until that point in the arab world the arabs had been alive -- allied with the axis. they were drowning not see escaped criminals in egypt shutting out propaganda. that is where some of the kill the jews drive the jews into the season came from. after 67 the arabs figured up that this was not working because was repositioned. that is as much as i can add to this subject. >> excellent presentation as always. given the really falsehood, images target israelis the you describe in your book, what is it that israel and its supporters in the west do to counter them? >> well, i wrote a book. i think that israel itself has not been great information, telling her story. so many things. pretty poor of this. there is of cynicism. my role as a research trying to get information from israeli sources, contract sums set of country is real story i think there is problem on the israeli side. and on this side and the western side for people whose support as well. and cooking for one thing we have to not be intimidated. physical intimidation going on and on university campuses the bosto

citizen of an arab fascist state. of course, it's the same fascist party that ruled iraq and ruled the arab of syria. in the 1970s no one would have thought to divide up iraq. well, in fact, starting in the 1960s and even before that in the 1930s the kurds had been in rebellion, and were put down quite brutally in the 1970s by saddam hussein. the problem is we have failed to create in iraq and i dare say in syria and other country in the middle east regardless of ethnicity and back ground, do they feel they're invested as full citizens. failure to do that, and i agree that nouri al-maliki has exacerbated those problems in iraq over the four or five years. the failures are something that makes everyone feel disinfranchised. i think you could have imagined a different history for the region than the one we were dealt by-- >> let me give derek a chance to respond. let's go to florida and derek harvey. do you agree with the ambassador that had these countries been more successful we wouldn't be talking about how they were

the situations in the arab world now during this war is different from the situations of the arab worldnd the region in previous similar wars. airbus now are very busy with -- the arabs now are very busy with themselves. controversy, surrounding the arab countries now, surrounding gaza. that's why the israeli conflict and the palestinians are not as prominent as they used to be in the arab world. >> egypt which has traditionally protectraditionally -- brokerede conflicts, has not had much influence lately. it says hamas supports jeementian groups in the -- egyptian groups in the sinai. severely deteriorated. the 2011 uprising against president bashar al-assad was a turning point. hamas expressed support for syrian rebels. its leader left damascus and relegated to quasht. israeli government considered hamas's support of the rebels a betrayal. iran was also critical of hamas's political shift but reports suggest hamas and iran are working to rebuild ties. hamas's main financial backer. but hamas can still tap into popular support in the region. scenes like these, growing civilian casualti

this is simply due to the palestinian arabs and the arab world's refusal to allow and accept jews living in their midst twenty two percent of israel are muslims and christians the arabs were offered a state in one nine hundred thirty seven or ninety five percent of the rest of palestine in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in the century half in two thousand. and in two thousand and eight they rejected statehood every single time because the goal of the of the arabs unfortunately is israel's destruction it is not a palestinian state in fact the charter of hamas calls for the murder of every jew it is a nazi like document. mahmoud abbas's charter the palestinian authority fatah charter and ten close calls for israel's destruction of this is the cause of the of this ongoing war against israel is the refusal to accept a palestinian arab state the cause of this latest battle is three thousand missiles aimed into the into the population centers of israel attempting to murder as many jews as possible if there were no hamas missiles there be no israeli retaliation that simply designed to p

it and as there are even arab countries need some thought and be able to fly in and. find that entity you can't have anybody come on you guys don't you know michel join michael michael you know what do we learned here is that the this region need more outside intervention or less. well it's never been either or and again that's simplifying the situation clearly the american invasion of iraq has to go down as one of the dumbest decisions ever made not just by an american president but by any foreign leader so i take that as a given i was opposed to the war i was opposed to it a decade ago i was supposed when the ramp up turned out in fact worse then i could have imagined so let's just say you know for me it is simply a statement of fact that this was an incredibly stupid boneheaded move. already that i have that more made and i have one bit i left that i can agree on scott scott should the united states just make friends with him when you make of the region a lot easier well united states has had a bone with iran sense they they helped the british overthrow most of day

again, the arab league is a product of the various arab actors. the saudi's and the egyptians are now back in the drivers seat when we we talk about the broader arab world and there is not an interest in having the arab league being an independent actor. it has become subsumed under saudi and egyptian priorities in the region. host: the arab leaders are one thing in these different countries. what about the arab people in these countries? do we know what they are saying? even via social media? about the situation? guest: we generally know that there is broad arab sympathy for the palestinian cause. this has always been one of the primary open wounds in the middle east, the one thing that unifies different arab populations together. for the most part, they do not agree on a whole lot. there are a couple of things. opposition to u.s. policy to one extent or another. dislike or hatred of israel. and support for the palestinian people. that does not necessarily means a more -- support for hamas as a political actor. sometimes those two things get blur

the arab league is a product of the various arab act or's. again, the saudis and egyptians driver seat in the when we are talking about the broader arab world. there isn't an interest in having the arab league be an independent actor. the arab league has in a sense become consumed -- subsumed under saudi and egyptian priorities in the region. >> the arab leaders are one thing, and these different countries, but what about the arab people? what they are saying? , about thecial media situation? >> yes. we generally know there is broad arab sympathy for the palestinian cause. this has always been one of the primary open wounds in the middle east, the one thing that unifies different arab populations together. for the most part, they don't agree and a lot, but there are a couple of things. opposition to u.s. policy to one extent or another, and dislike or even hatred of israel and correspondingly support for the palestinian people. it doesn't necessarily mean support for hamas as a political actor, but sometimes those two things get blurred. peop

for them an arab is an arab.n 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 use

world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with your hot summer. cross talk to be shaping of the middle east i'm joined by my guest michael barnett in washington he is a professor of international affairs at the george washington university as well as a member of the council on foreign relations also in washington we have got up by god he is a professor at the near east south asia center for strategic studies and in orlando we cross to scott rickard he is a former american intelligence linguist sorry gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage michael if i go to you first here in my introduction i talked about the arab spring that might have been that whole phenomenon was probably illusory considering what's happened since what happened in tunisia and in egypt but what do you think of the term jihadi summer when we think of isis well i think it's catchy and certainly it's a nice way of thinking about replacing our term of art which is the arab spring whether in fact we've gone from a sprin

because we are -- >> rose: do the arab, those arab nations that2÷peace with if the arab league do theyous for supporting hamas. >> different camps yes. but ther>hof egypt. they make it clear that you allow hamas -- in egypt. and it's clear that it's a clear positionv,'4ñ and he does it,+÷e doesn't only say --çthey are the countries. they have many difficulties. who needs them from their standpoint. and i think in the camp#1)have . the program of egypt is against them so is abbas for his own good reasons -- destroy the life of the young people. andb4la future. which is never -- you know, to be young today. it's nice like always but it's expensive. [laughter] young people have to compete very heavily in education, in dressulfk and the parents canno. so we have to allow the young children to berfdx with a new e. >> rose: apart from war and peace which i want to continue to talk about, but israel has become thiskyp remarkable+ for . >> yes. >> rose: how did that happen andn>> let mea right way and th. it happens because of the jewish dna. [laughter] [applause]the jewish dna doesje. [laught

the arab has to address.people have said why the position in libya was different then the position elsewhere, and that is a good question. we are seeking support. we have said you need to stand with the democracy and the integrity of iraq mutationhe new isil will not be confined to the borders of iraq. no one is immune from it. let me add one small point. what you have and iraq is not 10 years american engagement and iraq. it may prolong for a while. what you have is a threat to the whole region. it needs to be looked at objectively so that people are not -- about the vision. is not a pure internal issue. we are reviewing that. regional and more geopolitical implications, primarily with the situation next to the mediterranean and next to europe. that's what needs to be looked at. >> i want to say it is hard to imagine right now a regional response to was happening in iraq because of the fragmentation we see in the region. 2011the arab uprising in you saw the previous architecture in the middle east collapse.

want i very much encourage michael if i go to you first here in my introduction i talked about the arab spring that might have been that whole phenomenon was probably illusory considering what's happened since what happened in tunisia and in egypt but what do you think of the term jihadi summer when we think of isis well i think it's catchy and certainly it's a nice way of thinking about replacing our term of art which is the arab spring whether in fact we've gone from a spring to something that it's dreary fall or winter i think is still to be determined there's no question though that what we're seeing is by and large not simply the aftermath of the arab spring but also very much part of the effects that have been unleashed by the american invasion of iraq ok scott it's look at in very broad terms it seems to me it's the end of the political order that was. designed by the western powers particularly france and great britain after the first world war where that whole that whole framework of the borders everything a lot of it's in question right now. well it's all in a broad stroke as

let me also just say a few words in arabic. [ speaking in arabic ] >> execute these demands in very short coming time, then you will have the negotiation with the other members of the security council, and he will reply to us in their middle east action. and the decision will be made by the security council. ththe supreme court to the palestinian people, and this stamped by the international community. there must be an active decision. this is the least the community council, the community internationainternational council should do. now there is leadership in the next hour so we will have a meeting in order to discuss the next move and the security council will make this demand, and the international community will bear all the responsibility. >> thank you very much on behalf of the united nations correspondence association. thank you for doing this press briefing. i'm with the associated press. my question is the secretary general has condemned the rocketing of southern israel from gaza, and has called for restraint on both sides and an end to the violence, all the violence. is this som

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arab countries than what is happening in gaza. that's why the palestinian-israeli conflict and the palestinian cause is no longer as prominent as it used to be in the arab world. >> reporter: egypt, which has traditionally brokered israeli-hamas conflicts has not had a good relationship with the palestinian group recently. cairo accuses hamas being the armed branch of the banned muslim brotherhood. it also says hamas supports armed groups fighting egyptian troops in the sinai. and hamas' ties with its staunch apply in the region syria have severely deteriorated. the 2011 up rising against president bashar al-assad was a turning point. hamaed expressed support oh for its rebels, and the syrian government considered the support for the rebels a betrayal. iran was also critical of hamas' political shift. reports suggest hamas and iran are working on rebuilding ties. tehran has for many years been hamas main military and financial backer. but there is still support in the region. scenes like this growing civilian casualties and massiv

iraq consist with the kurds and arabs. in decision to that you have the sunni and shiite. if you take county attorne away the kurdish ethnic part-- >> you sound like you disagree with that. >> i do disagree, it's not entirely--the points are well taken, but we've got 80 years of iraqi history that did not get swept under the barrel. this is not just about sunny and shiite. there is a kurd dynamic to this as well. there are non-kurdish who are in kirkuk. the idea of the kurds just shifting away is not just the al maliki issue. there is the kurdish nationalism, and arab nationalism. and then there are these oil fields. i see this again as not a very clean velvet revolution of people going their separate ways in a nice divorce, but a messy one depending on again how the process falls out. but i don't see it being a clean sweep. >> we'll dig in to the money picture a little later. i want to get a sense for you what an independent region mean to turkey, syria and iran? >> what we've seen over the past 20 years is that kurds tend to be secular, pro american and pro western. i th

the arabic was recently and right thing and then again i know this is a public opinion and nothing in community has been galvanized by that increasing civilian death toll in gaza there. you get a picture just looking at the banners the trancing and the sea of people groping for a sensual lunch and making their way towards the american embassy and you get a picture of just how strong the crew palestinian community is and how it's come together in light of recent events now london is cause has a very sizable jewish community as well some say that they feel the tide of anti-semitism as a result of this conflict may saying that there's an assumption that all jewish people agree with the actions of the i.c.'s and this is by no means the only rallied to take place in london over the course of the conflict just several days ago huge progress raining much for the center of the capital where that was several thousand people gathered as well but in such a multicultural multi-religious fact it's a city this is a conflict that is touching people polarizing opinion and raising tensions who can see

again, the arab league is a product of the various arab actors.e saudi's and the egyptians seatow back in the drivers when we we talk about the broader arab world and there is not an interest in having the arab league being an independent actor. it has become subsumed under saudi and egyptian priorities in the region. host: the arab leaders are one thing in these different countries. what about the arab people in these countries? do we know what they are saying? ?ven via social media about the situation? guest: we generally know that there is broad arab sympathy for the palestinian cause. this has always been one of the primary open wounds in the the one thing that unifies different arab populations together. for the most part, they do not agree on a whole lot. there are a couple of things. opposition to u.s. policy to one extent or another. dislike or hatred of israel. and support for the palestinian people. that does not necessarily means a more -- support for hamas as a political actor. sometimes those two things get blurred. i don't think peop

arab league, do they have influence with the maas -- hamas.amas, some of them. was famous for supporting hamas. in different camps. take the president of egypt. thatmade it very clear there will not -- they will not a role ins to play egypt. that is a clear pose -- a clear position. the king of jordan the same. two countries that had many difficulties, suffering from poverty. who needs them from their standpoint. and the palestinian camp, we have two sides. so iss against them and his own good reasons. it means to destroy the life of their young people and preventing them from having a future. which is reasonable. to be young today is nice, like always but it is expensive. young people have to compete very heavily in education and their parents cannot tell them as they did. you have to allow the young to live in a new era. >> apart from one piece which i want to continue to talk about, israel has become this market center for -- remarkable center for technology. >> yes. >> how did that happen and why did that happen? andet me say in a light wa

relationships with sunni arabs. and we see the ruins of that project it would have been nice to have been nice if the argument. understood at the time regrettably now the argument is widely accepted but most of the people doing that kind of acknowledgement don't admit that they. part of the project to try and . back in two thousand and eleven and. you know a very interesting point in your book that all those five years ago when you publish the you actually warned of potential sunni disenchantment and this is of course the main charge that is being nowadays levied nuri al maliki but i think your observation is very astute that it was the united states at least partially that cultivated that strongman in him in order to contain the violence by any means so they can leave iraq with integrity using your own title. what they did was that they bribed the sunni arab tribes and they assume that maliki would continue to make payments to them in the aftermath of their departure they also believed that maliki could conceivably

in surrounding arab countries than what is happening in gaza. that's where the palestinian israeli conflict and the palestinian cause is no longer so prominent than it used to be in the arab world. >> egypt which has traditionally brokered israeli-palestinian conflicts handy had a good relationship with the palestinian group recent. egypt accuses hamas being the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood. their relationship has severely deteriorated. the 2011 uprising against president bashar al-assad was a turning point. hamas expressed support for syrian rebels. its leader left damascus and relegated to qatar. support for the rebels a betrayal. iran was also critical of hamas political shift. but reports are suggesting that hamas and iran are working to rebuild ties. tehran has been for many years been hamas major military backer. but hamas can tune into military massive destruction in the gaza strip infuriate arabs and muslims. on the streets of turkey, lebanon and other places there is anger over what has happened. >> the soldier who has s

we begin before the arab spring we begin with this truth commission. we begin ten years before with the reform of the family code, giving women more rights because one of the challenges in the arab and islamic challenges is equality between men and women. you know we have still lots of problems in this. >> rose: where are they making progress on that? >> you know, i think that we are noticing in our society mainly in country like morocco, tunesia, lebanon also, some silence revolutions. we are now urban, young, connected societies. 51% of moroccans are under 25 years. 55% of moroccans are living now in cities. we are about 7 million moroccans on the internet. so you have to give jobs to this young population. and the-- . >> rose: the percentage of unemployment is. >> as you know, we have t to-- each year we have 180,000 new moroccans asking for jobs. so we have to give them jobs. moroccans, i think, are asking for democracy and rights. you have more than 50,000 engineers, we have a vibrant civil society and people are asking now, just thought. >> "the

kerry had visited the arab league.robably the first american foreign secretary to visit the arab league offices in cairo. i think the americans are in a limbo on that because they know that they can't say anything to prime minister netanyahu. they know he is going to do it. they know diplom attic efforts on the other side are also rather complications indicated. all of the countries, i mean circumstancesey an allie of the americans. qatar, egypt. it's a very complicated situation. the problem, again, is that while all of this is happening, it is all of these people, hundreds of people are being killed and millions are losing lives. we talk about how many people are dead or injured. what about these people needing psychological -- it's about 80% 80% have no jobs. they are trapped in death everywhere they look. they have the sea on one side and israel on the other side and they have the huge problems with the egyptians as we know now. so, it's really a very, very bad situation. and what do you expect people to do when th

for the arab media to actually reach out and get israelis on arab t.v. to talk about issues that are happening in the middle east maybe not as dramatic as they are today but i don't think. you see that kind of balance here in the united states there's much greater pressure on media. there's a more active pro israel israeli community here in the united states and i don't think the arab american community is very organized and active like the pro israel community i mean we protest but we don't have the same level of sophistication when it comes to. putting out press releases. using strategic communication there are very few arab americans in journalism there are some maybe about two hundred out of fifteen thousand so that tells you that we're at an imbalance to begin with let alone in a battle where we're up against some very smart people on your thoughts on this and also on the increasingly it seems like and this seems to happen every time there's a conflict that the edges get larger and harder in other words it's all israel's fault it's all hamas or the

>> [speaking arabic ] >> 30. >> lots of people would like to see you dead. >> [speaking arabic ] >> i don't care. that's their problem. >> you don't care? >> i do not care. >> judge radhi was more than happy to walk us through the case. aside from the hundreds of millions of dollars that were stolen, radhi says much of the equipment actually delivered to the iraqi military was useless junk. soviet era helicopters, some of which were considered unfit to fly; bulletproof vests that fell apart after a few weeks; and a shipment of ammunition so old, one of the people inspecting it feared it might blow up. >> [speaking arabic ] >> instead of aircraft, we received mobile hospitals. what would an army without aircraft do with mobile hospitals? instead of getting planes and tanks and vehicles and weapons that we needed, we got materials there really was not a big need for. [ticking] >> coming up, confronting the accused. the allegations are that $1.2 billion left iraq-- >> yes. >> to buy military equipment. >> yes. >> and only about $400 million worth of equipment came back into the country.

the situations of the arab world and the region in previous similar roles and the arabs are very businessemselves and there are much more number of casualties in surrounding arab countries than what is happening in gaza. that is why the palestinian israeli conflict and the palestinian cause is no longer as prominent as it used to be in the arab world. >> reporter: egypt which has traditionally brokered israeli, hamas conflicts has not had a good relationship with the palestinian group recently. cairo accuses hamas of being the armed branch of the banned muslim brotherhood and also says hamas supporting armed group tighting egyptian troops in the society and hamas ties with the region syria has severely deteriorated. the 2011 uprising against president el, assad was a turning point and expressed support for rebels and he left damascus and went to katar and they considered hamas support for rebels a betrayal and iran was critical of hamas' political shift but reports suggest hamas and iran are working or rebuilding ties and iran for many years has been hamas main financial and military back

someone believing that arabs or iraqis are simply not capable of democracy well i think that. bias does exist it competes with another strange romanticist arab bias which is relatively low key in the american administration in the british administration and there are some who believe that only muslim style governments. are the only possibility for muslims think this is nonsense i think. people with a muslim background just like people with an orthodox. christian background or a jewish background all are fundamentally incapable of democracy. what has happened tragically in the middle east is that it's been a site for multiple competitions by great empires no real ability to consolidate the nation states except under military dictatorships i think if these parts of the world were a little bit more by the rest of us it's possible that we might see more successful democratic. people don't care about for example. seem to be successfully democratizing i don't think it's an accident that the parts of the muslim world that are not interfered with by the great powers seem to have a bet

mostly arab -- ethnically arab in this particular town?> i'm the only jewish in the village. >> and this? >> zucchini that's been grilled. then we use fried yogurt, so that's the sauce. that intense kind of goat flavor. very typical for palestinian cooking. >> it's good. >> i just had this incredibly delicious meal completely oblivious to the fact that it's entirely vegetarian. if any of the vegetarian restaurants in new york served food that tasted like this, i would actually go there. i'd consider it. fresh zucchini with mint. >> and little sweet apricots. >> this food is really intensely delicious. are you hopeful? >> of course. i have my children. i need to say that. >> i respect her religion. she respect my religion, my family. together we can build something for our kids, our future country. that's what we think and that's what we give the message for our customers. >> part of the attraction of this restaurant part of the fact that it actually manages to do what not so many chefs try to do here and that is sort of mix the jewish and

here are palestinian arabs then they can go live somewhere else the reality here over fifty percent of the population are palestinians they cannot continue to live under this brutal inhumane regime again whether their lives are gradually in the west they are gaza or in jerusalem go ahead fred a new york. ok ok mostly i think that you're making the same mistake you're saying basically so my mother marcia go back to live in baghdad which today the right even christians anymore let alone jews the fact is the solution is a two state solution who you are suggesting is a one state you want to do away you want to dismantle the state of israel and let it become a binational democracy supposedly while most israelis want a jewish state and the solution here are going back to get it done there has to be a two state solution but the pressure that you want to bring on israel is basically to dismantle it you need pressure that's going to focus on the west bank on occupation when no one chance chomsky's comment is he says most people in the world don't see israel as being an apartheid state that's

the arab has to address.people have said why the position in libya was different then the position elsewhere, and that is a good question. we are seeking support. we have said you need to stand with the democracy and the integrity of iraq mutationhe new isil will not be confined to the borders of iraq. no one is immune from it. let me add one small point. what you have and iraq is not 10 years american engagement and iraq. it may prolong for a while. what you have is a threat to the whole region. it needs to be looked at objectively so that people are not -- about the vision. is not a pure internal issue. we are reviewing that. regional and more geopolitical implications, primarily with the situation next to the mediterranean and next to europe. that's what needs to be looked at. >> i want to say it is hard to imagine right now a regional response to was happening in iraq because of the fragmentation we see in the region. 2011the arab uprising in you saw the previous architecture in the middle east collapse.

mostly arab, ethnically arab in this town? >> yes. only muslim. >> only muslim? the village. >> and this? >> that's a zucchini that's been grilled. and then we use the sauce. it's that intense kind of goat-y flavor. very typical for palestinian cooking. >> okay. man, this is good. >> i just had this incredibly delicious meal completely oblivious to the fact that it's entirely vegetarian. if any of the vegetarian restaurants in new york served food that tasted near this, i would actually go there. you made it, i'd consider it. >> and this? >> zucchini. >> and the apricots. the sweet apricots we had. >> all this food is intensely delicious. >> are you hopeful? >> of course, i had my children, i need to see them. >> i respect her religion, she respects my religion, my family. and together, we can build something for our kids. our future country. that's what we think, and that's what we give the message for our customers. >> part of the attraction of this restaurant, the fact it actually manages to do what so many chefs try to do here, try to mix the jewish ethnicity

that the arabs involved are going to agree. remember, the shia, al-maliki being a shia politician, has had quite enough over the past 20 or 30 years of sunni domination and have no particular vision or dream of pluralism in the way that we do, so i do not think it is very hopeful, so the main goal of american foreign policy would be to make sure that there is no spillover effect, that isis and related groups in iraq and syria to not find ways to harm us and our interests rectally. >> you can look at this whole region and say, ok, the united states was not able to force israel and the palestinians to make peace. we have been unable so far to get al-maliki out of iraq and replaced by some more inclusive shiite leader, presumably. >> we can even make our, i guess, the guy who was secretary of state said we are behind, general sisi, and now i guess president sisi. >> president sisi, yes. >> any more tyrannical -- >> that guy makes mubarak look like the governor of vermont. >> so we look at that, and do we say, well, all of these th