you know liberal left wing but they're still israeli still zionist israelis and for them hearing me speak you know saying supposedly bad things about them about my military service is something that is very hard for them. to contain it's seen many ways a part of their identity you know it's this society of soldiers in a sense now your website fell it was a counts of abuse center palestinian territories by israeli forces what has been your personal experience what have you seen there actually two days after we reached active duty i served in the area of the city of hebron in the area of the west bank and the two days after i was that i reached this area in july two thousand and two there was an attack the settlers family was killed by a palestinian gunman and our unit was basically to close down the town from which the gunmen came from a town called the problem was that we were a very small unit maybe fifty soldiers and the town of home to maybe seventy or eighty thousand palestinians so imposing effective curfew in this town with fifty soldiers in. first place was basically impossib

the israeli defense force and its mission is what we're talking about today. israeli soldiers. brave patriotic proud to defend their country but how to deploy when there is no direct attack. gaza border control west bank patrols checkpoint inspections watching over palestinians. breaking the silence has a collection of disturbing testimonies of abuse looting and destruction by i.d.f. soldiers even when there is no danger. and our guest today is that he cries dollar and member of the idea of veterans who are breaking the silence i hides great to have you with us on the program so basically breaking the silence is a community of i.d.f. whistleblowers right. yeah you know actually i guess what we're trying to do. licked and publish stories testimonies of soldiers in who served by territory is in. advance some kind of debate discourse regarding the nature of the military control over the occupied territories but how many are new at this moment . well until today actually more than nine hundred soldiers both men and women testified to breaking the silence they were talking about sol

i want to have the least interaction with the israelis as possible. >> many israelis don't want to know about palestinians. they don't want to reach out. they don't want to cross into streets and neighborhoods where the palestinians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city w

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borders and the arab man invited his israeli colleague to visit his home in an arab village. but the end of the story is a tragic one is that these really man was killed and his arab colleagues so to speak was planning to demand the release of some palestinian prisoners in exchange for the body over a young man he had been working with for a long time and invited him to his house or what to look at that. that's what's really happening where i live and it differs significantly from the reports made by various international organizations or mass media. please come and film this and you will see for yourselves that what we often read in the papers is a long way from reality and i'm just it's. what's going on right now that israeli syrian border and israel accepting refugees from syria. we are very concerned with the situation on the israelis syrian border unfortunately the general instability in syria affects israel as well there are many militant groups active on this border now that at times the clashes between them result in israeli territory being and accidental or deliberat

population of syria living close school cheap israeli border. this is it for today my guest was israel's deputy foreign minister said to me sophie shevardnadze thanks so watching we'll see you next time. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward for the oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was and it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this you know thi

politicians well politicians and israelis i mean israelis vote for those politicians they don't just show up but israel is a democracy if you're an israeli jew and the mayors and the members of the knesset and the cabinet all represent the opinions of israelis of jewish. these so they do represent that and the discourse in israel has become more and more racist with time and today it's a very it's a racist discourse people are not afraid to say things like this and i think it's a sign that they feel that they're being defeated they feel that the holding on to this racist notion of a purely jewish state is the only thing they have and i think they know very well that by all this that by two thousand and twenty there will be a palestinian majority between the mediterranean and the jordan river in other words that land that israel controls right now will be predominantly palestinian the population within a predominately palestinian they don't want to allow it to become a democracy. so that's the problem of course they hold on by being more and more racist you know considering how they m

this is not on the surface an israeli government initiative. i-24 said they do not receive any money, but if you look at it. >> it's owned by a french businessman. he owned several telecommunications companies both in france. >> many look beyond the economic element. they want to be involved in israeli life. they want to influence the policy. the gee it as it their homeland and they want to have impact on that whether they come from the left or the right. it's ente interelect actual, in. >> it's about time that we sent another voice from the media. i want to show to the people that when we are economy, we are talking about people, sport, for example, we can connect over population because we can see things the same. >> the founders of i-24 make much of the fact that the channel received no government money, holds no affiliation and covers the news' objective. if that's really the case how can the channel, a start up still under control with holes and typos, begin to keep with i-24. >> they're most of the time covering the same stories. they hav

they hope to to end the cycle of violence between the peamtion and israelis. like many other groups believe dialogue and reconciliation are the only ways to foster co--existence. they have annual events including a walk in new haven connecticut. those groups say it gives the impression that there is more progress than there actually is. it makes people lead that the -- believe that the dispute is between two similar metric parties. this community is on the topic and passionate and opinionated. >> it's opinionated about the hotly contested real estate on earth. you are the third host of the show because all of your on-line comments drive this conversation. join this discussion by tweeting us and using the hash tag hm about. joining us is mohammad. he is palestinian and from thevillaville yaj village on the ou outskirts. in the google hang out is adam sha peeshapiro and also in the t i talia. she wrote the book "when peace is not enough how the israeli peace camps think of religion and national justice." you are a former combatant. to understand what you ar and

this is the future of israeli politics.hat is what is really appearing in the pages of my book, "goliath." >> how important is u.s. aid to israel? what is the state of israel's economy right now? >> israel's strategic deterrence is contingent on its direct line to washington. netanyahu is the salesman. i went into netanyahu's early writings when he was just emerging on the world stage. i dissect and talk about how he says it doesn't matter if your position is just. you have to to pick your decision has just. he understands israel is committing crimes in the west bank, but he is completely focused on the west. and the world does matter to him. it is interesting to see him come here and actually face a little bit of tough questioning and see him -- you can see the desperation on his face. i don't think this is helping netanyahu. ultimately, it does help the whot-wingers in his party have said, we don't need the peace process, it's over, it is failed. we don't even need to talk to the palestinians, let's annex 60% and give the

ware talking about non-violent peace efforts between palestinians and israelis.efore the break we asked for your thoughts. what are people saying? >> a lot of critcism. here is shareef. how can you expect honest dialogue when palestinians face obstacles just getting to the take. we don't kne and then tristen says dialogue normalizes injustice. there can't be any middle ground for dialogue while structures of injusticebejustice persist. >> lisa: how do you agree with this. i a i gre agree with them. >> non-violence resistance doesn't mean to be enacted to be passive to runaway. on the contrary. it means when you you are meetg the violent entity, which can be the settlers or the army, you confront them. you get bitten but you don't respond with violence. we know from our experience and from india and from south africa and even here from the martin luther king. it's not passiveness, it's on the contrary you have to be very brave in order to confront someone that bit you and not hit back. >> lisa: since the first inat that f indfadaand the berlin wall. things have re

or israeli arab conflict. and nobody talked about, you know, housing and all those semi boring stuff, you know, housing and standard of living and how expense difficult is to live in is rel and all those, all those issues that you don't want to talk about this on american television because this you have, your own. but i'm telling you, a whole generation felt mute, an needed a voice. so this is why i came into politics. and this is the things i wanted to express. >> rose: actually there are yearnings of that in american politics in some sense, there is talk that the middle has lost its power. and it's the extremes in a sense are dictating the politics of our time. >> there's a world phenomenon in which if you look at the last 20 years, when there is growth it moves to countries but this growth doesn't get to the people who are making it, which is the middle class. i mean i mean here they call it the 99% which is a good name, in israel they have a different name for it. but basically what people were saying, ok

do you have undate on talks between palestinians and the israelis?> reporter: we know there is still ongoing pretty high level peace talks. we were expecting there to be a headline this week at the general assembly. it didn't come in the end because they are locked into negotiation we are told. but the thing to remember is that president obama has put pressure on the israeli prime minister in two ways. first of that he has very definite foreign policy goals, one being iran, and the other being the israeli/palestinian conflict. he wants to sort those two things out if he possibly can before he leaves office. saying if you can sort those problems out you will get a firm foundation for peace going forward. and iran plays into so many of these things in the middle east where the u.s. is having difficulties, including the israelis and palestinians, because iran could use its influence with organizations like hamas, which is the fairly and freely elected guard, it can use its influence there to smooth negotiations there. >> john thanks so much for joining

falafel is an israeli food.been done for generations here. and here, you get falafel that's just been fried. you don't get it any other way. when i come to a place like that, i see there's a few left from the previous customer, i don't take that. i want them to fry them for me. that makes all the difference in the world. >> a whole different animal, isn't it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it? >> who made it first. the one thing that's very clear in this part of the world, palestine, lebanon, syria, it's been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other hand, you get jews from yemen coming here -- >> they say hey, my great uncle was in syria at the time. hey, i remember distinctly -- >> so there is actually no answer to it. but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there's an armenian quart

press is that there recent israeli supreme court decision ruling against petitioners calling for an israeli national identity in other words israel. world that has no is national identity instead identity is afforded according to your ethnicity dru's arab jewish and your rights and privileges are given to you based on your ethnicity and if you're jewish you have superior. you have superior citizenship privileges now since the foundation of the state of israel there has not been a single village town or city built for arab citizens of israel meanwhile in the negev desert right now where eighty thousand indigenous palestinian bedouins live in unrecognized villages where they're not allowed to hook up to the electricity grid even the electricity wires run over their villages they can't get any public services because they're not jews there is a plan called the proverb plan that will forcibly relocate forty thousand of those indigenous bedouins to state run indian reservations style towns which according to government linked website the or movement have been built to concentrate the bedouin pop

ihoisting the israeli flag is also another violation which is not acceptable, not in the arab or the islamic world. therefore, we urge that both the sides work towards paving the way for the negotiations. in addition to the statement made by certain israeli officials are undermining the peace process and the negotiation. we also discussed the economy, openness between the two sides and reiterated during the meeting that the initiative proposed by the saudi monarch in 2002 were clear cut. it includes and contains all the aspects necessary to establishing lasting peace, and the israeli-palestinian conflict. and as i said, my friend kerry has dealt with all the issues and thank you for being her heretoday. >> the first question will be from arshad mohamed of reuters. >> you repeatedly said that it was necessary to change president assad's calculation. when you and foreign minister lavrov announced your hopes to hold geneva 2 in may, the circumstances seemed somewhat better for the possibility of a peace conference. the government seemed, the syrian government seemed to be losing ground

first in washington let's go through the countries saudi arabia iraq egypt afghanistan pakistan the israelis the list can go on but they're not picking up the phone too often when washington is calling because no one's really listening anymore agree or disagree. oh i don't know about that i think you know and in your set up you mention the neo conservative plan for syria and a brick lall but if you look at what's been going on ever since the first hard core neoconservative doctrine for the region was laid down in the one nine hundred ninety six clean break plan you can kind of do a checklist for syria and what have we seen we've seen the syria accountability act of two thousand and three which severely limited u.s. diplomatic engagement with the country we've seen that syria. has not been allowed to engage in any sort of negotiations over the golan heights we've seen the. recommendation by the neoconservatives to netanyahu but implemented by bush to continually have harassments and open attacks on the regime we've seen the delegitimization of the country so you know there's been perhaps a se

>> this is from the israeli perspective.under no circumstances will israel allow iran to have a nuclear weapon. if the international community will not react, they will act alone. there were some words in washington that president obama might eventually settle for containing the program. netenyahu is saying no containment, and to do so, yes, we will give diplomacy a chance, but it is not open-ended, and iran must take specific steps to demonstrate it means what it says. dismantling the facilities, shipping the uranium to other countries. >> professor you mentioned washington, but what about iran? what would iran's reaction to netenyahu's speech be? >> of course they are not going to like it, but i think if i were iranian, i would not take it lightly. i do not believe the prime minister netenyahu or any prime minister in israel will have bluffed in this regard. and as you remember he went through the history where the jews have gone over in so many years, so the words in israel never again is very serious. they take it very s

it's not an israeli problem, it's not even a regional problem.is is something that the role of the united states is crucially important. and iran tried to pursuing nuclear weapons is also something the world cannot afford and i was glad to hear that president obama just said these this in the united nations that he continues in his efforts to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. so there the end the test is what's going to be the result of all these talks right now. hopefully the chemical weapons would be taken out of syria and iran would not have a nuclear weapon so this is something that helps everybody in the region. it's something that changed entirely the region. we need it, we hope that this is something that would happen. we cannot afford just talks for talks or trying to appease those that are going abuse power. and i hope -- and i know that this is especially not the intention of the united states and i hope that the outcome will be such that this horrific attacks in syria. >> rose: do you believe that -- let's stick with syria bef

the us iran talks to the israeli prime minister to washington. if indeed it carries on with its nuclear program. well with world headlines live from moscow with with me rule welcome to the program today. time has run out for u.s. lawmakers to agree on federal funding it means the government has now officially shut down the democratic led senate rejected the temporary bills by house republicans that would have delayed a obama's health care law as the price to continue funding obama won the shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people. finding out it won't exactly be a disaster. i'm better off just shut down federal law for a lot of federal air traffic controllers will remain working so will the majority of the department of homeland security everything from the u.s. coast guard to the transportation security agency will keep operating federal prisons will stay open the state department will keep processing passports but there may be delays social security and medicare payments would keep coming food stamp benefits will be availabl

on r t r g dot com many israelis have to. excuse excuses some techno problems now time out for some of the international news in brave the galleries of rome's iconic coliseum has been turned into a protest stage crowds have gathered inside and outside the ancient london to say no to the government's economic policies irani was organized by trade unions who are preparing for a mass trial strike against austerity measures planned for next week rose been tightening the branches screws to control these soaring public debt which has grown to one hundred thirty eight percent of the country's annual economic output. also workers led by democrat senator nancy pelosi hit the streets of washington to show their anger over the ongoing government shutdown they demanded this senate result the crisis by allowing a vote on a resolution to reopen the government the shutdown is now in its eleventh day there's less than a week left until it was supposed to fold with congress and able to agree about it . retired israeli army all has been killed