podhoretz an american fifth columnist for israel. mr. podhoretz has required most of his enemies, or ask friends, by way of long and starving political metamorphosis. i haven't checked the bios of everybody who is speaking at the book fair, but i'm fairly certain that the only speaker to have both written for the stalinist journal partisan review, and one of presidential medal of freedom form george w. bush is the one in this room. mr. podhoretz's resumes is sprinkled liberally, if i make use that word, with assembly seeming contradictions. contradictions. he edited the first new left journal, commentary, deadbolt of the democratic party when it nominated the new left's first political water carrier, george mcgovern, for the presidency. he's an intellectual who thinks that intellectuals have ruined the world. most fundamentally he was a key director of a great exodus from liberalism at the democratic party during the 1970s, as leader of a moment that he can no dismissively at neoconservatism. now, even during his best days on the left, m

but it also includes peace between israel and syria and the broader relationship between israel and the arab states. he is continuing to work with both sides, trying to improve the atmosphere that can get us back to negotiations to persuade both sides that we've made no pre conditions -- no preconditions. we can get a continuous, viable palestinian state so that we can get with the two -- did what the two sides need. -- should get what the two sides need. we are engaged in humanitarian assistance. what it is true that usaid is not maintain a presence in gaza, but there is a lot that we are doing to bring students and others to the west bank so that they can continue to interact with their fellow palestinians. there will also engage in programs. by no means are we hands-off in terms of trying to help the people of gaza. we are also engaged in the work of trying to shape the opinion environment so that leaders -- i don't have to tell you that domestic politics are really difficult. we need to create an atmosphere where leaders feel that they have more flexibility to take the tough decisio

had he not done that, would that have prevented israel's creation? this president got into office and said that he wanted a two- state solution. does that mean that they can snap his fingers and make it happen? president truman could not do it. president obama cannot do it. we are doing what we can do. >> we can do more. [applause] we can do more in terms of recognizing the humanity of the palestinians. for 60 years, the world has allowed the population to suffer the worst kind of imprisonment in human history. [applause] secondly, if we call ourselves an honest broker, which we cannot be under the present circumstances, we can't because of social and religious factors, we have to be honest in that particular sense. honesty demands that we at least recognize the humanity and right of the palestinian people to live as dignified human beings with respect to their lives, their minds, their property, their families and their right to live. of these things we ever came forward in defense of these people in the last 60 years. rather, we stop to the relief

this isn't a bad israel. israel is, again, close and its development of a weapon of mass destruction is a threat to the region, but the development of a weapon of mass destruction anyplace in the world is a threat to the entire world. and it is not in the national security interest of the united states. so while israel may bear the brunt or be the closest target or target of words -- hopefully not anything else -- they have carried this fight, but it's not just their fight. the fight is all of ours. i mentioned diplomacy is the pillar of our national security. another pillar of our foreign policy and of our national security is stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. imagine what the reaction would be if iran had a nuclear weapon, what that would evoke in the arab world in terms of their interests in having weapons of mass destruction. it simply cannot happen, and with this legislation today, we strengthen the president's hand to grant, to use or to withhold this particular sanction. but to

and only israel. the mission released the so-called goldstone report that falsely accused israel of deliberately attacking civilians implicitly denied israel the right to self-defense and recommended that the case be referred to the international criminal court. despite the u.s. membership and engagement in the human rights council, that rogue gallery adopted the report's recommendation and condemned israel. but lest we frget that human rights council has adopted seven anti--israel resolutions and perpetrated a growth and anti-semitic assault. so it should not come as a surprise that the human rights council endorsed the goldstone report. the general assembly quickly followed suit. the high commission for human rights praised the report. secretary general moon has promised to transmit the report to the u.n. security council where only a u.s. veto stands in the way of further anti--israel action. and the i.c.c. prosecutor has announced that he is considering launching an investigation into israel's con

israel is made many --ç israel made many mistakes of their own.ues and the palestinian issue is a affects muslim opinion all over the world. çit is primarily -- i don't wat to say primarily -- something that has increased enormously with the advent of satellite television. i saw that in my career in the gulf. until the first intifada, they did not much really care, and then they become very attuned to the suffering of palestinians. i think this is a recruiting ground for al qaeda. that is very clear. there are muslims who feel very strongly about this issue who are not necessarily terrorists or extremists. as far as afghanistan itself goes, the vast majority of afghans are much too busy with survival, with afghanistan, and with their local issues. he will not your discussions of palestinian issues in -- you will not hear discussions of palestinian issues in çóafghanistan per se. people are fighting forç survival and are very concerned about their immediate future. you have to differentiate -- palestinian issues have an enormous attraction in the

this isn't a bad israel.srael is, again, close and its development of a weapon of mass destruction is a threat to the region, but the development of a weapon of mass destruction anyplace in the world is a threat to the entire world. and it is not in the national security interest of the united states. so while israel may bear the brunt or be the closest target or target of words -- hopefully not anything else -- they have carried this fight, but it's not just their fight. the fight is all of ours. i mentioned diplomacy is the pillar of our national security. another pillar of our foreign policy and of our national security is stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. imagine what the reaction would be if iran had a nuclear weapon, what that would evoke in the arab world in terms of their interests in having weapons of mass destruction. it simply cannot happen, and with this legislation today, we strengthen the president's hand to grant, to use or to withhold this particular sanction. but to h

the six nation to go nuclear was israel. that is an interesting story because israel all they decided to have paid program after the suez crisis. two refresh your memory 1956, the brits and french and israelis decide to invade egypt and retake the suez canal. they did not consult the americans before doing this but they invaded and eisenhower's said stop and threatened with economic retaliation so they withdrew. febris already had nuclear-weapons france and israel came to the conclusion we cannot count on the americans to become our security blanket forever. the suez crisis was an october 1956. november, golden bear and went to france and made the deal to undergo a joint program and they have the physics and technology but they would do the heavy lifting of building of facilities. the interesting thing is a few years later it was said when the french fired the algerian desert here was the first time two nations went nuclear with one-shot. several thought with india the triggers a border war with china and the exclamation poi

. -- four treaties with israel.rld accounts for 18% of jobs in the united states for imports or exports, we basically have $500 billion exports with the muslim world which account for many jobs in this country. from that perspective, you find that even from the perspective of the domestic issues in the domestic politics, and you go from one in to the other in terms of developing a rational policy toward the muslim world, and the question that needs to be asked about a rational policy, the issue is should we have a rational foreign-policy? >> let me move the discussion board here. >> i think the idea of a rational policy, as you seem to be describing it, would not necessarily take into account both given developments through history or like we were talking about, the broader array of possibilities, whether from iraq or indonesia. our policies about what is going on in savannah -- saddam might change overtime -- sudan might change overtime. we did not take issue in darfur, but that was some issued that a few leaders a

israel is made many --ç israel made many mistakes of their own.afghanistan itself goes, the vast majority of afghans are much too busy with survival, with afghanistan, and with their local issues. he will not your discussions of palestinian issues in -- you will not hear discussions of palestinian issues in çóafghanistan per se. people are fighting forç survival and are very concerned about their immediate future. you have to differentiate -- palestinian issues have an enormous attraction in the greater muslim worldç and in a financial support for al qaeda andi] producing foreign recruit. the palestinian issues have almostç no traction in afghanistanw3 itselfç in people picking sides any issues there. guest: 10 --ç can i joinçó in n that? i don't know the immediate situation in afghanistan, but in çópakistan, pakistan has somethg like 60 or 70 satellite tv channels, and there are these that are put into cable. since the population is at least half a literate, almost everybody gets their news -- half illiterate, almost everybodyç gets their n

but it also includes peace between israel and syria and the broader relationship between israel and the arab states. he is continuing to work with both sides, trying to improve the atmosphere that can get us back to negotiations to persuade both sides that we've made no pre conditions -- no preconditions. we can get a continuous, viable palestinian state so that we can get with the two -- did what the two sides need. -- should get what the two sides need. we are engaged in humanitarian assistance. what it is true that usaid is not maintain a presence in gaza, but there is a lot that we are doing to bring students and others to the west bank so that they can continue to interact with their fellow palestinians. there will also engage in programs. by no means are we hands-off in terms of trying to help the people of gaza. we are also engaged in the work of trying to shape the opinion environment so that leaders -- i don't have to tell you that domestic politics are really difficult. we need to create an atmosphere where leaders feel that they have more flexibility to take the tough decisio

so you would like israel to be bombed?u think that is a rational comeback. >> i'm asking you. >> i would like to israel wiped off the map. i would like to see the people guided to their original countries. >> they may seem crazy to you but you are not their target audience. the fbi has assigned agents to watch them, to monitor their website and perhaps more importantly, watch those who are viewing and listening. like a young new yorker who pled guilty in a plot to blow up the long island railroad. he met with kataab. >> i know he was a good muslim. >> maldenado arrested in texas for receiving military training with somali terrorists, mahana was arrested in boston. the revolution muslim partners say they do not fight themselves and do not incite others to fight. but make no mistake, they want you to become a muslim. they want americans to die. >> i would not do it myself. is obama a murderer, a tyrant, a scumbag? absolutely he is. if they killed him would i shed a tear? absolutely. do i incite his murder? we don't preach th

the conditions were -- the violence between the palestinians and israel were winding down in some way. that is something which tony blair and the british government repeated very frequently. it was a necessary precondition of taking any action against saddam hussein. the construction of a coalition, and the reentry of weapons inspectors -- i only saw all these conditions formally listed as a result of the crawford meeting through elite when a cabinet officer -- a leak when a cabinet notice paper. there were part of the diplomacy we were pursuing. the coalition, the un, doing something about the terrible bloodshed between the israelis and palestinians. it was not clear that these were things that we would like to have, or the actual conditions of going further on iraq. as time went by, they did not look much like conditions, and the buds were a bit feeble -- but's were a bit feeble. the "yes, but" approach from crawford. the yes was tehre,b -- there, but the "but's" were fading away? >> [unintelligible] >> they were not formulated like that. if you're going to go through the un in the

if there were a war between israel and iran, we should support the israel's. i would agree with you that when it comes to the palestinian issue we ought to try to use our influence to convince the israelis to allow the creation of a palestinian state to resolve the problems there, but i separate that issue from iran. the government of iran is despicable. it is in a church human rights violator of its own people -- it is a major human rights double under this bill. and what you're going to do, you're going to do this: you're going to say, i'm going to pay the tax rather than cover insurance. because it is fin the health-care debate could wage nonstop until christmas eve. we have serious policy disputes and procedural battles. again, you can see the debate on c-span 2 and c-span.org. now, a discussion on health insurance for the unemployed. this is 20 minutes. joining us now is the executive director of familyusa. this has to do with making your health insurance payments. guest: cobra is the way that people who are laid off can continue to get health care covera

but israel does not have it. why is that? also american jews give gifts in december 4, it is the holidays are passover and the jewish new year and so there are seasonal spending bombs and israel, they just don't occur in december. china doesn't appear to be happening in china, sort of debate about that. in korea it doesn't happen. some christians, not many. japan has few christians but they do have a tradition of celebrating christmas. it's the material last christmas. so you do see a pretty clear decembre spending bumping japan. so it's going on around -- around the world. okay. now, the next question is the direct comparison. i've shown you here that there is this december spending bumps and all these countries but has the big spending on? we have that answer that yet so the answer to that we would like to compare the size of the spending bonds may be averaging across years, across the country so that is what i want to do next. this is across the years since the year 2000. this is the average size of the december relative t

wipe israel off the map.hould be, and it has to be robust enough that allies like israel are convinced that we can confront a threat that we and they feel. otherwise they may make other plans. host: ilan berman thank you for being with us, author and vice president of american foreign policy council. we will be right back and take more of your calls for the rest of the hour. >> he was not an imposing figure, he was not a giant of his time. yet he emerged as the nominee at the time when the party was populated with big figures. >> his mark on history includes manifest destiny, robert merry looks at the life and times of our 11th president, tonight on c-span's "q & a." >> book tv tonight, on "afterwards" greg mortenson on his book, stones and schools. and coming in january, blogger and fox news contributor michelle malkin. >> on communicators, dan glickman. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our question for you for the rest of the hour, will copenhagen make a difference? we are talking about the u.n. cli

it was from the best list in israel. >> host: wishlist in israel was assigned? >> caller: i found out about it a year and a half ago and didn't come out in the united states until october of this year. and i think it has some strong implications of how we allow one group of non-christians to treat another group of non-christians based on mythology. >> host: another view on israel. and this is by dan senior and saul singer. the story of israel's economic miracle came out this year. arizona hear a story from our republican line. your favorite book of 2009? >> caller: hi, i want to talk about the most informative book i've read and that is the corruption of the muslim fine. i can't tell you who actually wrote it, but because they can't pronounce his name. but he is a devout muslim man that explains the quran. he interprets the quran and i think we all need to read that to understand how they came to the mindset they have now that they have to kill that muslims have to control the world. i want to apologize, may i? >> host: chewer. >> caller: peters plan was the hos

the real terrorists in this world of the united states and israel. -- are the united states and israelw, when you remove the democratically elected government and install a dictator and support the dictator with money and weapons, and people fight back against that, you call that terrorism. i have known people that have been to gaza that have seen firsthand the oppression -- israelis won't even let them have enough food. they have to smuggle food in to feed people. if people fight against that, you call the terrorism. israel has over 250 nuclear- weapons. host: thanks for the input. you mentioned earlier that issues like guantanamo are not necessarily the driving force behind radicalization of american muslims. guest: what i said was that they are not the only thing. people plugging local grievances into this larger global grievance. not to say that people are not motivated by the plight of palestinians or the way we should not result the israeli- palestinian comment for the right reasons. i cannot disagree with the caller what more could the united states and israel not the reasons fo

in tn, israel would free 000 palestinian prisoners. but hamas complain the israelis werdragging their feet. >> this deal has vario ascts and the resistance is working on them but i n tell you th the ball is in the iselis' court because of eir stubbornness and not acceptinthe conditions of our brothers in the sistance. >> sreenivasan: offe and counter-offe went back and forth thugh german mediators. and israeli defee minister ehud bak said getting shalit backas a "top priority". >> the israeli goverent and certainly we who sent e chief of staff and i vieit the utmost ethical and commd obligation to make any reasonablend possible move in ord to bring gilad home not any price but any possle and reasonable move to bri him home. >> sreenasan: wire service accounts said israel has bald at releasing pestinians convted of killing israelis. a heavy dust storm in e western u.s. tay triggered a fiery hiway pileup. at least foupeople died in the burning wrecge on interstate 10ear casa grande, arizona. one of the vehicles s a tanker tructhat explod

-- >> host: we're in israel, with a best seller list was this on? >> caller: it was all i think [inaudible] or the jerusalem post but i found out about it a year and a half ago and it didn't come out in print in the united states until october this year so i am still reading it and i think it has strong implications on how we allow one group of non-christians to crete to the country to another group based on some type of mythologies. >> host: another view on israel. it is on the economy of bayh paul sing your startup nation of the story of israel's economic miracle can of this year. arizona curious tourists on the republican line. you're favorite book of 2009. >> caller: hello. i want to talk about i think the most informative book i have read and that is the corruption of the law muslim mind. i can't tell you who actually wrote this because i can't pronounce his name but he's a very devout muslim man that explains the kuran he interprets it and i think we all need to read that to understand how they came to the mindset they have now that they have

israel and ms.delauro for their leadership on this and i urge that all members support house resolution 727, and we yield back the balance of my time. -- and we yield back the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: all time having been yielded back, the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass how the resolution 727 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to and without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. without objection, the title is amended. mr. lynch: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: mr. speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts requests the yeas and nays. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. p

but i think your leader made a mistake when he said he wanted to wipe out israel.t: thank you so much. first, just a correction that i represent the national iranian american council. so the rulers in iran are not considered our leaders. as to the question, i think you raise add very important question by talking about 1953, because in the mindset of us here in america the u.s.-iran tensions used to begin from 1979 with the revolution and then offings with the hostage taking. in the mindset of the iranians it started back in 1906 during the constitutional revolution in which americans actually played an important role helping the iranian people in their movements towards democracy. and the view of america was positive. then, however, in 1953, the c.i.a. participates actually master minds a coup against the prime minister of iran and that's -- reinstates the shah. and is a key backer of the shah during his rule. and that is a key reason why you saw this outbursting of anti american sentiments. and in the iranian mindset that's when the history begins. the bottom lin

articles about poor women in europe almost being sold into safery and prostitution and the culprits from israelou know we never say anything about this. host: have you seen evidence of this? caller: i've read articles host: where? caller: in magazines. i've seen it on tv before. host: ron, we are going to move on to alcorn, wisconsin. clayton? are you with me? caller: i am. host: turn down your television. this will work better. caller: i have it turned off. i guess, you know water boarding has been determined as torture. long before obama declared that it was torture. we have cheney running around the country saying we should be torturing and doing more of this. we don't want other countries or people doing it to us. yet, here we are doing it knowingly that we shouldn't be didding it. my question is why didn't anything ever come about on cheney even today still advocating at the top of his lungs? guest: before i came into government. i've been in this position a little over three months. i worked for many years with a private human rights organization. i probably spent the last sim or seven ye

of all the people in israel. israel would do it over a three- year time frame or selso and mod to establish a conversation here in america. guest: i agree with the caller can provide a huge fan of c- span. i think it would be a better country if we got rid of all of the news and commercials. that is a good starting point. my concern on israel is that i do not understand where they are right now, how they plan to get out of their current strategic plight. i am a supporter of israel and i worry about the gaza war. also, clearly, they have real worries with iran. iran, i think, is the biggest winner in the iraq war. iran has really benefited from the in -- from the removal of saddam hussein and the weakening of iraq as a state, and especially the of the bushmen of a shi'ite domenicdominated gove. essentially what we have done is removed -- and especially the establishment of a shiite dominated government. essentially, what we have done is removed its opponents in the area. i think israel rightly is worried by the in

but the ma sod, we were attacked because of our support of israel and the palestinians. host: christine, do you have any evidence of that? caller: yes, look at the 9/11 commission reports. now it's they are writing bills right and left because they have a strangal hold on both parties of congress. host: we're going to leave it there. she is starting to go off the rail. on our line for independents. go ahead. caller: you can look at what motivated highjackers at american highjack.com. host: in o'needa our line for democrats. caller: good morning. we're talking on the subject of hometown grill off here and all the things -- home homeland security we've learned we really haven't done no such secure this country. now i wonder if you're aware of executive order 12425 signed by your president last week that to me, we're going in the wrong direction. this executive order gives diplomatic immunity in this country. there can be nobody who questions what they do in the name of security for this country which threatens and i wonder how many of you are aware of this. 40eu7 are you a

book called the politics of anti-semitism because we had done a bunch of articles about critical israel that he wore an anti-semite, which is actually nonsense and we thought it was important -- it was a successful book actually, and we do our books in association with ak press, a bunch of pretty well organized anarchist's down and oakland, and ak looks after a lot of the bookshop -- looks after the bookshop distribution. we also sell the books on our website or people write in and we send them from the office in petrolia. it was natural to do it. we had a bunch of articles and then we got into books we like to read again, it's not that expensive. if you can sell them and have a website in which you can advertise them all the time. as we had done five or six books, the latest is "and times," out this month actually on the of fourth is based on by my co-editor and co-author on this one. we have a book, deneen cassidy's book, how the irish invented slang, which will be a very big eaves and because it shows much of american slang comes from including words you wouldn't believe like poker a

with extreme terrorist target, and what is generally, is that the founders of the future state of israel who wish not without reason the british to leave as quickly as possible blew up the british headquarters in palestine. that is to say the king david hotel in jerusalem, and then halfway to britain a few months later they blew up the british embassy in from which was completely destroyed except for the stable. what is entirely forgotten is that the real target was neither the king david hotel bar the british embassy in jerusalem. it was white hall itself and this was due more less-- in the newspaper article and he did plant a bomb which did kill even more people then explosive killed in the king david hotel but she did not pryor properly so this made such a traumatic impact on mi5 that it was just its finest hour and it dealt mainly with the assistance of british zionist who did not like begin. very successfully with the zionist plots extreme zionist plots, letter bombs that were sent to people as well as the attempt to blow up white hall, but mi5's response was one of the lowest point

i worry about israel. i'm a supporter of israel, but i worry especially about the gaza war. and also, clearly, they have real worries with iran. iran, i think, is the biggest winner in the iraq war. iran has really benefited from the removal of saddam hussein and the weakening of iraq as a state and especially the establishment of a shiite-dominated government in iraq. essentially, what we've done is remove the historic barrier to the westward expansion of persian power. iran has benefited hugely and is more influential in the middle east as a result of the invasion of iraq. this is just another reason the invasion of iraq was a really bad idea. and i think israel, rightly, is worried by the increased threat presented by iran. you're seeing this right now in interesting ways, i don't know if people generally have noticed it, but i wrote about this in my blog, for example, in yemen there's fighting going on on the southern fringe of the saudi or the arabian peninsula. what you're seeing is confrontation between the arabian states and iran i think because iran is feeling frisk

until 1956 we did not support the state of israel. it through arms. we did not enter into any kind of treaty with the state of israel. so it was confusion in that political sense. even in the administration of john f. kennedy, we had a problem with the state of israel, and relations were not always very cordial. what i am saying is that in terms of the united states' relationship with the muslim world, despite the fact that the muslim world accounts for 18% of jobs in the united states through imports and exports. we basically have $500 billion of imports and exports with the muslim world, accounting for 18% of jobs in in this country. even from the perspective of the domestic issues and politics, we have always been wavering from one end to the other in terms of developing a rational policy towards the muslim world. the question that needs to be asked is why we should have a rational policy. i think the issue is we should be asking is should we have a rational foreign policy. let me move the discussion forward here. >> may i? >> yes,

they've refused to reopen ace talks until israel stops l selement construction.a spokesman for predent obama warned agast steps that prmpt negotiations. thailand s closed down a refugee ca of more than 4,000 ethnic hmong,nd begun forcibly deporting them backo laos. gornment troops accompanied every truckload of portees today. the thai goverent said they are illegal immigrants and not political refugees. han rights groups said they fear thhmong will be persecuted in laos. the u.s. statdepartment asked thailand to stothe action. there was good newsoday for u.s. retlers. new data from master ca showed holiday spending was more than 3.5% over last yea and wall street gained todaas well. the dow jones industrl average was up nearly 27 pots to close at 10,547. the sdaq rose five points to close at 2291. those arsome of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the e of the prram with a preview of what you'll find tonighon the newshour'seb site. but for nowback to margaret. >> warner: now, weurn to the confntation in iran. the regime struck at its oppotion again today on

anything that would accentuate a scenario whereby we will be the victims of any use of arm force by israel or the united states or the two combined. more than a few have that same analysis so at least two foreign ministers shared this with me. but one said we come at it differently. and it's because of where we sit in our own historically different strategic relationship with iran, geopolitical relationship with iran. oman has a different view of this. and one needs to understand the reasons why oman's view is different. it sits directly across from the straits from iran. iran on its side of the straits has the straits reamed with antiaircraft and missile batteries. oman is far more exposed to iran than this geostrategic vital aspect than any other gulf countries there. secondly, oman is the beneficiary, 30 years ago, of iran sending a total of around 30,000 iranians to oman. never more than 3,000 at a time, usually for three months at a time to help quell what was arab's longest civil insurrection in the past 100 years. there are no territorial disagreements between iran and oman. compara

we should be in no doubt that it's important for israel's leaders to be able to talk to government ministers in this country. they are important strategic partners. and we need to make sure the situation is as the foreign secretary said it should be. >> well, can the lady of the house shed a better light on this. when the international contract was, it was never the intention to obstruct normal business like the vital work like the middle east peace process. senior-serving politicians whom we all need to talk to everybody were not meant to be affected in this way, as we understand it. can she say magistrates are applying the law correctly? and if they're not interpreting the law correctly, will the government give fresh advice on that? and if they are -- if they are interpreting the law correctly, what are the government going to do about it. and when is the minister going to come to the house and report on this and say what they propose to do? >> well, i think i'm in a position to tell the house that we agree and our objectives are those in which he set out and ministers will be looking at

hamas is blowing of civilians in israel when israel and palestinian of 40 were about to sign a peaceeal giving the palestinians this date they so rightly deserve. hamas wants to destroy all of israel. that will not be negotiated. al qaeda was targeting as long before we went to afghanistan or iraq. those are issues we need to be aware of. in terms of bible and guns, i do not think that is useful. in using words like crusade clearly feeds into our adversaries conception of who we are. we need to be careful -- killing >> we're leaving this now to go to the u.s. house. members are about to gavel in for the morning hour of speeches. legislative work will begin at 2:00 p.m. among today's bills, one manager of federal grants and the grant process. another congratulating this year's major league soccer champions. now live to the u.s. house floor. ommercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, dece

regime from its obvious intention of acquiring nuclear weapons, nor fromity stated goal of wiping israel off the map, nor from its unremitting hostility toward our own country. but i do believe that it will send a vital message of growing western resolve at a critical moment in world history. iran should interpret the house's action today as an overwhelming expression of american commitment that spans the wide spectrum of political views within our nation. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. defazio from oregon. for what purpose does the gentleman from vermont rise? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. welch: thank you. madam speaker, i wanted to address the question of afghanistan. the president was confronted with the very serious and difficult decision and the decision that he made as america knows is to increase the troop strength by 30,000 stroops, also seek support for an additional 10,000 troops from allies. the question r

guest: i believe that israel's right to exist anothe70 and sovereignty is vital. and we support that. but the middle east process is part of stabilizing the region. this peace process is something that this administration and congress need to invest in, bring moral weight. i agree the long term solution to much of what we see, not all of it, is a settlement. host: louisiana, brian, who supports the president's proposal. caller: i believe most people who are calling in are feeling guilty because they allow president bush to start the war in iraq that took the focus off afghanistan. we pushed out al qaeda and the taliban in eight weeks, but because it focused on iraq will allow them to come back and surge against us. my question to the representative, do you think the real strategy is to put 30,000 more troops into afghanistan, for us to re-surge, pushed the taliban and out of afghanistan and allow the special forces fighting in pakistan to get more intelligence on al qaeda? if we can put these trips and the border of pakistan and a surge against the taliban, to me,

the book was 19 weeks on the best-selling west in israel. it was on "the jerusalem post."t did not come out in print until october of this year. i am still reading it. it says how we allow one group of non christians to treat another group of non-christians. host: startup nation. " became a cult this year. your favorite book of 2009. caller: what a want to talk about, the most informative book or read was "the corruption of the muslim mind. " i cannot tell you who actually wrote it because i cannot pronounced his name. but even for a devout muslim man that explains the koran, he interprets the chronkoran, we all need to read that to see how they came to the mindset, muslims have to control the world. i want to apologize. may i? back to you. i think peter was the host. i called him -- i am 80 years old. for last year, i have developed a problem. i am going blind. i started reading one the bairaq war broke out. since i was retired, i could read all day. but now in the last year, i have not been able to read. my memory is going bad. host: can you do books on tape? caller: the

we had done a whole bunch of articles about, you know, this idea of israel or an anti-semite which is absolutely nonsense. a very successful book, actually. we do our books in association with a bunch of pretty well organized down in oakland de. a k looks after a lot of the bookshop. looks after the bookshop. we also sell the books on our website. you know, people write and. it was not for us to do. we had a lot of articles. we get in to do some books that we like. again, it is not that expensive. if you can sell them and you have a web site which you can advertise all the time, we have done five or six books. the latest one is in t. author. we have got a book, danny capacities book, how the irish invented science. it will be of very important book. big event. words you wouldn't believe like poker and jazz. it is a a really hole hidden parts of the american language etymology. three words from irish and american today. it's complete nonsense. millions and millions of irish people came to american speaking irish. the word to not go away. they just transmitted. the first person who has

israel back to the future for americans. will have leaders in the general election. >> a i think 2010 school be the year that the politics of the middle " be devoured. and if not, if the extremists tossed tell me what that means. >> that means moderate republicans and conservative democrats having a stronger voice, which authorities saw in the 1990's. i think the seats of a third party will be sound and and we can see that as early as the next election. >> on the elections in 2010, it will bring about the fact that democrats will lose their majority in the house. it will happen because americans like a check and balance in unfettered power. the agenda is far outside the mainstream of poor people see this country. >>, we will be back here in a year's time to check out how they all came about. in the meantime, please do thank all of our panelists. [applause] >> next on c-span, our look inside blair house. president obama and former president george bush talk about volunteer is a at the george bush presidential library. later,

he went there for a discussion about israel.t decision between bush and belair that colin powell should go to the region and sorted out. i believe after that, the two men worked at the ranch until dinner where all the advisers turned up. i am not entirely clear to this day, to this day i am not entirely clear what degree of convergence was it, if you like, signed in blood at the crawford ranch. that includes the speech that tony blair gave the next day at college station, one of his best foreign policy speeches, a very fine piece of work. >> is there a sense in that speech between potential preemption and the wind rolling in iraq? -- and the united nations ruling in iraq? >> i think there was a lot of interest in the speech. we came from a logical analysis. to the best of my knowledge, i may be wrong, this was the first time tony blair had said in public, "regime change." and it's not only deal with iraq, they dealt with other international issues as well, but to draw lessons of 9/11 and apply them to the situation in iraq, we a

but the ma sod, we were attacked because of our support of israel and the palestinians.ost: christine, do you have any evidence of that? caller: yes, look at the 9/11 commission reports. now it's they are writing bills right and left because they have a strangal hold on both parties of congress. host: we're going to leave it there. she is starting to go off the rail. on our line for independents. go ahead. caller: you can look at what motivated highjackers at american highjack.com. host: in o'needa our line for democrats. caller: good morning. we're talking on the subject of hometown grill off here and all the things -- home homeland security we've learned we really haven't done no such secure this country. now i wonder if you're aware of executive order 12425 signed by your president last week that to me, we're going in the wrong direction. this executive order gives diplomatic immunity in this country. there can be nobody who questions what they do in the name of security for this country which threatens and i wonder how many of you are aware of this. 40eu7 are you awa

host: many people think that israel is about to attack a run. -- iran. a time controlling is real in this case host: you are setting an air strike could take out iran's nuclear capability? guest: i am not that smart to know whether that happens. host: jacksonville, florida, good morning. caller: good morning cspan. let me give you an idea about my view about the tourist business. -- terrorist business. it is an ideology. does not got laws or explosive, it is an ideology failure to realize that we must combat the ideology is the reason that we are -- are chasing our tail as far as the islamic militant movement. if the united states failed to instruct the imams in the united states to curb their interests in stoking that fire and preaching hate , we will continue to chasing our tail. the doctor in texas that gave information that penetrates and contaminates the brains of young people must be stopped. that is the only thing. you cannot bomb them. you have to correct the continuous, poisonous dk brain. host: did you want to response? guest: good luck on that

i am for israel but we give money to israel vmry year, and they have health care from the cradle to thea, allowed the same things? host: taking that, are you supportive of europe's health care coverage? guest: i mean, i think what we have seen in all these countries around the world is there are models where the government can actually level the playing field so every citizen is assured of coverage and we need to find something that works for our country but that's been proven can work and our american citizens deserve the same as canadian or french citizens. we care about our people too. host: jim tweets in. wouldn't it be easier around cheaper to regulate insurance companies rather than creating a public plan? guest: we are absolutely in favor of that but fundamentally what we need is to break the absolute strangal hold that this industry has over american lives and the best way to do that is to lower costs and increase competition by having a public option. 40eu7 here's how do i mail you a check without giving you myçó personal information? maybe he's gone online and you ask question

of a major highway, handing palestinians a bid to victory against israel past practice of reservingractice of reserving some roads for jews. it is a huge victory, according to spokeswoman for the association of civil rights in israel, which represents the palestinians in the case of." oppose line, go ahead. caller: thank you for c-span. we would like to trust our government, we would like to know that what they are doing is telling us the truth, and when we talk about taxing, when we talk about the cadillac plant or whatever, what we're opposed to is that we are not getting the facts. we have been told that obama was going to increase transparency -- upset encourage transparency through this process and we are not even able to see the bill. they are working on the thing and we cannot see what is going on. i think these guys are out and out lying to us. if you look at what obama said to start with in january and he give us more money in our paychecks, you take a look at your withholding, and you will see where your money is coming from. when your tax returns are done this year, you w

in israel. >> did your legs get sore? >> larry: yes. >> my wife got blistered and still not healed. >> larry: how's things going? >> traveling and getting ready to go to malaysia and africa. and just got back from rwanda. >> larry: did you ever think about retiring? >> i tried to but i don't know what i would do with myself. >> larry: now, we have a bush baby. >> this is a bush baby. >> can you put him on his shoulder? >> larry: that mean it lives in the bush? >> larry: put him on my shoulders. is this a bush baby? >> we filmed the bush baby in africa. this animal here, it's nocturnal. when we film it, we film it at nighttime. you see the eyeballs at nighttime out in the trees. they're not really big trees. they're pollinated, they defecate and pollinates is what it does. eats a seed or piece of fruit. the bush baby, it's amazing mechanism. in the daytime, they sleep. what do they do? they sleep in a big ball, like 30 or 40 of them all together get in a big ball together like this, looks like a big blob. therefore, predat

and then i went over to israel to do a broadcast from there. i had some spare time, i was 62.y said is there anything you'd like to do? i said, i'd like to parachute with the famed israeli parachute battalion. they said, nobody does that. i said, all right. they said, you're 62 years old. and i said, that's all right. so they made me sign a release. so i trained with them, jumped with them. the last time i did it i was 75. i did it three times. and each time they'd make me go through the school again. >> [inaudible] >> well, i wasn't doing those tethered jumps either, i was jumping with the -- [inaudible] into the desert. last time i got caught by the wind and slammed on the ground, really rang my bell. [laughter] my son retires commander in the navy seals, he served in 37 different countries mostly as a black hawk -- [inaudible] especially trained by the agency. laboratories that they have. my youngest son is a serving full colonel in the marine corps. >> [inaudible] my second son was in the peace corps in the -- [inaudible] made lieutenant, but they watched jane and me separ