what i have jonathan cook a freelance journalist and author of three books mr cook thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you are the only western journalist to be based here in nazareth the largest arab town in israel what kind of different insight does this give you to the conflict as opposed to most foreign journalists who are based in the centers of tel aviv to jerusalem and ramallah at that location in itself. tends to select the focus of your work tends to prejudge what the issues major issues here are in the conflict and i think journalists who are based in the normal cities like jerusalem and tel aviv tend to assume that the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven that it's a product of the occupation of the palestinian territories the west bank and gaza whereas my focus has been based being based inside israel in a palestinian or arab community how do you want to describe it is to see that conflict predates nine hundred sixty seven why do you feel that is all should not be classified as a democracy bearing in mind that the arab community here can vote

we're not all that are reasonable but i would quote one of the better independent writers on it jonathan cook who writes out of israel palestine really have a story the other day what it means is the salvation of the strangulation of the people of gaza more slowly and maybe now is a good time to talk about the differences between zionism and judaism as you perceive them the key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between judaism and art some simply stated judaism is the religion of jews not the jews because by no means all jews are religious and like christianity and like islam it has as its core a set of moral values and ethical principles right now that is judaism zionism. is the nationalism of some juice it's a sick tarion colonial into prize. which created a state in the arab heartland for some jews by terrorism and ethnic cleansing and in doing so it made a complete mockery of the moral values and ethical principles of judaism the truth in summary is that judaism and zionism are total opposites now why is the knowledge of this important because when you know that you can unde

these men to stand on the first one is goal is that what you actually end up with is endless war jonathan cook thank you very much for joining us here on not. every month we give you the future we hope you understand how to get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g. i'm alleged to near nazi gang is on trial amongst a first series of great chance to crimes including mud on terror plots all the accused are in their early twenties and if found guilty face life behind bars. police in southern russia are looking for the misses who set off bombs and kill two goals at a hydroelectric power plant in the public of couple. wednesday investigating a full security and maybe it's time to pull civil. bond in israel an hour has been jailed for eighteen months for the so-called great by deception he persuaded a woman to have sex with him but today to be jewish. as well top stories this hour us time now for sports with ian. great to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know neal i'm ves our headlines

and you can hear more from jonathan cook a journalist working in the middle east in about twenty minutes from now here on t.v. . the russian president has ordered security stepped up at all critical facilities in the north caucuses on wednesday a group of gunmen stormed the hydroelectric station and car body in a block area leaving two guards dead and destroying two power generators the material promised anyone responsible for failing to ensure safety a key infrastructure sites will be dealt with. this isn't a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity and blatant negligence law enforcement bodies and companies should do everything in their power to avert any repetition of events like this in the future and if this does happen again none of the law enforcement top brass or company executives will remain in their jobs we've seen nothing similar to this before so we must draw the most serious conclusions from it. i know it is not as is a has the latest on the hunt for the militants behind the power station attack it's been reported that the militants leaders are the true voice behi