compromises well it can't all be on israel's side you talk about bribing israel the pal the united states bribes the palestinians all the time constantly pays them enormous sums of money gives them support give support to their joining neighbors jordan in egypt so there's a lot of money offered on all sides the difference is israel is a democracy you have to persuade the people of israel that the palestinians are really interested in peace and that they can deliver the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room is not the palestinian authority it is iran the israelis are worried about so they make peace with the palestinians big deal iran then tells has bought to send rockets into downtown tel a bit of hamas begins to send rockets into stay wrote what they have bought is nothing in exchange for having virtually a civil war to try to dismantle the settlements what does israel get return very very little right so that's why i want us as a this time if men. a lot of points here and i think generally if i go back to getting here professor dershowitz is talking about the oss flow agreement so wha

isn't it part of israel? and those questions are not being raised in israel at all. i still remember one of my first stories x this will give you an -- and this will give you an indication to the wrong way israel society went. one of my first stories in the occupied territories back in the '80s was about this bed win woman who was about to give birth. in the middle of the night, a cold night in january, her husband and brother-in-law, they took her with the car, and they had to get to a hospital in jerusalem. they had to cross a checkpoint. in the first checkpoint the soldiers wouldn't let them passment they try -- pass. they tried an alternative way. in the second checkpoint, again, same reaction, they wouldn't let her pass. in the third checkpoint, she gave birth in the car. then they were begging the soldiers, please, take the mother with your own car, take the baby at least to a hospital, and they refused. so she told me. and then she was walking in a very cold night alone with her baby 2.5 kilometers, like 1.5 miles on her way to victoria which is a hospital in

say of course were about israel. let's be clear about one thing in my view as a release have the right to be there they have the right to exercise self-determination in. what's his star power i have no question in my mind about that and i have many friends who live there many people who i deeply respect i have no interest whatsoever in playing this game of bashing israel that's not my thing but but allow me to buy for those of you who are snickering bought just as it would be shameful shameful for any german during world war two to give a lecture singing the praises of germany and just as during the us war in vietnam for me to sing the praises of the us. amid the horror and amid the suffering i'm not going to sing the praises of israel when the war was over when palestinians have equal rights when there is justice they are all very happy to join along with everybody in seeing israel's accomplishments and criticizing its faults but not while and when it's torturing the palestinian i thank the e.u. . this question. on.

israel. if you look at their resolutions and their lobbying agenda in congress with very rare exception is focused more on how can we punish israel for creating divisions between the united states and israel that is in trying to help advance the peace process or help in some way the palestinian people. the arab lobby has one essential disadvantage to begin with and that is it is very difficult to see how they could ever represent, quote, the muslims or the arabs because there are 1-1/2 billion muslims with a variety of different approaches to their face. you have 21 arab countries with very different and often competing agendas and so there is no way that any individual organization or group of organizations could represent, quote, the arabs. the other problem is they have very small numbers. there are very few arab-americans or muslim americans in the united states keeping with that small population the vast -- not the vast majority but a significant percentage of arab americans are lebanese

and so i started to read voraciously on the israel palestine. so now i have both the event and the scholarly commitment and then obviously i'm jewish so i have a personal commitment and the three came together. i say one back to the occupied territories chair in the first intifada i am one to live with a couple pounds to the families. to philip enduring relationship to. normal was always a very political person even in tenth grade eleventh grade he was always very political he was probably more political than anybody that i knew with the time and we were many of us very political beings being against the war in vietnam was very was involved that was the thing to do but norman was truly was truly against it. you know i could understand why you weren't torn apart by what the us was doing the. right thing seeing some to help you see the real girls instead of my shoes being in similarly from my parents i got the moral commitment but what i got from professor chomsky was a way to articulate it intellectually without losing the passion and commitment

in exchange it wants israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask it to prolong it any further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying their proposed freeze will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks ago after they began and that was after israel reaffirmed its commitment to continue building settlements in palestinian areas let's not discuss this with eve from the u.s. or council in jerusalem which actually represents the jewish settlements hello to you so the u.s. back talks have stalled now for weeks and now it looks like it's trying washington is trying to buy off israel to get it to make a move we're talking a bribe or e in effect here now is this just a face saving exercise for america's peace brokering reputation how do you assess it. well you said it so it's an interesting fact after obama's mid-term loss where he sees that americans are very upset with his domestic policy and it doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon then he's got to go off

and israel if the u.s. putting forward this while they doing as part of the middle east peace quartet off to rule the e.u. the u.n. involved with this why is it just the u.s. putting forward this is a broker and nobody else involved. well you know many of us have believed since the beginning that the quartet was never a quartet that it was always a solo act with three backup singers i believe that the quartet was always designed to provide political and diplomatic cover to a thoroughly unilateral initiative unfortunately russia the european union and the united nations' worst of all have agreed to serve in that sort of back door role of providing credibility for a u.s. initiative that should be seen as unilateral and supporting illegal actions by israel providing the political cover for israel to never be held accountable it's really unconscionable and the question is why are the governments of the european union russia and the united nations as a whole not standing up and saying this is unacceptable that w

it is a year talking about israel and all the different aspects of israel. joining us now are rachel, a professional mediator and abbey, associate director of jewish community relations council. this is a wonderful initiative cosponsored by the jewish community federation san francisco, marin and sonoma and northern california board of rabbis. unusually when i am mostly the host i am president of the board of northern california board of rabbis and that way am excited to engage in the discussion. welcome rachel, aaron and abbey. what is year of civil discourse? why focus on israel is this. >> we are excited about this this project because of a controversy that brewed within the jewish community. we are often tapped -- most of our work is looking at community relations outside the jewish community. the way it dials outside of israel, signals to us we need to focus building bridges within the jewish community. we are launching this initiative, within the jewish community and other controversial issues, we heard from community leaders who have been -- felt verb

is offering israel war planes in exchange for halt in west bank construction but critics say bribes and won't solve the issues that decades of talks have failed to deal with. first the center of economics and power is shifting quick. switch to asia pacific that's the view of russia's foreign minister he's been in china for three way meeting of nations widely seen as shaking up the old order of global politics russia china and india a part of the increasingly influential bric group alongside brazil the growing dominance of this block as seen by analysts is changing the world since as a poet the host of today's meeting china has already overtaken japan to become the world's second largest economy and as far as catching up with the u.s. . reports on the awakening of an asian giant. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war two an economic powerhouse all of the spat of a single lifetime major pan asia economic miracle won't go you but nowadays the land of the rising sun is becoming a rising discontent. on. the unemployment rate and so is has been steady it's around five percent

to exist and will they ever want to live side by side with israel? >> those are two related, somewhat separate questions. i am not sure hezbollah has in its dna so to speak to recognize israel's right to exist. i mean, they are -- they were born assort of a delegitimizing force are trjs it is in their founding charter there should be no jewish state in the middle east and they reaffirm that in 2009 when they revised their charter so they have a profound i would say foundational commitment to resisting the existence of a jewish state. from the point of view of israel and the west, the question of course is can they be contained can they, in other words, can they be put in a box where they are unable to pose a security threat to israel, even if they don't recognize israel's right to be -- >> rose: and even if there are palestinians they wish they wouldn't do anything because they want to have a state and they don't want to constantly cause the israelis to react? >> yeah and there is a joke that says the palestinians who want to fight israel down to the

but no one is questioning israel about its nuclear arsenal. yes of course because the state of israel does not go around threatening any country with delamination and yet they still refuse to sign to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. i think that's the way to go absolutely in the future i hope all countries of the world who are reported to have access to nuclear weapons go unsigned in nonproliferation treaty in fact i wish for the day when there is no nuclear weapons anywhere in the world but when somebody calls for you repeated the nation i think it's not in the interest in your interest or in the interest of the international community for that country to have a nuclear bomb or let's wrap this up now i'm running out of time here but finally at the end of the day when it comes to the attack on this pair of iranian nuclear scientists are you thinking it's more politically motivated or motivated more by its role in washington d.c. . at this point i really cannot say all i can say is that all options must be considered that he was by an intel

israel is mulling over another temporary halt on building jewish settlements on palestinian territory in return for being given three billion dollars worth of fighter jets it's washington's latest effort to get it stalled peace talks moving again the deal to hand over a new f. thirty five would give the israeli air force striking capabilities in the region u.s. is also offering to fight any international resolutions against the jewish state at the united nations and will not ask for another freeze when the deadline is up palestinians are angry not least because the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem earlier the middle east policy expert phyllis bennis told r.t. that the u.s. is offering nothing new but what could be the final straw for palestinians. the three billion dollars we still don't know if that will be included within the existing thirty billion dollars that the u.s. has agreed to give to israel in military aid over these ten years this was negotiated by george bush and it's being implemented now by president obama whether it will be within that or whether this is an ad

and i got beat up while growing hatred of christians is the one thing israel's hardline muslims and jews can agree on the victims of violence tell their stories in just a few minutes. while the us is desperately trying to revive the stoled of middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction more moratorium in occupied palestinian territories washington's put twenty stealth fighter jets worth three billion dollars on the table and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it wants israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask it to prolong it any further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying their proposed freeze will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks ago after they began and that was after israel reaffirmed its commitment to continue building settlements in palestinian areas let's not discuss this with eve from the u.s. or council in jerusalem which actually represents the jewish settlements hello to

israel is it has the dating to take this take this offer you know as if israel is doing obama a great favor for stopping construction in the west bank and the end of the day you know every israeli as to ask you know what would be a future what would happen if israel would continue to construct settlement in the west bank and the answer is very clear you know by two options or israel would become an official point a state or israel will become in the national state since israel is not welcome is not willing the dreaded public is not willing apparently to become any any one of his countries i think it's mainly really interesting stuff to construct in the west bank and it's it's unbelievable to see that the tide is is giving obama hard time in order you know when obama is actually the one who is trying to save israel from its own deeds in the last forty two years so you. say the palestinians should welcome this deal and because that will mean obviously a pause in construction so it's a good deal isn't it from the palestinians point of view i can hardly hear you i'm sorry sir well just to

i know thathen israel applied for the u.n., they applied as the state of israel. i was asked to recognize the state of iael. now, they have a choice. there are countries that went to the security council and asked to change the name. i have exchanged letters of recognition with israel and that is done. september, 1993. as i told you, some people speak about refugees, some people's big about 1.5 million. that is true. the state of israel was recognized by us, and if page. -- end of page. >> i hava quick question. looking back, on what do you think were the opportunities that the palestinians missed in your opinion? i was wondering whether he would agree with you. >> what were the missed opportunities? >> as critical as i has been at times about the realities that exist on the ground on both sides, i think that there's probably no precedent in modern history for a people negotiating their way out of occupation and trying to create and build institutions at the same time. the conventional response to your question would be camp david, july, 2000. the orthodox ouopini

economics minister says it shows how israel is twisting washington's arm. but i think we're talking about blackmailing israel blackmailing america and mailing the world for stably seeing some kind of pseudo moratorium on the settlement activities settlement activities have been characterized by the whole world as illegal and i think the fact that israel is negotiating with an american an american administration the terms of a deal where they could have this pseudo murder turning for three months is in my opinion very very serious breach of the neutrality of the american government and very serious breach of the international community this will not work because even if they have the return for themis it will not be for the old palestinian territory but what will happen at the end of the three months nobody knows israel will stall the process even if it starts at the end of the three months they will have another route another round of a new blackmailing long list of things that they will demand israel with the negotiating terms with the americans concerning

the us offered israel more place in exchange for a new hole in the west bank construction but critics say bribes one solve issues the decades of total failed to deal with. fresh organ trafficking allegations in kosovo reignited play hundreds of body parts harvested during the ninety nine hundred more to fears organized crime is what. coming up in the business update new figures on the. budget deficit with greece and even was shape than previously thought we have the details in about twenty minutes time. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. the sense of all the economic power is shifting quickly eastwards to asia pacific well that's the view of russia's foreign minister who's been in china for a three way meeting of nations widely seen as shaking up the old order of global politics russia china and india part of the increasingly influential bric group alongside brazil the growing dominance of this block is seen by analysts as changing the world's centers of power the host of today's meeting china has already overtaken japan to become the world's second largest economy and it's

the coding of the virus points to israel.rrorism analyst roger cressey who is a former national security council staffer and bob baer a former cia case officer who's now the intelligence columnist for time.com. bob, is this a substitute for an aerial attack? >> oh, i think absolutely. if we look at archaeology of this, four years ago israel was pressing the united states to attack the nuclear facilities in iran. the bush administration refused. it was too dangerous. and i think what's happened is israel's turned to these indirect attacks, if you like. we have the case of a nuclear scientist killed in tehran and now we have the case of this virus, this trojan horse, which is very sophisticated so we see the israelis reverting to indirect attacks. >> is your hunch that it's state-sponsored. i ask that question. on the brain about mike zuckerberg. could it be some cyber geeks who are based in israel and took this into their own hand? >> no, no it was very directive. it was a very complicated trojan horse. they knew exactly what

we face many difficulties today because israel denies palestinians their legal rights refuses to return the golan heights to syria the ship of farms. and geisha to lebanon but the arab peace initiative was adopted why is israel doing that the international community has an obligation here it needs to know that we can only solve problems in the region through a fair peace for all this thing that israel is extensible for the deadlock in the peace process not only is it responsible israel is the main reason why the process failed netanyahu government is not able nor is it willing to continue with the peace process what role could pressure play in promoting the peace process in the middle east. participated in the madrid conference and is part of this process it is also part of the quartet mediating in the israeli palestinian talks therefore i think russia could play a very. role it has many friends in the arab world we need to use our relations with russia in order to communicate the arab stones on things to the international community because it's very unnerving to see the injustice done

and israel.i don't think it will give israeli is something the palestinians can't accept, but it will be a parallel set of agreements. i think prime minister met matthew that halliburton was in the u.s.-israel relationship as you can imagine, no surprises there. but i think the u.s. has a clear, verbal commitment on netanyahu that there'll be progress. as rob pointed out to my site to others of you, i don't think anyone believes the 90 day -- no one believes the 90 day material issue, even though these have been out there. but i think there's a commitment on meaningful progress. why? i think the night he believes -- the administration believes that without -- that this progress is critical to looking at the settlement issue differently. rob called it the light at the end of the tunnel will shine bright. and i think that's accurate. i think that's where the administration thinks that the israelis could be fake to them to the palestinians for what they believe their netanyahu was that, deeply the s

is made on the palestinian or in the european side to negotiate in to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war call the cowards song goes you have no fear calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world. we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture happening and people get so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. and again this is all see if we're checking the headlines. a nato invitation to moscow to take part in a missile defense plans for europe will only be taken up if punctured is unequal according to present him that he was speaking at the alliances summit in lisbon where closer ties with moscow have been welcomed by leaders including president about. the national influence of american taxpayers' money is being used to hold political parties and opposition groups across the world to promote u.s. interests monster under a flag opened spreading democracy that is slush fund loans money into a network of organizations that officially deny any politi

no fear calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world. we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture happening and people gets so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. thanks for being with us this late sunday night in moscow and some of you of the week with me these are the top stories moscow takes parted missile defense shield of only if it's an equal partner that was one of the outcomes of the nato russia summit in lisbon which has been hailed as a fresh start in their relations. also headlining for us russian businessman victor boot denies charges of weapons smuggling intel it was in the courtroom in us after he was hastily extradited from thailand don't choose. me and our team news crews detained in the us as they filmed a rally near a military training academy in ga. and two israeli soldiers get no jail for using the palestinian boys a human shi

america has offered israel warplanes in exchange for a three month old structure but critics say drive one soldier a few decades of. hundreds of body parts harvested during the one nine hundred ninety s. . and p. is organized crime is right. russia is continuing to exert its influence in the middle east not just as a peace negotiator multi million dollar deals are being signed on a regular basis and now the prime minister of lebanon has come to moscow with his checkbook ahead of his visit took time to sit down with r.t. . and then we met have welcome to the archery interview with great pleasure i would like to welcome lebanon's prime minister shakes her head in and i know hello prime minister hello had thought that that and that and do think that as a machine of the political crisis in iraq will have a positive impact on lebanon and could lead to resolution of the political crisis there as well. i think the main problem here is that the key issue is ignored i mean about a fair peace for everybody in ninety ninety one there was a peace conference in madrid then there was also the arab s

to palestinians as well as to lebanon and syria we can no longer ignore that israel is trying to pose its own agenda it keeps using lands daily unfortunately the world is not doing anything about it literally relations with russia are very important to us and we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well also like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping an army and security forces in this respect we're going to propose some ideas that are russian friends. the republicans call to slash spending across the board seems to have gone down well with voters in the u.s. . with the economy in ruins politicians say they'll be cuts in education and health care but that is one multibillion dollar area they won't touch with the u.s. debt in the trillions in the economy still in the toilet it's no surprise politicians in washington are calling for this solution it's across the board spending cuts and in fact it was the rallying cry heard around the cable channel talk on midterm election night when you get right down to the details so charity may be here medic

portrayed of normal finkelstein spoken critic of israel and the jurors of the holocaust. i'm not saying i was an absolutely top form but you did great for media now as an opportunity to grab on a couple things like what was the last question about palestinian terrorism well i thought i answered that well you getting line is you know being in the media smart with a focus and house and terror and then it you know is really charismatic i mean i think it's a question of priorities i spoke for two hours we're going to people showed an enormous amount of tolerance and then me speak for two hours and therefore i have an obligation to let people have their say no i'm saying things which deeply upset many people in the audience if they controlled themselves for two hours and showed me their respect and i have an obligation to let them lead out their feelings and thoughts and complain about the media to get this going i don't want to be i don't want to use the media i don't like expressions like that i don't want to success which is based on ruthlessness a success that's based on.

israel and lebanon are still technically at war.sraeli and lebanese soldiers were killed in a gunfight a few miles from the border. it remains tense. >> israel must withdraw from the northern part. this is the decision of the security council, and this is not subject of negotiation. >> this is officially part of love and on. by withdrawing its forces across the blue line -- this is officially part of the lebanon. by withdrawing its forces, israel is fulfilling its obligation but it is creating another problem -- cutting the village and town o in half. the schools and pare in southern half. people are worried. >> people in the north have brothers and the south. it is like one big family. i cannot leave my children, my brothers, my parents and love and on. it is like cutting a person in not leave cananot my parents in lebanon. >> with an international frontier running through the middle of the village, israel could soon be facing its enemies from hezbollah and the lebanese army on the other side of main street. >> malaria is a disease