the knesset as the third lord cheshire largest party. with support from benjamin netanyahu and from micro brought who supported an initiative which passed to require all new citizens of visual to swear loyalty to the jewish and democratic state. a loyalty oath. these loyalty oath's was first introduced in the knesset by a rabbi who was actually banned from the knesset in 1980 for racist incitement who advocated the establishment of a theocratic fascist state and what he referred to as the west bank and the total forcible transfer of all palestinians and non-jews who refused to swear loyalty to the state of visual. so they ran a headline basically declaring they won with the labour party for it. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> adele levine talks with her expenses as a physical therapist at walter reed army medical center and provides profiles of some of the veterans she worked with. this is about 45 minutes, and it starts now on booktv. >> okay. i'm barbara meade, one of the founders along with carla cohe

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he was a member of the knesset and met with yasser arafat. we will talk all about that when we come back. ,"re on "democracy now! democracy now dot org, the war and peace report. amy goodman come here with juan gonzalez. >> as a youth, our guest joined paramilitary group, which he quit to become a leading peace activist in israel. in 1950 he founded a news magazine and 15 years later he was elected to the knesset on a peace platform. in 1982, uri avnery made headlines when he crossed the lines during the siege of beirut to meet with yasser arafat. in 1993 he started the grocery shalom peace movement. he turns 91 next month and he still writes a weekly column. can you go back to 1982, uri avnery, to talk about that moment when you met with yasser arafat? ?ow significant was that to my mind it was very significant. the situation was in a way similar to the present one. the plo, palestine liberation organization, was considered the main enemy of israel. ,t was located in south lebanon and the israeli army started an invasion of lebanon in order

to that cease-fire and i believe this is a big question because a few days ago, is the speaker of knessetthe complete destruction of the israelis in gaza suggesting to put them all in concentration camps. it's genocide. this is the mentality of a senior likud member and the beauty of the knesset talking about the palestinians like this. we hope they can be committed to the cease-fire. >> i take your point on the language from the deputy speaker of the knesset but with all due respect sir, you yourself have said things in the past that would cause israelis to not trust you, not trust hamas. let's look forward and talk about this cease-fire for if we could, i don't want this to turn into a list of things people have said in the past. let's talk about bringing peace possibly even for just three days to this besieged region. >> excuse me. excuse me. it's not the best. it's three days ago only. it's the first of august this year. so we are not talking about a very past. we are talking about three days ago. and although i'm saying that i hope that they can be committed and you know, they were c

. >>> joining us via escape is gabriel, a foreign media advisor for the knesset, the deputy speaker,hat was. thank you for joining us perhaps you can fill in some of what jane didn't know. what led to the 72 hour ceasefire that seemed to catch many offguard. what happened behind the scenes that you can tell us? >> hamas recognised they weren't going to get anything out tv. it's like ground hog day. i've lost count the number of times hamas broke a ceasefire. they were at ceasefire talks, and because they didn't like the way negotiations were going, they started to fire rockets at israel as a negotiating tactic. >>> is it realistic for his rail to insist that the rockets stop? what i mean is most agree that hamas doesn't necessarily control outline the factions launching all the rockets. is it realistic to think they are all going to stop, each if they should, is it realistic to expect that they will? >> yes, israel must - hamas had a ceasefire for 20 months, a palestinian author said an charlie rows that hamas learnt a lesson from the schille at deal. they learnt -- schille at deal.

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outskirts of the city came under heavy a tillery fire kids been stepping up offensive right here in the knesset a regional capital with a population of just under a million as reportedly concentrating tanks and armored vehicles in the area the parrying for major offensive to retake it from local militia russia's foreign ministry believes ukrainian forces are moving heavy rocket launchers close today near the locals are living in fear of what's to come. why our new bravo more. food stocks have decreased severely and we're having shortages of water and electricity in the areas close to the airport people are forced to cook their food on bonfires it's a very tense situation here the majority of people don't know what to do they can't leave in abandon all of their belongings but it's terrifying to stay in. by this is what in the near like this time of the year last year or the last couple of years when it was a pleasant place to be in the summer for locals as well as visitors you queens of fifth largest city and one of the country's main economic hard it was also a whole city during the twenty twel

this man who is the deputy speaker of the knesset when he says we have to put all the palestinians ines it mean? when you talk gordon who wrote palestinians genocide is permissible. what does it mean? those people are the people who are hating the humanity. who are try killing the palestinians. we don't have a problem with the jews. as they are jewish people in fact, we believe in moses. we believe in jesus, woo he believe in mohamed. we respect all three of them the same and believe that everyone has the right to choose his religion, no one will be questioned by the other humans for his religion. god will ask us all. no one is asked because of his race. races are the same. we are all from adam but the people who are talking about genocide against the palestinians must be questioned and asked because they are saying that and doing that at the same time. >> thank you, wolf. >> we're going to leave it there. i was hoping to get a flat denial from you that you would utter such ridiculous words that jews would kill christians in order to use their blood to bake matzo. that sounds as you k

like the deputy prime minister of knesset, these are the extreme is in the mainstream in israel. we can't let their really horrifying vision prevent us from look to a future where everybody has their rights. >> we'll have to leave it there, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead in our gaza coverage, the long way to a lasting peace, why israelis are struggling to find common ground. and we are looking at how the international community is looking at the conflict. prominent antiapartheid activists will join us in johannesburg. >> welcome back to our special coverage of gaza here on al jazeera. a three day ceasefire in gaza is due to expire in less than 11 hours' time. 5:00 a.m. gmt on friday. 1886 palestinians have been killed in this officive which began one month ago. israel has says it's willing to extend the truce for another three days but hamas says unless its demands are met it won't extend the ceasefire. meanwhile israeli and palestinian negotiators are in cairo trying to forge a diplomatic resolution, but so far there's no plan to extend the calm. diplomatic editor

they speak of the knesset and said in writing that they should kill, kill, and kill again, and clear gaza completely. it is not me who is saying this. i'm quoting what they write and what they say. and can be verified. >> there has been criticism of israel's latest operation, the attack on the u.n. school, ban ki-moon said it's a criminal act. do you think the tied could be turning in terms of international support for this military operation? >> the tide is turning, but we know what will happen at the end. we wilwe've been through this before. unless americans, the government of the united states of america change its stance of complete utter report, and complete blanket diplomatic and political cover nothing will change. the americans are very fond of saying we have your back for the israelis. it's about time that the americans started to think in humane terms stop supporting israel without the. israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. it's been time this dog is muzzled. >> thank you so much for speaking with us. jafari, live from london. thank you. >> thank you. >>

a member for the knesset. he served as deputy defence minister. you were relieved of your duties because you criticised binyamin netanyahu's position to accept an earlier ceasefire with hamas, that hamas rejected anyway. you believe that israel needs to be more aggressive dealing with hamas. how far does israel need to go in light of a massive loss of civilian life. >> i have been saying it for a few weeks. we have to do what is necessary to protect our people. we cannot continue when you have dozens of tunnels beneath our borders. we left gaza in my opinion years ago. have you no jewish commoupties or sentiments. you have offensive tunnels. that is why we are still in gaza. dealing with the tunnels. >> it's not aggressive to get rid of the tunnels. do you advocate destroying any capability that hamas may have militarily, some full demilitarization of gaza, debts? >> i think eventually we have to get rid of hamas period. i think we should do it now. if the prime minister will not adapt my position to take the action today, for a year or two, look

joining me now is a labor party member of the knesset. we're going to talk to him about what is going on right now. thank you so much for being here, mr. margoli. right now the clock is ticking. 32 hours from now this 72-hour ceasefire expires. we heard from the israeli government they want the ceasefire to be extended. we heard from the palestinian authority they want the ceasefire to be extended. egypt wants it extended. the united states wants it extended. but i'm hearing that behind closed doors in cairo, hamas is balking. it's unclear whether they really want to start firing rockets once again come 8:01 on friday morning, or whether this is just a bargaining technique. what are you hearing? >> i think hamas has been not only difficult in firing, but also very difficult in handling the ceasefire situation. israel is very committed to the ceasefire. it's hoping that this could be reciprocated. and it wants to move the process from a battle in the field, which we're committed to having if that's what is necessary to something that is go

there are horrible things that the deputy speaker of the knesset says about ethnic cleansing. that is the definition of a conflict. so we cannot resolve the conflict of we have resolved the conflict. >> as a practical matter, israel had a conflict management strategy for gaza, whether the u.s. acknowledged it or not, which was to have a close alliance with the egyptians to keep hamas and abbas and go after them if necessary. i will open it up for your question. i am going to request that they be questions and that you get one of them. wait for the microphone to get to you, identify yourself, and ask your single question. why don't we start with the gentleman next to the microphone? >> my question to ambassador indyk -- what is your opinion on the egyptian initiative? >> on which egyptian initiative? >> the palestinians and israelis are now in cairo. >> what do we expect out of that? let's take a couple more. young man in the back with the white shirt and tie. >> my question is about the humanitarian situation in gaza. palestinians in gaza are pretty pessimistic about the statu

government, the government of benjamin netanyahu and his party and the disturbing right-wing lurch of the knessethow that makes me anti-israel. it's such an unsophisticated, you know, way of talking. i mean, it's like saying that if i criticize american policy, then i'm anti-american. or if i criticize barack obama, then i'm racist. it's, frankly, idiotic. i think that the reason that i'm so critical of israel is because i truly do believe in israel. i do believe in the promise of what israel was supposed to be, what it can be. but this 40-year, brutal, unjust, immoral occupation of the pal the stint january people -- palestinian people, an occupation that is accelerating, not decelerating, an occupation that is nothing less than collective national suicide on the part of israel itself, has sullied everything that israel was supposed to be. everything that it sets itself up to be. and until that occupation is dealt with, then the promise of israel is going to be nothing more than just a promise. it'll never be fulfilled. >> host: what's it like going through ben-gurion airport? [laughter] >> gues

let's get the view from a member of the israeli knesset, a former spokesman of the idf.hanks for joining us. the specific be israeli military tweet said mission accomplished. we have destroyed hamas's tunnels leading from gaza into israel. all of israel is now safer. do you agree with that, or is that premature to declare mission accomplished? >> it's premature. it's a little bit exaggerated. i would wait for a while and also i would say that i'm not sure that we accomplished the mission. i think we have to do much more. if you ask me the next phase in this mission is to build new relations between us and the palestinians. what we did in gaza was just to destroy most of the epmy facilities which is fine. the hamas facilities but the next step is to renew the negotiation between us and the palestinians. that should be diplomatic step that israel should take right now. >> do you have confidence that the government of prime minister netanyahu and you're in the opposition will do that because there is an opportunity in cairo starting right now to begin a dialogue with the pa

horrible things that the deputy speaker of the knesset says about ethnic cleansing of palestinians. that is the definition of a conflict. so we cannot resolve the conflict until we have resolved the conflict. >> as a practical matter, israel had a conflict management strategy for gaza, whether the u.s. acknowledges it or not, which was to have a close alliance with the egyptians to keep hamas and abbas and go after them if necessary. i will open it up for your question. i am going to request that they be questions and that you get one of them. wait for the microphone to get to you, identify yourself, and ask your single question. why don't we start with the gentleman next to the microphone. >> my question to ambassador indyk, what is your opinion on the egyptian initiative? >> which initiative? >> what egypt offered for the two sides. the palestinians and israelis are now in cairo. >> what do we expect out of that? let's take a couple more. young man in the back with the white shirt and tie. >> my question is about the humanitarian situation in gaza. palestinians in gaza are pretty

that he was actually speaking in response to follow this, if you will, the deputy speaker of the knesseti parliament writing in a facebook post that he had called for temp encampments in gaza. hamdan likened them to wanting to put concentration camps in gaza. however, one incendiary comment does not excuse another ridiculous one. does this just tell you that long term, a long-term peace is not possible? >> well, if you want to look at the glass half full, and it's not easy, but it's better that they are exchanging incendiary comments rather than guns and bombs. at least now the cease-fire gives us an opportunity to get past the shooting and to start with the talking. now, it -- we've seen this movie before when the talking starts. it will actually start with shouting and then the challenge for the intermediaries and the diplomats for john ker and the others is to get everyone to calm the hell down and start actually having a conversation. >> how do you calm the hell down? what do you think is different, if anything, this time with these cease-fire, these comments, unfortunately, you have

punish the palestinians, a collective punishments against the palestinians like what the deputy of knessetys ago. he called -- he had a plan which he called it the complete destruction of the palestinians in gaza where he suggested to put the palestinians in a concentration camp. he's talking about concentration camps like the nazis have done in the second world war. he's talking about humanitarian crime. i want to say that clearly we are not using the civilian operations, and let's concentrate on what the israelis are doing. we had a chance to achieve an agreement. if the israelis show a positive will, there will be a positive reaction from -- >> israel is saying -- >> this is supposed to be evaluated. >> israel is saying it will extend the cease-fire and that is the best way to keep people safe in gaza and continue negotiating. will you meet that part of the agreement and say, yes, we also -- >> i expect -- >> -- will not fire rockets? >> if they are -- sorry, if they are willing to have something good, i expect them to say we are going ahead to achieve an agreement. >> that is what they

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