after the examination of the discs and equipment that it has confiscated it is clear that there is no terror related content in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic will keep you posted on the meantime paula was talking about the ongoing home for these three missing teenagers this week saw three hundred palestinian suspects arrested in connection with a student's abduction gideon levy a reporter for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz told

the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't teach don't call. you back with us here on r t international an annual family festival in britain this week turned into an all out smelly after a gang of neo nazis attacked party go a step being one man one thought though is that the mob wasn't even made up of britons but rather it was polish immigrant witnesses say this aliens shouted profanities and forth and threw bottles at the crowds before police arrived since then have been nearly daily protest against new nazi activity such as are for it was at today's march. where here just looking out of mostly a park at the moment in north london that was where nancy fascist demonstration had taken place i know you've got some of the demonstrators have left the park and the marching out onto the streets of london peaceful demonstration today. there would be no peace is that the best way to fight new naziism violently rather sure that was the only way to far north is to fight and not to stand there and say we don't like you know we don't like you that you kno

continue on this sunday morning with shibley telhami, a professor, and the author of the world through arab eyes. we appreciate you being with us. . back,t to take a step because we have been hearing so much about the sunnis and the shias. we thought it would the interesting to give our audience a lesson into this conflict that that dates back to the seventh century. guest: as a cautionary note, to understand that a lot of these divisions are the logical, and the principal political -- theological, and in principle, political. when the prophet mohammed died, there was a battle over succession. the majority selected the successor, there was a minority , also hisd his cousin son-in-law, to succeed him. means the party of valley, from that beginning. it was a battle of succession that flared up into a battle for iraq. of hussein, who was also the expected successor, was killed. from that point on you had this very deep divide in his long. still, there were very much a minority in the muslim world, as they are today. if you look at over the billion muslims in the world, the shia represent 20% o

one, we need to reengage our arab league partners. they have forgotten in what is really lack of decision. by the way, without those decisions you enable the ecosystem of terrorism to living well. >> military sense? >> yes. >> the aircraft carrier "bush." should the president get involved, should we launch military strikes against isis? >> we need to do something to stop their momentum. you can do it two ways, one with our arab league partners, they have willing over three years to get involved in a more robust way. the u.s. can get involved in command and control, intelligence packages and more accurate targeting. that is all somewhat missing in this equation. now you have an al qaeda army that we believe now has two helicopters which means they can move al qaeda army folks around the battlefield. we've never seen this before. so yes, we have to engage with our arab league partners. i would do a two-front strategy as far as making sure we do disruption activities in syria with al qaeda elements in eastern syria, as well as in iraq. >

and so what happened was, other parts of that arab league started to fracture. which is why you needed the united states showing the leadership role at the table. that would have been a very, very important role for us to play. and so we know for a fact that some of the supplies that some of those arab league countries were supplying were getting in the hands of extremists. and it also caused, because of the way that was ramped up, even our arab league partners started fighting amongst themselves or disagreeing amongst themselves because they realized one country was more aggressive than the other country and some of those materials were ending up in a place that was bad for even their own national security interests. and so that's how this problem got started. and the united states never quite weighed in. i have had significant appeals from our arab league partners to me personally, i know other members have as well, about their frustration with the lack of united states engagement and leadership on these issues. and because of it, we watched that a lot of that

arabic has said that the i.d.f. never acts without any kind of documentation that proves that whoever it is raiding is in fact affiliated with terrorists but when he asked where there was proof that r.t. in fact was affiliated with any party that proof was very short in coming i can tell him now where is the intelligence that you've got to prove that r.t. was somehow or any related to any political movement the i.d.f. has said that if after the examination of the discs and equipment that it has confiscated it is clear that there is no terror related content in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic israeli troops shot dead two palestinians bringing the number of deaths to four since the start of a crackdown on hamas the week also saw three hundred palestinian suspects arrested . in connection with the student's abduction gideon levy a reporter for the israelis paper horowitz thinks the idea of separation has gone beyond its stated aim of finding the missing teenagers i seeing that disappear ation went out of

to the iraqis to decide who they want to be in charge and there seems to be a pattern among those arab societies to really look. for a strong man perhaps because they're really tired of war and cares but if i can bring you back to that issue of demoralization i don't think westerners or western media western pundits can afford to demonize all moloch it to quite the same extent that they demonized assad even though i think there is a time to a doing that but speaking about assad do you think the west has gone too far in trying to diligently minds him can it really sort of go back and try to at least assad in its fight against terror groups and would that be in the best interest of assad himself because sure isis presents a significant threat to syria but so does the united states wouldn't that be in the best interest of assad to make sure that americans are preoccupied with isis in iraq as much as possible so that he could actually deal with his security issues on his own well you're absolutely correct that america is facing a very difficult dilemma in syria as it is in the entire middl

programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world talks about the v.o.i.p. interview intriguing story so you. see arabic to find out more visit our big dog it's called. welcome back to worlds apart a real discussing the latest developments in iraq with the former u.s. ambassador to the country christopher hill ambassador hill just before the break we were talking about the years since distance on departure and. i saw you i read i think you say a couple of weeks ago that. iraqi president nouri al maliki has served for too long he has been to in effect to found that he too needs to step down what will happen if no al maliki takes your advice and throws in the towel what will happen to iraq well first of all nuri al maliki just came out way ahead in the lection and was certainly on his way to forming a coalition it's not for me to remove him or keep him it's up to the iraqi people and up to the iraqi political forces i think to some extent he's overwhelmed by this crisis. he is certainly not proving himself to b