but the jerusalem post is on the line from tel aviv tonight. these are strong words strong choice of words well let you know which i guess going to offend egypt is not what he intended. certainly didn't intend to offend anybody but unfortunately we have seen over the past year the sinai peninsula becoming an area where global jihadi elements. as well as hamas in gaza all of these radical forces have been using the sinai peninsula as a base to store arms to launch attacks on israel we had a rocket attack on a lot earlier couple of weeks ago and all the evidence is mounting that unfortunately. at the moment is not under anybody's control not the best time in the coming war just twenty four hours after the business disagreement cutting the gas supplies to israel on sunday causing. your country to say the peace treaty between the two is now in danger what you know where is this all heading and is this the best time a to come out with a statement today do you think well actually the two issues are intrinsically linked and can't separate one from the

sort of first encourage their first discuss the story with oren first correspondent for the jerusalem post joining us on the line live from tel aviv or and both. trying to downplay the situation saying this dispute is purely commercial is there really nothing to worry about here. well you know it's very interesting there's been a very rare sort of note of harmony between cairo in jerusalem on this on this matter the relations between the two countries have been very strained for the past fourteen months since president hosni mubarak's ouster but today both governments are saying that this is purely a business dispute this is not a political dispute. even though the governments are saying that i think in both countries more independent independent media bloggers etc are more suspicious of that claim they think this is this really is more of a political sort of gesture on your car says it is ready to negotiate a new contract with israel but it's going to cost israel dear if you look at those figures it supply already pulls forty percent of its natural gas that is lower the market rates it ha

for the jerusalem post, a major israeli daily, the poem is not front-page news, but misleading. >> this information and disinformation, if israel had nuclear arms, and we have not used them, i do not think we would upset anyone. >> he was seeking to provoke with his poem "what must be said." must be no doubt he has succeeded. >> it is a permanent ongoing debate in germany. we had a few newspaper articles. it did not make the headlines. he is seen in israel as very critical because of his past. he would not have the moral or historic rights to comment on politics. on the other hand, it is said it is rather pathetic or anti- semitic what he wrote. there is an ongoing debate about iran and what the consequences are. it does not add anything new to the debate over here. >> when you travel to berlin, one of the things that stands out immediately are the towers. >> all those visits to what was once a symbol of communist east berlin have taken a toll on the structure. it has just reopened after a deep facelift. >> one of berlin's iconic landmark. it was completed in 1969 to show the world its

. >> just for the record, the quote was in the jerusalem post from the foreign minister on egypt. and obviously, it is an ongoing debate what is really going on between these two countries right now but that moment when he said this is the middle east and gestured to north africa and put his thumb on israel, such an interesting moment, it makes an interesting point. and then, well, someone in our bureau here in jerusalem said, wait a minute, you have to look at this i said who is that? well, it was prime minister netanyahu, who, at the time deputy foreign minister, back in, was the date, january 18, 1991. take a look. >> this is the arab world. and i'm just gonna put my hands on it for the benefit of the viewers. i have a size ten shoe, american size ten shoe. i could walk on this map on the arab world. here's israel. i cover it with my thumb. >> i mean, you got to say, some things never seem to change in this part of the world. there's always worth putting a little bit of humor when talking about very serious subjects. one thing we talked about very serious is well what does bebe

good to see you. >> joining me now now a columnist where with the jerusalem post, fran townsend, cnnutor around national security expert and john of a lochblt let me start on this final issue, the issues in the book were very interesting, peter bynart's book, but the increasing lack of connection american jews seem to feel for israel by the polls, younger american jewsome that a real issue for this country? >> we have to separate between what the actual average american jew thinks what happened peter bynart thinks. he purport there is to speak on behalf of a large audience. that is yet to be proven stat test day. is one thing. secondly, concerning the substance of his argument, one of them we all share, we are all very disenchanted with the fact that power -- that life necessitates power. we are sitting here just opposite the place where the hebrew prove nets ancient times first called on humanity to beat swords into plow shares and has inspired jewish history for better and forworse but it has also disempowered jews along for generations with an exorbitant cost and the need for the

including the lavish easter ceremonies held it also goes into detail the holy father from supply in jerusalem post not to russia but i mean centuries old tradition. now the man accused in the case seen by many as a fake miscarriage of u.s. justice talks exclusively to our team which i love the form of journalists and seven life sentence behind bars gives us his first interview after being taken off death row. a revolutionary journalist an activist an honorary award holding citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france his case is said to be one of the most abated in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the eighty's and near would your model has spent almost three decades on death row in january he was taken off death row and is now serving life behind bars without parole for the first time since his transfer and he's speaking exclusively with our teeth from jail. thank you so much for speaking with us today my first question to you is after almost thirty years on death row and now serving a life sentence without parole if you weren't behind bars right

north africa and in tel aviv we go to on kesler he is middle east affairs correspondent for the jerusalem post all right folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it and the bill in london if i go to you first here what do you make of the muslim brotherhood's decision to run a candidate only a week ago two weeks ago they in fact equally denied if they were going to do it now they are we see the movement slightly fractured it's a big gamble and if they win they have all power. well absolutely it certainly is a dramatic shift from the muslim brotherhood. probably policy not to field a candidate in the presidential race precisely because the accusations directed at the muslim brotherhood are already wielding too much power effectively are not clear on egyptian state affairs following their overwhelming victory in the parliament but also because they are also in charge overwhelmingly in drafting egypt's new constitution and i think their decision before not to send a candidate for the presidential race was to try and assuage the fears that they were

but the there was a report this week in the jerusalem post that said that will confrontation might actually be delayed because the sanctions are being deemed effective. whafl is your response to that? >> well, it kind of depends on who you think is going to initiate the strike. i think matt and i would probably both agree that the prospect of a near term u.s. strike on iran is probably relatively low. the prospect of israel is greater. israel will be looking at the talks and if the talks go bad, that that could add to israel's already high incentives to take action into their own hands and strike the program. and basically, i think israel's red lines wherever they are certainly to the left of where u.s. red lines are and they are itchyer on the trigger finger than we are. >> dr. kroenig. >> i think i would agree with everything you just said. you said that the sanctions are judged to be effective. and so it depends on what you mean by effective. the sanctions are certainly having an effect, just not the effect we want. they're hurting the iranian economy. the currency has collapsed. we've s

makovsky was an award-winning journalist based in israel where he covered the peace process for the jerusalem post and "u.s. news & world report". danielle pletka, third from my left, is vice president for foreign and defense the policy studies at the american enterprise institute. before joining the institute, she served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for near east and south asia on the senate foreign relations committee. she writes frequently on national security matters with a focus on domestic politics in the middle east and south asia, u.s. national security and terrorism and weapons proliferation. adl first began working with ms. pletka when she worked for the late senator helms crafting important counterterrorism legislation at a time when the threat of terrorism against americans was seen as remote the all but a few courageous legislators. and we're also gratified to have with us washington bureau chief of the jewish telegraphic agency. ron kampeas covers these issues day in and day out. his blog, capital j, is a must-read for beltway insiders following politics and is

coincided with what was dubbed the global march to jerusalem and its all some eighty two countries participating the attention was focused on numerous posting in cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and the israeli borders along the israel jordanian border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence even certain highlighted the palestinian struggle among the groups there was a jewish group calling itself jews united against zionism and they were raiding palestinian flags and chanting anti israeli slogans at the columbia chip point which is the main checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah it was violence starting from as early as new day friday here the israeli police were using rubber bullets and tear gas to push back protesters who were burning tires and also throwing stones eppy israeli border police. hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result of the latest throes of violence we've been libya's former rebels and tribesmen battle it out for power but nations governments now brokered the cease fire but in reality there's little power over the vast number of armed groups

jerusalem, thank you. according to the washington post, white house officials don't think iran has bell a nuclear bomb and if tehran decided to build one, the u.s. would know in time to consider its options. this ams can just ahead of talks between iran and six world leader this is week. >> between economic sanctions and a new round of talk, pressure is building on iran to dismantle its nuclear program, but believe it enough? iran has insisted it is pursuing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, but this mae come down to the extent that they are enriching uranium. the u.s. and five other nations are trying to convince iran to give up any development of weapons-grade uranium. but iran may be trying to buy some time. >> if i were in iran's shoe, i would make some minimal or apparent concession, keep the discussions going, offer to let the international atomic energy agency, for example, come back into the facility. but string things out as long as i could. this is what iran has done so successfully, in the past. >> at the same time, according to the washington post, the white house is trying to convince

jerusalem. give the intelligence agency there the power to keep tabs on everybody doing just about everything tracking phone calls and text messages. emails and facebook postsor on the internet. under a proposed law, investigators would not need a warrant to get their hands on phone and internet records showing who folks are contacting and for how long. but agents would still need permission before they could actually listen in on phone calls and read emails. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt is here with details on this. from a country where there is very little privacy yet. the lawmakers say they are really just trying to keep up with the technology. >> yeah. their claims, shep, is that they already have similar laws to this regarding tracking cell phone calls. what they want to do is expand that to take into account the way that people comawn indicate with new technology in the modern world. so essentially what the government is saying they want to know every single place any individual goes online any person that any individual communicates. home office said to us it is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communicatio