, ferdinand wasn't jewish and the czar wasn't jewish.eless, as time goes on he began to argue the jews stood behind all of these people an idea very much buried in the protocols of the elders of zion and as we move down, we see the great fear connected to the red scare of that time and what are they really worried about? and here of course, it was easier to give details. what are they really worried about? >> that the jews are communists and the communists are going to overthrow america. >> good. exactly. the fear of bolshevism as he puts it. the communists have taken over in russia. now, were there jewish communists? no question about it. undoubtedly trotzski was very famous. lenin had significant jewish roots as the new book shows. but that of course didn't mean that all jews were communists. the fact that certain number of communists were jews doesn't mean that all jews are communists. nevertheless, from the perspective of readers of the deerborn independent, here was another problem that they could blame on jews. and then we move to

what atract you to the jewish music festival here. >> i grew up playing folk music. my father loved european music and he was part of a band that started in the mid 70s called -- and he was in the 19 sop and i turned out to be i guess about 15 years later i was in the band as a clarinet playerand bazoo. it has heart. melodies that somehow we main in the back f your head. some of the ribbons are exciting. tenaltie se. mi the record norsecond and major third. it is exciting stuff. it is very familiar at the same time. for us we had a family band. we played together. we played a ton of tunes that had just been transcribed by a guy named david who went to east europefind he has tunes. i department note it at the time but it was a new happen hadding at that time. for me growing up as a kid, i liked the music i played it. semiprofessional l and as a hobby. >> we will take a quick break and come back and continue our conversation about the jewish music festival. festival. ♪ [ music ] ♪ . >> what beautiful music. welcome become to. what did we just hear as we came back. >> t

he was born of a jewish mother in galilee, a jewish part of the world. all of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples-- all of them were jews. he regularly worshipped in jewish communal worship-- what we call synagogues. he preached from jewish text, from the bible. he celebrated jewish festivals. he was born, lived, died, taught as a jew. nowadays, there are temples and synagogues everywhere you go. there is not a jewish community in the world that doesn't have a synagogue, and many of them are called temples. in this period, however, we should always remember that there is only one temple, and that's the one temple in jerusalem. ( people conversing in background ) >> narrator: for jews living in the time of jesus, the temple in jerusalem was the center of their religious life. >> the jewish historian josephus has a very memorable line. he says, "one temple for the one god." the jews saw themselves as a unique people with one god, one god alone, and this one god of this one special people had one temple. and that's a very powerful idea, reflectin

it's not a jewish question. it's a non-jewish question.y ford did a great deal to elevate the idea that there was a jewish question all over the world and in america. and that was really not so much a question as a problem. and that needed to be on the agenda of the american people. what else can we see in this? >> what exactly is the jewish question? >> what do you think he thought was the jewish question? and think back to the protocols of the elders of zion. does anybody have a sense, what he thought the problem was? take a look here. a very important sentence in his preface. the international jew and his family, the conscious enemies -- conscious -- enemies of anglo-saxon civilization. the jewish problem as he saw it was really the rising number of jews -- why does the number keep rising? the 1920's, before immigration restrictions. so, you still had hundreds of thousands of jews coming into the country, and from his perspective, and indeed from the perspective of many who viewed america in racial terms, the anglo-saxons were under att

it's not a jewish question. it's a non-jewish question. a great deal to elevate the idea that there was a jewish question all over the world and in america. and that was really not so much a question as a problem. and that needed to be on the agenda of the american people. what else can we see in this? >> what exactly is the jewish question? >> what do you think he thought was the jewish question? 88"úñ 00:36:58 ? unidentified speaker and think back to the protocols of the elders of zion. does anybody have a sense, what he thought the problem was? take a look here. a very important sentence in his preface. the international jew and his family, the conscious enemies -- conscious -- enemies of anglo-saxon civilization. the jewish problem as he saw it was really the rising number of jews -- why does the number keep rising? yes. no.;.f the 1920's, before immigration restrictions. so, you still had hundreds of thousands of jews coming into the country, and from his perspective, and indeed from the perspective of many who viewed america in racia

, ferdinand wasn't jewish and the czar wasn't jewish.etheless, as time goes on he began to argue the jews stood behind all of these people an idea very much buried in the protocols of the elders of zion and as we move down, we see the great fear connected to the red scare of that time and what are they really worried about? and here of course, it was easier to give details. what are they really worried about? >> that the jews are communists and the communists are going to overthrow america. >> good. exactly. the fear of bolshevism as he puts it. the communists have taken over in russia. now, were there jewish communists? no question about it. undoubtedly trotzski was very famous. lenin had significant jewish roots as the new book shows. but that of course didn't mean that all jews were communists. the fact that certain number of communists were jews doesn't mean that all jews are communists. nevertheless, from the perspective of readers of the deerborn independent, here was another problem that they could blame on jews. and then we move

one is that this is a jewish group.you want to call them "christians," they're jewish- christians. they're one group within judaism. the second conclusion is that they are being more and more marginalized. that is, their appeal to lead all of judaism is becoming less and less likely. they're becoming smaller and smaller and smaller. and they can refer to their other... their fellow jews as "the jews." they are feeling profoundly alienated from their own judaism. in plain language, they're losing, and that means the language of invective gets nastier and nastier. >> ( dramatized ): the jews answered him, "abraham is our father." jesus said to them, "if god were your father, you would love me. you are from your father, the devil." >> so mark talks about the crowd being against jesus. but by "matthew"-- 15 years later, say, in the year 85-- it's all the people. and by the time you get to "john," in the '90s, it is the jews who are against jesus. >> narrator: the conflict between jews and christians that john described in h

one the jewish nation state bill which netenyahu says will cement israel's jewish state.udget, one party supports the zero vat bill, but netenyahu is against. he wants extra money for defense. the centrist parties have criticized netenyahu with what they see as increased tension with the u.s. they say the government's policies harm's israeli's foreign relations. it's seldom the case that a prime minister says he is going to resign unless he is convinced that he would win the next election. so if netenyahu gets to form a new government, how much will his policies change? >> probably not at all. if anything what is clear is that the block of rightest parties in israel have every possibility of winning the next elections. and amongst them netenyahu scores highest, almost 35% among the israeli publish as who will lead israel next. so he is secure in this his seat, and with the russian dominated party clearly he will be leading the next vote. the question is whether his new coalition will be more right-wing than his previous one, there are signs that the jewish homeland will p

jewish nation, scott walker's a good guy. he's a real munch. ( laughter ) ok, so he doesn't wear a yamaha or observe the sherbert. the important thing is that he was ready to display that minorah. i'm sure, given the chance, he also would have displayed the majora. and we're not even talking about a major jewish holiday here. it's not like this is yom tupac shakur or sha-na-na or even sucrose. if it weren't the same time as christmas, nobody would even talk about hana-kuna matata. it's just a fun family holiday where you eat potato tchotchkes and you spin the dildo. dildo, dildo, dildo, i made you out of clay. let's all cut scott walker some slack. that's what the holiday season's all about. soto my jewish viewers, i, i tonight raise a glass of lenny kravitz and say a hearty l'heimlich maneuver." ( cheers and applause ) folks, i don't want to act like i'm holier than thou. i'm from south carolina. we say holier than y'all. this is yahweh or no way. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ nation, i consider myself a proud bible thumper. o

jewish.p next, reporters who cover the court discussed the influence of faith and religion in the way the justices review and decide cases. the newseum held this event in washington, d.c. in late october. >> let's see if this is going. it is going. good. good evening, everyone. welcome to the night conference center at the newseum. we are very pleased to see everyone out tonight. either you don't like football or you are very interested in this topic, one of the two. i am glad you are here. i only heard about this myself last minute area that is how far out of it i am, but there are probably some fans you want to have this discussion, so thank you for being here. if you are not on our invite list and happened in here some other way and did not get an invitation to our programs, let us know, because we would be happy to put you on that list for future programs. i am charles haynes, and i direct part of this program. we are so happy to be partnering once again with "moment" magazine, which is a

he is replacing a jewish justice that we got into this notion of jewish representation.ehat you have when you three. now there is no need for a jewish seat. >> you brought up a little bit about this question of whether talking about the religion of a justice or a perspective justice is really about talking about their politics. we talk about how that has actually played out in recent cases? is theance, how catholicism of the various, now that there is so many, how has it played out in terms of the gay marriage decision, or even the health care laws, which you might have thought religion would play a part. did it? the hobby say in lobby case, which is the case having to do with the right of a private business with the religious freedom act to refuse to provide contraceptive health coverage for their female employees. say that justice alito's opinion in that case very much was influenced by his religious preferences, because to exact the notion that a corporation, which is an artificial entity, can have, based on a manner of a religious police system, transferred to it by

it is state of the jewish people, of the jewish nation.ut about 20 years ago the constitution has begun to get formed by piecemeal, by a law by law, and so we only have the democratic law legislated, and so the idea is to rebalance it so that it is both a democratic state and a jewish state. we will continue to provide full, equal rights to all arabs in israel. in fact -- >> what does it mean to an israeli arab who is a citizen of israel to have in the constitution it say that israel is, you know, a state principally for jews, that its character, its identity is one that they can never partake it. >> they can partake it but they have to understand that if they desire to have their own state within state, that's unacceptable because they have 23 countries. the arabs have 23 countries. we only have one. in fact, the jews have only one state and that's all we need but it's got to be the jewish state. >> do you worry that the passage of this law might provoke further issues with regard to the divestment movement? >> no, i think boycotting dive

just for jewish people. >> these women are a member of the association, of the jewish temple. they hope to recreate scenes in that temp.. the scenes of women from inside the second temple is their inspiration today. they try use the same dyes and methods used in the first and second temples from the days of king solomon. >> we make the same things . >> religious jews believe that one day god will send the second temple on the mount. a place wrongly secluded from. >> it's like telling a muslim, please don't pray at mecca, you can't pray at mecca. >> they walk backwards to avoid turning their back on the sight of the temple. they demand to up end, 1300 years of history. the god the great chants continue as they walk out. they respond with their own chant. the temple they chant will be built. they believe their visits are the vanguard of zion. >> the rabbis who understand the next mission, they call upon the jews to go on the temple mount. >> even they say if it means war with muslims. >> if the building of the temple mount is our redemption, then yes, whatever it takes. >> trans

jewish justice in that representation. now there is no need for the seat. a >> you brought up this question of whether talking about the religious of the justice is a proxy for talking about their politics or how they are likely to vote. can we talk about how that has played out in recent cases, for instance how the catholicism in the various justices played out in terms of the marriage decisions or even the healthcare law which you might have thought of religion will play a part. a >> i would say that in the hobby lobby case having to do the right of the private business under the religious freedom restoration act to refuse to provide the contraceptive health coverage for their female employees i would say that the justice opinion in that case very much was influenced by his religious preferences because to accept the notion that any corporation that is an artificial being can have a matter of religious assessments transferred to and by its owners aside from being close to the ludicrous in terms of the social philosophy.

this was from 1946, 1947, the last joint palestinian jewish house. we had a very good relationship with the arabs. and then the war started in 1947. >> all the arabs were pushed out. >> they were pushed out. >> they feel guilty that you are living here? >> no, no. >> you don't feel guilty that this is a home that belongs to a palestinian family and they got pushed out, and you are the recipient, the beneficiary of the blood and sweat and tears. >> i feel that the israeli government owes them, because the israeli government is the one who made this law about people who are not here. and the question is if people are ready to take compensation instead of coming back. >> the next day david and i separated so that i could go alone into gaza. along with the west bank, gaza is one of the two areas that have been taken by israel in 1967 and has been an occupied territory ever since. >> when i was in gaza david attended an israeli right wing rally in jerusalem. a large movement of religious israelis believe that rather than returning this land, it should be

he is replacing a jewish justice that we got into this notion of jewish representation. and what you have when you have three. now there is no need for a jewish seat, you might say. >> you brought up a little bit about this question of whether talking about the religion of a justice or a perspective justice is really a proxy for talking about their politics. or how they are likely to vote. and could we talk about how that has actually played out in recent cases? four instance, how is the catholicism of the various, now that there is so many, how has it played out in terms of the gay marriage decision, or even the health care, upholding the health care laws, which you might have thought religion would play a part. did it? >> i would say in the hobby lobby case, which is the case having to do with the right of a private business with the religious freedom restoration act to refuse to provide contraceptive health coverage for their female employees. i would say that justice alito's opinion in that case very much was influenced by his religious preferences, because to exact

to all the executive directors, staff and volunteers participating in jcrcs, schools, and other jewish, christian, and muslim organizations nationwide, god bless you and thank you. it was crucial to my survival knowing that i was not forgotten. your prayers and your actions have been comforting, reassur ing and sustaining. to my extended family, especially my sister bonnie, my cousins and friends, howard, bruce, our shah ba group{^l" ^}, so many others who exemplify the true meaning of friendship, thank you. i do understand that there are many others who actively participated in securing my freedom, of whom i'm only nominally aware of at this juncture. i promise to express a more direct and personal gratitude just as soon as i know who you are. but ultimately, ultimately the decision to arrange for and secure my release was made in the oval office. to president obama and the staff, thank you. in my last letter to president obama i wrote that despite my five-year tenure in captivity, i would not want to trade places with him and i certainly would not want to trade places with him on thi

today i've participated in numerous jewish christian, especially jewish catholic dialogues.unters where people of thec christian faith use the term for holocaust. using the term asking and wishing to heal and to repent and to turn and turn away from their way. so it can only happen when there's that honesty that i referred to at the outset. so when christians are willing to honestly deal with their past that's why there's been able to be a new path that has been charted between the jewish world and christian world since world war ii. so one of the central issues is how does a society deal with its extremist. as the professor alluded to, in every society, every religion, every society in every country, there will be their extremists. there are going to be those who will advocate for violence and the question really is, how does the rest of the society deal with that? does that become mainstream? does that become what is praised or is it what becomes margin alized? we are now celebrating the holiday of hanukkah. and i know this is being broadcast. i don't know if you a have a

try to remember the history leading up to the birth of christ, a great sense of unease among the jewish people because the monarchy under king david had come to an end. for five centuries, the jew wish people didn't have their own king. they were under the babylonians and then the persians and then the greeks and then the romans. >> people asking the question, when is our god actually going to do what he said he would do? when is he going to act to transform our situation to bring justice and peace to the world. >> regards of the fact, fixes and faith, the stories become more meaningful when we know the history of the first century in the holy land. >> most christians today think of christmas as a cute family festival with presents and christmas trees. it's actually the most powerful and subversive thing we could be celebrating. about the entire overthrow of the way the world is, and its replacement with a different sort of world altogether. instead of power being about the big boys bullying everybody into submission, this is, as jesus said, about someone who didn't dom be served but to

these young men say they know the people who attacked the jewish couple. they say the assailants were only interested in money. >> i have no doubt they broke into the apartment, but i don't believe they raped anyone or that they are anti-semitic will stop some of their friends are jews. >> sees not the only one accusing the jewish community of overreacting will stop many local residents doubt the attack was motivated by anti-semitism. >> the media always exaggerate these kinds of stories. maybe it wasn't actually that big a deal or maybe the motives behind it were quite different. maybe there was no anti-semitism involved in all. >> rafael and his mother feel alienated in their own country. they say the attacks on jews hardly seem to bother their neighbors stop they are now hoping for a better future in israel. >> some business news now, turning to the european markets. greek stocks saw their biggest one-day drop in nearly three decades following the government unexpected decision to bring presidential elections forward by two months. >> news of that early

france has the largest jewish population in europe, but the number of anti-semitic incidents doubled this year. the worry is as the conflict between israel and the palestinians worsens, tensions are rising between jews and muslims in europe, which appears to be leading to a new source of anti-semitism where criticism of israel's foreign policy in gaza is turning into aggression towards jewish people themselves. as a result, record numbers of french jews are deciding to leave france for israel. >> immigration is a lot of work. organizationally, physically, and emotionally. this family is packing up to move. >> the whole name has to fit on the box. >> so, our 42nd box is finished. >> they are a jewish family. they have lived in this paris suburb for more than 10 years. the children were born here. the family runs a thriving business selling motor scooters, but they say it's time to leave. >> if you wear a yarmulke in the paris metro, you will not be a tax, but people gawk at you. it's hard to endure those looks. >> it depresses and frightens the family to see graffiti the facing jewish

ç >> plus, the jewish holiday of hanukkah, beginning next tuesday night. >>> major funding for "religion ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interests in religion, community development, and education. additional funding also provideq by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. welcome. ç i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. this week many faith groups expressed outrage at the findings of a u.s. senate report that accused the cia of torturing terrorism suspects in the years following 9/11. the report was the result of a nearly six-year investigation. t the national religious campaign against torture urged a permanent end to such practices, saying the tactics damaged america's moral authority. the u.s. conference of catholic bishops said torture "violated the god-given human dignity inherent in all people." protests69fq%9ujujuáháhe nation in the wake of grand jury decisions in missouri and new york no

it does create certain israeli society between jewishs and arabs. >> reporter: jewish settlers are keeping a close eye on the political development. their hope is that the next government will be more supportive of settlement expanse. >> not good. elections are not good. it's a waste of a lot of money, but it's good for netanyahu. >> a new mandate could give netanyahu more leeway to pursue expansionist policy, and this is what could make it next to impossible to move forward on anything with the palestinians. nisreen el-shamayleh, al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> fighting between ukraine and settlements in the east has left patients struggling in a hospital. 50 patients have died since april. there is no heating or running water, and medical supplies are dwindling. >> hundreds of mourners have paid their respects to a woman in germany who has become a symbol of civic service. she was killed as she stepped in to protect two teenage girls who were being harassed at a park. >> they call her a good samaritan, champion of the weak. a woman who dared to stand up against violence. sheriffs studying

to the washington jewish community, ron halber in particular and his staff at jewish relations council, jcrc, all the executive directors, staff and volunteers of participating jcrcs, federations, synagogues, schools and other jewish, christian and organizations nationwide, god bless you and thank you. it was crucial to my survival knowing that i was not forgotten. your prayers and your actions have been comforting, reassuring and sustaining. and to my extended family, especially my sister bonnie, my cousins and friends, howard, our s shabot group, and so many others who exemplify the true meaning of friendship, thank you. i do understand that there are many others who actively participated in securing my freedom, of whom i'm only nominally aware at this juncture. i promise i will express a more direct and personal gratitude just as soon as i know who you are. but ultimately, ult malt mimate decision to arrange for and secure my release was made in the oval office. to president obama and the staff, thank you. in my last letter to president obama, i wrote that despite my five-year tenur

was himself jewish. but they were puzzled both the german crusaders and the french crusaders saying look we have got it all backwards. at this point europeans knew next to nothing about islam. the muslims were a shadowy presence on the horizons. why were they flogging 3000 miles through the middle east are through incredible dangers when the jews were alive and well on their very doorsteps? here again too the economic reasons for the sudden hatred of jews who had been well-integrated into european society because europe was beginning its slow progress to creating a commercial empire, a commercial economy and eventually in the 19th century it replaced the agrarian empire. but in any period of massive social change this puts a great strain on social relations. we see it in countries modernizing today. going through this painful rite of passage from a premodern to a modern state of affairs, how this creates social tension. in the jews were very much associated with money and with the commerce that was resen

. >> a group of israelis entered the holy al-aqsa mosque for the jewish holiday of han kah hanuk. conflict is not uncommon because both jews and muslims consider this a crucial part of their culture. nick schifrin reports. >> havening the messiah's arrival. >> that will come very soon please join god. >> in the center of the city, changing the thousand-year-old status of the city's holiest place. >> i'm happy to be part of the redemption of the jewish people. ♪ >> reporter: and a new breed of right wing israeli campaigner spurs them and a new generation on. >> we want to come back, we want to pray in the temple mount. >> reporter: they head the temple mount movement on top of one the jerusalem's most sacred shrines. promising to keep a conflict boiling. >> young men and us boil with anger. >> reporter: accord to jewish tradition, the dome of the rock, is the head of david's rule. for muslims where man communicates with god. >> especially, the population of jerusalem. >> the temple mount is the holiest place in the world. the only holy place of the jewish people. >> the jews call i

at times he's going back to earlier jewish thought and the bible. at times he seems to be veering towards a new version of marxism. this was a time of great intellectual disorientation but also great intensity after the first world war. these were thinkers who were young jewish in germany, influenced by multiple allegiances and very different kinds and contradictory intellectual sources and temptations. so you don't get a really coherent view of strauss from at least the published writings up to and around the time of the 30s but there is a revealing statement in a letter that he writes i think to love it -- love that which is to my mind the first exclusive account of his turning to classical thought away from nietzsche. what he says is what he has discovered is a great over valuation of courage or manliness in nietzsche and why is back? it's because it's a reaction to the downgrading of courage or resolve in liberal thought to the supposed that easy-going miss of a liberal or democratic thought and so in order to react strauss says nietzsche gives

the truth is, the truth is that jewish heritage -- jewish culture, jewish value are an essential, suchn essential that it's we are fair to say that jewish .eritage is american heritage that's who we are as a people. and to me, that's part of the miracle. the miracle we all celebrate together, as you celebrate with your families tonight. o on behalf of my children and my wife and the president of the united states, let me just say, happy hanukah to everyone. thank you for having me. applause] >> earlier today at the white house president obama held his year-end news conference with reporter and talked about a number of issues including keystone pipeline and why he feels it would have little impact on u.s. gas prices. >> i don't think i've minimized the benefits. i think

today i participated in numerous jewish christian, jewish catholic dialogue. it counters where people of the christian faith view the term for holocaust. use the term, asking and wishing to deal and to repent and return and turn away. so what can only happen when there is that honesty that i referred to at the outset. so when christians are willing to honestly deal with their past, that is why there's been able to be a new path charted between the jewish world in the christian world since world war ii. one of the central issues is how does the society do with the extremist? professor isaac alluded to the fact in every society, every religion amongst every people and every country, there are going to be extremists. there will be those who will advocate for violence. the question really is, how does the rest of the society deal with that? did that become mainstream? is that what is praised order? is that what becomes isolated? as professor alexander mentioned, we are now celebrating the holiday of hanukkah. i know this is being broadcast. i don't know if you can

the truth is, the truth is that jewish heritage, jewish culture, jewish values are an essential part. that is who we are as a people. to me, that's part of the miracle, the miracle we all celebrate together as you celebrate with their families tonight. so on behalf of my children and my wife jill, the president of the united states let me just say happy hanukkah to everyone. thank you for having me. [applause] ..

is barack obama a christian, jewish muslim, buddhist? >> i am not in any position to say that because i never heard his confession. i've never even met him. if i had met him until within spiritually, i wouldn't be able to answer that question. let me say as an outsider, just observing as best i can tell i think he is what the political demands call upon him to be at any given moment. that is what i think he is. i think that's what these dedicated to you. [applause] and i say that with all due respect to the president and deep concern for his immortal soul. [laughter] >> over here. >> you are laughing. i meant it. >> over here. why isn't that we don't hear more moral outrage from the senior leadership of the muslim community and particularly the in-laws. if there is a group of radical catholics that were hijacking the religion. >> there is. but it would be sung from on high from the pope and yet there is the occasional imam and i'm astounded there is not a bunch of it. that's a good question i asked that myself. it may be and this may not

the jewish council was among the many groups welcoming his release. gross thanked all those who prayed for him and said he would use his freedoms for good. >> we must never forget the two pillars, freedom and responsibility. i'm incredibly blessed finally to have the freedom to resume a positive and constructively life. >> gross's release came as the u.s. and cuba announced a new era of normalized relations ending 50 years of hostility. the white house met pope francis and was instrumental in persuading both. many faith groups welcomed the move while others raised concerns, especially about the state of religious freedom in cuba. prayer vigils were held for the people killed in a taliban attack on a school. the brutal massacre drew condemn nations from all over the world. protests were held across pakistan accusing the government of not doing enough to crack down on the taliban. it is reported to have carried out more than 1,000 attacks on schools since 2009. pope francis condemned what he called inhuman terrorist attacks. not only in pakistan, about

that made him the first commander to lead a jewish regiment in battle in thousands of years. and it made zionism his life's cause. these photographs from the netanyahu family archive show him with the parents of israel's current prime minister in new york, where they campaigned for the jewish state. patterson became godfather to their first son, a commando and national hero who died leading the hostage rescue operation in uganda. >> john henry patterson was the godfather of my brother, who 30 years later would command one of the great military rescue missions of all time. 103 jewish hostages were rescued from the clutches of german and palestinian terrorists. i think there is a fateful set of events here, that this man, who 60 years earlier founded the first jewish fighting force, is the godfather of one of the great commanders that rose in the jewish army, that he helped bring about. >> reporter: john henry patterson is perhaps largely forgotten in the country whose cause he served. now he is remembered in the country whose cause he made his own. kevin connolly, bbc news, is

. >> israel is quite obviously a jewish state. what's so bad about passing a law that says israel is a jewish state? >> i will explain the following. i said it on the floor on the parliament when debated last week. i said that when it comes to 2 deal with the palestinians in the state moments, i think it's correct to say that both states are nation states. palestine will be the nation-state of the palestinian people and israel will be the nation-state of the jewish people. but this has nothing to do with what's within israel. in israel, all citizens must feel they're equal. they must feel it. coming forward with this discourse on jewish state, threads of ron racist undertones makes the feeling that somebody will be preferred over the other. the way the majority treats the minority is essential to the we well-being of our society. the community in israel is come priend of all denominations. fascinating community. many of them want to be part of inclusiveness in the israeli public. there are many who want to be secessionsists. our d

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the status as a jewish state. the coalition party says it discriminated against israel's arab minority. another area of difficulty is the budget, the tea party supported the zero vat bill, which would eliminate value added tax opposed to that, he wants extra money earmarks for defense. the parties have criticized over what they see as the deteriorating relationship with the u.s. and they are concerned about netanyahu's expansion of jewish settlements in the occupied west before, and it's impacts oen the foreign relations. >> well, let's get more now on the developing story. and first of all, why have they made this decision right now? what has pushed him to this? >> well, certainly the communication of the opposition he faced within his coalition government has been a major reason. and second, i think the government is also facing pressures from the outside, there's a palestinian diplomatic offensive going on. there's a european support for that. the situation remains more or less fragile, in gaza, and elsewhere.