that hamas provokes israel. ththey ofteten pretend to have people in civilian garb acting as though they are civilians who are hamas fighters. it is a very difficult undertaking for israel to target those who are targeting them. and d i think israel has hahad o defend itstself. it has a r righto defend i itse. it did not go seeking thihis. this wasas promoted by hamamas. i supportrt israel's right of self-defense. any code that was hihillary clinton speaking on cnn on sunday. the network will host tonight's debate in brooklyn. to more about israel and palestine conflict and the 2016 election, we arere joined by jol beinin. he is s professor of middle east history at stanford university. he is the former director of mimiddle east studies atat the american university in cairo. he is author of several books, most recently, "workers and thieves: labor movements and popular uprisings in tunisia and egypt." professor, welcome back to democracy now! >> great to be here. amy: can you talk about the clips we just heard o

there's a surge of right wing opinion and politics in israel and you have eluded to the fact that israel always used to be a bipartisan issue in this country and became less so in recent years and can still be reversed but it can also continue and all of these can be reversed. >> do you think that at the beginning of the obama administration you have first african american president that captured the world's imagination and becomes president you had an amazingly powerful colby nation and yet they did nothing when it came to the conflict. could they have done something? do you think that moment was the right moment? >> well, the president tried. i think that this is something that i researched. i red carefully obama statements as a candidate and of course his first month in office. he did want to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict and in his view he was supportive of the theory that the palestinian issue is a major obstacles to the relationship with muslim worlds. it's become almost irrelevant because many of the arabs that used to complain about the palestinian issue now complain a

turkey and israel have had ups and downs in the relationships since the founding of israel and now ofcourse there is a down period and he's keen on normalizing the relationship. it won't be the close relationship that we had in the '90s but of course if turkey and israel were to collaborate in places like lebanon in placee places of the region this could be a formidable issue >> i have two quick questions. the first one is something you talked about that hezbollah has a grip. we used to so man so many statem military officials talking about another war in lebanon. do you think this is a possibility, and my second question the state department about the human rights abuses and the egyptian military what do you think this is for the plaintiff congress? >> thank you. okay. on the first question, the prospect of hezbollah and israel is a nightmare or would be a nightmare for everyone. hezbollah has over 100,000 rocks and missiles. several thousand of them are long-range warheads and precision guided. they had good intelligence about the long-range missiles and destroyed them. so tel aviv

they cannot cross into israel for work or to go to the west bank. and the only exist is through egypt where people spend days at the border. >> i felt like i left to go to another country, you know? >> you went to another country. >> so you think i did the right thing? >> oh, forget it. >> forget it? >> yeah. >> they'll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. >> i'm always eager to come here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe tha

relationship with israel. senator sanders, you maintain that israel's response in gaza in 2014 was, quote, disproportionate and led to the unnecessary loss of innocent life. what do you say to those who believe that israel has a right to defend itself as it sees fit? >> well, as somebody who spent many months of my life when i was a kid in israel, who has family in israel, of course israel has a right not only to defend themselves but to live in peace and security without fear of terrorist tactics. that is not a debate. but what you just read, yeah, i do believe that. israel was subjected to terrorist attacks, has every right not world to destroy terrorism, but we had in the gaza area, not a very large area, some 10,000 civilians who were wounded and some 1,500 who were killed. now, if you're asking me not just me but countries all over the world was that a disproportionate attack, the answer is i believe it was. and let me say something else, let me say something else. as somebody who is 100% pro israel, in t

he is not anti-israel. he is criticizing a policy he is not criticizing israel the country.e united states doesn't believe that israel doesn't have right to exist or not the strongest ally for us in the middle east. if we're not criticizing netanyahu for being anti-american we shouldn't criticize joe biden being anti--- harris: anti-american? we don't know what is in the deal because we can't see the side deals. we know there is dirt on the floor with all of that. sandra: julie, why is the fight so public? why can't they speak -- >> quite honestly netanyahu i think is frustrating character to a lost word leaders, not just this one. and i think barack obama is fed up with him. >> also a beloved leader but a lot of people. >> he is not beloved. got 25% of the vote from israeli public. >> internationally you could debate is he popular figure in different place. >> i don't agree with that. >> chanting death to america we're giving them money, we don't know if they're going to terrorism. paying that is little controversial as well. harris: glad you went first. >> and one more thi

it israel.uan: i would like to ask both bob scheer and torie osborn about this whole issue -- it is true, i completely agree that a political leader can change and can adopt a more progressive or less progressive position over time, but i am wondering how much of the change in viewpoint of some of the centrist democrats -- i would classify both governor cuomo here in new york and hillary clinton in that cap a formally centrist democrats -- have been affected by this enormous grassroots movement that has developed from the dreamers to the fight for $15 to the occupy movement to climatement around change. these massive movements all around the country. how much of these centrist leaders have changed their positions in order to remain relevant to the changing nature of political thought among the masses of american people? >> well, i agree with you, and i think the reason that hillary clinton position herself centerleft -- by the way, you govern from the centerleft. you do not govern from the left,

that hamas provokes israel. they often pretend to have people in civilian garb acting as though they are civilians who are hamas fighters, and it's a very difficult undertaking for israel to target those who are targeting them. and i think israel has had to defend itself. it has a right to defend itself. it did not go seeking this. this was, you know, promoted by hamas. and i support israel's right of self-defense. >> jeff weaver, senator sanders' campaign manager, said that your foreign policy and you support a foreign policy that helped give rise to the creation of isis. >> well, that is beyond absurd. you know, they're saying a lot of things these days, and i'm just going to let them say whatever they choose to say. but, you know, isis was primarily the result of the vacuum in syria caused by assad, first and foremost, aided and abetted by iran and russia. so i think that let's put responsibility where it belongs. >> weaver also told an abc podcast that there will be, quote, certainly be a contested conventio

they were building throughout the middle east, but no projects in israel.rian lamb: do you think after your research, there was a direct connection? sally denton: between? brian lamb: the attitude of caspar weinberger in israel? sally denton: i don't think so. weinberger was rapid on the subject of israel and george statesman,really a and he was going forward with a policy, influencing reagan, but i think they were in locked step with each other. i think caspar weinberger was more of a neocon. brian lamb: this is an unfair question to ask, why did george shultz and weinberger not get along? they both worked for bechtel and republican administrations. sally denton: they were very different men in temperament and it just seemed like it was a legendary battle between the two. is a lamb: george shultz very much alive and is 95 years old, will turn 96 at the end of this year. our guest has been sally denton and her book is "the profiteers: bechtel and the men who built the world." thank you very much. sally denton: thank you. ♪ [captioning performed by the natio

settlers poured into the west bank, establishing settlements closely linked to the state of israel. streets were built, military was deployed and security zones were erected to protect the settlements. life has become progressively difficult for the palestinians of the west bank. >>haled has just found out that this man is jewish, and he can't believe it. heells us he and his friend have never seen a w like this. khaled: at the settlement checkpoint, i sometimes see jews and soldiers. once i was there with my father and our tractor. the settlers always make trouble. they tried to shoot a friend who was with us. he ran away. >> israeli writer and activist nir baram isn't surprised at the palestinian boy's reaction. he explains to us that deep in the west bank, no one knows any ordinary israelis, because no ordinary israelis come here. he says most israelis suppress any knowledge of the daily hardships of palestinians and the occupation. nir baram: it's horrible, but feel there is a gap of knowledge between the ideas that i hear in israel, in berlin or geneva from people that never vi

i am not neutral when it comes to israel. i consider them to be one of the greatest allies, the only democracy in the middle east, under constant attack. both above the ground and beneath the ground, with people walking in and trying to kill jews, just because they happen to live in israel. i mean, it is a terrible situation. as i have said, we would all love to see some sort of two-state solution. but that is up to the parties. i'm not going to tell the israelis how to run their security. or how to run all their foreign-policy. if i have something i want to tell them, i will tell them without any cameras being around. but they are undergoing tremendous pressure today because of the stabbings that have occurred. it seems that is one thing after another. but i stand with them. i am not a neutral party with -- when it comes to israel. you count the foursquare in their corner. [applause] and in regard to that, i believe they need to constantly have military superiority. and i am very happy with the fact that, even when i was in

israel willthat have to give up some apartment israel's enemies are going to have to give up on the idea that israel can is sit -- can exist as a

united states, arab parties, party or parties and israel. you need all three to work more or less in tandem. if you look at, you look at the three, right now, and four, i think, until new administration is in place, which is about a year from now, not likely to see that happen. you have the right-wing government in israel. and you have a very weak palestinian partner. and, very weak and i'm not sure that the at end of the day, he can actually sign finality, end of conflict on the bottom line. so, trying to force it right now, i think would lead to another failure. that's so i'm not abandoning. i'm one of those israelis who believe in two-state solution. very important, i think for us israelis to separate from the palestinians in the west bank and, in gaza in a better way and to let them have their own state i i'm asprayed it is not going to -- i'm afraid it is not going to happen right now and i put my sights on something more ambitious than that. >> you mentioned the united states and eventual elections. clearly that important relationship

where in israel can you point to those examples? erel: i think steve case is making off, tech, working with a really interesting point. the issue of security and technology and the combination between the government and the civilian sector are a big issue around the world. what we are seeing on the organizations,is countries, terrorist organizations are using technology in order to use the cyberspace in order to threaten the physical assets around the world. governments are needing to work together with the businesses and between themselves. i'm here in washington to try to see that israel and the united states can come up with new initiatives to counter the strategies that are using technologies and are threatening our dams, as you had in new york, threatening utility companies, airlines, all kinds of facilities that in the past you felt were safe. now they need protection. betty: that is an easy case to say we need more startups, we need better technology. however, i read jamie dimon's annual letter where there is a about silicon

we have to protect israel and take care of israel.y are sort of a bagsian bassian all by themselves right now. president obama is the single worst thing that i have ever seen happen to israel. it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable. [cheers and applause] i love the question, steve, but we are going to take great care of israel. we are going to protect and cherish israel. we will see if we can make a deal. i just have to do that. almost from a competitive standpoint. they all say you can't do it. it can never be done. i say you can do it. we will see what happens. thank you. >>> we are going to take another quick break. we have more questions from donald trump on second half of "on the record" town hall. plus we have two special guests. that's next. [ applause ] you've finally earned enough reward miles on your airline credit card. now you just book a seat, right? not quite. sometimes those seats are out of reach, costing an outrageous number of miles. it's time to switch... to the capital one venture card. with venture, you'll earn unli

the state of israel, look at what happened yesterday. another bus bombing. it seemed as if nobody is looking at these eventss and says here is what i will do, hard and fast ideas here. as you, looking at hillary clinton, also look at bernie sanders, the only jewish candidate in the race, he said some things, we need to be more evenhanded with the palestinians, how does that go over with someone like you? >> didn't go over well at all, nor did donald trump saying we need to be evenhanded. i just came back from the middle east, i had a 90 minute meeting with benjamin at yahoo, for two days, was in iraq two days, traveled throughout the persian gulf, landed on the harry s truman carrier and visited with a new york crew and you couldn't have a more vivid contrast between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. bernie sanders said when the rockets fly from terrorist organizations against innocent israelis he will be an impartial mediator. hillary clinton said she would stand by israel, one of the major reasons i am working so hard on her behalf.

-israel strategic partnership. it is based on a shared understanding of the environment that confronts israel and the united states together, and russia is only exacerbating the threats in the region to our partnership, the united states and israel as well as to each of our nations. the russian-israeli -- the russian-iranian cooperation legitimatizes and strengthens tehran's adventurism as well as the assad regime in syria and threatens international security. moscow's affair with tehran and beyond has brought russian military might to a network of terrorism that we must continue to monitor closely and work to combat for the safety and security of the united states. it is our security and it is israel's security that are at stake together, and the entire international community's security. i want to thank my colleague from delaware again for giving me this time and his patience in hearing me out. i look forward to working with him and others of our colleagues who are concerned about the russian-iranian cooperation.

relationship with israel.el's response in gaza in 2014 was, quote, disproportionate and led to the unnecessary loss of innocent life. what do you say to those who believe that israel has a right to defend itself as it sees fit? >> well, as somebody who spent many months of my life when i was a kid in israel, who has family in israel, of course israel has a right not only to defend themselves but to live in peace and security without fear of terrorist attack. that is not a debate. but what you just read, yeah, i do believe that. israel was subjected to terrorist attacks, has every right in the world to destroy terrorism. but we had in the gaza area, not a very large area, some 10,000 civilians who were wounded and some 1500 who were killed. now, if you're asking me not just me but countries all over the world was that a disproportionate attack, the answer is i believe it was. and let me say something else, let me say something else. as somebody who is 100% pro israel, in the long run -- and this is not going to

, israel has a responsibility to defend its people.exactly what it has done. bernie sanders in the face of those rockets and misseiles woud say what donald trump has said is to be impartial. some things you should not be impartial about. one is when an ally is attacked in an unprovoked way. you don't try to be an impartial mediator. >> hillary clinton has a substantial lead among new york democrats among jewish voteerrs. 32% for bernie sanders. has sanders, the first jewish candidate to go this far down the path toward becoming the president of the united states? has he lost the support, do you think, of jewish voters? >> well, jewish voters support hillary clinton, not simply because of her proven experience on israel but because they know that she has supported the environment. they know that she has supported expanded investments in educating our children. they know when she was a senator for eight years, when 9/11 was destroyed, she got the funds to rebuild it. she protected the long island and veterans. those are issues that jewis

and israel and how that can oftentimes dictate a vote.>> i have a little bit of a connection with israel, not just being jewish but i have a daughter that has lived there for six years and she's recently come back to the united states. so she hoped with our perspective on what really is going on in israel, awful lot of things that the world doesn't see. >> that's one of the interesting things as we look at the jewish vote, a very important bloc as you said, 16% we expect to actually come out and vote. that's of the entire population that will vote. population of 10% of the population here in new york. that's 2 million people. and that's what's interesting about this. bernie sanders is jewish but hillary clinton stands on israel seems to resonate with jewish voters here because she's positioned herself as the pro-israel democratic candidate. that's what's going to matter at least her campaign hopes, as people vote on tuesday. on the republican side, ted cruz has been trying to court the orthodox vote. he's been very critical of the nuclear

that's because as the mclaughlin group noted on january 22, israel relies heavily on u.s. diplomatic support. still, note this. in his own speech to j-street, secretary of state john kerry promised the u.s. would not give up on a two-state solution . are joe biden and john kerry right or wrong? let's try that on you, clarence. >> i think the two-state solution is not comatose but it's in suspended animation right now. we haven't seen netanyahu so much displeasure with the status quo and for all of his talk about moving and making progress, president obama has laid off on criticizing him. very public and up front about it in the last year of the obama administration. we can hope that there might be more of a dialogue on this, at least to set things up for the next administration. >> so he's damaged -- demanded prospects for the two-state solution? >> the prospects were damaged anyway as far as i can see. >> there is some speculation that the administration might put forward some plan by the end of the year, sort of a token effort, but i think what you're seeing is a generat

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will bernie sanders' views on israel cost him jewish votes in new york? melissa russo is here with more >> chuck, no other jewish presidential candidate has ever come this far in a presidential race, so you might think the fact that sanders is jewish would give him a big boost here in new york. that doesn't seem to be the case. and last night's clash over israel might be one example of why. >> netanyahu is not right all of the time. >> nobody is saying that any individual leader is always right. >> bernie sanders at last night's debate said israel's 2014 military response to rocket fire from gaza and the killing of three israeli teenagers was disproportionate. >> some 10,000 civilians were wounded and some 1500 were killed. >> i don't know how you run a country when you are under constant threat. terrorist attack, rockets coming at you. you have a right to defend yourself. >> it was an exchange that caused some jewish democrats >> we were in favor of bernie, but after last night i think i changed my mind. >> whatever is best for israel if what was best fo

when he was in israel he didn't swing bit knesset. i was just in israel a couple months ago.e relationship with the united states of america. we've seen john kerry reach out and negotiate with hamas, something i didn't think the united states did. i think netanyahu has a point. why are they putting them on the same playing field as the palestinians when it is palestinians are invoking violence? israelis are just defending themselves. sandra: bringing this to the new york primary today, bernie sanders weighed in heading into today, said the u.s. should be even-handed and must not always say netanyahu is right. how do you see this playing out in the primary? >> you know, sanders didn't talk to aipac in d.c. he did not do do the speech. hillary clinton did. she has advantage in jewish-american vote on the democratic side. but we'll see how it plays out politically. just a tease, 6:00, charles krauthamer on this very topic. thank you for having me. harris: i would ask, bernie sanders of jewish faith. says he was raised like that, i would like to ask about that. >> don't say bye y

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president obama has not been a friend to israel. he's treated iran with tender love and care and made it a great power, iran has, indeed, become a great, great power in just a very short period of time because of what we've done and all at the expense of israel, our allies in the region and the united states it self. [ applause ] we picked fights with our oldest friends and now they're start ing to look elsewhere for help. remember that. not good. fourth, our rivals no longer respect us. in an even bigger problem is they don't take us seriously anymore. the truth is they don't respect us. when president obama landed in cuba on air force one, to leader was there, nobody, to greet him. perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and press continualous history of air force one that amazingingly the same thing happened in saudi arabia. it's called no respect. absolutely no respect. do you remember when the president made a long and expensive trip to copenhagen, denmark, to get the olympics for our country and after this unpreceden

and to make up with israel is the advantage. and after making far reaching demands with the space saving formula. and we have cautioned for other countries against that. because egypt is the last country on earth to see between egypt and turkey and to see their presence is an cause of. but the diplomat is to find a creative solution without any real influencing them. if there is humanitarian aid to create more housing from the israeli point of view and with those groups with the turkish presence it is not proving itself in the last decade anywhere from the middle east. >> selfie would is just turkish and trinitarian aid? >> the reason, unlike others is i am not familiar with all of the details or to speak out of turn but it would be more symbolic than substantive. >> at the beginning of your remarks i paid misunderstood the terms of that regional you i heard you state the split of their rivalry with the analytical starting point. >> not all regional politics of the mideast but if you are loo is looking for some coherence or stru

he has never been to israel. he was there 30 years ago in a kibbutz from very left-wing -- let him go to where president obama said. when he saw rockets coming at my children i would do anything to stop them. deirdre: president obama is taking a lot of criticism for not being pro-israel, you're saying senator sanders is less protective than the current president? >> it is not very close. obama has been very good on israel's security. he said israel should defend itself against the tunnels but, what sanders is saying, 10,000 people were killed, it is 700. israel acted disproportionately. that is code word. the problem i see is that he is appealinging to the hard left, anti-israel, not progressives, repress serves. people who don't want free speech rights. people bust up demonstrations. >> he said tax the rich. give free programs out. we've seen in the past at least it doesn't work -- >> i'm worried more about his supporters than him. organizations like move on. people from "black lives matter" who are perfectly wi

curator of classical archeology at the israel museum. the first time a mummy has undergone a cat scan in israel. of course, it's the only mummy in israel. >> so this is all new. >> yes. >> as far as technically and logistic klee doing this. >> they help us to understand the mummification process. >> forming a cat stan on the mummy allows them to build a profile of it for the israel museums farrow exhibition. after the cat scan experts watch history unfold before their ey eyes. >> this is a scan and these are muscles. unbelievable. this is probably the superficial femoral artery. >> the artery. >> yes. >> usually archaeologists just fine dry bones not tissue, muscles and arteries even most of the team were intact. the mummy was thought to be a young man. but dr. chairman radiology department at caramel medical center said it was a mail 50 to 60 years old who suffered from a disease that plagues people even now more than 2,000 years later. >> we were surprised to find that the guy has osteoporosis with multiple cerebral ruptures. we're thi

of course, it is the only mummy in israel. >> this is the first time that -- it helps understand theum if ificcation process and helps preserve it >> performing a ct scan on the mummy allows archeologists to build a profile of it. after the ct scan, experts watched history unfold before their eyes. >> so this is a skin and these are muscles. unbelievable. this is probably the superficial femoral artery. >> artery? >> yes wow. >> usually, they find dry bones, not tissue muscle or artery. even the teeth were intact. the mummy was thought to be a young man but dr. natan pellad chairman says that it was a male, 50 to 60 years old who suffered from a disease that plagues people even now more than 2000 years later. >> we were surprised to find that the guy had osteoporosis with multiple vertebral fractures. we are thinking that's a disease only of the modern human being but it was there 3000 years ago. >> they are still trying to figure out how the mummy died but they are hoping to get an answer before it goes on display in june at the israel yiewms. in haifa, israel, john huddy. >>> hundr

we have a president who insults and ridicules the prime minister of israel. we have a president that celebrates a nuclear deal with believe poses the single greatest threat to our national security of anything in the world. [applause] my opponents in this race, all four of them, pledged to maintain that iranian nuclear deal. let me be very clear. as president, on the very first day of office, i will rip to shreds this catastrophic iranian nuclear deal. [applause] and if you feel a sense of despair, can we keep america safe after seven years of retreating from the world? it is worth remembering that foreign policy can perhaps change. this samenuary, 1981, nation, the nation of iran released our hostages the very day ronald reagan was sworn into office. [applause] that is the difference a strong commander in chief can make, and that is the difference as president i will make, unequivocally clear to iran. their they shut down nuclear program, or we will shut it down for them. [applause] new york city is hallowed ground. of the worste terrorist attack on united s

and they don't believe that israel should be there.t's the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain or problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things to convince the world. >> to the palestinians, they thought they had to choice but turn to violence because no one's listening to them. >> the american girl here, can she tell us how the passengers are? >> we're very crowded. and i think the women and especially the children are very restless. >> the terrorists certainly used the media. this was an event that was maximized for its global attention. and it provided an opportunity to really illuminate the terrorist cause. >> you rolling? what the palestinians say is why do americans have so much pity on these in the desert when for so many years they had no pity for our 2.5 million in the desert. >> the hijackers have placed dynamite aboard the planes and a red cross official said today the planes can now be blown up at the push of a button. >> arab guerillas today blew up