the team under was boston red sox. >> bill fletcher?of the world will allow israeli prime minister netanyahu to distract everyone's attention to the worsening conditions of the palestinians and instead focus on whether he is going to pull the trigger and launch a catastrophic strike against iran. >> you are referring to netanyahu's speech before the united nations general assembly which he held up a much-mocked cartoon bomb and talked about iran. the deeper issue is that the focus on iran has conveniently meant that international focus particularly in the west and u.s. is not on the occupied territories. we don't pay attention to the west unless there is violence and what we are doing is producing extremely perverse incentives. if we don't pay attention when they are acting nonviolent, my thanks to gentleman mila con, joe wisen that you will, mike paska and bill fletcher, author of "they're bankrupting us" 20 other myths about unions. thanks for getting up. thanks for joining us on "up." tomorrow, i will have jeffrey toobin and mona elt

there regarding organized labor and in particular teachers unions here and talk more about this is bill fletcher director of field services of the american federation of government employees activist and author of numerous books including his latest there are bankrupting us and twenty other myths about unions bill welcome want to be on the program great to have you with us unions if we look over the last fifty years or so we can and we track. income worker income and the rate of unionization you see it steadily going up until the reagan presidency and then wages and unionization both start to collapse and they they are they always seem to follow each other is there any country is there any history of anybody developing a middle class without unions. not to my knowledge there's there are countries that of developed their economies. quite substantially without unions but there is a significant polarisation of wealth in those countries the countries referred to as the five tigris and asia i mean you have author of terror in development but you have no. nothing comparable to what we develop here in