again as gaza and you were out on gaza. palestinian resistance to groups as they mentioned there is no justification for such aggression and for such variable as lady attacks against the palestinians doctor if you look back to last year the thirty seven or incidents where the israel's worried that gaza is smuggling in weapons from egypt and says if gaza continues to do that if it is doing it if it continues to do it they will step up those attacks is there evidence they are finding their way in from egypt. now since the libyan revolution which took place in february of two thousand and eleven we have been hearing many israeli accusations. the palestinian resistance the groups have been smuggling. weapons. left over from the. libyan civil war they found out their way to the gaza strip now it could be true because some of these weapons will use the about two months ago when this is the big fire with. a number of these missiles like an israeli towns and villages but it seems to me that the israelis are exaggerating the number

look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report. and you can see. the. welcome back to crossfire you know the true mind you were talking about geo peace talking points on israel. and you can say. ok sir i'd like to go to you first. john i'm sure both of you know of the book from time immemorial the origins of the arab jewish arab conflict over palestine by joan peters that came out in the i think in the mid eighty's and it's been completely debunked by scholars ok and even people in israel will say it's just fiction but when we look at that the presidential contenders that's what they they are joan peters just in the twenty first century i mean newt gingrich is a very good example i mean how is that happened was so much. research and studies an effort. and to studying this conflict you get this cartoonish view in media and by people who are supposed to be you know going to be running the free world i mean i again it's going back to what i said earlier i mean this is just outrageous or is it just done purposely it's just to pander to the lobby. well i thi

the israeli military has confirmed it carried out an air strike on gaza on friday one palestinian was killed in the attack which telhami of claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country's been stepping up its airstrikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years now after the jewish state briefly invaded gaza military officials are saying there may have to start what they're calling quote a war of necessity attempts of brokering a peace deal have so far proven fruitless but israeli columnist gideon levy thinks telaprevir isn't really trying to avoid any conflict. three years ago israel had the car blunder not only the west had plowed this. and didn't say it would against the city but we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another. but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general has not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no seri

the israeli military has confirmed it carried out an ass trike of gaza on friday one palestinian was killed in that time which tel aviv claims it was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country has been stepping up its tracks in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jury a state at time to gaza killing fourteen hundred people live chat shows that saying they were have to start what they're calling a city on tuesday israeli and palestinian representatives will meet in jordan to try to launch talks stalled for more than a year teacher the continued building of jewish settlements on occupied arab lands but israeli comments to get in levy thing that tel aviv is really doesn't want to resolve the conflict. three years ago israel had the carte blanche to not only the west to allow do this. and. say it would again. but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another. but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because

mean there's no concept of what's happening on the ground in israel let alone in the west bank or in gaza territories it's not it's not about israel in a strange way it's really much more about signaling to the united states we're strong on things that are wrong and that becomes very very vague and because there are really good actors and bad actors and in strong ways i mean it's very hard to talk about good and evil i think that she will has something something right here but if i would i would like to push it a little further i think it's about anxiety around the muslim world and israel comes to stand for our ally in the muslim world wink wink which is the non muslim nation in the near east and i think that's part of the problem but what do you think about the. it's not just these. countries these also these really is the only country in this region that stands. for many of the values that americans tend to appreciate like democracy and liberalism and such other values so. the issue of being a non muslim countries probably contributes to the support that israel gets from americans but i

made him withdraw really settlements and troops from the gaza strip so this i mean his mission would see this humiliation be that he. sorry you want to jump in there but i mean sure i mean i agree with you but how is barak obama gun something different i mean the problem was there was i don't see that he did. explain it to you when when barack obama started he's. united states president his first action was to try and pressure israel into freezing settlements this signal to israel what's wrong with. wrong with. the. legal under international law what's wrong with the president stopping raining international law doesn't make any sense look i understand that you do not you do not you do not agree with the policies of the current israeli government and i appreciate that but do these really public signaled lack of sufficient support on the part of the american president signaled. different president of might not be as strong. or not is not going to back israel to the same extent that his predecessor both the republican president bush and the democratic president bill clinton supported is

within israel be the occupation of the of the west bank the recent slaughter of the palestinians in gaza i mean these are not american values or maybe they're george bush values ok neo con values. well i do think that of course this is about a marriage and going back to the idea of it being a domestic political scenario this is a marriage between neo cons evangelicals and you know small but influential group of more conservative jewish voters and of course jewish voters tend to be liberal i will say i do think that israel is a democracy and it does represent american values for the most part that said the occupation is becoming increasingly clear that the status quo can't continue as it is and there are two sort of two sets of laws in israel there's a set of laws for the west bank and then there's a set of laws for internal to israel of course israel compared to its neighbors is a democracy and as much it's not even just compared to its neighbors it is a it is a kin to the united states we can't say that it's not and it is an ally of the united states the problem with the republican posi

but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intentional about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but that's saying more than the send the palestinian authority has just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the precondition of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. condition and they just just symbolic release of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to the goshi asian table it would say no. beginning of ten to twelve has been very festive for the occupy wall street protests is what around seven to spending the night in custody. and they were arrested just before midnight after demonstrators took to the streets of the big apple. and they try to return

israeli military's confirmed it carried out an asse tricon gaza on friday one palestinian was killed in that time which tel aviv claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country has been stepping up its ass trying to say recent months leaving dozens dead three years after i think your state briefly invaded gaza military officials are saying they may have to stop what they're calling a city so tense that brokering a peace deal so far prevent first let's but israeli call is gideon levy if instead of it isn't ready trying to avoid hopefully. three years ago israel had the carte blanche and not only the west to allow do this. it would against the city but we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i am no true that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intention about serious dialogue with th

triumphs in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jurors stayed briefly invaded gaza military officials are saying they may have to start what they're calling a city attempt at brokering peace deal has so far proven first let's let israel economy is guilty only things that tel aviv isn't really trying to avoid conflict. three years ago israel had the carte blanche to not only the west to allow this. and didn't say a word against the city but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intention about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but nothing more than the send the palestinian authority has just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the precondition

story of a palestinian digger whose work helps support his family on the flow of vital supplies into gaza in defiance of the israeli blockade. one solution to joblessness in the u.s. is a scheme were giant corporations creative work places for local communities and they are even had a government money to that end but somehow jobs still get outsourced to a cheaper foreign workforce and as marina fortnight our reports this allows big businesses to prosper while small towns suffer. in one of america's most economically depressed cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances whirlpool corp is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the night they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from t

i don't think that the gaza or lebanon example are relevant. in both of those cases, their unilateral without consultation. there is not in a demonstrable benefit i can tell you from my own experience elsewhere if you're going to ask a government in a very vibrant democratic society where everybody speaks in public if you're going to ask people to undertake a very painful course of action, it is far more difficult to do it in the absence of an overarching program in which you can say we have to do a be. we're getting xyz in return. he have some give and take. >> this is really change in the last several years. you have a foreign minister that is your cannot dispatch to washington is no one will meet him. you have in the settlements of much of the officer that lives there. i want to press you on this. you are not talking about the israel 20 are 30 years ago. you're talking about asking an army to evacuate their own parents. it is hard. you did deal with the army. it seems very hard to reverse this. >> i met with them many times. my view is that

israel says it's killed a senior militant in an airstrike against gaza on friday the army claimed the move prevented an attempt to fire rockets at israel this comes after israel said it's looking into the possibilities of a wider campaign against the blockaded strip just three years after a devastating war there israeli columnist gideon levy says his country will be isolated if it decides to wage another bloody offense of. three years ago israel had the car bludgeon not only the west to pull out of this. and didn't see it would against the city but this we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having say this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intention about this serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but that's saying more than these the palestinian authority has just launched anoth

because serious part of a complicated network of alliances that includes iran hezbollah in lebanon and gaza as a mass on the one hand and the u.s. israel saudi arabia and turkey on the other anything that happens in damascus is likely to have a tremendous impact on the balance of competing interests in the region miesha charney for crosstalk. ok ivan if i go to you first in washington. assad is defiantly saying he's not going anywhere and he's blaming his countries of problems on outside forces to what degree is that true because there's an ample amount of evidence from on the sidelines that there is certainly has been training of troops in turkey there are a lot of arms going into the country from the outside. there's even talk that the united nations sorry the the american national security agency is looking at some options right now i mean are we are we seeing a build up to an outside intervention in syria. well certainly turkey has been has flip flopped and gun against assad and i think there are they are harboring some of the. dissidents and that sort of thing i'm not sure this is an o

think this is democracy in egypt it's quite similar to what happened when democracy was introduced in gaza when people call for democracy they may not always this realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run and then in other places such as western europe people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result we have islamist hard line parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the fact that the all new party the second party in terms of size. came well ahead of all the other secular parties is also a sign of where egypt's future direction is headed although egypt's military government said it will fully hand over power to the new parliament there are some already that it will try to retain its influence in the country what do you think. i think it's a certainty that the military will try and retain power because it's very concerned first of all for the future direction of egypt it does not want the new islamist government making changes that would damage the economy and that woul

family on the flow biled supplies into gaza if i and so he's really blockade. maybe it could be on the brink of civil war according to the head of the national transitional council most julio following a weekend off political turmoil and that's after his deputies stepped down when julian suspended six high ranking council delegates from benghazi it's the latest sign of discord in the country's interim leadership and comes amid a rising.

israel's launched an air strike on northern gaza or it's killed two one of them a teenager palestinian security sources say the raid hit an area used by hamas and was accompanied by tag fire tension between the coastal territory and israel's been calm in recent days following an increase in market attacks there in february in december rather. miramar opposition leader aung sang suu kyi will run for parliament in april that will mark the nobel peace prize winners return to official politics since a release from the years of house arrest in printing ten but with only forty eight seats up for grabs the elections are likely to change the political lens later in this landscape in the military dominated country. a suicide bomb attack in southern afghanistan killed twelve and left twenty three people injured a motorcycle bomber detonated his explosives at a bridge that was under construction in the jackie area in the rest of helmand province earlier today a blast in a neighboring district killed an afghan intelligence official and his two bodyguards as they left his house. to cheers here now

from living like ordinary human beings they want people in iran to suffer that's what they did in gaza and that's what they're doing in syria too that's what the sanctions in syria are all about it's interesting just recently just a few days a couple of days ago. they had funded polls in syria which just came out and they show that the majority of syrians actually support the current president and this is a biased terry funded poll yet this you do not see this in the western press so while the majority of syrians actually backed the president the americans are forcing the people of the country to suffer this is this is inhuman this is pretty barbaric and the europeans and americans they allow themselves to punish ordinary people yet they when. they understand the point there but sticking to a wrong and these sanctions isolate iran have a negative effect on its economy and as you say maybe on its people as well but will iran get to a point where it thinks it has nothing to lose and become even more audacious. well first of all despite american and european attempts to hurt the iranians

in the flow vital supplies into gaza and to find something is really blocking. al libi it could be on the brink of civil war according to the head of the national transitional council. following a weekend of political turmoil that's after his deputy stepped down when you're little suspended his high ranking council delegates from benghazi it's the latest sign of discord in the country's interim leadership and comes amid a rising tide of discontent among the indians right swept through benghazi at the weekend as thousands took to the streets of a city where the and take it off the uprising began and rage protesters accusing and see of corruption being slow and bring in reform and favoring former government loyalists there is also criticism from alice that the council's main goal is to secure western oil interests rather than to establish democracy. mission in libya for example is not to improve life in the country maybe already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the my largest work global oil reserve and the oil res

see it would against the city but we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another. but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general. is reacting the most racial and logical way for the current government of israel has no serious intention about this serious that was the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but not seeing more than these. but it's to know so rootie has just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the precondition of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. condition and they suggest the just symbolic release of one hundred the prisoners to get back to the goshi asian table it would be these were to say no in a new year's message north koreans have been urged to make every effort to bring their country to prosperity and to fan its new leader kim jong il into the death it comes after a two day state funeral was held for his father kim jong il and t