used to act in concert with arafat when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then i came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was on another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organization. a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an airbase and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers. when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claimed another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the heli

used to act in concert with arafat when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organisation . a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claim another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the helicopter

leader yasser arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. there were hopeful signs in the early seventy's but the optimism was all to come crashing down. people. but what's. good. but only. good also not only the idea that's us but. following id in nov nineteenth seventy four yes an artifact received a standing ovation at the general assembly. he had spoken over a peaceful solution to christ in the mount. for the guerrilla leader standing among statesman it was a crown in which. journey to the un had begun several years. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause are you saying the same time that there will be increase in terrorism. no i am saying there will be an increase in people who hear this but i gather in the evolution of the struggle inside at this time and i refused the word terrorism because we are not that honest a lot of people in palestine if you are following them they are doing demonstrations every day in nablus i

used to act in concert with arafat and when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organization . a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claim another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the hel

used to act in concert with arafat and when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was in another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he did was it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organization. a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers. when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claimed another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into t

leader yasser arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. there were hopeful signs in the early seventy's but the optimism was all to come crashing down. the people who have. lost so. little but only. those good to all small are not only the idea that suspect. but are following id in nov nineteenth seventy four yes and out of heart received a standing ovation at the general assembly. he had spoken over a peaceful solution the price the demand. for the green a leader standing among states it was a crown which. journey to the un had begun several years. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause are you saying the same time that there will be increase in terrorism. no i am saying there will be an increase in people who hear this but i call involution out a struggle inside palestine and i refuse the word terrorism because we are not that honest a lot of people in palestine if you are following them they are doing demonstrations eve

salam he was in charge of arafat's personal security. over the years he had been developing contacts with the cia and was seen as a point man for interaction with the air. that we had through the cia some kind of a liaison or larsen ship without a house and salama. and that had to do ostensibly with security issues. and it worked embassy was never attacked in those days. now people still argue whether that relationship led to our house and salama becoming an agent of the cia or not. i personally think that he did it but i can't prove it i was in government during that period and we were in fact receiving remarkably sensitive intelligence from inside the p.l.o. at the highest levels and i if it wasn't our house and saw it was somebody very much like him. i felt could do little to parry such blows being delivered by his but it was a different matter went up on a dog resumed his assassination a fact that representatives of broke. into nine hundred seventy eight from his base in baghdad abu nidal ordered the killing of us bureau chief. for t

chairman arafat's knew very well that the one nine hundred seventy three war demonstrated the limits of collective action and what the international community could accept that forward the leadership of fact that was convinced that the palestinians could never achieve anything more than a state always done the lands occupied the nine hundred sixty seven. but some palestinians took a very different view palestinian guerrilla leader abu nidal believed the two state solution was tantamount to capitulation he split from the p.l.o. and formed his own group calling it the revolutionary council and based in baghdad . the iraqi regime once again hostile to artifacts leadership of the p.l.o. provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of one nine hundred seventy eight gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated site hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the first of many killings of federal palestinians that a little area. despite its talk of a two state solution the mainstream thought a hundred artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march one thousand seven hundred eight

as its position at this time would be a precursor to his future split with yasser arafat the palestinians were now on the run. an arab league delegation headed by sudanese president just an ameri and including kuwait defense minister schiff saad lab arrived in the jordanian capital and managed to whisk a besieged just that i found out to cairo. there at eleven a lot of the arab delegation came to a man they dressed arafat in kuwaiti role and smuggled him out check sad was a hero on september twenty seventh one thousand seven hundred nasser brokered the cease fire agreement which was signed by artifacts and get. the following day nasser died leaving the palestinians without their. father hussein signed a further agreement regulating the presence of palestinian fighters and doing what some palestinians refused to accept the view. they remained collapsed and in july ninth in seventy one king hussein continued his attack. the jordanian army overran the remaining p.l.o. bases in. forcing the palestinians to capitulate. some palestinian fighters chose to give themselves up to israeli forces acr

led by yasser arafat found refuge and support within syria viewed as one of the most hardline regimes in the region at the time and it was syria that brought matters to a head in one nine hundred sixty seven. but at last i absolutely hate when israeli s. that border syria began to cry was claiming that israel was about to wage war against it and the soviets concurred so nasa sent an egyptian military delegation to the golan that studied the situation and returned with the view that war was not in the offing but then the soviets repeated their claims of a come and warm. with the mantle of leader of the arab world firmly upon his shoulders president also found it difficult to step back from the escalating tensions in the region in may nine hundred sixty seven he requested the withdrawal of united nations observers from sinai and closed the suez canal to the street shipped to israel this moves were tantamount to a declaration of war. with conflict imminent out of leaders attempted to close ranks king hussein of jordan who had been the target of accusations and insults by egyptian state m

chairman arafat's little very well that the one nine hundred seventy three war demonstrated the limits of collective arab action and what the international community could accept that for the leadership of fact that it was convinced that the palestinians could never achieve anything more than a state always done the lands occupied the nine hundred sixty seven. but some palestinians took a very different view palestinian guerrilla leader abu nidal believed the two state solution was tantamount to capitulation he split from the p.l.o. and formed his own group calling it the revolutionary council and based in baghdad . the iraqi regime once again hostile to artifacts leadership of the p.l.o. provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of one hundred seventy eight gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated site hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the first of many killings of federal palestinians that a little area. despite its talk of a two state solution the mainstream thought a hundred artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march one thousand seven hundred eight

leader yasser arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. there were hopeful signs in the early seventy's but the optimism was all to come crashing down. the people that. lost so many. but only. those good to all small are not only new idea about this but. are following id in november nineteenth seventy four yes an artifact received a standing ovation at the general assembly and. he had spoken over a peaceful solution for palestinian demands. for the guerrilla leader standing among statesmen it was a crown in which. journey to the un had begun several years. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause. are you saying the same time that there will be increase in terrorism . no i am saying there will be an increase in people who hear this but i gather in the evolution of the struggle inside palestine and i refused the word terrorism because we are not that honest a lot of people in palestine if you are following them they are doing

also revolutionized their own society in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine for the leader yasser arafat was elected chairman of the p.l.o. the election marked a new era the guerrillas were in the ascendant overthrowing the traditional hold of more established palestinian families such was the impact of the p.l.o. and the fedayeen that out of its image had made the cover of time magazine. but it was in jordan the base for most of the palestinian factions where the fedayeen is growing assertiveness caused most problems they had set up a state within a state in jordan and the actions they planned and carried out soon began to rock the region. armed gunmen roamed the streets of the capital amman and jordan's other main cities like a bit and suck up palestinian guerrillas no longer restricted themselves to bases in the more inaccessible parts of the country complaints about palestinian excesses quickly might. be honest about it between one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and one nine hundred seventy one and there were more than thirty thousand cases of lawlessness from the throwing of hand

reagan and gorbachev, arafat and rabin, starbucks and black people. this is huge!aughter ) before we even start, we've to , right? we said the man couldn't do it, we said his temp would blow up the summit, but yesterday he provveryone wrong and turned the nuclear summit into singapore into a huge win forf,r pride and give it a leader who's much smarter than we thought, kim jongn, everybody! give it up for kim jong un! huh? huh? ( applause ) because, i mean, let's be honest, people, this dude crushed it yesterday. i know everyone's focus is going to be on trump but this summit belonged to little kim, he was the bell of the ball! think about it, the government of china paid for his private plane.the government of singapod for his hotel, and the president of the united states flew to meet him on his side of the world! this guy was treated like the world's biggest divirginia he probably had one of those riders in his contract that said no green m&ms in the dressing! he's, like, you take all the green m&ms and you send them to a labor camp! mm-hmm! ( laughter ) it's cra

the revolutionaries of led by yasser arafat found refuge and support within syria viewed as one of the most hardline regimes in the region at the time and it was syria that brought matters to a head in one nine hundred sixty seven. but at us last. then the israeli and us that border syria began to cry was claiming that israel was about to wage war against it and the soviets concurred so nasa sent an egyptian military delegation to the golan that studied the situation and returned with the view that war was not in the offing but then the soviets repeated their claims of a come and warm. with the mantle of leader of the arab world firmly upon his shoulders president nasser found it difficult to step back from the escalating tensions in the region in may nine hundred sixty seven he requested the withdrawal of united nations observers from sinai and closed the suez canal street shipping to israel these moves were tantamount to a declaration of war. with conflict imminent out of leaders attempted to close ranks king hussein of jordan who had been the target of accusations and insults by egy

arafat one hundred from saudi arabia i'd like to know what you what are your thoughts on the developmentsin saudi arabia and how hopeful are you for real change for women in the country because of the last. month that haven't answered our crown prince is supporting women now and we are so happy about that because if the rules come from safety and the cultural change if it's come from down to it will not happen in saudi arabia i'm talking about my country because the system in my country working like this it is very difficult to make move from down to trinity come from up to down on the other hand it looks like he thought things were going just a little too quickly with all the crackdowns and arrests of saudi women activists so what does that tell us obviously people within so i don't think it will stop anything it will continue as a liberation really literally and and i think shortly after a few days as a very clear action to prove to all the wall that the change and saudi arabia is real ok so obviously optimism on your part part out of fact thank you very much for for actually attributin

yasser arafat was one of the ringleaders of this new organization which favored armed struggle to achieve the liberation of palestine but quite some inhabit it was in kuwait that we named it. before it was a continuation of our palestinian nationalistic activities such activities were aimed at gaining autonomy from the arab regimes most dominant of which was the regime of egyptian president. rival palestinian groups emerged advocating coordination with nasser's regime. madness when for most of the most i would look at decision to form a palestinian branch and coordinated this with the president that it was agreed that our actions would conform with the overall egyptian military strategy that we wouldn't carry out military action that would prematurely do egypt into a war with israel for which it wasn't yet that. nine hundred sixty four president nasser convened the first out of the summit his aim was to lead an arab response to the continued existence and growing dominance of israel. the arab leaders voted to set up a body to organize the palestinians in their diaspora a commercial katie

increasingly and only at that domestic situation no not at all i think every fed and every fed chairman arafat committee also on the possible have done exactly the same thing in this economic situation they have demanded from congress they also responsible to congress not to the american president of course and this is why they're increasing interest rates and i think this goes against donald trump because say put in a lot of the break on the american economy so at them would perhaps prefer the interest rates even if you've mentioned. the you mention inflation you've mentioned unemployed the unemployment rate but there are more factors of course at the american in the american economy that would either mandate a raise or not what are the other factors and do them and that. no i mean this is really bound by the by the method by congress in the one nine hundred seventy says federal reserve has to and has to look both for inflation and for unemployment whereas in europe you're only have to look at unemployment and this is what it's really doing and given the state of the economy which is really b

wonderland and i arrived here in dc for my smithsonian internship and i think it was the next day yasser arafat shook revealed his hand on the white house lawn and it was a hopeful time in america the library of congress is sponsoring this event, you know, when i was an intern at the smithsonian the first work i worked on that had the number of the library of congress catalog number two things like art philadelphia in the archives of american art tort-- that was the main one. italian american art history and i was seen earlier that for me as an author, every time i get one of my books and it comes in the mail the first time the person i do is that catalog number because, as we all know life is short and the library of congress is forever. [applause]. >> so, take that, great britain, anyway being here thinking about when i was leaving home to come here i realize that is the story that i have been writing all of these years through so many books. it's always the story of the misfit leaving home and that is the story of our country. i think earlier this year they said this is the story the united

yassar arafat got the nobel peace prize, but how are things going in gaza.urprised that president trump agrees with former president obama that north korea was the biggest problem in the world. i personally think it's iran. if you deal with the problem of iran, you are going to solve a lot of problems. so, it's obviously a bit prure. i didn't s any than i have been for the last few weeks because i haven't been like a lot of other people in d.c. and worried a nuclear threat is imminent. everybody has been talking about, donalrump didn't get anything much different than they got in 1994. i would say look at 2007 under president bush. the united states made similar guarantees we are hearing trump made and that eventually fell apart and north korea decided it wanted to keep its nuclear program. charles: i think the dynamics on both you sides have changed, on both sides, vince. every one knows we are cautiously optimistic. but it feels like we are heading toward something that could be different. >> that's right. people should have a lot of confidence about this

used to act in concert with arafat when we were preparing for an operation in jordan arafat came to our camp that didn't meet with us then came by helicopter and met with us while arafat was in another room in the camp he didn't want to meet with us but later on he denies it us on. the assassination of tel was just the opening shot of the black september organisation . a more dramatic operation was carried out the following year at an event chosen by the palestinians because they knew the whole world would be watching. at the one nine hundred seventy two munich olympics black september operatives infiltrated the olympic village killing two israeli athletes and seizing another eleven as hostages. the kidnappers demanded a prisoner swap and the plane to fly them out of western. holding the hostages at gunpoint the kidnappers were transported by bus to an air base and then flown by helicopter to an airfield where two of them were shot dead by german snipers. when they went to inspect the aircraft. german authorities claimed another of the kidnappers then lobbed a hand grenade into the heli

arafat begged me not to go and i promised him. >> you regret that? >> i made the right decision.tinians and the israelis especially back then, it would have been better. but i regret that i didn't end their missile program. now, maybe once they became par you know, all gone away. so we need to keep that in mind. this is their trouble causer. it keeps them relevant. gets them what they need when they need it. >> knowing that, why would we be optimistic that this summit is going to lead to them giving up -- >> because the president of south korea convinced the president of north korea that they really do want them to improve their economic fate, and they really don't want to take them over. and -- because -- the president of north korea may believe president trump when he says, he doesn't want to replace him nap he thinks that he's a strong dictator and that's good thing. so -- we'll just see, but we ought to -- all the rest of us ought to be pulling for them to make progress. and we shouldn't -- be too quick to say, it fails if it doesn't cross every t and dot every i. in these de

bush and the allies were so upset he didn't want to meet with yasser arafat.oing to the meeting and be the skunk at the garden party. that was nothing how stinky a skunk this president will be at this g7 because it's not just sort of a diplomatic question, it's the economy. it's the economic engines of all of these countries. and maybe there's no economic impact in the united states yet, but there could be. i mean, when you have canada sounding as strident and as tough as they are, which you don't usually hear from the canadians, it means something. >> you spoke to the canian foreign minister yesterday. let's listen to that. she says, you know, we're your neighbor. you should be nice. >> so, what you are saying to us and to all of your nato allies is that we somehow represent a national security threat to the united states.and i would just canada's american friends and there are so many, seriously? and so this is a really sad time for us. we are hurt and we are insulted. >> the tone, if you translate the tone, normally it's like mr. president, we think this is

[laughter] because i refused to get with the program and i didn't believe that peace with yasser arafat was going to lead to anything goodment and now -- anything good. and now that everyone is in despair and nobody beliefs in peace anymore, now i feel i can lower my guard -- [laughter] and say, wait a minute, wait a minute, not so fast. and that's not only a question of temperament. finish i think that if you look at the middle east today, there's on the one happened this pathological -- on one hand this pathological disintegration. large parts of the middle east are devoreing themselves. order -- devouring themselves. on the other hand, there's an unimagined alliance, so far tacit, security alliance between israel, the saudis, the gulf states, other parts of the sunni world which we couldn't have imagined even two years ago. and no one could have conceived of israel and saudi arabia as strategic allies. and i say that the one from my point of view, the one civil very lining of the iran deal was that it brought saudi arabia and israel together against the deal. and so we are, we're loo