one day in the city of jerusalem, in the new city of jerusalem late entered in a very small and simplehome, where a woman was baking some bread, some-- she was the mama of israel. it was on the shabbat the. golda meir was the prime minister of israel at that time but there were no signs, almost no policeman outside, and we had visited her to ask where about one of the episodes that we wanted to tell in our book, old jerusalem which was such a key episode in the story of the birth of israel. in november, 1947, in the secret headquarters of televisa, there had been a meeting. the meeting was of ben gurion with a few aides and cool the was one of those aides. and ben gurion had realized that unless the jewish community of palestine was able to buy the arms and ammunitions that they would need for the war which was sure was going to break out on the 15th of may, 1948 when the state of israel would come to life, unless they were able to do that, they would be submerged by five arab armies that would immediately attacked jerusalem and the rest of palestine and the rest of the state of israel

and when it comes to jerusalem as the secretary very correctly pointed out, jerusalem is potentially a flash point. it is so sensitive to all the followers of the three religions, but most importantly, actions on the ground in jerusalem can turn into antagonizing issues to the three religions. it is important to try and avoid unilateral action in jerusalem. everybody is in agreement that jerusalem is to be discussed in the final stages of negotiations . there is a growing sense of surg against si to move forward -- urgency to move forward in the talks that will correct an enabling environment that will allow us to address other regional and global challenges before us today. absent a successful resolution of the conflict, they will splote in the middle east and worldwide. and i refer to the global war on terror. as i told madam secretary, under king abdullah ii, jordan is committed to working hand in hand and ready to assist the united states in its efforts to achieve peace, which is not only in the national interests of the palestinians but also of the united states of america. we w

it is important to try and avoid unilateral action in jerusalem. everybody is in agreement that jerusalem is to be discussed in final stages negotiations as occupied arab territory. there is a sense of urgency to move forward and to achieve tangible progress that will allow us to address and more adequately other global challenges before us today. we will witness further result instability. i refer to what i said earlier about the global war on terror. as i said, jordan is fully committed to working hand in hand with our partners and ready to assist the united states to achieve peace which is not only in the interest of the palestinians and the arabs, but also the united states of america. we will do all we can to ensure the success of this endeavor. thank you so much, madame secretary. i look forward to continuing our could work together. -- i look forward to continuing our good work together. >> a question of the terror report the president got yesterday. it singles out the piece that issue. the fact that the suspect did not have a visa -- it sin

resolving jerusalem result settlement. think we need to lift our sights and instead of being looking down at the trees, we need to look at the forests. where are we headed to get there? we know what a final resolution will have to include. borders. security. jerusalem. refugees. water. we know what the elements of this two-stage solution must include. i think senator mitchell was being very prudent and saying these are very hard issues. they require a lot of back and forth between the parties, guarantees, and assistance from the rest of us who are trying to move this forward. it might take as much as the time he mentioned. obviously, we hope to be moving much more expeditiously. first, we have to get a reading -- but negotiations relaunch. at the end of the day, there are two parties have to make it happen. our goal is to persuade the two parties to get into this very in-depth negotiations on all of these issues as soon as possible. >> there are [unintelligible] can you shed some light of bell him being -- like about him b

it was a sad but liquid affair that we had in jerusalem. and we parted shortly after that there was the solution to the problem which was an invasion of gaza, which lasted as you all remember maybe 24 hours. and that initiative turned on itself and made the relations even worse. then when there was a resumption of the idea about the quartet, is a long story, but basically tony blair ticket nine and he has had a limited mandate ever sense. so i would say that the quartet had little or no act diggity other than economic. and that the weight is now clearly as it was with secretary rice and her colleagues very much a u.s. driven activity. because the concession to the quartet was a concession, in my judgment, and was never really real. and if you can wait until june or july when my book comes out, it will give you chapter and verse in relation. i hope you'll all buy a copy because it's such an exciting story. >> ralph krause, research chemist. while the nigerian who was apprehended in detroit did not come from a deprived background, i wondered

so the people on the ground in jerusalem were making decisions stucco building the state of israel. consequently they had a chance of surviving in jewish palestine. >> host: when we use the term the zionist any particular the bears that we know of two were involved in advocating? >> guest: the entire jewish agency. of the black and white fabric just as i said the american jewish community was divided. the zionist committee was also not a monolithic. there was a death time labor party and everybody in israel called -- the chief engineer of this agreement and he was murdered for it on the beach in tel aviv at the location where the hilton now stands it tel aviv. there was no help 10 there at that time. he was killed presumably by the followers of the dissident zionist faction and that was led by a group really associated with the revisionist. the term repression a step that time it we have a new idea for the zionist and these were the for 18 one's. they said we want to fight hitler and not have a deal with him and consequently as the jewish community was torn apart and some birdieing

time the transfer agreement came to the four, the access point* zionist movement transferred to jerusalems of the people on the ground for making decisions and they were not just taking anyone on a first-come first-served basis they were building the state of israel. consequently they took the people who had a chance of surviving in the jewish palestine. not just anyone. >> host: when we say the zionist it is so beaters but any particular the years that we know of who were involved in advocating for this? >> yes. the entire jewish agency we are talking about another great, not black and white fabric. the jewish community was divided between the two different blocks. resigned as community was also not monolithic. it was called at that time the labor party. anybody who has been to israel has been down the street of laws a row and he was the chief engineer of that agreement. and he was murdered for it on the beach of tel aviv at the location where the hilton and now stands. right there was no help and at that time and he was killed presumably by the followers of the dissident scientist factio

he was born in jerusalem and began his academic career in the department of philosophy at the hebrew university. since then he has been a visiting scholar at harvard, princeton and oxford and currently he is the george f. kennan professor at the institute of advanced study in princeton. as the author of several books, maybe some of you have read, the ethics of memory, the decent society, or occidentalism and it's on a range of political and societital issues and making a significant contribution to the normative debate on society. so he it is not surprising that he is one of the founders of peace now the israeli peace movement that has called for the recognition of the rights of palestinians to self-determination in their own state alongside israel. at this time i ask that you please join me in giving a very warm welcome to a very special guest, professor avishai margalit. we're very happy to have you here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much for your generous introduction. on september 29th, 1938, hitler, mussolini and others met in munich and reached a agreement to transfer

that you'll do a deal on jerusalem.the quicker that you can get there, in the end that's going to be the resolution of the problem. and the isralies will insist on having a united jerusalem. and they'll back down from that. they'll have to. and what is critical is that, in my judgment, that the united states at some point gives this the priority to insist on it. because i don't think there's much time. and i think if it is not resolved, then the issue will become far less important that he will then have an issue of a single israeli state for years with a large and growing palestinian involvement ultimately, possibly a majority , with the jewish settlers becoming -- or the jewish and israeli inhabitants being more and more influenced by a fast-growing religious group which is destabilizing israeli society. and i think -- i haven't spoken to bb about it, but i think that the leadership in israel must recognize that the next year or two is a time when you have to do a deal. i think it ought changes after that. i think at

in sum, he flees to jerusalem. in some he wanders the streets weeping and crying, absalom, and sunday vanishes into the hills that in some he falls in love with a group of highwayman. in some he falls in love but his love is unrequited. and some he survives and gets married and realizes too late that he has married the wrong woman. he is a glutton and grows fat and tells his story but no one believes it's an. in some he gives his destiny for a happy life of not worrying about the jews. david alroy became a fantastic figure in the imagination of his people. dozens of sorts have been written, but the most terrific was recorded by benjamin tudo, a jewish merchant who kept a diary during his travels in the east that he sometimes called the jewish marco polo. he was in kurdistan soon after the disappearance of transit and heard the story everywhere. and the most frequent telling, alroy at the height of his fame is summoned to damascus. he has made to stand, through half closed eyes he was asked are you the king of the j

now more on that story from jerusalem. >> reporter: hi. bombshell coming from a u.s.fficial regarding middle east peace. middle east envoy george mitchell says among the legal options the u.s. has in forcing israel to return to peace talks is withholding aid to the jewish state and freezing loan guarantees. those comments were made during an interview. while mitchell did not say the u.s. is threatening to use that course, he did say it was an option. it's rare that a u.s. administration official would speak publicly about withholding aid. the last time the u.s. threatened to freeze loan guarantees was during president bush senior's administration. mitchell did say he believed progress on talks was being made. however, on the palestinian side, officials say they reject the u.s. call for new middle east peace talks until there is a complete freeze on settlement construction, including in jerusalem. meanwhile, the gaza strip spokesman for the militant group jihad claims israel wants another war. the group says they're prepared to face any attack. those comments come as o

that you'll do a deal on jerusalem.and the quicker that you can get there in the end that's going to be the resolution of the problem. and the israeli will insist on having a united jerusalem and they'll back down from that. they'll have to. and what is critical is that, in my judgment, that the united states at some point gives this the priority to insist on it because i don't think there's much time. i think if it is not resolved, then the issue will become far less important. that you will then have an issue of a single israeli state for years with a largeeé and growi palestinian involvement ultimately possibly a majority with the jewish settlers becoming -- or the jewish and the israeli inhas beenants -- people in the israeli society. and i think -- i haven't spoken to them about it but i think the leadership in israel must recognize that the next year or two is the time when you have to do a deal.;,2÷ i think it all changes after that. i think at the moment you could get arab support for a deal. who knows what wil

joining us now from jerusalem is aaron cline of world net daily. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> now, listen, i have to ask you in leading a little about the airport there, you read that there are six different layers of security screening and profiling and things that happened to people before they ever can get close to getting on a plane there. tell us a little about that and why it's working so well. >> indeed, and there's a lot that the united states really needs to learn from israeli security at bengorian airport. when you go through, you mentioned six layers of security. a main level when you're driving through you have to pass a check point where you have soldiers armed with m-16's and they begin already to ask questions about where you're going, where you come from. if they notice anything in particular that's unusual or if you fit a certain profile they're going to ask you more questions. then you get past that level and as you're walking into the airport you're still being questioned by agents. then you get in line and again question

reasonen ninen is live in jerusalem. to see you, so, senator mitchell is he coming over with some kind after threat? what do we know? >> well, it's not really meant to have been taken that way, but it's kind of coming off that way. he did an interview with charlie rose and one of the things he said was that one of the options according to u.s. law, withholding aid from israel and he didn't say that was a plan, that the u.s. administration is planning on doing, he did not say that, but at some corners here it's loosely taken as a veiled threat that that may be one of the possibilities he'll be discussing with officials here. he comes to the region tomorrow and when mitchell arrives he's trying to, as you mentioned, push forward peace talks. palestinians says until settlements are completely frozen including in jerusalem they're not coming back to the table. >> rick: we hear back in the states, the tensions are beginning to escalate again between israel and gaza. one side apparently saying that perhaps a war is going to br

crles sennott, longtimforeign correspondent for th"boston gle," was bureau chief in both jerusalem anlondon and has morehan 25 years of experience covering the world. 's now the exutive editor of a new venture, an entirely web-bed serve devoted exclusively to glob news. it's called globa post. so welme to you both. >> thank it's nice to see you, frank. >> all right, wenow what nbc is, let's let charles tell us: what is global post? >> wel global post is a new web site. it's free. it's called a stination site. so you can go to globalpost.com atime and draw on e stories that our correspondents, 65orrespondents in 50 countries, are coveringvery day. we saw a emendous portunity in this sort of meltdown of traditional medi that's happening ght now. newspapers and netwos are struggling, and one of the things they've been cutting is their international ne. and we see opportunitthere because we think, as was poied out by some of the pple who were inteiewed in the introduction, everything is glob. if we want to understand thcollapse of the global economy, if we wa to undstand terrorism, if we want t

it was taken in jerusalem in 1928.at the time when he had just begun working for the press company. >> some of the photos we are showing are from your book. is this the first time people have seen them? >> in some cases, yes. in other cases, no. in the arthur koestler archive, there are dozens and dozens of photographs. it was very difficult to make a selection. i would have liked to have printed more. >> go back to palestine. >> he was a very young journalist in palestine, but what he described about russia, britain and france and america and, he wrote about the saudi arabians that he called bolsheviks. he'd trained himself as a journalist but he tired of the zionism. he moved to paris, briefly and then to berlin. he became a journalist with the main group of newspapers. because of his interest in science, he quickly got promoted to science editor. people forgot this when he turned to writing about science later in life that he had this intense experience for two or three years in germany. >> by the way, he wrote how

it was taken in jerusalem in 1928. at the time when he had just begun working for the press company. >> some of the photos we are showing are from your book. is this the first time people have seen them? >> in some cases, yes. in other cases, no. in the arthur koestler archive, at edinburgh which has a huge collection of his papers, there are dozens and dozens of photographs. it was very difficult to make a selection. i would have liked to have printed more. >> the university of edinburgh. >> yes. >> go back to palestine. >> he was a very young journalist in palestine, but what he described about russia, the competition between russia and britain and france and america and, he wrote about the saudi arabians that he called bolsheviks. they have been astoundingly modern ring going -- to them, i was astounded, going back. he'd trained himself as a journalist but he tired of the zionism. tired of palestine, which was still under the british -- the mandate is what it was called at the end of world war i. he moved to paris,

reena ninan has more from jerusalem. >> hi, julie. recent escalation comes in the one-year anniversary of the war in gaza beginning last year on december 27. the three-week war left 1400 people dead. last night, israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed two smuggling tunnels under gaza's border with israel. witnesses in gaza says israel struck several targets. according to medical sources, four people were wounded. the attack comes after two rockets were fired by militants in southern israel on thursday. the israel gaza border had been relatively quiet since last year's gaza war launched to end the rocket fire from the gaza strip. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel would respond to every rocket fired by gaza militants. despite the violence, advanced talks are continuing over the release of kidnapped israeli soldier who has been in hamas custody since 2006. hamas officials are expected to give their reply to the deal any day now. the german mediator returns to the region tomorrow. >> julie: thank you. election delays wi

so after written on jerusalem -- and i could speak all night about our meeting with david where he was paying with his food by trimming the animals every week. we spent four years in that part of the world which is beautiful but torn and i am told every day that peace is probably further than it has ever been. and then we packed for the east, for india because we wanted to write the great epic of the birth of one-fifth of humanity to independence, the birth of india to liberty, the birth of pakistan to liberty and the end of the british march. it was in 1947 this event took place and for me it was a fantastic new research on the footsteps of a man i really little half naked man called gandhi who all his life had rallied his people without ever shooting one gone without exploding one bomb but always talking about love, about non-violence. it was an absolutely fantastic research walking in his footsteps to reconstruct the incredible things he had organized to bring the indian people to liberty like the days of the past where he would tell the people of india, more than 5 million people d

that this airstrike and the recent announcement of the construction of new neighborhood in east jerusalem will somehow limit your efforts to relaunch negotiations? >> as the secretary talked about in your media at daily short time ago we obviously are always concerned about the dynamic on the ground in the region, and the impact that that can have that any particular time on our efforts to get in negotiations started and move aggressively towards peace in the middle east, so yes absolutely. any violence in the region has potential as it has in the past due debris of the process. that is why george mitchell is going out first to consult in europe but then in the region and why we have the kinds of meetings here at the state department we have today, to try to assess where the parties are, refine our ideas, evaluate steps that we can take and others can take to move the parties to formal negotiations. that remains our core objectives. >> staying on the middle east, first question, is some sort of reunification between fata and hamas necessary for the peace process to go forward? >> i think

and king then starts preaching and there was another child on the dusty road in jerusalem and he tells the story of jesus on passover and he got caught up in a quarrel with the elders in the temple. he got caught up and these children are of about their parents' business. king had to be pushed. at a certain point he gave his life to the movement. but it starts in a kind of interesting human almost novelistic way. he did not set out to do this exactly. >> [inaudible] -- same lines about slavery were about, you know, getting there before jefferson and that kind of thing? >> no. his father was a whooper. look-see of franklin, i mean aretha franklin's father, short notice, one of the great preachers of the 20th century, in king's preacher and he had a lot of great people who trained him. very sophisticated preachers who were blending refinement and passion so if you look at the cultural leader produced, king was tutored like all other becoming a surgeon or a mechanic or painter he went through his tutorial not just with a pulpit but he had a kind of deepening of his capital by studying ben

trace: live in jerusalem. thank you.hat homicide bomber that killed seven cia agents in afghanistan was from jordan. now hillary clinton is meeting with jordan's foreign minister. let's get molly henneberg live at the state department. >> both countries say they are committed to fighting terror wherever it is and helping the afghan people combat terror in the country. new information just out about the christmas dave thwarted bomb attempt. it turns out his name was misspelled in the initial state department report to try to find that if he had a visa. it's still not clear that anybody went back and checked to see this guy that was just coming on their radar screen, whether or not he had a visa. the department said it did not assess the risk assessments. they're looking into how this could have happened in the weeks leading up to that christmas day plot. trace: live at the state department. that is brand-new information at the bottom of the hour. >> while passion and politics can obscure the hard work before us, let's be

what a mistake. 1997, september 4, the bombing on a street in jerusalem.hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. there are so many others. but november 12, two gunmen shut to death two u.s. auditors and their pakistani driver as they drove from the hotel. two groups claimed two groups claimed responsibility. islamic council and islamic revolutionary council also known as the emerald action committee. august 7, 1998, car bomb exploded at the rear entrance of the u.s. embassy in nairobi and killed 12 u.s. citizens and injured 5,000. they claimed responsibility part of al qaeda. 2000, october 12, while they cam pained for president in 2000 was going on, a suicide squad rammed the war ship uss cole with an explosive laden both killing 13 sailors and injuring 33. that was believed to have been caused by osama bin laden's al qaeda organization. and we still didn't recognize there was a war going on, not until september 11, 2001 when people know what happened. finally we got the picture. finally we realized this war has been going on for -- since 1979 and it'

i read a story in "the jerusalem post" about life in israel a year after the operation. before the war, israelis were enduring relentless rocket and mortar attacks in gaza. terrorists launched 12,000 rockets and mortars in gaza at israelis and over the course of eight years, 12,000 attacks. these rockets were not aimed at military targets but the goal was to kill civilians and instill a sense of fear. thousands of yalies living within range had their whole life changed, locating the nearest shelter became second nature to them. israelis living in a town have just 15 seconds from the town a warning is sounded from missle attacks. young children did not know that this way of life was not normal. when it visited israel last year, i had the opportunity to meet several families and they told me stories about living under the constant barrage of terrorist activity and raising a family under these conditions. yet, their attitude was, this is our home, this is our community and we are going to stay and surmount this adversity. the families under attack face difficult circumstanc

three days ago, i said it down in jerusalem.he first thing he said to me was, i know you are here with a heavy heart. please note that i will -- that our hands are in the air. i expect that the same thing is happening in turkey and other areas where there is extraordinary expertise that is moving in the direction of helping people. thank you very much. thank you for all of the efforts to you and your staff have performed. >> we have been joined now that our witness who is our leader. he will now come forward. thank you again for your leadership. >> thank you. i know that you have gone through the latest mission -- legislation. there'll be other legislative initiatives. i just want to say that speaker pelosi has asked me to coordinate the activities so that we can fund everything from the various elements. that is so we might have a coordinated effort in this regard. we did it with katrina. i look forward to us really doing what is necessary to leave the various issues there. i have heard from a lot to be about whether or not we

if we can prevail upon israel to make jerusalem a free city, the christians, the jews, and the muslims, they will all have a stake there. that would be a conciliatory gesture to the terrorists. and it would not cost a lot of money except in israel with the right-wing politics. host: the caller is touching on foreign policy. and the war. the new york times goes a little bit deeper into the story. they are talking about the expanded role with the cia operatives, in the remote bases in afghanistan. they say this is an example of the transformation in recent years into a paramilitary organization -- we go to michigan for the next phone call. u.s. policy, the top issues. the next caller is kelly on the democrat line. caller: happy new year. host: what would you like to see washington get done? caller: i would like to see some kind of jobs program. this was pretty much a dream. the town that i live in, so many manufacturers have this done overseas. so many people in this town are not working. that is on the minds of many people. a man from indianapolis -- he is not working. this is very diff

dialogue and the dialogue is a very important that there is no games in this dialogues because we know jerusalemart, we know the settlements there is a problem we know the water, we know peace land for peace, you know, that's the main elements which all the international arena and all the countries agree on it in the process. so i hope both sides realize they have to work together. all of us we are ready to help, all of us rely on the united states' help and involving in this process. i think that's a very important matter for the region. the other problem if we are talking about iran, we hope that this problem could be solved through diplomatic means. we wish stability in the region and the stability will not come unless we realize that we have to comply with the international law and comply also in how to solve the problem by dialogue. thank you very much madam secretary. >> thank you so much. >> happy new year, madam secretary, your excellency. >> thank you. >> on yemen, madam secretary what you can say about the latest you can say about the terror threat to the u.s. embassy? and given the lo

three days ago, i sat down with benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem. the first thing he said to me was congressman, i know you are here with a heavy heart. please note that our planes are in the air. the next morning, his foreign minister took me to see their situation room, and i expect that the same thing is happening in turkey and other areas where there is extraordinary expertise that is moving in the direction of helping the people. thank you very much, madame chair, and all my colleagues for the efforts that you and your staff have put forward on behalf of the people of haiti. >> we have been joined now by our whip, mr. cliburn, who is our leader on haiti from the leadership team, and he will now come forward. thank you again for your leadership. >> let me thank my colleagues. i know you have gone over the legislation that we are moving with, and there will be other legislative initiatives. i just want to say that speaker pelosi has asked me to coordinate the activities so that we can funnel everything from the various elements within our caucus

it countries deserve to exist we would be resurrecting the soviet union, the latin kingdom of jerusalemd every other country that has gone down the tubes. every country has a right to defend itself but no country has the right to exist. >> host: michael scheuer, your folks want to read your posting is an editorial, as? >> guest: we are just about to start a website called on the intervention.com which will be available in the next month or so. >> host: we appreciate you joining us this morning. >> guest: thank you, sir,. up next a senate hearing from last summer on high-speed rail travel. the heads of the federal road administration in amtrak were among the witnesses along with federal regulators and high-speed rail advocates. this is about an hour 45 minutes. >> [inaudible conversations] >> we could do several things here parent often add events. with german to be full. they just invite members of the audience to come up and make it look like it is a big panel appear. so you've got senator one and myself and senator lautenberg on the way and that's all you really need it but i don't wa

he graduated from princeton in 1991 with honors and also studied in jerusalem and the university of judaism now known as the american jewish university which is located in my district in los angeles. rabbi steinlauf is joined by his wife and his children, his parents, some of his extended family and a proud delegation of adas israel. thank you, rabbi steinlauf, for your inspirational words. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to 15 additional one minutes on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. baca: madam speaker, the house passed the wall street consumer protection act. it will oversee wall street. it will help ensure taxpayers are never again on the hook for wall street's riskiest decisions. it will protect retirement savings, college savings, financial futures from unnecessary risks by speculators. it will protect consumers from predatory lending and industry gimmicks and inject transparency and accountability into the financial system.

dialogue is a very important -- that there are no gains in this dialogue because we know that jerusalem is a very important part. winner of the settlement, there is a problem. and -- we know the settlement, there is a problem. these are the elements in which all of the countries agree in the process. i hope both sides realize they have to work together. all of us, we are ready to help. all of us rely on the united states help and involvement in this process. i think that is a very important matter for the region. the other program, if we are talking about iran, we are robbing -- we hope that iran can be solved through diplomatic means. and we hope for stability and we know that it will not come unless iraq complies with international law and also complies in how to solve the problem with the dialogue. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> happy new year, madam secretary, your excellency. on yemen, madam secretary, what is the latest you can say about the tariff threat to the u.s. embassy? and given the -- the terrorist threat to the u.s. embassy? and given the long standing cond

and then there was the slaughter of israeli teenagers in a pizza parlor in jerusalem in 2002. radical islam kills people they hate. they kill them in the name of religion. people of different religion like jews, christians, and even moderate muslims. the modern state of israel was founded in the wake of the holocaust. after six million jewish people were murdered by the nazis. and the re-establishment of israel reflects the best conscience of a civilized world. and israel has the absolute right to exist. just as other nations do. they have the absolute moral right to defend itself against those who want to eliminate her. israel is our partner and ally in this fight against terrorists. terrorists who deliberately target civilians, innocent women and children are considered military combatants to terrorists. jihadists use women as hostages and hide behind their skirt for their cowardly cover. some in history is in store here. back in 1967 israel was forced into a war by arab nations. presidents in aar of egypt threatened to quote, drive israel into the sea. the conflict is now c