. >> mohammed is a palestinian american political analyst and colleague of yassir arafat. he joins us from washington. welcome. what do you make of prime minister netanyahu's apparent flip flop on a two-state solution? >> well, we are used to the rhetoric coming from the israeli governments whether right or left wing. all the time they have spoke from both sides of their mouth but they never delivered anything, nothing to the palestinians since 1993 since signing the oslow agreements. without justice, there will never be peace. the biggest winner of these elections are the arabs. they won 13 seats. they are the 13 largest union or election of members in israel and israel lost its stability with this. they lie and say it's a jewish state. it's not. israel is for everybody. >> let me just interrupt for a second though. doesn't -- don't the palestinians have to recognize israel's right to exist before this continues? >> i was present in tunis when yassir two-state signed it request prime minister rabin. they recognize israel. israel israel is the one that does not tangle with

>> the first race i covered was after kissing su'a arafat. that was going to be the controversy that was never going to go away until she won by ten points the following november. i think this is not going to be what voters vote on. i think it has, however, put her on the defensive at the start of her campaign. it has basically made her a candidate now a couple of weeks before she was going to. i don't think the timing changed because of the e-mails. it was always going to be april. it was going to be a rollout of a soft launch, a video, a couple months later. she does not want a long campaign. she has never wanted a long campaign. it's frankly never been clear how excited she is about another campaign. i think the e-mail thing is significant because it is going to come up and up and up but it is not going to be what voters make their decision on at the end of the day. >> there's an interesting contrast with jeb bush and the way he's been behaving. i think a lot of people can look at bush and understand what it is he may run on. he has this s

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he becomes more famous than arafat and everybody else.f these palestine. ♪ >> you can almost believe for a minute or two that some kind of peace, some kind of reconciliation, meeting of the minds, sanity is possible after you visit majda. it's a restaurant in what looks like an idyllic village in the judean hills. about 20 minutes from jerusalem. it feels like an alternate universe for a number of reasons. one of these women is jewish. one is muslim, from a nearby village. they're partners, co-owners of majda, and also married. they're unsurprisingly friends of yotan. together they grow and raise much of what's used in their kitchen. their food reflects both their different backgrounds and their commonalities. >> we're going to spoil you now. >> yeah, here you go. tell me about this. >> so you grew up in this town. >> yes, in this village. >> where did you grow up? >> near the beach. >> near the beach. not the neighborhood. >> but we met in the neighborhood. we work together in hotel. >> how did that go down with the families? >> now wond

they adto say that arafat was unmasked, but he was unmasked by declaring there would be no palestiniantate, and the pretext of supporting a peace process, was just that. it was not sincere. that means on the palestinian issue prime minister netanyahu, of course the focus is at the white house, and he's at loggerheads with the white house, but he's also at loggerheads with the rest of the world. i don't think that means it's an end to the u.s. relationship, but i think it makes for a bumpy road. i think he'll have a tough time. in the last government, he could put a figure leaf or smiling face with his coalition allies on his own rejectionism. he won't be able to do that this time around. >> as you're mentioning right there, the top israelis going to the poll, saying netanyahu posted a video, saying that right-wing rule is in danger and said arab voters are going to the polls in droves. he sought to clarify that a bit later, but those are some harsh words there, josh. that is the story here. in the last couple days, the story that 48 hours ago he was on verge of losing, he now appears i

president you served, was engaged in the last 11th hour talks trying to reach a deal between yasser arafat and the israelis. if somebody on the republican side had called up or sent a her with 47 signatures on it saying don't trust clinton, he's a lame duck? i mean, what kind of game is this? >> it's a very dangerous game, and, you know, once this precedent has been set, it's out there in 9 public -- you know, system, and again, you know -- and it -- i don't know how you expect president obama to drive the best deal possible if the other side isn't sure he can live up to the commitments. the other parts that bothers me, it plays right into the hands of ayatollah homeini has said the united states can't be trusted. it plays directly into the hands of the hardliners. i'm not sure what the purpose of that is. >> to undercut the foreign minister as well. thank you, sandy berger. right now we've had heard a lot about people heading to syria to join up with isis. someone is recruiting american soldiers to return to iraq to train fighters again isis. these guys are out in front for the fight. >>>

they used to say that arafat was unmasked in the peace talks as a peace rejectionist. has unmasked himself. the retorlcle embrace of two states never followed up in practice allowed the world to have make believe peace process has been abandoned which leaves one wondering how will that relationship with the palestinians and the international community where in the consensus is for two states how will that be managed in his new government. >> what must washington be thinking right now then in that case? how do -- how does he take israel forward? how does he rekindle the relationship with the united states? >> i think the question is it's one thing being the election candidate who is standing up to the american president and having this ongoing fisticuffs, another thing from the prime minister's office doing that. so far netanyahu has not done the latter. there have been disagreements but he's tried to triangulate on that relationship. i imagine he'll try to return to that. what you have is an israeli prime minister in defiance of his allies and world opinion on both the

yassir arafat is one of his descendents. studied at the prestigious seat of learning in cairo. a student their organize clubs and demonstrations against jewish immigration to palestine. he was one of the architects of the 1920 rights against jews and was sentenced to 15 years in prison but he was pardoned and then a colossal misstep on the part of the british, they thought that by giving him a very senior office that this would moderate his views. he was made president of the council. it did not moderate his views. in fact, by the end of the 1920s he had achieved this very close fusion of religion with nationalism that transformed the situation in palestine that precipitated the 1929 riots. he was behind the 1936 arab rebounds and. fled palestine. spent part of world war ii in rome in been in berlin. he was very active in recruiting bosnian muslims to serve in the ss. one thing up front and the u.s. archives that did make it into the book is that interestingly he was paid by the nazis as much as field marshal rumble, hitler's favorite joke to he was paid an enormous amount of m

we met yasser arafat, fidel castro, and all of these people he put onto film for that documentary.ing to that issues like aids, and we did a document or together on a nine-year-old boy who was inflicted with aids and his journey. it really traversed not only political issues, but also anything that he felt passionate about. i think as we remember danny, we must not only think about south africa, but the many things he was always involved in always being alert. amy: he was working on a book dealing with cancer. >> he produced more media than major networks could do, and thousands of people. and to the very end, he was documenting his life and working on a book of cancer that will be coming out soon. amy: we willing to all of our interviews withs. thank you so much rory o'connor and anant singh. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now!

actually, bill clinton got a little bit close to it and arafat backed out on a deal. >> i think secretary kerry really hoped and thought he was -- you know, i think he wanted desperately to be the guy who brought this one in. >> so did tony blair and special envoy we go down the list. jonch mitchell can, a whole list of them. it's endless. >> it is. and i don't think this, you know this atmosphere i mean, the election didn't help the situation. and i think, look but i do think it's all politics and in the end knit will find his way back to the two state solution and maybe we can get the process moving again. >> will the relationship between the two gentlemen, the prime minister and the president get les frosty? >> look. i think that's strained. it has been. >> it's finished. >> our ties to israel, america's -- the united states' ties to israel is not going anywhere they have a close relationship. they will overcome their personal animosity if -- to the extent there isn't to keep unified moving forward. >> i want to turn to another important topic. i want to talk about the evansston illino

his successor put everything the palestinians want on the table and arafat was afraid he was going toet shot and did not accept it. we have gone a long way ever since. tom: bill rhodes with us. we will talk about greece in a moment. coming up, charles allis will join us. this is charles allis in support of the book "a force for good." ♪ tom: good morning. olivia sterns and brendan greeley with me. a morning must-read with bill rhodes. this is paul, from the london school of economics. history teaches us that a balance must be found between creditors and debtors. the unilateral approach taken in the eurozone almost always leads to a revolt of the debtors. we need an update on greece and the banks of europe. how critical is for the banks to do a workout with greece? the banks are desperate to get some form of restructuring done. bill: the achilles hill is the greek banking system. they cannot bank on their own. they have big-time withdrawals. they are dependent on the central bank of greece and the ecb to provide those lines of credit. tom: how fragile our the secondary and tertiary ban

states should work with existing powers whether the soviet union and the people's republic of china arafat and the plo or iran in pursuit of common goals for the promotion of international stability. so how does a study of scowcroft's life inform us that president? a study of his career and the implicit comparison that makes with other national security advisers and other presidential demonstrations reveal several things we wanted the importance of personnel and interpersonal chemistry in the white house. both between the president and his national security adviser and among the foreign-policy principles. scowcroft learned from a difficult nixon years in the iran-contra and several things became apparent from his experiences. .. a 2nd lesson from the study of still cross career is is indirect approach. undermine a pause so the problems itself dissipate to make nuclear warfare unattractive to make the berlin wall no longer necessary. the same principle would appear to apply to terrorism there is a place for addressing the conditions that make a particular view of islam a viable option. peop

as it is and believes the united states should work with existing powers whether the soviet union, arafat and the plo or iran in pursuit of common goals for the promotion of international stability. so how does a study of scowcroft's life and his approach of security policy inform us at present? a study of his career and the implicit comparison that makes with other national security advisers in other presidential administrations reveals several things. one is the importance of personnel and interpersonal chemistry in the white house. both between the president and his national security adviser and among the foreign policy principles. scowcroft learned from the very difficult nixon/ford years and from the iran contra affair. the nsc had to coordinate policy making, the president and his principals had to be able to delegate responsibility, but this meant getting the buy-ins and the principals to their deputies' recommendations and vice versa. furthermore, what vietnam made glaringly apparent was u.s. presidents and their staffs had to work carefully and closely with the press if they were

come on the journalism side we have written a lot of stories that are pro consumer intended to arafatpublic policy for good that leads to policy changes. said is what we would like to have as a reputation but going back tears credibility be careful you don't make mistakes because all you have a short brand name but as soon as you make mistakes you do that -- to lose that they don't have the trust of the readers. >> people are concerned much of the information on line is not filtered. you are an editor. is that because of faults like you and editors that start to clean up disinformation that increases the credibility? >> it'll think it is starting to clean it up but the dynamic of the web is a quick accountability and quick response and dissemination through twitter and others with questions about what popped up cleans up on its own a little bit. if something comes up this is not price from the source that is questionable with that accountability pled overtime thaddeus korea's something comes from abc news or the journal of "the new york times" has a restaurant their bedrock of credibi

in years gone past when we protected the likes of yasser arafat on visits to the united nations it would be similar to a head of state kind of protection detail. but you raise a good point with some of the presidential first led visits overseas. the burden is on the respective u.s. embassy and predominantly the regional security officer who is the diplomatic security service senior agent in charge is responsible with working with the u.s. secret service advance teams and local police to ensure from logistics perspective everything is worked out. host: if we see these kinds of efforts going on, how much responsibility does a host government have in these reparations when it comes to security echo -- security? guest: first and foremost, the lost -- the host nation is responsible for the safety and welfare of all official diplomats. that is where the state department works very closely with local law enforcement to ensure that there is adequate security. the challenge becomes in some environment how do you operate in the hostile environments when you look at resources like we saw in the ben

. >> reporter: father of a 21 year-old woman had right here the crosswalk arafat a 80 in hayward.ming up a live report. of >> darya: hiking trip turns deadly under the hikers and take a look at the >> mark: >> mark: embarcadero-- as parts of the bay area are waking up to wet weather. >> mark: of their on forecasts here or watching. golden gate bridge a few showers. >> reporter: continued to help the door grogram perella were pockets around on the region first one off to the no. as of union city along to 38. try off the southeastern direction across the peninsula some heavier rainfall across to 80 getting closer to san carlos red was detected on in these areas southwest of berlin and. and mildred this morning. the chicago >> reporter: or activity at half moon bay also attract off. at a few more pockets starting to make its way through the region. give yourself extra time and one shower right now. over downtown as you can see. all little bit higher intensity yellow. rainfall rates are having. if an be danton that's little bit potentially i need an umbrella as a the check off and the

in years gone past when we protected the likes of yasser arafat on visits to the united nations it woulde similar to a head of state kind of protection detail. but you raise a good point with some of the presidential first led visits overseas. the burden is on the respective u.s. embassy and predominantly the regional security officer who is the diplomatic security service senior agent in charge is responsible with working with the u.s. secret service advance teams and local police to ensure from a lodge jest particulars perspective -- logistics perspective everything is worked out. any time you see the visit ncicap.org] ing abroad or first lead, any cabinet level official the state department special agents are working to ensure that comes off in a very safe manner. host: if we see these kinds of efforts going on how much of the responsibility -- you talked about the secret service and diplomatic corps. how much responsibility does a host government have in these preparations when it comes to security? guest: first and foremost, the lost nation is responsible for the safety and welfare