israel is a democracy. why are we always bring a shoulder on israel threatening israel's existence, israel's defense, israel'surrounded by these individuals all of these countries and we act like it is israel that is the problem. >> that is not just bad for israel. it's bad for the united states because israel is our best ally in the region. i think a lot of this is democratic politicians towards a benjamin netanyahu. just think about it. he has outlasted bill clinton and barack obama, and now joe biden. he served as prime minister with all three of those men serving as president. all of whom tried to undermine him, and defeat him in elections. and also, i want to remind you that a couple of years ago we had israeli president come and speak to a joint session of the congress. he is a member of a distinguished center left israeli political family. a center left family. you still had democratic congressman i'm boycotting his speech. when you're boycotting that speech is not because the democratic party has a beef with benjamin netanyahu they have a beef with israel and unfortunately there is a large and growing

israel is our strongest ally in a very troubled part of the world. israel shares our values. israel is a liberal. and the enemies of israel are the enemies. america. likewise, those who hate israel, hate america. the benefits that america gets every year from the $3 billion in military assistance we provide israel, those benefits are if we were not providing that money, if we were trying recreate for america's national the intelligence of the mossad. if we were trying recreate the military benefits of the israeli military right now israel is killing hamas and killing hezbollah every time do so we should say thank you, because hamas and, hezbollah and let's be clear, the head of the serpent is iran. they want to murder us. there is a reason that the ayatollah refers to israel the little satan and america's great satan and look october, seventh of last year we'll go down in history as one of the most horrific days, the history of humanity. it is the day of the single worst mass murder of -- in a day since, the holocaust, 12 israelis murdered women, girls raped systematically because t

israel. 3 w, israel. let's go on the choreography - israel. let's go on the choreography of - israel. t's go on the. choreography of it. add israel. let's go on the i choreography of it. add a israel. let's go on the - choreography of it. add a large number of heavily armed fighters from hamas's military wing. a show of force. they have been massively diminished over the past 15 months but there are still there. then the four hostages in their israeli military fatigues. hamas wanted to get it across that these are military hostages, not civilians in their eyes. as for the view from the israeli right. they say that the israeli government has done a deal with the devil. they say that they are letting hamas off the hook, that they are still empowering gaza and they do remain the only real authority in gaza and there are few from the israeli far right is that israel is leaving itself open to further attacks, more israeli lives lost. they will say these palestinian prisoners who are due to arrive here in the next 20 minutes or so, some of them are people convicted of killing israeli civilia

israel. on israel with hezbollah and israel. a, do you think that we will get a ceasefire? a few weeks ago there was talk of maybe being a ceasefire around christmas but that didn't happen, just as we have heard previously there were hopes of a ceasefire. do you think there is any chance of it in the new year? i you think there is any chance of it in the new year?- of it in the new year? i think it's difficult _ of it in the new year? i think it's difficult to _ of it in the new year? i think it's difficult to predict, - of it in the new year? i think it's difficult to predict, to - it's difficult to predict, to be honest, however, we can see that post—assad it will open the door for israel to expand its military operations in the region. this might basically be moment to bring other players in, for example turkey. turkey signalled to the uae recently that it signalled to the uae recently thatitis signalled to the uae recently that it is willing to make an overture and discuss a ceasefire with israel. we could see egypt coming on

israel. starting october 7, hezbollah launched thousands of missiles at israel's communities pledging to continuities attacks until israel ended the military operation in gaza. hezbollah's aggression has come at grave costs for israelis and lebanese people alike. some 7,000 israelis have been forced out of their homes along the israel northern border. in lebanon thousands have been killed, a quarter of lebanon's population. our goal in seeking hostilities was not to pause the fighting and subvert a regional war but rather, reaim hezbollah from constituting to threaten israel or continue to hold the lebanese state or lebanese people hostage. we wanted to create conditions allowing the displacement of lebanese families to return safely to their homes. the arrangement we brokered together with france meets those bench marks and empowers the government of lebanon to retake control of its territory and provides lebanon's economy and security forces with much needed aid and support and preserves israel's right to defend itself in accordance with international law and achieves israel's aim at dealing with hostilities from the w

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israel must stand alone, it will. i am here to tell you that it is our duty as americans that israel does not stand alone. we must never let israel stand alone. im confident in the end that r relationship will not just endure, but emerge stronger than erefore. israel, keep fighting. we are with you. god bless israel and god bless the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> we finish our look at president trump's nominee to be un ambassador with her remarks at the faith and freedom coalitions wrote to majority congress. in washington, d.c. this is hell just added the 2024 general election. ♪♪

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israel from its policy, it is possible. for half a year, for eight months. the same proposal was made eight months ago on the table. but the biden administration was threatening israel, proposing the kind of proposals to israelrning israel, but they didn't take any measures and israel learned to totally ignore biden. now there is a new boy in town and within a week netanyahu has left all his oppositions and surrendered, there is no other way to put it, and agreed to the ceasefire. so will donald trump continue to be as tough and harsh as he is, or will he lose interest and go for his next problem to be solved? this will depend on donald trump. if he will be as strong and really decisive as he was in the last week, then there will be a second phase. journalist and gideon leavey. some negotiations being kicked into the long grass of the second and third phase of the ceasefire deal, including who could run gaza after the guns fall silent, with israel's western allies wanting a greater role for palestinian authorities that currently run the other part of the palestinian territory in the west bank. but israel is fiercely opposed to that. earlier we heard from a doctor who is a palestinian political leader in the

israel. israel then released 200 palestinian prisoners, all in the latest exchange. that indicates the fragile ceasefire appears to be holding in the middle east. and at the same time, israeli leaders stress. this crisis, though, is far from over. >> hamas will stay in power without and we don't have any illusions about his ideology. instability will continue and we will not be able to promote peace and security in the region. >> the four israeli soldiers released this morning were among the first to be kidnaped in october of 2023. that's when hamas killed some 1200 people in israel in the terrorist attack that started the war. >> turning now to those fires in southern california, where crews are continuing to make progress on the fire lines. the latest numbers from cal fire show the palisades fire is now 79% contained. after burning 23,000 acres. the eaton fire in altadena is 95% contained after burning 14,000 acres, and the hughes fire near castaic lake is 79% contained. after charring 10,000 acres altogether. the los angeles wildfires have burned more than 78mi!s since they begn earlier this month. >> and after more than two weeks of fires driven by dry conditions, powerful winds, southern california is getting ready for its first rainfall of the new year. and with the wet weather does come a few new problems. a rainstorm is expected to hit l.a. county areas today and intensify throughout the weekend. national weather service issued flood watch alerts due to the risk of mudslides and debris. residents hope the rain will help, though, with all the wildfires, bu

israel? i fairness, especially among the far right in israel?— far right in israel? ht in israel? i can understand that - far right in israel? i can understand that it - far right in israel? i can understand that it has i far right in israel? i can - understand that it has always been a problem, from the days of the earlier deals and people were against that for the very same reason. and if i may explain, when i was doing the sure leak deal, it was explained to me that the reason why hamas is the soldiers, it is the forced reviews of long—term life is in israeli prisons, people who were convicted and given 90 years or 990 years, have no chance of them ever coming out. this was a way of getting some sort of review of their case and in explaining that, i don't endorse it and let me underline that but it's important to understand that that is the reasoning behind it.- understand that that is the reasoning behind it. great to net our reasoning behind it. great to get your perspective - reasoning behind it. great to get your perspective on - reasoning behind it. great to g

israel. on october 10, 2023 i was scheduled to travel to israel and saudi arabia to help close remitting gaps the normalization deal and in particular to pursue agreement on one of his essential components. a credible pathway to a palestiniann state with ironclad security guarantees for israelbut on october 7 hamas attacked israel unleashing the deadliest days for juice since the holocaust. hamas killed more than 1200 men, women and children torturing, maiming, sexually assaulting many. the overwhelming majority of included citizens are more than 30 countries, among them 46 americans. also took more than two and 50 people hostage including some 30 children and 12re americans. seven of those americans remain hostage to this day. now the timing of hamas attack was no accident. israel's growing integration in the region prospect of normalization from saudi arabia on with post an existential threat to hamas in power, ambitions to nominate the political landscape and the rejection of two states and the destruction of israel. his notes recovered from meeting of top officials later reveal sought to spark a regional war that would derail gnomic doing so would inflict immense suffering on civilians on all sides including the palestinian people whose interests they claim to represent

israel. i’m are going to go down pretty well here in israel.— here in israel. e _ here in israel. i'm interested in that, the politics, _ here in israel. i'm interested in that, the politics, what - here in israel. i'm interested in that, the politics, what in - here in israel. i'm interested in that, the politics, what in the l that, the politics, what in the normal street of israel, what do normal street of israel, what do normal people think about this deal? well, you can't talk about everyone as a single group, because this country is very divided on this issue. it's a very divisive issue. so, we were outside the israeli prime minister's office yesterday with protesters from the far right who were saying the deal should not be done, they say that the government has failed in its main war aim of totally eliminating hamas and they say they are letting hamas off the hook. at the same time there were protests down the street from another group which includes some families of some hostages, and they say the government has been delaying on this dealfor say the gov

israel is going to be withdrawing.— to be withdrawing. whether israel is actually _ to be withdrawing. whether israelrael is actually going to militarily draw down, whether this campaign is going to come to a total and permanent end. also the release of hostages on both sides of our prisoners on both sides of our prisoners on both sides of our prisoners on both sides and the guarantee of a lease from the palestinian side that the people release won't be rearrested afterwards. there's also a concern about what comes after once hostages and prisoners are released. and once we see a pause in the fighting, whether they will be sufficient amounts of aid allowed in and whether were talking about serious reconstruction afterwards and who will later end up governing gaza, whether that's the pa or an entirely separate entity. that's also where the us— israel and the palestinians come to differ.— israel and the palestinians come to differ. given it has been hugely _ come to differ. given it has been hugely weekend, - come to differ. given it has - been hugely weekend, hamas, will they carried the population of

israel. . ., ., israel. thanks for having me. there are _ israel. thanks for having me. there are some _ israel. e are some dissenting i there are some dissenting voices in israel, however, the vast majority of israelis welcome this deal. while hundreds of protesters have come out in opposition, four months, hundreds of thousands of israelis have filled the streets, pressing the netanyahu government to commit to a deal that will bring home the hostages. that will bring home the hostages-_ that will bring home the hostaues. ., , , hostages. now, it still needs to be ratified _ hostages. now, it still needs to be ratified this _ hostages. now, it still needs to be ratified this friday - hostages. now, it still needs to be ratified this friday to i to be ratified this friday to make it official and we are still a few days from before it takes effect on the sunday. 0ther any concerns the deal could get scuppered and if so, where would that come from? ? there are always concerns the deal could get scuppered. the deal could get scuppered. the deal was originally announced on wednesday and for the past

since president truman's recognition of israel 11 minutes after david declared israel's independence, 76 years five days ago, america stands with israelextremism and so-called elite corners conceal the deep abiding love for israel among the american people. most americans feel a strong connection to your people. i have seen everywhere in conversation with my constituents, hard-working families, small business people, farmers, veterans, seniors and students alike. the reason for this love is no mystery to me i sent all girls day school i grew up attending the vote of childhood and family friends and have been welcoming to many homes for dinners the birth of their children, baby naming's and signing a good tuba at a friend's wedding. his life long and deep. i've been to israel many times even before i was a member of congress as a harvard undergraduate i made my first trip to israel to study national security policy on the fellowship of the defense of democracy. i am pleased to say most recent returning as a member of congress in may of last year to help lead intelligence committee delegation each and every visit to israel. the fundamen

israel. then hezbollah, another hamas's strongest backers, was significantly weakened on the battlefield and its leadership was destroyed with our support. israel israel negotiated a cease fire with them, and after that, lebanon finally elected a new president who's not who's not beholden to hezbollah. and he began a new chapter for the lebanese people. all told, these developments in the region which the united states helped to shape, change the equation. and so now the terror network that once protected and sustained hamas is far weaker. iran is weaker, iran is weaker than it's been in decades. hezbollah is badly degraded. and after more than 15 months of war, hamas's senior leaders are dead. thousands of hamas fighters are dead, and the military formations have been destroyed. with nowhere to turn, maher finally agreed to releasing hostages. you know, there was no other way for this war to end than with the hostage deal. and i'm deeply satisfied this day has come. finally come. for the sake of the people of israel and the families waiting in agony, and for the sake of the innocent people in gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the

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israel could find a leader who might make some dramatic change in policy. but i would put it to you, and i'm not such a young guy. i'm an old guy. i've been around following israel for many, many years. and the truth is that israel and you know it, because you talk now consistently about the dangers within israel, of an israel that is at war with itself, between those messianic, national, religious settlers and their supporters, who want a very different kind of country from the country you believe in. look, i'm not out of a genuine understanding of the different forces that are now influencing the public opinion in israel. there are messianic groups. they are very dangerous. i call them "the enemy within". and i use every single channel that i have on the media and in public meetings, in private meetings, in order to warn of the possible dangers that they pose to the state of israel. however, at the same time, i am not unaware of the fact that more and more and more people are sick and tired of fighting and of defeating and of killing and of continuing this bloodshed which is taking place in our part of the world. and we have to change it. it's a difficultjob. it's very complex. it will not be easy, but there i

they, they do a lot of israel's bidding, they protect israel, israel's interest that includes stifling designs, shutting down websites, you know, cracking down on protests that are critical of israel, and then shutting down to 0, which i thought was very interesting. you know, not only because it was a very repressive move and one that will not be popular with palestinians, most of whom, you know, are many of whom at least watches 0 and, you know, learned about the aspect of the conflict in different areas in gauze or in the west bank but also because it was mirroring are mimicking what israel had done with, with respect to how to 0. so you can see that, you know, the, the palestinians are kind of getting it in the west bank from both israel and the p . a and the p a is both into garza and if we're doing about the day off to the will in golf, is this give us some indication as to what garza would look like your? well, i think i wrote an article on this last week and on up to 0. but, you know, the point that i was trying to making that article is that one of the reasons why the p a is e

israel. what israel has said is effectively that these 3a names are nothing new. it is simply a list which israelto mediators in july of last year. and they've pointed out that that list doesn't actually provide any information as to the status of the hostages on that list. crucially, whether they are indeed alive or not. some of the names on that list, two of the children, for example, well, hamas has claimed in the past that they have been killed by israeli air strikes. so the israeli government is very much stressing the position that they think that this is effectively a move by hamas to try and push forward, to put pressure on the israeli government, to come up with a deal in the talks which are taking place at the moment in doha. israel is in the process of negotiating there with a mediation team to try and achieve a ceasefire and a release of some of the hostages. the hostages group here in israel has also put out a statement today. they have said that they're deeply shaken and distressed by the list published this morning, and they have there's been a pretty angry reaction here in israel

opinion about israel's obligation to the politico presence of israel the occupied territory in addition the second advisory opinion of the 19th and the consequences arising from israel'sn ruled that israel does not have the right to sovereignty over any part of the fet exercise any powers in that territory and israel's man under activities. in the tragedy unfolding before our eyes the agency is confronting the very threat to physical destruction pretty. didn't enjoy absolutely unconditional military and economic support in the united states. for the entire 15 months of the post israeli conflict washington has supplied israel with weapons used to kill civilians. washington has prevented the passage of any positions that would have disrupted israel's implementation of the planting gossman u.s. is blocking attempts to cross security measures to defend unrwa. it's not an exaggeration to say what happens when that agency falls squarely on the united states shoulders. today we heard this from the representatives of the u.s.. it was crystal clear. we'd like to add according to the u.s. israel currently has the right to shut down unrwa in jerusalem. how does this square with

israel? israel has a say in american foreign policy like, well, no, that's actually just the fact. so as well, these guys get involved in this as well. and as we've seen from israel, there's a hard line when it comes to any deal to be made. now whether you your opinions at um, along with all of this, and where is america with, with this idea of the israel, he's going to have to have a site as well as i think said, and keeping israel closely engaged in the discussions that happen with iran. is something that your opinions do us a discretion or even under biden, has understood as an assessment to you to prevent them from icing as a spoiler. so i think going forward and there's going to have to be sort of a management of relations from both to ron and the united states actually. so on the west side, we have a president's an incoming president, trump that may actually unlike any other president and recent time be able to and let's say strong on israel into accepting a deal between the usa vaughn. and i do think that the notes in yahoo administration will be willing to put up assuming that type of flight that we sort of put up under obama, against it trumpet ministrat

waltz, the new national security advisor behind israel, moving forward and not biden, i think that israel is not going to hesitate and trump will let israel do whatever it needs to do to crush hamas if they falter. one hair. that's where i'm at with this. >> rabbi. would you agree with that, that it is a different paradigm now with president trump about to move into the white house, does that make a difference here? >> i hope so, because, i mean, i hope that, you know, he's never going to go and say i'll hold back, you know, weapons, etc. but the big question that a lot of people are asking, if it all boils down to we release, let's say, 200, 300, 3000 prisoners and we would have gotten all the hostages out. why didn't we do this over 400 days ago? palestinians didn't have to die. jews didn't have to die. you wouldn't have people crippled today. if this is all that it really took. so was it really a deal for the hostages, or was israel also trying to go and say, i got to get rid of hamas? we can't have them on the doorstep. but if this is the way we're ending it now, then i don't know why all these palestinians and why all these israelis

president truman's recognition of israel 11 minutes after david ben-gurion declared israel's independence 75 years -- 76 years and five days ago, america stands with israel must not let the extremism in so-called elite corners conceal the deep, abiding love for israel among the american people. most americans feel a strong connection to your people. they have opened their hearts to you in this dark hour and i seen everywhere, in conversations with my constituents, hard-working families, small business people, farmers, veterans, seniors, and students alike. the reason for this love is no mystery to me. i was raised in upstate new york. i attended an all girls day school right next door to a synagogue. i grew up attending the nymex vote of childhood and family friends and have been welcomed into many homes for shabbat dinner. i have celebrated with my friends the birth of their of children. my love and respect for the jewish people and the people of israel is lifelong and deep. i have been to israel many times , even before i was a number of congress. as a harvard undergraduate, i made my first trip to israel to to study national security policy on a fello

israel intends - lodged out of. meanwhile, when you says that israel intends to l you says that israel intends to resume indirect talks , hamas? that is right, there is a delegation _ hamas? that is right, there is a delegation from _ hamas? that is right, there is a delegation from israel- a delegation from israel containing security ages, from my side, israeli defense forces in qatar, holding talks with mediated and effectively, that is a way that it communicates with hamas through a group of mediators that have in the past included the the qatari government and the united states. those talks are continuing with a view to try to find some sort of ceasefire agreements that it might evolve the return of some of the hostages being held and have been held since the october seven attacks of 2023. those discussions are taking place and for much we have been hearing from the israeli side, they are hopeful, cautiously and are waiting for answers from hamas is to some of their queries about many of the outstanding issues relating to ending the conflict in gaza, in terms of what happened next and what will be the israeli pres

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israel for the past 42 years. my trips to israel didn't start -- i thought for a moment there is going to be the definition of one hand clapping. but my interest in israel israel is that something that happened as result of my running for office and feeling that i somehow had to appeal to a segment of the republican audience that would be very happy that i was a supporter of israel. that happened quite naturally. at the age of 17, just a month before my 18th birthday, a gentleman who was to become a culturally into months and i went to the middle east and we traveled all over the middle east come places that it probably couldn't and wouldn't go to today. syria, lebanon, jordan, turkey and israel. when i went to israel something happen inside me that i can't explain but you understand it. and that is it's a place i've never been in my life but i felt like i was at home. keep in mind in 1973 -- 1973 a moderate israel was 25 years old. it was. it was a struggling the country that frankly was still can't get up on its feet, its economy was tough. and if people -- very few people had a real sense that they would be what it is today in terms of the economic a

israel began expanding its occupation of the syrian government height off the bus. driver's side was toppled on december the 8th, the united nations, as israel is in violation of a 1974 agreements between israel and syria, to disengage forces that's cross to connect right now it's, i'm a job aide is live for us that. so as i'm as a israel is expanding and so it can patient be on the go to nights. tell us about the significance of this the, the, well this is a gun 0 for the is really occupation. as you saw in those satellite images is really the occupation forces have come up much deeper inside the syrian territory. need to kind of meet this and even see having machinery being deployed. and you can see personnel coming inside and here in the town or boss in, in kind of a nature that you can actually see these really tanks right behind us. if i just move out of the shots that isn't, is really turned on city and penetrate. and this is what people here have been telling us that these tons of re nights have been coming deeper further into the territory where we're actually inside right now. where i'm standing, i'm actually standing on top of the tank tracts which go in either direction. children h

israel, say that israel's military strategy has been misguided, that it has been entirely focused on simply destroying hamas without building up confidence in the rest of the palestinian population and without separating. if you will, the terrorists from the local population. as a result, he predicted very early on on my program that israel would have to keep going back into each of these towns, khan yunus, wherever it was, back, you know, again and again. that is, that does seem to be what's happened. so is that how do you get out of that cycle without trying to in some way give the palestinians in gaza some confidence that they have a leadership that they that they feel is legitimate as -- legitimate? pres. herzog: as leaders in the region who clearly identify a unique historic opportunity. the trajectory is clear, the trajectory, the acceptance of israel in the region. no terror, safety for all, and development of the middle east towards a better future, but there's one thing in petraeus's comments that in my mind suffered from a certain naivete in the way you focus on it. the truth of the matter is that our soldiers were shocked in in the infrastructure that they found in gaza, meaning in so many houses there were tunnels leading to the command and control centers of hamas. to places where hostages are held to a huge

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feel to attack israel and spark a war and the more international pressure would mount on israel to end its military operation and the greater the likelihood of a rift open between israelates. for its part israel pursued the military campaign past the point of destroying hamas' military capacity and killing the leaders responsible for october 7. convinced that unrelenting military pressure is required to get hamas to accept a cease-fire and hostage deal on israel's terms and israel held firm to the belief any deviation from the intensive military effort would be interpreted by hamas as a sign of weakness or declining will. some have questioned whether a different policy and approach would have changed this dynamic, whether we put too much pressure on hamas and israel or not enough. we've debated in the state department where we benefited from a range of different views. some believe by privately and publicly seeking to restrain israel's operations have held them back from inflicting greater damage on hamas or hezbollah or other adversaries. others think we enabled israel to purr so campaign that was disproportionate and self-defeating and not to the u.s. interest. it's