alone when we welcome the crosstalk i'm curious about just how influential is the israeli lobby in the u.s. to what degree does it impact american foreign policy what about the rift that now divides us president barack obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and who has the right to define red lines when it comes to iran. and. to cross-talk israel's influence on washington i'm joined by ruthie bloom in new york she's a journalist and author of the recent book to hell in a hand-basket carter obama and the arab spring in washington we have grant smith he is director of the institute for research middle eastern policy and author of spy trade how israel's lobby undermines america's economy and in san jose we cross to stephen's eunice he is a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ruthie i'd like to go to you first a lot of people say that mr netanyahu has stepped over the line in meddling in american politics how do you respond to that. i think he h

democracies is not the put the blame on israel is grossly exaggerated certainly the blame on the israeli lobby you know israel's lobby back in the sixty's wanted to have israel armed with nuclear weapons and they steamrolled the kennedy administration with people like abraham feinberg financing nuclear weapons development shapiro transferring material i mean this is almost a clean are you saying that anything is more stick change or shift elsewhere in the world are you saying that's all israel lobby to i mean i got your son and i say to show israel's last recent rewordings even created a credit processes in the united states for example israeli trade minister dan how current stole classified documents and they haven't really been here we're going to go to a short break folks a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the israeli lobby in the u.s. state. re jews and creative. elegance and full and public speaking. her from. a few european bodybuilders against the millions we teach immigrants. her these may not seem so serious now. but this could be a real th

israelis. in their d.n.a. is existence. they are all their very deep rooted part of the justified most of them totally manipulate to exaggerate. and governments the government of the government no to manipulate it and to use it and misuse it for their own interests ok let me go if i go back to you are a few days ago patrick clawson he's been a guest on this program he's a director of research at the pro israel think tank the washington institute for near east policy and he said publicly if the iranians aren't going to compromise it would be best if someone else started the war now maybe if netanyahu doesn't take this seriously and maybe it's just a cover as you point out and i tend to agree with you there are a lot of americans are take this very seriously does that worry you. well i think it's worrisome one when people talk about war as though it was a game and and encourage people to go to war i think it's a very dangerous thing at the same time i would argue that that whether it's a pro zionist think tank whether it's a

within really dominates washington is a pac and it has a direct lineage back to the israeli ministry of foreign affairs or its founder worked and so this lobby has been competing with law enforcement agencies and the foreign agents registration act to keep from being actually considered part of the israeli government all of these trade agreements and military agreements were not really motivated by u.s. needs they were lobbying initiatives for memorandums of understanding and all sorts of military aid the iran contra scandal in fact it was. doing this were a bunch of israeli arms dealers are trying to find out how they could get back into iran and then run the mossad torture camps and sell more arms back into iran so none of these were really that this is an israeli lobby and i this point in time is extremely dangerous and believe me the cia and f.b.i. worry more about counterintelligence against israeli mossad than they do cooperating with it and whether that's the recent israel aircraft industries work with stewart and those that or this client they think you made your point. becau

this fifteen page emergency brochure is being distributed by the israeli army across the country and it puts a rather smiling face on a very serious and grim statistic the bush take about what people should do in a state of emergency it says that there was a need for a family to take the family should get together and talk about what to do if this country is in a state of crisis at the same time it is that anywhere between fifty fifty and the minute is the time frame that the phrase will have from the moment fire when found until there is a state of emergency care and also going to people to go and check that they bomb shelters up to scratch how the pressure doesn't make any mention of any kind of meat on the ranch but certainly it is giving some kind of urgency and there have been those who suggested that it is really the way to hit by israeli politicians in preparation for human and war and certainly for that kind of rhetoric coming out of the israeli political elite some officials have said that we're looking at a civilian council some five hundred people in any kind of war that w

these are all builds its war rhetoric against tehran will look at a military that is helping the israeli population prepare for reciprocal time. international news live from moscow this is our she with me our thanks for joining us first the rebel free syrian army are said rationing to target civilian flights coming into the country the fighters claim the government is using the planes to bringing weapons meanwhile to been accused of shipping arms to the opposition says it will continue to push for and protect to save zones inside syria on friday some western allies in the says the intervention is needed to help refugees fleeing the conflict but syrian rebels say it would also help down with the fighting against president assad and in this current they stand pleasaunce running to take control here is skeptical that foreign intervention would even be aimed at protecting civilians in the first place. and this is not the mary cary what should be done is to force used to push for a negotiation for a very long between the syrian leadership positions and for example next month we. the internal

things that the israeli government is deliberately targeting the sacred site. with me i have a caress separately thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. israel allows was weapons to make program lead to mecca but on the other hand it for birds men under the age of fourteen from entering the mosque during ramadan to pray on fridays how do you explain this contradiction. the suburb this contradiction is due to the fact that they let our brothers who live in the areas by do nine hundred forty eight carry out the harsh suzi is their legal right there are also some political benefits to be gained from demonstrating that there is freedom of religion x. as for the. rules of the strictest their senses on their territory for love it was situated somewhere else that no such measures will be taken yet now the focus is on . the occupation authorities on criticised only for that the most of their actions deserve criticism and you have said that jewish authorities are trying to sensitize was them sensitivities to access why do you say this. hell will israeli or cuban

on major media outlets seem to agree that the decision by netanyahu and the israeli defense minister of iraq to strike iran is imminent with some suggesting that it might even happen this for israel on the brink of going to war with iran. about it . the same as you do. i believe that we are preparing all the options. i believe also but the u.s. is preparing options. we should see what happens iran has denied that it is pursuing nuclear weapons and despite the rhetoric on the rain inside it has not struck anyone why would iran strike israel if israel did not strike iran first first before iran did declare very clearly the they're preparing themselves to wipe israel from the globe which means that there is a real threat on their side in addition to that they did develop very carefully the delivery capabilities they have. ground to ground ballistic missiles of a few kind she had three assure him twenty five. most of them deployed in quantities and what they still need is to tweet the nuclear device to be put on top of those missiles in order to have the full capability to attack us no y

as israel builds its war rhetoric against her for a revoke at how a military muppet is helping the israeli population prepare for a reciprocal attack. hello and thank you for joining r t today with me karen taraji broadcasting to live from the heart of moscow where it's two o'clock well the rebel free syrian army are threatening to target civilian flights coming into the country the fighters claim the government is using the planes to bring in weapons from abroad including from russia while in moscow foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated russia is not supporting the syrian leadership but pushing for talks involving all sides are on a boy has the details one of the groups associated with different syrian army posted and notice on its facebook page saying that starting from september third syrian rebels are reserving the right to attack and need to believe only operate in syria and they believe that the syrian regime the syrian. so it just may be using planes just smuggle in weapons from russia iran iraq with you while russian foreign ministry officials have already commented on this

over the years have the israelis changed their treatment of palestinians wanted to come and pray at al aqsa mosque but mr that the balmoral plenty and the occupation regime treats palestinians in a way which is far from humane they're cruel oppressive they don't have mercy there's one issue that's not reported in the media i'm talking about palestinian women who don't always get a chance to give on earth in hospital occupants not ambulances at checkpoints and sometimes because of these delays ambulances cannot get to the women in labor on time how as a result they cannot give birth at a medical facility sometimes the baby dies and even the mother herself can bleed to death and we have very disturbed over three hundred cases of such inhumane behavior on the part of israeli authorities that i have met with a number of delegations of american scholars and i asked them if they have ever heard of this and they all said no the western zionist media do not report these cases why opinion is that these checkpoints are set up to inflict more suffering to kill unborn babies whose mothers have to

exist on top of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building a settlement and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the great outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in the own backyard police here r.t. hebron let's cross to our business desk now for a final review pretty. twenty three twenty five here in moscow it was a good day for the markets well i would say if we don't like wall street and so accounting was a very positive day for the russian markets the european markets and the asian markets but what russian investors were focused on and particular was the apec summit of course in russia's far east and top executives there were discussing not only investments into the asia pacific region but they're also discussing the debt crisis and business r.t. . metals and magnets and ask them what he things should be done in order to save the euro and this is what he had to say. completely. real balance of trade to real. opportunity to see true solution

we take care of each other. >> while israeli citizens, they are muslims of arab ancestry.ut they're not just any ordinary family. >> translator: the arabs are organized around known crime families, gangs. someone who belongs to one of the families will be more dominant. he's influential. he gets a lot of respect from other prisoners. while this is a very dominant prisoner he belongs to a very dominant family. >> when we walked into their cell, they greeted us, offered refreshments, which we are not allowed to accept. but for me it was like being at the sopranos' house. it was just a very festive environment. it was a very social environment. but then you know that these people are capable of murder. >> this prisoner freely admits to the murder that brought him to rimonim. >> translator: it was an assassination. my cousin was murdered. in our family it is a custom if blood is spilled it needs to be spilled on the other side also. so the guy was killed. i am a bedouin. my grandfather is also a bedouin. the customs are very strict. you have to respect all customs, even if it

the israelis are not happy about it. they are countering with people to their understandable desire to settle that line. >> the elite media use words disgusting that like terrorist regimes rather than israel. the white house acknowledged that using that netanyahu put in a request because they claimed scheduling conflicts. so the president of united states will meet with david letterman but not with benjamin netanyahu. the other thing that the press should be investigating. they shouldn't be trying to connect the dots. the democratic platform had a huge controversy and slur fight. what they ended up doing, yes, they inserted the jerusalem is the capital of israel language but they stripped out language from the previous platform, strong loonz against hamas. don't think for one second that the enemies of the united states and israel weren't paying close attention to that. i'm not saying that we saw that this week, but there is certainly a story to tell that has as parted. broader part of the narrative. >> we know the presi

exist on top of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard policia r.t. hebron. so i could have you with us here in our to today i welcome to the program we will be back in just a second to see. formula. he.

on top of each other and for as long as the cities can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard. r.t. hebron. you know and the business good to see you lots of global politicking going on in russia's far east of course of the apec summit but you here in moscow has zero in on the business side of it all launching. an attack on all the activity where we go and the certainly poland see of it right now we've got top executives from around the globe overcalls gathered in russia's far east now apart from investment into the asia pacific region and a lot of discussions have been devoted to the e.u.'s debt crisis as well there's certainly no escaping it now business r.t. caught up with metals magnate all of that of about what could save the euro. is a need to revise. terms of how. this euro to have completely. out of the real balance of trade to real. the competit

as israel builds its war rhetoric against top we look at how a military that is helping the israeli population prepare for a reciprocal attack. hello and welcome to our team karen taraji starting your saturday off here in moscow we go now to our top story the rebel free syrian army is threatening to attack civilian airports in the country's biggest city the fighters say the government is using the halls in aleppo and damascus for military planes let's now talk to dr ali mohamed the editor in chief of independent website syria tribe which has been monitoring the crisis since it started dr mohammad thank you for joining us so the syrian opposition is warning foreign not to use the airports in damascus and aleppo now could these foreign planes come under attack from the opposition targeting the government aircraft. first it is no proof that. they will only be targeting the government aircrafts they said they will be targeting civilian aircraft and i don't think they have the means to to distinguish which are government ones and which are not. the rebels saying that they are attacking civilian air

it was shot by an israeli soldier. ahmed is rushed to a hospital. 48 hours later, it's clear he won't survive. the doctor suggests to ahmed's father that the boy's organs be donated. >> but remember, donors cannot control who will receive the organs. it could be a palestinian. it could be an israeli. >> after much long, hard thinking, ahmed's father reaches his decision. >> i agree to donate all of his organs, even the heart. >> it turns out that the recipient of ahmed's heart is an israeli girl the same age as him. >> when someone you care for is taken, if you just try to get retribution, you will be caught in a chain of hatred. there are other ways of fighting besides weapons. >> minora kamata researched his books by visiting the places where those events happened. nhk world has more. >> reporter: he's had his book translated into both arabic and hebrew. his hope is that it can spread ahmed's father's message, calling for an end to the cycle of hatred. first, he went to see ahmed's father to give him a copy of the bo

disease row builds its will read trivia games tehran look at our military muppets helping the israeli population prepare for reciprocal time. news from russia and iran the world this is us he was me our thanks for joining us the rebel free syrian army are threatening to target civilian flights coming into the country the fighters claim the government is using the planes to bring in weapons from abroad including from russia while and foreign minister sergei lavrov has written rated russia is not supporting the syrian leadership but pushing for talks involving all sides now joined live by all season on the boycotts and hello to tell us more about the rebels rats and water exactly love rob had to say about the syrian conflict. well you did this is obviously a very troubling development one of the groups associated with different syrian army posted and notice on its facebook page saying that starting from september third they're reserving the right. to attack civil planes operating from damascus and aleppo airports because they believe that the syrian regime the syrian authorities may be

israel if they netanyahu government chooses to strike iran's nuclear facilities the report in an israeli newspaper also claims the deal comes with a catch that these let me state it would not damage any american interest in any retaliatory strikes this comes as the obama administration says it's implementing measures it hopes will prevent an israeli attack on iran one more on this we cannot cross over like you stephen viewings of professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco thank you very much for joining us here professor now washington has a spending yes' of pressuring iran and bolstering israel so why would the us off let you run assurances that it would not help in the israeli attack. i think there was an awareness of it in the pentagon in the white house and elsewhere of the war with iran would be a disaster i mean putting aside the moral concerns the legal concerns about such a conflict the word games and other scenarios that have been looking at all come out to the same conclusion the costs and badly outweigh the benefits and so the united sta

i don't know about israeli nuclear capability i know that. putting a lot of money in missile defense in trying to defend our population from aggression from outside interviews that you've given in your link to the prevention of a nuclear iran with the holocaust do you really think that a nuclear iran would mean the destruction of the state of israel i hope not but there is a possibility i mean iran having nuclear capability and delivery capability to the state of israel who would be in a position who is. proper. to believe that they could destroy israel by few nuclear missiles and if this would be their believe they also could use it therefore we must be sure that nothing like that can be can happen they all reports that suggests that the israeli home front is simply not prepared for war with iran that there are inadequate bomb shelters that they're not enough gas masks would you not say that this unprepared home find together with the war rhetoric is not simply potential adventurism no i don't think so. i do believe that there are many reaso

on top of each other and for as long as the cities can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard. r.t. hebron now we have our team of business correspondents and other correspondents in vladivostok a monitoring of the ongoing apec summit as i keep track of all the. katie and her team keeping their fingers on the business aspects as well right absolutely we're one big team and we were it's what it's all about right now we're just looking at the top executives coming from all over the world as a country and they have gathered in russia's far from investment into the asia pacific region a lot of discussions have been devoted to the european sovereign debt crisis we can't really escape the elephant in the room so now business altie caught up with a billion that metals magnate or they've got a past he knows if they go to about money and he spoke to us about what

exist on top of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in the own backyard police here r.t. hebron while tensions between iran and israel also the main subject of today's interview coming your way in the next hour or so we spoke to the former head of the israeli ministry of defense about the likelihood of a conflict erupted a quick preview. i know that israel. would think a lot of money in missile defense in trying to defend our population from aggression from outside i mean iran having nuclear capability and delivery capability to the state of israel would be the position reason the proper redeemed. to believe that they could destroy israel by few nuclear missiles. and this would be their believe they or who could use it therefore we must be sure that nothing like that can be can happen. now and across in our life to the r.t. busin

the israeli air force and the israeli defense forces.e served as two of the senior most officers making decisions and his experience makes him uniquely qualified to offer insights into this issue and we're delighted to have general haloutz today. he will make some remarks then he and i will have a bit of a conversation and we will open things up to all of you. before i do that, let me ask everyone to please send your phasers to stun. so your cellphone to silence so we can have a good conversation and hear what general haloutz has to say. thank you. [applause] >> i have to shut my phone as well. well, first of all, 11 years ago, we woke up to a new era after the very tragic terror attack on the twins in new york. i think that the world was completely changed since then. and the major goal of everyone of us is to try to do the maximum in order to prevent such events from happening again, so all the sympathy to the families and to the victims of this great nation. if your remarks about -- a few remarks about the hot potato. the "i" is for i

of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building. and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the outside. rather than look at what is happening in the backyard. hebron. well let's turn our attention back to the apec summit ongoing in the russia's far eastern of lot of off the system itself part of it is right here in moscow still marina good to see you again you've been speaking to some big names there what's what's going on a lot of us don't exactly well it seems to be that the focus of the discussions is investments into the asia pacific region also of course the debt crisis that's a hot topic everywhere right now and the euro and business article where the metals lie where the legs and what we did was ask him what he thinks of it and in order to save the euro this is what he had to say. how. completely. real balance of trade to real. europe. create opportunity. to solution for the christ. it is now the second hour of the action on wall street and there the floods it

and it shows the way in general we sit with the israeli army officers and they're trying to convince him to give their support in an israeli attack on an enemy state presumably the ranch the general at that stage take a bite out of the chocolate hazelnut that sitting in front of him and he says something along the lines of let's go nuts which the israelis misinterpret to mean that he has given them the green light for this operation for the missiles not to fall fly and you have those who are on the situation the israelis so we have been putting up with a red tape and it does seem as if there is something on the go we have heard some israeli politicians on record saying that a strike on iran is going to happen to me but the official line to be from the government in terms of. this is fresh air and when we go on like that it is nothing more than just the general public awareness people need to know what to do in a state. where they are. of course here with our team now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a double suicide bombing near a military bas

exist on top of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard policia r.t. hebron. all right in just a moment we'll get to marina with the business for now though ecuador has repeated demands that britain grant safe passage to julian assange and wiki leaks editor remains in ecuador's london embassy trying to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes he believes he could then be sent to the u.s. and charged over the release of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables over two weeks ago that we could least editor made his first public appearance since being granted asylum in ecuador calling on the u.s. to stop what he called a witch hunt on a whistleblower was spoken to a nicholas costello a new york based author and a former academic specializing in latin american history ultimately a