israel is like a dream. and when the dream gets realised, it's complicated because almost all of the dream, it's the reality. i grew up with a similar narrative about this dream being realized in israel, you know, for the jewish people. but then when i went and actually saw what was going on, there is one i saw the other side of it, which is a nightmare to be quite frank, for the palestinians on the other end. and all of that just seemed the opposite of the lessons. i had, i had grown up with being raised jewish. it's hard to see the suffering of, of someone who is, was trying to harm you. it's also hard to hold 2 narratives. it's hard to hold the narrative of. wow, this was the best thing that happened to my people, and this was like the worst thing that happened to that people. and that's a very difficult place to be and feel like you have to choose, you know, and i personally believe it's possible to hold both. and i think there are jewish leaders and jews who do who are able to occupy both narratives. bu

merica stands with israel. the commitment we made to the screwish state will continue and that was after our conversation this morning and talked about how to protect people from the regime in tehran. they rain and should not take for granted. nd they are the state sponsor. mark the one year anniversary in the city. citizens who were peacefully protesting their government's abuses. and we stand against those abuses. we want peace and security and for israel and every respect. these landmark agreements we have secured give new hope for the israelis and palestinians to end their conflict. i conveyed the decision by the government of israel to begin discussions on the boundary for which we are acting as a mediator and i hope this long helped. dispute can be and hezbollah has enjoyed total of movement through the mandated areas of control. with iran's support and arsenal, fired missiles in israel. the united states cannot abide by these actions. the renewal reported new attacks against peacekeepers and investigatio

have an embassy in israel.nd they were threatening to recall their ambassador because of this agreement and another country unfortunately, qatar who used considerable power it has over media in the region through al-jazeera. i think that tells you something. there's a divide in our region, it's not sunni and shia, i don't think it's jew and arab, it's through the forces of modernity and they want to embrace modernity. >> the population is 9 million people, the 9 million people would you say what percentage of immigrants to the country? say you were an immigrant to the country and what percent were born there. >> that's a good question, maybe half. because we've had waves of immigration, we had immigration right after israel's establishmt largely from the middle east and north africa. jewishommunities that existed for 2500 years like in the case of the jews from iraq and there were communities in yemen and communities in libya and moracco and oer places and also had a massive wave of immigrants from the former s

is an israel to say. if you are jewish, you know, we have the answer to you, you'll, you'll, identity questions. i'll sit here. why can't they be arab and jewish, and part of israel at the same time because that wasn't the ice. and steve, israel wanted all of it selfe, i mean, israel sees itself as a european country that somehow took the wrong turn and ended up in the middle east . so how do you identify well, i'm a hybrid suv, you know, identify myself as british. but i do have a jewish iraqi her until i also struggle with the question of my identity because israel claims to be the home for jewish people, many in the arab world, conflate judaism with israel. so it's not always easy to discuss my jewish background in the middle east. and that i spent more than 4 years living in beirut from 2007 until 2011. although i love chicago and the people there, there's a certain indescribable warmth in the middle east that i feel many people have always offered me as a foreigner. one of the, one of my closest frie

i went to the annual celebrate israel day parade in new york to gauge how strong support is for israel among some in the community. the mayor of new york and other politicians could be seen marching up for top and in. fact. i was. why you are here love is a wonderful country with very generous and beautiful people the bad happy to hear that some people are critical of israel and its treatment towards palestinians and the occupation well they have to get better educated and they were there with years ago. they would you again they would they would not tell me the money. you might call the mayor said it best you know when the parents put down their weapons of the peace when it's what's on their weapons and we know it's there is a palestinian people and they do deserve a state of their own but that has to be done in a way that's going to protect this. he's hard every jew is designed everyone there's a lot of jews who don't want him. he's part of hard line. so much time are there that his state of israel stockholm god will make all the other that's why i'm here to show my support there too

the simple recognition as part of israel and president trump -- israel is historic. recognition of the reality and then you talked about the state department took the wrong view of settlements and took a view that didn't recognize the history of this special place and instead today, the united states state department stands strongly with the recognition that settlements can be done in a way that are lawful, appropriate, and proper. i am proud of the three abraham accords. i am hopeful and confident there will be more. it was because of the good work you did and the good work of the american team and great leaders in those three countries that did the right thing and i'm confident this will continue. it will continue because people are demanding peace. people have come to recognize across this region that the right thing to do is to recognize that the state of israel is a great, wonderful partner for all things economic, academic, and security. i am confident this one way ratchet towards peace will continue. today, i want to make one announcement with respect to a dec

these are israel, that we are a strange looking at. this is the land of israel. to date of israel. we both of us knew what was there to push the button. works refer to all the steps that they can, but the world also coming up last month, 8000 african migrants arrived on the shores of spain's canary islands. they had made it to europe, but not the europe many had dreamed up. i don't know how it got to get it. i'm disappointed with spain and with europe, and this is shameful. and a lot of politicians and representatives have come here recently, but we have no clue what the government's strategy is to deal with the migration crisis on the canary islands. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome, we begin the day with the u.s. secretary of state in the middle east on a mission, but whose mission today might pompei a did what? none of his predecessors dared or even wanted to do. he stepped foot on to an israeli settlement land. the international community considers illegally occupied land palestinians say belongs to them. like pump ayo

support for israel. i'm now headed to the middle east to trace my own story and see the conflict through the eyes of those who live in many ways the story of modern zionism starts in europe with great britain playing a prominent role after world war one and the breakup of the ottoman empire, britain took control of the land of palestine. during 28 years of the british mandate, thousands of jews fled anti-semitic attacks in europe and immigrated to palestine with the hopes of the stablish in the homeland. in 1948, british rule came to an end in palestine, and the state of israel was declared on may 14th, london's east, and has hosted immigrants from around the world most recently from the indian subcontinent. but at the turn of the 20th century, this district largely consisted of jewish immigrants who had fled anti-semitic attacks in eastern europe. but in my view, i was curious if it used to be a synagogue or a fluid that you had your synagogue, your local head, to most people know about how used to be s

israel has for a very long time and this is of course without having confirmation from israel or anyor a very long time has believed to include assassinations of prominent figures in all sorts of hostile countries, in nonconventional and nuclear project figures. it is a strategy to disassemble these projects will submit happened in iraq, egypt. and it has in iran. the iranians are swearing that, they just it has in iran. the iranians are swearing that, theyjust sort it has in iran. the iranians are swearing that, they just sort that they will avenge. he was the most important figure of the most important figure of the most important military and scientific project of iran. so on one hand it's just almost given that the iranians would seek revenge. on the other hand, the iranians throughout the last year at least half played very dumb, played on a very low profile their reaction to other operations that went out against them. their main military operative qasem soleimani was assassinated in january. their second lieutenant was assassinated in august. their main nuclear facility was ex

israel is who we are. but when i hear stories like the bedouins, it's hard for me to believe that israel is a part of me. before returning home, i went to the wailing wall in jerusalem. i wanted to talk to my mom and have an honest conversation about our differing views on israel, but she wouldn't appear in the film. she was afraid of the backlash from her jewish community in the u.s. . so i wrote her a letter. i came here with my mom once and i saw what a special place it was for her and i understand for jews, this is the holiest site in the world. and it was nice to see my mom feeling something greater, something more spiritual, perhaps. and she came here and i like being here with her. but then i mean very in the middle of it, there's israeli flags, the soldiers with guns all over the place that really ruined the whole spiritual event for you. so you politicized it with this symbol of the state of israel, which is for palestinians. and for many others, you know, a symbol of oppression, occupation. for m

so you cannot put the blame on israel. everything is possible in the middle east and in prison, these bodies and then to fire them. and if the israelis behind it, let's see if those people are really israelis right now, i doubt very much, we know a lot of the names of gauge the in this project their names were published in these really press a few times that this doesn't mean that these were these behind this assignation. incomes are really in relations with the u.s. are essentially at rock bottom. this week we had the news that donald trump was going to launch an attack on iran, but was talked out of it by key advisers. then you've got his administration also having previously pulled out of the hard fought nuclear pack, which was struck back in 2015 and future talks are growing ever more complicated with that in mind. well, arty's killam open has been outlining the tense. the placea right now between washington and tehran? well, the trajectory of u.s. iran relations over the past few years has been quite negative. things

the country's top diplomat, israel israel has yet to comment. we go live to the country for reaction. in moments for french officers are suspended for beating a block of video goes viral. as a wave of anger in france in protest against a controversial bill that could be even a neighborhood my screams. he called me and asked what's going on. i explained he wanted to call the police, but it was the police. it's outrageous and allegedly killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen. he continues to live in fear of germany. distanced itself from american operations conducted from german soil around the clock across the world. this is r t international from the team, myself. you know, neal hello and welcome to the program. we begin with breaking news, a scientist seen as the father of the nuclear program has been killed in tehran, a local reporter, only because money told me more about what is being called an assassination on terror attack. by iran, senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. there's not much detail about number of people

the israel and air. states choose to use him or he's looked at a little more than a punter is going to need a book or either. that we should. really have a look of the either to suffer the little the activity of that is. that. it had long been accepted that a primary route for smuggling arms into gaza was through a network of secret tunnels from egypt. in response egypt attempted to create a buffer zone including concrete walls on the egyptian side of the border. bulldozers have destroyed hundreds of houses on the egyptian side displacing communities are developed there for generations. another tactic to subvert the building of tunnels has been to pump seawater into these areas such rates the ground and is designed to thwart attempts to build new terms. of the dipshits for egypt to explain it to the international community end to the hamas or to the palestinians. that for us. to enable a different reality in gaza it is a precondition the arming hamas. in is russian military sense because hamas for us is

of israel.er biden's administration, there is no sale of advanced weaponry like the f-35, which we have seen under trump. both biden and president trump have come in fact, come out in favor of a two state solution. [indiscernible] israel feels we can work happily with a budding administration as we have worked with the trump administration. >> it has been a favorite child of the u.s.'s foreign policy -- there is a lot of -- going on when it comes to israel. they do get, according to what a lot of people are talking about, they do get a fairer share of u.s. weapons, foreign aid budgets, it said read -- etc. at some point, that needs to be looked at. by doing has said they need to look at the u.s.-israeli relationship, yet you seem to think it will change? >> throughout -- it won't change. >> the united states has always seen israel as important both for allegiant reasons and reasons of u.s. more policy. this will continue, we have no doubt. obviously, the issue that israel should be secure, frank

these are israel, that we are in spain, looking up at this is the land of israel, the date of israel. we're told that the new what was there to push the button. look for a bit of all this to the face, but also coming up at last month 8000 african migrants arrived on the shores of spain's canary islands. they had made it to europe, but not the europe. many had dreamed of it, i know has got to get it. i'm disappointed with spain and with europe, and this is shameful. and a lot of philip's issues and representatives have come here recently, but we have no clue what the government's strategy is to deal with the migration crisis on the canary islands. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the u.s. secretary of state's in the middle east on a mission, but whose mission today might pump aoe did what? none of his predecessors dared or even wanted to do. he stepped foot on to an israeli settlement land the international community considers illegally occupied land, palestinians say belongs to them. like pump ayos boss

we know that israel has led israel has the capability that they have the reasons to do it. and, and they've done it before in the past, so it's very, you know, it's easy to assume that iran is correct. it is assumptions. but clearly the united states has been working hand in glove with israel and, and perhaps this is a parting shot on the part of both administrations. who are, you know, perhaps more interested in poisoning the well of diplomacy for the biden administration's comes in to make it increasingly difficult for president biden. and his team to fill their stated goal, which is to return to the iran nuclear deal that that was hammered out by by president obama in the past. much more difficult. do you think today's incident has made the well, i think it's made it more difficult. there's going to be the hardliners are going to be very, you know, are going to be very emboldened by this. and we heard foreign minister zarif who is one of the there running foreign minister said only a few days ago. that would be very easy to return to the iran deal and that america knew w

organization israel finally recognizes the p.l.o. as the legitimate representative of the palestinian people given the history of the palestinians and the israelis which is a goal so much of the rest of the world. you know we're staggering. the last minute negotiations went on for a day and a half. but when the norwegian mediator arrived in jonah's he said he had the historic documents of recognition in his back. sassed wasn't his doing he said modestly but belong to israeli prime minister rabin of p.l.o. chairman arafat in the one page letter from arafat to rabin the p.l.o. recognize the right of the state of israel to exist in peace and security in his return letter to arafat rabin says that in view of those commitments the government of israel has decided to recognize the p.l.o. as the representative of the palestinian people. i want. this is the day i never expect to see the government. murder her. in the middle east today israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin will fly to washington for the signing ceremony of the also the agreeme

good evening israel and the p.l.o. are not far from a historic embrace and i remember there was a t.v. set with people who stations norwegian swede feed me and everyone was talking in. words you know foreign languages all slow we're going to be alone. no no. no i. suddenly realized wow. we. need it's. 29 years after declaring israel any illegal state the palestine liberation organization has decided to recognize israel's right to exist peacefully and after decades of calling the p.l.o. a terrorist organization israel finally recognizes the p.l.o. as the legitimate representative of the palestinian people given the history of the palestinians and the israelis which isn't so much of the rest of the world. you know we're staggering. the last minute negotiations went on for a day. when the haggard norwegian mediator arrived in jonah's he said he had the historic documents of recognition in his back. in his doing he said modestly but belong to israeli prime minister rabin and p.l.o. chairman arafat in the one page letter fr

and that means challenging the israel, the right to israel, so occupied palestine. and they have proven that this is not all the elect electoral suicide that they have won by being able to say we are no longer supporting the israeli occupation, we can set forth and then continue to get elected under fortunately, the palestinian authority is, as i suspect, force of the p.l.o. or some joint think among the palestinian people. and that's why i think it needs to move towards a completely against the security cooperation. i find it useless to me. is joe biden, who you should eat when he wants to talk with the palestinians? first of all, i mean what joe biden can do is there's quite a few things that joe biden could make very easy, very great changes, which he can do, which will strive towards, shall we say, to correcting all of the wrongs committed by the trumpet. but a straight news in the last 101st version. well, of course he's going to call the whole the past because he's there. and this doesn't mean that this is going to happen. i'm talking about the 1st 100 days. o

'd israel is in israel is yet to come and when we look killing may impact on the iran nuclear deal. after 4 years of worsening relations under donald trump, u.s. president elect, joe biden has hinted he wants negotiations back on track. but with friday's development has his chance gone before he even reaches office around the clock across the world. this is our team international from the team and myself, you know, neal hello and welcome to the program. breaking news is where we begin. a scientist labeled the father of the uranium you can learn a program has been killed on the outskirts of tehran. local reporter told me more about what is known at this stage about the deadly incident, which is being called an assassination and terror attack by iran. senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. there's not much detail about number of people involved in the attack, or number of people killed in the incident in the skirmish tack to place some 75 kilometers outside to iran, north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. you know, apparently due to traffic was quite

even israel didn't take everyone at first until 1955 because israel was willing to do so. >> yes and no. israel in the very beginning said we will take all the jews that can come. israel set up an organization for those who were sick or in firm, there were groups, large numbers of jews who remain in germany, those who had gone to israel found that they couldn't live there because it was in a state of war, came back to germany and there were groups of orthodox jews who remained in germany but for the most part the israelis accepted the jews. there are questions how they could have treated them once they got to israel and also there was some resistance to bringing them into the country but israel did open its doors. it felt an obligation to take as many jews as wanted to come. >> this question goes back to carnegie council. any lessons we can learn from the "the last million: europe's displaced persons from world war to cold war" when looking at the border with mexico? >> yes. yes. let me start with two. there has to be a fact-based approach. we can't let, just as the jews were kept ou

this is the want israel to this state of israel. we are told that if you are going to submit button work, revert to all the steps that they can. but the world also coming up last month, 8000 african migrants arrived on the shores of spain's canary islands. they had made it to europe, but not the europe. many had dreamed of it donna has documented, get it, i'm disappointed with spain and with europe. and this is shameful. a lot of politicians and representatives have come here recently, but we have no clue what the government's strategy is to deal with the migration crisis on the canary islands. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the u.s. secretary of state in the middle east on a mission, but whose mission today might pump a did what? none of his predecessors dared or even wanted to do. he stepped foot on to an israeli settlement, land the international community considers illegally occupied land, palestinians say belongs to them. like pompei is boss pr

" or "product of israel".e occupied golan heights on israel's border with syria. last year, the us became the first country to recognise israel's sovereignty over the area, which israel annexed in 1981. that's not internationally recognised. and here's mike pompeo on why the us chose to go it alone. 35 years ago, as a young cadet, i studied about this very place, this amazing and important piece of real estate. you can't stand here and stare out at what is across the border and deny the central thing that president trump recognised, that president trump recognised, that previous presidents had refused to do, that this is a part of israel, and a central part of israel. our state department correspondent barbara plett usher joins us from washington. what you think mike pompeo's strategy was in paying a visit like this in the dying days of trump administration? mike pompeo has been a real cheerleader of trump's policy on israel, which essentially embraced that vision of the israeli right, the expansionist vision

and they're even warming up to relations with israel. and we saw just in the past few days that they have renewed under the direction of and they have renewed the security cooperation with israel. well, in the west bank, which is very, very important for both the palestinians and israelis fighting terror and trying to prevent terror that coordination is going on. it looks like they're going to be receiving the tax money, which is theirs, that israel collects on their behalf, which they've refused to do for a long time. and they will be employing their government people again. and there's even talk of readjusting their pay for slave program. any $1.00 of the most popular programs in the palestinian authority. and one of the greatest expenditures in their budget is of course, the money that they pay every month to $2.00 convicted, murderers, convicted terrorists who are sitting in jail or who've been killed by israeli forces. they give their families a very large stipend, where you know, it almost pays to become a terrorist, and your famil

this is a part of israel, the central part of israel. israel captured the golan heights from syria during the . 'd 967 war in late to annex the territory. last year, the trumpet ministration recognised it as part of israel making the us the only country to do so. but move along with the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital is all part of the trump peace plan for the region nicknamed the deal of the century. and during a press briefing, prime minister benjamin netanyahu had some woods for the u.s. media. thanks to president trump, the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. thanks to president roh. united states proposed truce realistic with peace between israelis and palestinians. thanks to president notices recognize israel is what we're going to turn to president, wrote these rules to forge thanks to president clinton president. israel is deeply grateful for all the president trump has done. mike compare also infuriated palestinians by paying a visit to jewish settlements in the disputed west. bank protests quickly tu

the orthodox and the far right in israel. that will, if not, not, will not be in part, that will be the, if you're like the key swing voters and then a few chip political set up in israel. so it's moved far to the right. no one is thinking of a political solution from the palestinians within israel at the moment. and the palestinians really have few cards which to play the gulf states of now shifted. saudi arabia will, sooner or later, i guess. and europe just doesn't have, i think the will to play the set too excited by points election and dreaming that it's all going to be a return to the good old atlantis's of the past. i think they're mistaken 1000 current. thank you. thank you very much. in the after the break, as a fire kills 10 with coronavirus of an intensive care unit in nature, a member rumania, what is the level of neoliberal corruption? in the former moscow aligned state, the director of all scripted film collective about rumanians, previous west, tells us about profit driven corruption that echoes testimony heard

bring them to israel. there were groups, large numbers of jews who remained in germany where those who had gone to israel, found that they couldn't live there because it was in a state of war, came back to germany, and there were groups of orthodox jews who remained in germany. but for the most part the israelis accepted the jews. there are questions about whether they could have treated them better once they got the israel, and there was also some resistance to bring them into the country. but israel did open its doors. it felt an obligation to take in as many jews as wanted to come to israel. >> this question goes back to an earlier one but more specifically it some carnegie counsel's billy pickett. are there any lessons learned from the last million and looking at the u.s. border with mexico? >> yes, yes, yes. let me start with two. one, there has to be a fact-based approach. i mean, we can't relax just as the jews were kept out because of this myth that they were bolsheviks. so all of us have to do eve

prime minister of israel chairman arafat. please take a good hard look. 1st saw you in your city was even possible. goes on regular bill just 3 years ago and to our great division soldier and surveyed knew what to do to make peace moment possible. these years of hope, when the peace camps felt that they were somehow vindicated, they are bringing to their people the fruits and open the same hotel, a spontaneous get together of the oslo veterans among them, the original negotiators and it was 100, you know them doing this a one day affair, also the one that i'm just yes, what i am going to miss this, i believe that the process will continue despite of all the difficulties we face, but we see we have both. we have a good little push disperses far away. i concur with that, but well, i'm what i said and we have not. and there's some good common language around this table if you can see also like the taste highlight is the friendly perception of us where personal guards are let down and on the podium gets her phone number to mrs. f

they believe in the greater israel these days. some hill near ramallah, bringing 700000 immigrants to israel, building a society and economy. not a tiny settlement surrounded by hundreds of thousands of palestinian in early october, john friedman, a friend of peres, convinced him to arrange a rally in support of the peace process. peres urged robin to accept the initiative, but rabin wondered, would be bill, even leave their homes in those days, rabin was more pessimistic than ever. is too much is heard in the middle east from the few extremists tonight, the supporters of peace and a huge rally in tel aviv. this is the young israel, tired of obvious service, tired of chasing palestinian stone, throwing children through refugee camps all sides are mobilizing. but this is now becoming one of the most contentious moments in israeli history for the past 5, perhaps no surprise is fighting, and there is a popular no matter what peace it was the happiest day of his life. i've known him for 15 years. i do never seen him so happy. he had m

. -- jerusha -- jerusalem as the capital of israel. and also how important the region will be for the incoming biden administration. brent: joe biden will have to deal with for years of trump legacy, that is for sure. thank you. let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world, a new report finds that members of australia's special forces unlawfully killed 39 afghanistan's and prisoners, the internal investigation heard evidence of summary executions in afghanistan during initiation rituals, the chief of the australian defense force has apologized. in uganda, at least 16 people have been killed and 350 arrested in three days of operations by security forces. authorities are trying to end riots spawned by the arrest of a presidential candidate. the popstar turned lawmaker is seen as the leading challenger to the current president in january selection -- january's election. human rights mitors s they are dangerous and degrading. it is also concerned over allegations in greece illegally pushes back migrants

blamed israel. western governments have long suspected playing a leading role in iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons. also on the program . the number of corona virus infections in germany passes the 1000000 mark. we asked how bad the situation is in a country as a leading example. and welcome to the program. we begin with breaking news from iran, where the government says one of its leading nuclear scientists has been assassinated. has long been suspected by the west. by israel of masterminding, a secret nuclear weapons program was reported to be targeted outside the capital. that has been no claim of responsibility for the country's foreign minister mohammad. it just adds that reef has tweeted that there were serious indications of an israeli role in this alleged killing. israel has so far not commented b.t.w. reporter jared reed house, been following the story. let's start with the man at the center. what do we know? he was a very powerful man. he was the most senior nucleus on interest i

and planting deadly bombs all over israel. the problem was arafat's was the only one palestinians looked up to he had the final say in only goshi actions but israel refused to talk to him. on the american i'm against a palestinian state run by the p.l.o. shelby's out of the question no negotiations with the reality of vision by the locals will be most. 9 months before rabin had been elected to lead israel on a platform of peace and security. but as the months went by he delivered neither. with terror attacks on the rise in the peace process deadlocked the right wing opposition threatened to overrun him before he even completed his 1st year. in a desperate attempt to renew the peace talks deputy minister yossi beilin decided to act outside the law and set up a secret back channel to negotiate with the p.l.o. . he approached his felt in me because we were the perfect fall guys 2 professors who had dedicated their careers to the israeli arab conflict but had no ties to the israeli government. we were in a very strange situation l

so who is going to win and just, he explained, so are israel or as we believe israel when it says that it's destroying in reining in targets in syria and, and wine, why is there be no so-called, mainstream media reporting of as strikes on the capital city of a major country in the middle east or mainstream reporter these days has for all the sort of rather eccentric, certainly in terms of the united states. i mean large elements of what's happening in the world are just not reported to the nothing with the b.b.c. here in britain either. not, no, no, i know, but they're all, they're all following this again, her up items women coming in, that it's going to be, you know, back to back to the office, you know? but i think that actually what's happening with iran is that biden is over, baby is asking for too much from the us. and he's saying he wants to bring in all of the gulf states, saudi arabia. israel must be, must be in agreement with that. the israeli ambassador said the campian agreement, unless israel is at the table, they want to get rid of the sunset cross'. they want to change o

friend the president that works for israel indeed if you had an election in israel president from probably would win by a landslide all the any dissenting voices to that opinion do you think. i think israel has been very happy with donald trump but we also know that i've been a good friend of israel and under by means of ministration there was no sale of advance weapons reads like the f. 35 united out redwoods which we have seen under trouble so and both ringback biden and president in fact come out in favor of the 2 state solution. the public tends to get well and effect involved a 2 state solution so in israel feels that we can work happily with a bi member station as we have worked with attractiveness but robbie has been a favorite child of the us is foreign policy i mean there is there is a lot of kind of mollycoddling going on when it comes to israel they do get according to a lot of what people you know talking about reading that they do get a fair share of u.s. military weapons they do get a fair share of u.s. foreign aid budgets eccentric cetera et cetera i mean at some point that

this is a part of israel, the central part of israel should. israel captured the golan heights from syria during the 1967 war, and later alex, the territory. last year the top administration recognized it as part of israel, making the u.s. the only country to do so. that move along with the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital was all part of the peace plan for the region nicknamed the deal of the century. on during a press briefing, prime minister benjamin netanyahu out so will was for the u.s. into thanks to president the u.s. working those jews who was israel's capital, and moved its embassy here. thanks to president trump, the united states, recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. thanks to president troop, the us pulled out of the dangerous nuclear deal with the wrong place, crippling sanctions on the union regime and eliminated the mega 2 customs who many of the simple fact of recognizing the reality of jerusalem as the rightful proper true capital of israel crazy that the united states had done this for decades

he is a traditional pro-israel democrat.e is notoing to reverse the trump administration's decision to recognizeus jem as israel's capital, but he would certainly want to restore u.s. policyoward israel and the west bank and the occupied territories and the ments. although i don't think he is going to come up with an initiative in the peace process. where you might see dramatic differences is in the policy toward the palestinians. at relationship was cut off under the trump administration. i thinhere mr. biden and mr. netanyahu clash the most is over iran. biden wants to rejoin the nuclear deal. mr. netanyahu was strongly opposed to that. quite stay with us on outside source. still toze come, the bookish pri goes to scottish author douglas stewart. a report o alleg war crimes in australia has found evidence that troops serving in afghanistacarried out crimes on at least 39 citizens. >> this will mark the beginning of a process of closure, but nothing can heal the families of the victims. those responsible for unlawful killin

even though israel does not admit taking part itself, other analysts do finger israel and say it wasesponsible. the most significant assassination carried out in iran this year was of qasem soleimani, and that was by the united states, so there are other possibilities in this field. >> the timing of this is raising eyebrows. iran says it thinks the u.s. knew about this and mike pompeo was just in israel. is there anything connecting these ts. >> it was not just that he was here. it was an important and unusual visit to the israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu went to saudi arabia and spoke there. the current saudi arabian leader, mike pompeo representing donald trump's government, and benjamin netanyahu. i know there are concerns about what will happen during this period. normally there is not a period with things like this take place, but there are concerns there could be attacks, so it is unusual, and you do have to look at the unusual nature of this presidency, what is going on in washington during this period as well. >> thank you so much for your reporting. for more on whe

whether you're democratic or republican israel will always be a friend to the u.s. but that's not really the case when it comes to other countries it used to be the case that the foreign policy of the u.s. didn't really change that much or under democrats or republicans it was fairly stable but we are talking when it comes to things like the big countries china russia for example that there are very different foreign policy positions between the republicans and the democrats i mean how are you going to particular if there is a split house if the senate republican leadership is democrat how are you going to you know square those edges. well i think it depends very much on who is. victorious in this very contentious election that we're in the midst of here in the united states and we know how don trump operates if he is elected i think we'll see more of the same are siding with dictators undermining our allies going it alone and the world to me i think if joe biden is successful he's you know we know joe biden has laid out a pretty extensive foreign policy plan and i

he can get them into the united states, it's israel so he supports an independent israel. >> but wheredo the jews go? they are settled in your communities agricultural settlements and houses and apartments that have been cleared of palestinians by the israeli army for in the case of those that had left voluntarily the israelis refused to let the palestinians return so the problem of the displaced jews is solved of the displacement of the palestinians i do not want to diminish the suffering of the jews but that lasted five years now it's into the third generation with no signs of there ever being. >> so my last question before i move it over, i do want to make note of the theme of the aftermath the way that you conclude the book is titled aftermath so for me that suggest an idea of regeneration or some growth. i know so then the tragedy leads some way but before i let you go to the questions do you have a sense of redemption? or do you feel like it just repeats itself? >> i will tell two stories quickly. one that was told to me about the holocaust talked about two displaced persons who