. >> we spoke with juan cole, al jazeera's international affairs contributor, and asked about hamas's demand that israel drop the fighting against gaza. >> israel believes it's in their security interest. other elements are frankly mean-spirited or they are an attempt to use the blockade to pressure the population of gaza for political purposes. israelis don't let people in gaza export what they have produced. this threw them into poverty and unemployment, as you would expect. the export pan, that's not security. there's nothing that that does to israeli security. if the tunnels into israel is the problem. there's no reason. israelis couldn't stop that on their side, they don't need to destroy the buildings in gaza to get at those tunnels. the egyptians got rid of many tunnels going into the sinai and didn't harm a single palestinian doing so. >> with regard to the rockets, most are fall, they do little damage, and to justify this massive military operation, where you drop 500 pound bombs on apartments, it's nuts. >>> that's juan cole, the international affairs contributor. >>> muslim

. >>> we spoke with al jazeera's international affairs contributor, juan cole, and asked him about the dropping the blockade. >> elements are likely to remain, because israel believes it's in its security interest to have them. other elements are frankly mean spirited or an attempt to use the blockade to pressure the population of gaza for political purposes. friendships, the israelis don't let the people in gaza export most of what they produce. this threw them into poverty and unemployment. as you would expect. >> that export ban - that's not security, there's nothing that does to israeli security. the tunnel into israel, if they are a problem, there's no reason the israelis couldn't stop that on their side of the border. they don't need to destroy the buildings in gaza. the egyptians have gotten many of the tunnels leading into s sinai and didn't harm gazans. they have done little damage to justify the massive military operation. it's nuts. >> once again, that was juan cole, al jazeera's international affairs contributor. >>> this afternoon secretary of state john kerry called his r

this is part of a class taught by juan cole, professor of history at the university of michigan in ann arbor. this is an hour 20 minutes. >> all right. well, welcome, everybody. we're going to talk about the roots of al qaeda terrorism today. of course, this is a complex subject. and i'm going to focus specifically on its roots in modern egypt. that's a topical subject. in the past -- in the past few months, the military government of egypt has abruptly declared the muslim brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. this is a stark reversal of its fortunes. because in the summer of 2012 after the revolution of hosni mubarak, morsi won. so in from summer of 2012 until summer of 2013, not only was the muslim brotherhood not a terrorist organization, it was the government of the country. and now, all of a sudden, it's a terrorist organization. so this is, you know, makes your head spin, the redefinition of politics in this post, revolution period. but the roots of these attitudes toward the muslim brotherhood. and of the brotherhood's own, i think, political mistakes go back in 20th centu

this is part of a class taught by juan cole, professor of history at the university of michigan in ann arbor. this is an hour 20 minutes. >> all right. well, welcome, everybody. we're going to talk about the roots of al qaeda terrorism today. of course, this is a complex subject. and i'm going to focus specifically on its roots in modern egypt. that's a topical subject. in the past -- in the past few months, the military government of egypt has abruptly declared the muslim brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. this is a stark reversal of its fortunes. because in the summer of 2012 after the revolution of hosni mubarak, morsi won. so in from summer of 2012 until summer of 2013, not only was the muslim brotherhood not a terrorist organization, it was the government of the country. and now, all of a sudden, it's a terrorist organization. so this is, you know, makes your head spin, the redefinition of politics in this post, revolution period. but the roots of these attitudes toward the muslim brotherhood. and of the brotherhood's own, i think, political mistakes go back in 20th centu