international laws is that the whole of the world sparing the whole of gaza and the whole of east jerusalem are occupied palestinian territories so the power steering point of departure is international law the point of departure abuse really is we reject international. as a matter of fact former foreign minister tzipi livni during the negotiations in the novelist in two thousand and eight she said flatly she said flatly i am a lawyer which she is and she says i am against lot in particular international law now one of the purposes of the resolution on the side of the palestinian authority that was just passed one of the purposes was to say to the israelis the u.n. has now endorsed the fact that the june nine hundred sixty seven border has to be the basis for resolving the conflict ok when he gets in is what are palestine's borders now as a result of this resolution. allow me just to take issue with what norman said about you know israel is against international law and the history of the conflict the history of international law involvement did not start in one thousand nine hundred seven

international court of justice but the whole of the west bank the whole of gaza and the whole of east jerusalem are occupied palestinian territories now mr gerson wants to argue that these are only armistice lines and that means postilions can make a claim on haifa or they can make a claim on television if he says there is really no border whatsoever these are just the armistice lines from the one nine hundred forty seven and i'm sure mr gissin will agree that the palestinians can also make a claim on the whole of israel rami do you want to jump in on that in gaza no no he was going to i mean gaza yes yes yes actually. they do. something that will bring the momentum to the palestinian cause from the respective of the palestinians as i just mentioned earlier mentioned that the failure of the peace or players process has moved the palestinians as well as the palestinians to claim their palestinian state. of the one nine hundred sixty seven borders through their you and this is a significant rather some belief for the palestinians because it has taken place within the united nations general assemb

after the vote, israel gave crews the okay to build 3,000 new housing units inside east jerusalem andbank. palestinian leaders have said they will not return to peace talks unless and until israel put as freeze on the construction of the settlements. and now like to our newsroom in jerusalem. our president has urged them to stop with the settlement for years now. >> indeed. the israelis made this announcement hours after the vote took place and many arguably have said it is more than coincidental and in addition to the 3,000 housing units, the israelis also announced that they considering an additional settlement expansion, as well. as you just mentioned, the palestinian status is based on 1967 borders. on paper that mean as divided jerusalem with a site holy to jews and ending up under palestinian control under this resolution yesterday. israel says the only way to resolve this conflict is with talks with that seems increasingly unlikely in view of the announcement. >>shepard: what are the palestinian leaders saying about the announcement? >>reporter: only hours ago the palestinians

developing right now, israel has just approved expanding settlementses in the west huang and east jerusalem with 3,000 new housing units set to be built. this of course comes in the wake of the u.n. general assembly voting to recognize palestinian state. such construction has been a major stumbling block in the peace process that has been stalled for four years now. the palestinian authority was quick to condemn israel's action today. >> it's something that needed to stop even before this move by us and i see no justification whatsoever. the fact we did what we did should not be viewed as providing guns. >> and we are just getting a response from the white house. the national security council saying in part we reiterate our long opposition to settlements and east jerusalem construction. direct negotiations remain the goal of the united states. >>> tens of thousands of protesters crowd the streets of cairo after president morsi draft as new constitution overnight. we'll get a live report and what's next for ambassador susan rice after her week of meetings on capitol hill to try to end the ba

they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish and an arab city. and in 1967, the six-day war happened when the israelis invaded jerusalem and conquered it. we have lived under the israeli occupation ever since, always longing to go back to our ancestral homes. >> and my father's story that we left the home that he was born in and his father, etc., always was with us. >> whenever i walk here i feel as though i'm walking with a shiver in my body. like i feel at home. they used to have the stables down there. and actually, this is my father's room right there. for threes three years i would say easily 50-year-old trees. because my father, when he came here, he said he remember when they left here they were a little bit taller than him. >> i was born the first generation to be born outside our house. to take someone's home is like worse than ripping their heart away from their body. >> i took david to meet my childhood friend. he and i went to the same school. i went afterwards to the united states, and he went to greece to study denyivityry, bu

east jerusalem and access to gaza, and voted against recognizing a palestinian state. so did the u.s. the vote count was an overwhelming 138 to 9. 41 nations abstained. secretary of state hillary clinton says the vote places further obstacles in the path to peace. real independence from palestinians remaining elusive according to the secretary of state, until a peace deal is negotiated with israel. >>> president obama and mitt romney had a private lunch at the white house today. we know what they ate but no specifics about their conversation. the get together marked their first meeting since facing off in the third presidential debate. the menu included turkey chilly and southwestern grilled chicken saeid. the former rivals posed for an official autograph in the oval office. much of the hour long conversation focused on america's leadership in the world. >>> meanwhile, president obama sent vice president biden to do some christmas shopping, sort of. he went to a suburban costco to talk about the fiscal cliff and tax cuts. he took photos with shoppers, chatted up the st

further response to the vote, israel has revealed plans for thousands of new settlement homes in east jerusalem and the west bank. >> agrees is exhaling today after the german parliament voted in support of providing the country with the next installment of bailout money. the deal is worth some 44 billion euros. >> germany's finance minister has defended the package, saying that a greek bankruptcy would be a major blow to the world economy. >> rescuing greece has been a main priority for the government, the citizens want to know -- what will it cost? >> an overwhelming majority bank of the measures, although the opposition left party voted no. there is still a sense of unease among lawmakers about the cost to taxpayers. the finance minister sought to calm the doubts. >> we are pursuing a policy that restructure's degree budget and economy with as few costs and risks as possible for both germany and your -- europe. it is our goal and must remain our goal that greece at some point must shoulder its debts on its own and that the markets accept greece as a creditor. >> athens still has a long way t

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inevitably drop out of education and become an even bigger burden on the state policy r t outside east jerusalem. right now on a website the u.s. appoints a prominent party animal as its cultural ambassador to the middle east punk rock star andrew w.k. is planning to unite the human race. off the biggest shopping day of the year for online u.s. retailers is expected to bring more profit than black friday get the full details on cyber monday i'm telling other stories on dot com. when times get tough it's usually the minorities that suffer the most from nationalist sentiment but it also can be the other way round as it is election reports from france. it's always busy at this market on a sunday and from the looks of it you could thing this is to run o.b. route rather than the french capital this paris neighborhood stands just a stone's throw away from the famous eiffel tower but hardly anyone imagined just twenty years ago that the native french population would be finding itself in a rapidly decreasing minority here this man moved from pakistan in search of a better life but this has not been a s

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inevitably drop out of education and become an even bigger burden on the state policy r t outside east jerusalem. this is our to you live here in moscow and the tasha is here with the latest business update and natasha understand that. russia might soon be supplying britain with gas tell us more about that absolutely well in fact the media has been all abuzz with the story the talks are apparently underway and i'll have all the details in the business bulletin after of their short break. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and horses sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes they bite as well it's part of my every day life. been home to it rats like you just saw for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is always good. we a

settlements at its whim and we see the gobbling up of palestinian land especially in occupied east jerusalem and elsewhere in the central occupied west bank where palestinians are continuing continuingly being pushed off their land where these settlements are being. expanded at an extraordinary rate and no one's there to stop it. it doesn't matter what international law says really doesn't matter what the international community says as long as israel has a willing partner in the us which it's going to continue to be under the second term of the environment ministration they can do it it pleases us right oh yeah as long as the us isn't turning a blind eye to the greatest human rights violations of our i've never seen a lecture that you gave a couple of years ago where you were talking about kind of a psychological warfare it's not just the building of settlements it's the it's the way that they're built the architecture of occupation and just kind of the more psychological aspect of what is really going on there was one if you could just elaborate a little bit i'm not sure you know they're b

good patient occupation ends when the people of a territory in this case gaza the west bank in east jerusalem together have the right to control their own territory in their own lives gaza is still completely surrounded by an israeli built wall israeli soldiers control who goes into gaza and who comes out which is made mainly no one they control the skies above gaza after bombing gaza's only airport they control the seas surrounding gaza so that gaza fishermen are prevented from going. more than one mile out so the notion that gaza is somehow not occupied flies in the face of international law that admits that occupation is about control it's not about do you have soldiers on the ground in a certain number it's about control and israel still controls gaza if we don't understand the current crisis and this is a crisis and there needs to be an immediate cease fire on both sides certainly the palestinian rocket fire into israel is illegal as as well because it's aimed at civilians their attack on a military force inside gaza is is legal under international law attacking civilians through rockets

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drop out of education and become an even bigger burden on the state policy our teeth outside east jerusalem. and shortly we're bringing you the stories of children taken from their parents by social workers often without solid proof their home environment could be home. in this remote siberian village people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the nation through choice practiced by the rules that our church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area our conservative community. the god leaders need to hear yet again i feel like i know i'm the first to do it that. i think. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. yes. the seventeen year old nadia is from the same. she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. and actually i didn't ask on time for an answer yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp

palestine in exchange of exercising our right to stop with every nation on the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip what we know as the occupied palestinian territory now i think the most important point here in going back to your question is the fact that for the past sixty five years israel has enjoyed precedent culture of impunity that has allow israel to violate sixty five you want to solutions in almost every single international treaty so the question for the day after this vote will be if we can we can turn all this overwhelming international support with countries like italy like belgium like sweden the has joined our bit over the past few minutes if we can we can turn this into a real political action so we can enjoy the peace and freedom of the palestinian people to serve but isn't the palestinian leadership breaking international accords by trying to achieve the stated by the u.n. rather than direct negotiations. well we are we have been very clear on this issue we are a country and we are a people just like any other country and we have rights any single to all right

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state to drive is what it would be for the future of israeli settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem but my finkelstein's american political scientist now activist he told me the upgraded status may help palestinians in their fight for territory. won't be frozen but the palestinian authority will have the option of going to the international criminal court which are under the wrong statues statutes under the rome star choose which are the statutes of the international criminal court they state that the settlements are a war crime and the palestinian authority will have the opportunity if they get it when they get the observers there is to go to the international criminal court for israel's criminal behavior in the occupied territories. well go to the united nations coming up within the hour keep your course up to date on the outcome if you still decide on the details as well you can always check out our website we've got perspectives from all sides as well as plenty of analysis on the story. the wide reaching leveson report into the standards of the u.k. press has suggested it should

drop out of education and become an even bigger burden on the state police via our teeth outside east jerusalem. right now on our website of the u.s. appoints a prominent party animal as its cultural ambassador to the middle east find out how the punk rock star if you w.k. is planning to unite the human race. for the biggest shopping day of the year for online u.s. retailers is expected to bring more profit than black friday at the full details on cyber monday and plenty of other stories on our t.v. dot com. coming up very soon peter lavelle and his guests are tackle the u.s. war on drugs and the latest episode of crosstalk don't miss it here on r.g.p. after show break. invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you as are for the nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was off was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to the was out of center nowadays seeking surgery f

the settlement construction that has gone on for many many years in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem there are now over six hundred thousand illegal israeli settlers living on occupied territory which means they are they are breaking the law every morning simply by waking up that hasn't changed this is going to make it worse what this does i think is two things one we heard earlier it will give the palestinians the possibility of going to join either the international criminal court which could allow some level of accountability for israeli war crimes additionally it means they could have the possibility to join the international court of justice as a member as a state in which case they could do what countries do in the international court of justice all the time bring a lawsuit against another country in this case the state of palestine could sue the state of israel for its illegal occupation but what about the other room for cases might be you mentioned the settlements thought announcement is being seen as a punishment. from the palestinians with sanctions too over this vote in th

and international laws as the whole of the west bank and gaza and east jerusalem are occupied palestinian terror territory the israeli position on the other hand is they categorically reject international law and they say we have to begin negotiations with what we meaning the israelis want and the palestinians said based on our experience the past twenty years since the beginning of the oslo negotiations in one nine hundred ninety three. experience the past twenty years that we don't have an agreed upon framework for resolving the conflict then we can negotiate a settlement and the house to an authority has gone to the united nations in part to upgrade this but also in part for the international community to ratify. that is to say a settlement on the june sixty seven border and a just solution of the refugee question based on the right of return and compensation that these two principles have to serve as the framework for resolving the problem and now that the international community has ratified those principles with the vote of the united nations i think we're one step closer. you know

an international endorsement for stabbing a palestinian state in the west bank, gaza strip and east jerusalemitory captured by israel in the 1967 mid east war. this is abc news washington. >> and also in washington. what might be the ultimate power lunch at the white house. former republican presidential nominee mitt romney at the what it house today to have lunch with the president. talk was private. everyone wondering if they would agree to work together on america impending fiscal crisis. don't count on. that president obama did not ask romney to broker a deal. the 2 simply agreed to keep in touch. >> first for new york city. this monday was the first day that anyone can remember when there was no violent crime n.new york city. for 24 hours. there was not a single report of a person being shot. stabbed. or subjected to violence of any kind. kments as city is on target to have the lowest murder rate since 1960. police attribute it to putting officers in specific 80's known for crime. >> on the subject of new york finest. one officer is certainly living up to that title. dan harris on a vira

inevitably drop out of education and become an even bigger burden on the state policy our teen outside east jerusalem. well but with more news when thirty five minutes from now in the meantime a recap of the week's top stories from the world of sport is coming your way after the break. was. in this remote siberian village people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the us in our church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is signed here are a conservative community. that was made here yet again i feel i should go now that i first joined that i. was. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. that. seventeen year old nadia is from the same village. now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. i didn't ask on time for an answer yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to of can my very ground haul my e

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and a palestinian man living in east jerusalem charged with the agency for spielg with hezbollah and saying he supplied hezbollah information. >> harris: thank you, he was talking about hezbollah, let's stay with that. the leader of that islamic militant group based in lebanon with a new threat that rockets will once again rain down on tel aviv and other major cities in a future war. interesting timing, considering the fresh cease-fire we just reported between israel and hamas. hezbollah calling the latest conflict a clear victory for hamas and the palestinian people and you may recall during the war in 2006, hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets in israel and claimed an upgrading of arsenal since. and now to egypt and the situation we've been keeping an eye on there. at this hour, the u.n. state department with a new warning for americans inside he egypt and our embassy in cairo vazing them to avoid large clouds there and the embassy reporting protesters are pelting nearby police guarding with molotov cocktails and all of this is a backlash against morsi escalating reports tonight of

of course, as the state, the definition of that is of course east jerusalem, west bank and gaza, so therefore, for the first time, they are saying that they have this clearly defined. of course there are also some real ramifications of all this, potentially the palestinians could in the future try and take israel to the international criminal court for perceived war crimes in past military operations or future military operations also. so there are some real ramifications but you're absolutely right. in the end, of course, with the situation on the ground, very little is going to change in the short term. it's not like checkpoints are going to disappear. it's not like the economic situation here is going to get any better any time soon. so real change, it's not very much but certainly symbolically it ia lot and there are real ramifications. >> yeah, there certainly are. they were until now a nonmember observer entity and now that's been changed to nonmember observer state. so that word state obviously very important for the palestinians and their supporters and this resolution was overwhelmin

she was born in israel and grew up in arab east jerusalem. >> we've seen these responses from israel to these rocket attacks. this seems to have an intensity we didn't see in 2008. what's deficit now than in the past? >> deficit that hamas has access to long range missiles they can reach tel-aviv and can reach jerusalem. the scale of the conflict is getting bigger. they feel very strong, seeing what's happening in the region. egypt with the muslim brotherhood, government, sunny sha, jordanian authority are pressed from their own people. syria is a mess. lebanon is a mess and feel bolder and stronger and feel they failed to negotiate anything with negotiations with israel. the winners of this conflict will be netanyahu, holding election in two months and he will be confirmed as prime minister. he's running on this, running on using fear as a strategy, as a tool. he's running on security as a priority in israel, not social issues, not economy, this is his main issue. hamas is winning as well. there is a debate inside hamas and fight for the lea

they just announced another 1200 homes to be built in east jerusalem. >> when we're looking, we're talkingfrom here -- >> all the way to here. >> when we say it went towards tel-aviv but went in the walter, this is why p. thf these are not missiles. in other words, they're not putting a grild and target and firing it with accuracy. they're rockets. >> how far are we talking here? >> you're talking more than 40 kilometers and they're aiming to increase the range even more. they're getting this technology from the ukraine and from russia. they have palestinians have studied at the universities there. they've taken this technology home. this is widespread grad rocket technology. >> this becomes a ground war, i asked ben the same question, this changes how? >> it changes in terms of civilian casualties. it's unavoidable if you put that much firepower in there. >> jim clancy, thank you very much. st stay tuned for the latest on the violence in the mideast. first, though, we'll tell you about this heart warnlg story about coming home for the holidays. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first

recognition of palestine as a non-member observer state encompassing the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem along the pre-1967 war borders. his fatah faction only rules now in part of the west bank. its islamist rival hamas, which advocates violent resistance to israel, controls gaza. after long opposing abbas's u.n. efforts, the militant hamas recently endorsed the move. >> ( translated ): the hamas movement is with all the diplomacy acts that adds to the palestinian victories. we welcome the step for statehood at the united nations but we want it to be through a national program based on the resistance and keeps the palestinian rights. >> warner: general assembly recognition would put palestine on a par with the vatican at the u.n., but would not grant full representation. last year, abbas failed to win full u.n. membership for a state of palestine. the u.s. is opposed to even limited recognition, saying it will endanger prospects for a negotiated settlement with israel. state department spokeswoman victoria nuland issued that warning again today. >> we are concerned that this vote is goi

. >>> israel announced plans to build 3,000 new homes for settlements in key areas of east jerusalem and the west bank in what is viewed as retaliation as the palestinian's move for statehood at the united nations yesterday. the u.s. and canada were the only major countries opposing the application. >> today's grand pronouncements will soon fade ands the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed. say that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded. >> and joining me now here is the prime minister of the palestinian authority. mr. prime minister, thank you very much for being here. you you arrived as this was happening. is this a setback for the palestinians or is there real cause for celebration as we saw in ramallah and the rest of the west bank last night? >> the celebration has to be well understood and appreciated, actually given the length of time it took for us to get to the point where this is s issue. there's a great deal of powerful symbolism. >> it is symbolic. it's not statehood. >> it's highly significant symbolism

the '67 borders they call it give back the land in the west bank and gaza and east jerusalem that the israelis captured in that six days of war. keep in mind we're just days into a truce in the latest conflict between the israelis and hamas militants who run the west bank or i should say that run gaza and palestinian say today's development could help bring about peace in the region not sabotage it as the israelis and some in washington claim. >> today's grand pronouncement will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed. say that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded. >> shepard: minutes after the vote secretary of state hillary clinton echoed that perspective calling today's vote unfortunate and counter productive. with that we have team fox coverage of today's developments. jonathan, well, first we are going to have david lee miller in jerusalem. first let's get to the fox report's correspondent jonathan hunt live for us at the united nations. jonathan, a lot of strong words there today. >> very strong

news comes one week after israel announced the construction of more than 1200 settler homes in east jerusalem. as israel continues to build settlements, the u.s. is intensifying efforts to stop a palestinian effort for nonmember state recognition at the u.n.. the white house says president obama called palestinian president abbas on sunday in a bid to convince him to delay the move. the u.s. has been elected to a new term on the u.n. human rights council, winning another three years. the obama administration has played an active role of the council after the bush administration refused to take part. on monday, u.n. ambassador susan rice said the u.s. is determined to reform the council, saying it's too biased against israel. >> the on it states is clearly of the the human -- the united states is clearly of the view there are many flaws and i highlighted many of them regarding israel. it is a body increasingly proving its by you and we been proud to contribute to some of what we think are the final moments of the human rights council approach to syria, sudan, its approach to the situation in l