welcome back on wednesdays really prime minister binyamin netanyahu defacto back to the hill by president trump's deal of the century is set to push ahead with further illegal antics ations of palestine's occupied west bank but as boris johnson's britain sells record amounts of arms to israel is the royal connection former israeli spy ari ben menasha who worked for robert maxwell the late disgraced british tabloid daily mirror oana joins me now via skype from montreal in canada ari thanks for coming on i said the israeli spy goes israel denies you are a spy despite the u.s. jury verdict that you acted for israel tell me about being a spy and why when you talk about geopolitics you're not fearful more fearful of assassination a living parent. i wrote a book. they're. going to rest. of course it's a book that came out some years ago now geoffrey epstein is dead now gilling maxwell there are reports she's in paris you maintain that it was your employer robert maxwell owner of the daily mirror you say that he was an israeli agent and as was his daughter just not right you for your i would lik

it has however emboldened prime minister binyamin netanyahu he aims to begin the process of annexation on the 1st of july we spoke with a number of signatories to the letter. 1st of all it is illegal under international law because these are a listing in territories there are plenty of united nations resolutions calling for israel not to build or to encroach on the mainland israel has miley quite a number of un laws over the years and it has done so with impunity i hope international community which is very weak on this conflict for years this time will take on sions of the danger behind this and action i hope with all my heart that we can prevent this dangerous move that israel government's doing now this is time now that we can he lead to international rules and norms sadly there is only one country that can persuade israel not to build on this land so united states of america and donald trump as you know all really disregards united nations and international law by saying yes to anything is what wanted to do. i think is. marginal nice him self and this conflict and this is about cre

binyamin netanyahu who is as you just stated looking at this an exaggeration coming up quite an affective maneuver well it's ok ok let's just drill down a little bit here ok for netanyahu he's made it no secret that he wants warmer ties with arab countries so this could be seen as a political win for him but for the u.a.e. what does the u.a.e. get out of this. well i mean that the u.a.e. wants to have closer relations with the israelis that something they've been working on for a long time and this is a way to do it going gosh the secular state but foreign affairs a spoke to an american jew at the american jewish committee last week and he came out in particular against an exaggeration this week netanyahu says well you know the emirates are helping us out with that with the quote situation so it's a kind of give and take here i think when push comes to show that there are already will allow this an exaggeration to go through the car company things up they want to do business with the israelis the goal was to do business with the israelis and the palestinians are simply caught in this terr