agenda pretty interesting and opinion piece that i read saying that it's time to get back to the israel palestine conflict where israel is finally going to annex major parts of the west bank but some say it's never going to happen since netanyahu as you mentioned has served for 14 years now and he's done nothing on the ground to prep for it what say oh. well it all depends on your president and your secretary of state know the promptly all said just the days of bull. mix a show north of the west bank was a matter for israel alone that's of course not true factually because this is a matter of international law it's covered by the oslo agreements signed on your own lawn your own white house it's a motto for the camp david accords also signed on the lawn so it isn't actually true that this is purely a matter for israel but israel proceeds on the basis of theater complete it accomplishes the fact it does it it doesn't wait for other peoples are probation suddenly doesn't wait for the law it just takes over and consolidate its power on the land it's done it in jerusalem it's done the in the golan hei

spring as i said before the british leave and continuing a during the war between israel and the arab armies that enter palestine and become involved although just to carry out because you talk about in the book that's kind of a misnomer because the arab armies of israel likes to mythologize that they've fought off how many was a 7 years or whatever you argued that most of them didn't enter. saudi arabia and yemen didn't have real modern armies lebanese army never crossed the frontier the jordanian in iraq your army is are under jordanian control and jordan has come to an agreement with the zionist movement before the war king abdullah the king abdullah has met with musharraf and with gold in my ear and has and has been told by his british people who pay and. officer his army you cannot go beyond the boundaries of the arab state under partition so the jordanian iraqi army is never invade israel they enter the area allocated to the arab state under partition and defend what is now the west bank which is oh you have a scientist complicity precise well at the beginning exactly they end up fighting over the road to

on contact today we discussed the long disingenuous role the united states has played in the israel palestine conflict with professor rashid khalidi this is not just a war by the zionist movement of the palestinians it's a movement it's a war i should say really declared by great powers the race sure of the palestinians is really the work of the british in the 1st instance and later of the united states and other powers at a later stage what it why i mean so what the british of course occupy palestine is part of the ottoman empire are in world war 1917 now and the marches on drew sloan. what is what is the british had to because they certainly have colonies in india and everywhere else for. what is it that the british are attempting to do to kind of you know with the zionist movement was radical right well look the basic goal the strategic. israeli palestinian conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds nor is it the tragic clash between 2 peoples with claims to the same land it is rather a manufactured conflict the outcome of a 100 year old colonial occupation by jewish zionists an

on contact today we discussed the long disingenuous role the united states has played in the israel palestine conflict with professor rashid khalidi this is not just a war by the zionist movement of the palestinians it's a movement it's a war i should say really declared by great powers in the race or of the palestinians is really the work of the british in the 1st instance and later of the united states and other powers at a later stage what it why i mean so what the british of course occupy palestine is part of the ottoman empire are in world war 1917 now and the marches are drew sloan. what is what is the british are to because they certainly have colonies in india and everywhere else for. what is it that the british are attempting to do to kind of you know with the zionist movement was radical right well the the basic goal the strategic. israeli palestinian conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds nor is it the tragic clash between 2 peoples with claims to the same land it is rather a manufactured conflict the outcome of a 100 year old colonial occupation by jewish zionists a

on contact today we discussed the long disingenuous role the united states has played in the israel palestine conflict with professor rashid khalidi this is not just a war by the zionist movement of the palestinians it's a movement it's a war i should say really declared by great powers in the race sure of the palestinians is really the work of the british in the 1st instance and later of the united states and other powers at a later stage what it was i mean so what the british of course occupy palestine is part of the ottoman empire are in world war 1917 now and the martyrs of drew sloan.

palestine and the t.v. address on could so jerusalem day ayatollah ali khamenei described israel as a cancerous tumor in the middle east and he said the occupation of palestine is a crime against humanity iran has held the annual could stay since $979.00 in a show of support for the palestinian struggle c.-o. said oh do you suppose you normalizing the presence of the zionist regime in the region is one of the major policies pursued by the united states a number of arab governments in the region also act as the minions and cronies of the us they have been setting the grounds for normalization by establishing economic ties. so i asked from tehran is. less than senior fellow at the center for middle east and strategic studies thanks for your time what do you make of. a comment a speech in particular thinking about on the one hand he's reiterating calls for resistance to israel but on the other hand he's also calling for a referendum among palestinians. while i think iran and later today he referred to as bitter or and successful experience by palestine and negotiation with the united states as well as best thi

harmed beyond belief its own people and sold out there right in their homeland palestine today the p.l.o. recognizes israel and acknowledges this really sovereignty over the whole of historical palestine. notwithstanding these criticisms law school boards found supporters of the past such a lovely place a lot of have been most awfully good. but one of the. faisel hussein and god rest his soul used to say that he had reservations about the also accords but he called it out child and that it was better for us to defend jerusalem from ramallah next door than defend it from far away trueness. but the peace process initiated by the oslo accord soon began to fall. on february 25th 1904 goldstein a jewish extremist opened fire on palestinian worshippers in the main mosque of hebron killing 29 and wounding 150. was. just weeks later hamas responded with 2 suicide bombings inside israel killing 15 survives. suicide attacks were to become a trademark tactic of. the mosque massacre and the suicide attacks did not preclude the signing of the gaza jirga agreement may $994.00 in which israel agreed to undertake withdraw

in 1048 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the. with the prospect of a new order in the region the p.l.o. needed to shift emphasis from revolution to negotiation. but the new political forces were making their presence felt within palestinian society. threatening the role and relevancy of the p.l.o. . passible following the 1991 gulf war u.s. president george bush and his secretary of state james baker decided that was high time to resolve the problems in the middle east they devised a formula to bring the reluctant israel to the negotiating table i think bush was was really annoyed and he he and baker came up with this idea which i thought was actually quite quite smart and said you can have the loans but only if you create a complete freeze on settlements because we are not going to subsidize policies in the west bank t

and israel on tuesday. palestine has also stopped sharing intelligence with the cia.estinian authority is withdrawing security forces from some places where it had to operate with israeli approval. the u.s. is pulling out of a treaty with 34 other countries, accusing russia of violating the deal. the open skies treaty allows unarmed surveillance flights over signatory nations and is supposed to foster transparency on military activity. the white house accused russia of breaking its terms and contributing to military threats against the u.s. and its allies. it is not the first time the trump administration pulled out of an agreement and blamed russia. it pulled out of a packed that banned intermediate range nuclear missiles. there are fears he may pull out of an arms treaty with russia that allows both countries only 1550 nuclear missiles deployed each. it expires weeks after the presidential inauguration. president trump: russia and us have developed a very good relationship. we worked on the oil problem together. russia didn't adhere to the treaty, so until they adhe

of which the persons have been victims for more than 70 years i want to get on to today in israel and palestine but since you mention the word zionism i couldn't tell you the political classes in britain consider even the term often to be used used in the way you just have as and the semitic indeed the 2nd storm of the neighbor leader here is shadow foreign secretary even said to condemn atrocities by israel was anti-semitic piers we are in a very strange age where israelis is recognizing the semitism in order to stifle debate about palestine the silence 'd criticism against its policies would be surprising is not so much that these are ones to do it but that so many british politicians and public figures are willing to go along with that of course there is a difference between zionism and judaism and therefore there is a difference between anti's and ism semitism in a body of confused as it is either an ignorant person or someone who manipulates the truth in order not to allow the reality on the ground in palestine to be discussed genuinely and candidly between everyone who is interested in pe

said to condemn atrocities by israel was anti-semitic piers we are in a very strange age where israelis is recognizing 'd the semitism in order to stifle debate about palestine the silence criticism against its policies would be surprising is not so much of israel wants to do it but that so many british politicians and public figures are willing to go along with it of course there is a difference between zionism 'd and judaism and therefore there is a difference between anti's and ism you know the semitism in a body of confused as it is either an ignorant person or someone who manipulates the truth in order not to allow the reality on the ground in palestine to be discussed genuinely and candidly between everyone who is interested in peace and reconciliation in the land when it comes to politics in israel arab m.p.'s olive branches after this repeated israeli election. on a bra just been crushed by many gantz and architect of the. israeli military operations of course in occupied territories. is it true that the israeli government and of course my pumpin secretary of state from the united states arrived is it true that the israeli government is using coronav

if you really want to make a living in palestine you're going to be human a to build building settlements for israel. because in palestine janitor's a work and it's rated spaces make more than palestinian teachers my grandmother has been getting very sick and she has been losing her memory but as a as a writer i'm trying my best to. you know record and document what you know of her because it's very rich and it's the story of the naacp and its story of the clintons and what's reported there one of the nari or do not even know all dolled well mohamed and his family never did get their house back even though a vixen stopped for several years in shifts on iraq but in 2017 sadler started moving in once again we're now joined from new york by julia bossa who made sheds are often my neighborhood speaking of jerusalem how was donald trump's recent decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel affected the prospects of families like muhammad that we saw in the film it's hard to tell whether deep proclamation off trump is going to make life significantly worse for palestinians i think really gover

as israel's partner in crime and he called for countries that have objected president trumps middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel under trying to steal israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin and palestinian land assumes july eliminate carried him to palestine liberation organization and the state of palestine and not bound to as of today or the agreement an understanding with the american and israeli governments and it would be obligations based on these understanding and agreements including the security ones. while he said the p.l.o. is no longer bound by agreements signed with israel and he said that he did not say that he's dissolving the palestinian authority and the palestinian authority itself is the through it of the agreements that has been signed between israel and the palestinian authority in 1980 so we need a couple of days or maybe weeks to understand what really is going to be taking on the ground in on the ground in terms of measures by the palestinian authority now to the issue of the security agreement between the 2 parties it has been suspended a co

meeting about describe the us as israel's partner in crime and he called for countries that have rejected president trumps middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel under trump's deal israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin and extend palestinian land a soon as july early abunimah is co-founder of the electronic intifada author of the book the battle for justice in palestine and he says the announcement by a boss is meaningless. well there's 2 important points here one is the creation of the palestinian authority was allowed by israel after 993 for one purpose and one purpose alone which was to create a native palestinian auxillary to. basically implement the occupation on behalf of israel and that is and has being the role of the palestinian authority since its creation israel allows palestinian security forces to have guns but those guns are only to be used against palestinians and so the agreements are basically that the palestinian authority acts as a an exemplary police force for israeli occupation forces now that's given the title security coordination that's the polite name for it that's given i

in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. with the prospect of a new order in the region the p.l.o. needed to shift emphasis from revolution to negotiation. but new political forces were making their presence felt within palestinian society. threatening the role and relevancy of the p.l.o. . passable following the 1991 gulf war u.s. president george bush and his secretary of state james baker decided it was high time to resolve the problems in the middle east they devised a formula to bring the reluctant israel to the negotiating table i think bush was was really annoyed and he he and baker came up with this idea which i thought was actually quite quite smart and said you can have the loans but only if you agree to a complete freeze on settlements because we are not going to subsidize policy.

because of israel's planned an exception of 30 percent of the occupied west bank about called for countries that have rejected the trump middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel. in south sudan at least 120 people have been killed since friday and what authorities are calling cattle raids more than 100 people were also injured in the attacks in jonglei state millions of people in burundi are expected to cast ballots on wednesday to choose a new president. is stepping down after 15 years in power 7 candidates are competing to take its place the run up to the election soon plagued by violence and officials in india and bangladesh are racing to relocate millions of people before the arrival of a super cycle and is expected to make landfall in the coming hours psyco an armband will be the most powerful weather system seen in the region in the last 2 decades and a chinese man has been reunited with his parents 32 years after being abducted as a toddler miles mother legion she quit her job to find her son she's also joined other volunteers in providing information on missing children to police and is said to have been reunited 20 reun

shakira is the israel and palestine director of human rights watch and he says the extent of state controlled lands makes it easy for the government to dictate who lives where. if we look at land policy within israel you realize that 93 percent of the land of is state lands that are directly controlled by the state nearly half of the seats of the body that administers that is run by the jewish national fund with a mission solely to develop housing for the jewish community meanwhile while palestinian citizens of israel make up 21 percent of the population the minas of how these where most of them live in have only 3 percent about of the land in the entire country and so it's very clear that they're being boxed in israeli planning policies land confiscations over many years have reduced them to a series of dense population centers while jewish communities are allowed to thrive very similar to the policy that you see taking place within the occupied territory the government in fact has i think in recent years recognize that there is a serious problem they've set aside some money to deal with tha

boozy israel and palestine director of human rights watch and he joins me on skype from amman in jordan to share welcome to the program so the practice of restricting palestinians and maximizing land available for jewish communities that's well known within the occupied west bank but your report says it's going beyond that into israel itself. absolutely if we look at land policy within israel you realize that 93 percent of the land of is state lands that are directly controlled by a bet by the state nearly half of the seats of the body that administers that is run by the jewish national fund with a mission solely to develop housing for the jewish community meanwhile while palestinian citizens of israel make up 21 percent of the population the minas a pallet used where most of them live in have only 3 percent about of the land in the entire country and so it's very clear that they're being boxed in an israeli planning policies land confiscations over many years have reduced them to a series of dense population centers while the jewish communities are allowed to thrive very similar to the

as israel's partner in crime and called on other countries who have rejected the donald trump plan to recognize palestinempose sanctions on israel. says that they could begin annexing palestinian land as early as july. the palestine liberation organization and the state of palestine are not -- >> the palestinian -- palestine liberation organization and the state of palestine are not bound by the agreement, including security. it could take a couple of weeks before anything changes on the ground. plo ise he said that the no longer bound by agreements he did not israel, say he was dissolving the palestinian authority. the palestinian authority is part of an agreement signed between israel and the palestinian authority in 1993, so we need a couple of days or maybe weeks to understand what is going to be taken on the ground and on the ground in terms of measures by the palestinian authority. now, to the issue of the security agreement between the two parties, they have suspended them a couple of times before, but in recent history, we are talking about the past 20 years, the suspension was only limited to th

as israel's partner in crime and he called for countries that have rejected president donald trump's middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel under trying to deal israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin palestinian land as soon as july it is able him has the latest from ramallah while he said the p.l.o. is no longer bound by agreements signed with israel and he said that he did not say that he's dissolving the palestinian authority and the palestinian authority itself is the through it of the agreements that has been signed between israel and the palestinian authority in 1980 so we need a couple of days or maybe weeks to understand what really is going to be taken on the ground in the on the ground in terms of measures by the palestinian authority now to the issue of the security agreement between the 2 parties it has been suspended a couple of times before but in recent history we're talking about the past 20 years this is a sponge and it was only limited to the high profile high level meetings between the palestinian is and israeli security officials but side channels have happ

in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the little. expelled from jordan and then never been on the p.l.o. seem to be running out of options. forced into a corner its leader yasser arafat's soon found himself in gauged in a fratricidal fight for the control of the p.l.o. and for his life. with the withdrawal of the bulk of its forces from beirut the p.l.o. was in limbo once again few out of countries wanted to welcome thousands of palestinian fighters for the 1st time the p.l.o. is existence in exile would be without the military force that had characterized it stays in jordan and lebanon. the price of defeat in beirut soon appeared before out of the week and p.l.o. leader found himself under attack from palestinian leaders within the p.l.o. and even from within his own father factions. the critics said arafat's style

in 1048 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. after years of bloody infighting the various palestinian factions began to resolve their differences. to mull to us events in the region were to prove both a solace and a setback for the palestinian cause. yet by 1987 the various factions of the p.l.o. had come closer together after the past 4 years of into palestinian strife. the palestinian parliament in exile the palestine national council met in algiers in april of that year a common cause help unify ranks that cause was opposition to jordan the different factions all agreed to cancel dommin accords that had outlined a confederation between jordan and the palestinians but that was how well that they should be in that given or don't need to stay added i don't think from the sunni are as as jordan tried to restore palestinian j

this place is the only chance they have to leave at least once a day. 148 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. following the expulsion from jordan p.l.o. leader yasser arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. there were hopeful signs of the early seventy's but the optimism was all to come crashing down. to the people at. the last summit say. it will feel. just good model not only a new idea. but the last model on not only new ideas about just what was bottoming out. but also following a day in november 19th 74 yes and out of touch received a standing ovation at the general assembly. he had spoken over a peaceful solution for christ in the minds. of the green a leader standing among statesmen it was a crown which are. out of touch journey to the un had begun several years earlier. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revo

palestine the t.v. address on could saw jerusalem day i have tali ayatollah ali khamenei described israel as a cancerous tumor in the middle east and he said the occupation of palestine is a crime against humanity iran has held the annual could say since 979 in a show of support for the palestinian struggle. forces loyal to libya's u.n. recognized government are mobilizing around the town of tire home 100 kilometers southeast of tripoli this comes a day after they seized control of the strategic town of a sub or it's on an important supply route for troops allied to war holy for. a move the other way head is in southern tripoli. this is one of the areas controlled by forces loyal to the internationally recognized the government in southern tripoli here between salaheddine neighborhood and al sadr area the government forces say that they have gained ground and they have taken control of several locations including a military camp called barely a military camp and also the headquarters of the migration authority the government sources here say that they have been told that by half the forces who are 7 pos