iran is a major actor in the middle east. it's a large country. it's something that sooner or later we have to come to terms with. doesn't have to agree with everything iran does but this is a big, important country and has some legitimate interests and sooner or later we have to come into recognize that, while not necessarily agreeing with what they do. i think that there has been an enormous inflation of the so-called iranian threat. i thing some of this has been conscious, wilful and deceitful on the part of both some people in this country and some people in israel. and some of it is a result of real legitimate concern, because of iran's capabilities of power projection, which are not inconsiderable. i think that on the nuclear issue a lot of it is smoke, and i frankly think it's worth going back and reading everything netanyahu if said about the iran yap danger and how soon it would become acute. go back 15 years ago, 20 years ago, before he was first prime ministership and read the stuff he say about iran. if you believed him then, he was wr

through the middle east, not africa, central asia and you find this. if the central government is tolerant and open and inclusive and gives its citizens the rights they deserve to freedom and education and health and job of attendees, there is no problem. but if it suppresses and brutalizes its own population, you would have problems under saddam hussein, whether it's syria where we see this bird was -- brutal you see especially the eastern tribes and the benghazi people pity we looked at 40 cases so it makes it a global study of what is going on in the world >> if you take it as a case study and what must give a different situations in your home country. >> pakistan is a central piece of the study. why? because waziristan that is in the tribal areas is one of the most targeted places on earth for the program. it's also one of the trials on the earth and its traditionally never been completely subdued and did

tonight, all about the middle east. we begin with tom friedman of the "new york times." >> the minute we step, there's such a nurse al ject sensitivity. we have to do it quietly but here's what we have to do loudly. stand up for the rules of the game. constitutionism rotation and finances in power. that's one thing we have to do. and the other thing we have to do is tell the opposition you've got to run. boycotting elections is the worst thing you can do. >> rose: we conclude with rashid khalidi from columbia university. >> the president, i say this, i hadn't read the species carefully. i knew him in the day when he was a state senator but the time after he became a national politician i would read the headlines or before what he said, i sat down and read these speeches. they adopt an almost israeli narrative in the entire history of conflict. this speech in israel did th again. you have to read it carefully to realize he's hitting every stop. >> rose: he's head -- >> that's not the way to resolve it. you're not going t

appears to have almost a veto over its actions in the trying to develop a middle east free of nuclear weapons or we were approaching some sort of nuclear arms race starting up now that egypt's walked out of the talks. well if this is the terrible danger of the situation israel we know has nuclear weapons and has the land based system to deliver them could have a sea based system any country or region that has a nuclear power system turkey egypt saudi arabia all could develop their own nuclear weapons if they wish to and egypt. i hope does not develop nuclear weapons i hope nobody develops nuclear weapons but clearly the danger now is very nuclear arms race in the middle east with all the civil conflict that could bring about if ever they should need urgent action now particularly by the usa and the other four declared nuclear weapons states to take steps for their own disarmament but above all to hasty convene this middle east nuclear weapons conference what should israel be doing. israel should decommission its nuclear weapons join the n.p.t. and get on board with the rest of the wor

that's all the old generation interviewed in russia and middle east are. my hope for russia is the bear minimum. give me the stability for nine months and 21 years. it's going to be corrupt, putin will arrest them. his crohnies. that generation will grow up writing what it wants and then you have hope for change. my hope for these countries now is that it's the league minimum. give me the league minimum of basic stability so that young generation can grow up flower and eventually take the reigns from these wounded souls basically who are the immediate transition figures. >> rose: there was a hope some of the islamist parties would come to power and power would be a teaching moment for them. they say oh my god have i to pay the streets and schools and hospitals and street lines and sanitation and that would be a learning experience so that whatever old ideas that were anti-democratic would go away. >> these were mushrooms that were grown in the dark for 50 years. they could talk economics and globalization but they didn't experience it. that's why they didn

because i cared and respected and admired his work for peace in the middle east, and i cared enough for him as a person at that moment that i didn't want to in any way be a liability. and the relations of the united states with the middle east have be vy, very comple ver.. very difficult over generations now. and i didn't want to be a liability for him. so yes, his love had to win... win me... and his faith. it was his faith in us that won me over. >> hinojosa: and i was writing in my notes, i was like, "you know, oftentimes people in this country think of the arab world, and the muslim world, as a world that kind of pushes conformity." and you're an absolute nonconformist in so ma ways. >> what we're seeing in the arab world today that is very exciting is not only that, for a variety of reasons, economic, political, and social, are the traditional centralized state power centers being diffused through different groups in society, but more importantly, we're seeing a self assertion of the youth. we're seeing a whole new dynamic take place-- and i'm getting now to the question you asked

tension between the urgent and the important an there is all of this urgent stuff coming from the middle east i am not saying it is important but there is truly important strategic stuff coming in asia and north america and at home and the challenge for the president is going to be to resist some of the pull of the urgent every kay every day and focus at home and focus in asia and get the balance right, that is what strategy is about. >> rose: we conclude this evening with ali babacan, he is the deputy prime minister of turkey. >> turkey and israel relations are very important for the whole region, because the region itself is going through a historical transformation process, like egypt, tunisia, yemen are trying to change, and also syria is in a very, very difficult situation. >> and the last thing that you would want to see in the region is the turkish and israel relations getting worse. >> rose: american foreign policy, and turkish foreign policy when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. >> rose: additional funding provided by these funders. n't and by b

secretary of state to the middle east anything new did you hear anything new anything promising. unfortunately you know peter and frankly i think we need to stop talking about this fantasy peace process. you know twenty some years ago palestinians made an unprecedented compromise to relinquish our legal and historic right to over seventy eight percent of our historic homeland with the understanding that an independent palestinian state would be established in the remaining twenty two percent in this time where the while this process was going on you know of course it was turned out not to be a peace process at all but instead it's become. a process of ethnic cleansing it's been a process whereby israel has continued this tuft of natural resources belonging to palestinians principally land and water. it's been a process of israel continuing to build the infrastructure of this israeli apartheid of israeli only roads jewish only housing color coded license plates and with permits checkpoints and so forth so i think you know i mean everybody everybody knows this two state idea is a l

the rivalry in the middle east in a primary one of them. spee-1 at the reasons that i so fundamentally disagree with the argument, the consequences of a nuclear iran are overdrawn is just the point you're making. we already have diminished influence in significant parts of the arab middle east as a result of the arab revolution. we see that in egypt, which was our primary arab ally. if we are perceived as losing on the iranian nuclear issue standoff, then those allies that we do have, particularly in the gulf and saudi arabia, would profoundly see the balance of power shifting against us and them. and i think the consequences of that would be extraordinarily negative for us. it would be a real victory for iranian influence in the region, even with a sectarian issues. and that's again why think the nuclear issue has much broader implications on the future of the region. spent if i could just add to that. and i raise that iran developing nuclear weapons would damage -- but there's a host of other factors that is shaping u.s.-arab relations. f

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we are now increasing our exports to africa, to middle east, to, at a very high speed and also we are diverse -- diversifying our economy, we are diversing away from the traditional european markets because of the problems, continuing problems, especially in the euro zone and job creation is going on very well. last three years we were able to generate 4.7 million additional jobs in turkey and the unemployment figures have been coming down and income distribution is improving in turkey. >> what is the -- where do we stand with respect to becoming a member of the european union? >> we are still on track, and we are moving forward, but we are moving forward at a lower speed than we would like to see. >> rose: so they are not moving as fast as you would like to see? >> actually, back seven, eight years ago, when i was in charge of eu collections, because i was in a while to my treasury responsibilities, doing those years the big question was when turkey is going to be ready for the european union, and now the question is, when is the european union going to be ready -- >> performing on a

where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle but john kerry expresses shuttling through the middle east in search of peace once again a u.s. administration claims to be a fair broker to resolve the israel palestine conflict after forty four years of occupation in colonization of palestinian land what can we expect if anything from the obama administration is it time to reckon with the reality on the ground that is the one state solution. to cross-talk the john kerry visit to the middle east i'm joined by edina friedman in washington she is a professor at the american university school of international science also in washington we have jason isaacson he is the american jewish committee director of government and international affairs and in philadelphia we cross the susan she is a writer political commentator and author of the book mornings in janine ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want susan we've just had a visit by the you. as secretary of state to the middle east anything new did you hear anything new anything promising. unfortunately no peter and

to cross-talk the john kerry visit to the middle east i'm joined by. dina friedman in washington she is a professor at the american university school of international science also in washington we have jason isaacson he is the american jewish committee director of government and international affairs and in philadelphia we cross the susan she is a writer political commentator and author of the book mornings in janine ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want susan visit by the u.s. secretary of state to the middle east anything new did you hear anything new anything promising. unfortunately no peter and frankly i think we need to stop talking about this fantasy peace process. you know twenty some years ago palestinians made an unprecedented compromise to relinquish aren't legal and historic right to over seventy eight percent of our historic homeland with the understanding that an independent palestinian state would be established in the remaining twenty two percent in this time where the while this process was going on y

aided and helped when we are involved in it but we cannot construct middle east peace for abuse really and the palestinians. so we just heard gibbs talking about the u.s. saying that the u.s. cannot construct a peace in the region do you agree with this i mean is it that the united states is incapable of fostering peace or simply going willing to do so the united states showed what it felt major strategic interests were involved multiple times in the seventy's and the eighty's that it could impose or at least forcefully advocate for egyptian israeli peace for disengagement agreements between syria and israel or egypt and israel before that so it's not true that the night states cannot put its weight into the scales on this issue it has not in fact if it puts it some on any side of the scale in the palestine israel conflict it is done so on the israeli side so i think there are multiple myths and what gibbs said there one is that there is an ongoing peace process there is not and has not been for a long time and the other is that they're there implicitly to equal parties in this there i

in a way, in answer to one of the charges made, the bush administration had no interest in the middle east and the israeli/palestinian conflict until 2008. they waited until last minute. remember what had just happened. we were in the middle of the second intifada. people were being killed almost every day. terrorist attacks almost every day. and bill clinton had just told the president don't ever negotiate with this guy. so the notion that in the middle of the intifada and with the only negotiating putter and the palestinian side being yasser arafat what george bush should have done was to say let's go back to camp david. that notion is absurd. last act, january of 2009, fighting in gaza, operation task lead. an end of that came in january when the new year--the u.n. security council resolution, saying both sides need to stop the violence. the israelis objected vociferously to that resolution because of the moral collaboration of the state of israel and hamas and they angrily demanded the president veto it. the problem is the resolution had been written by secretary rice, for mr. miller b

because putin's view of the middle east is the same that the forces that have been unleashed in the middle east the act the establishment forces aren't democratic therefore their extreme islamic forces are going to be more terrorism in till moscow and washington can resolve these conflicting narratives the kind of cooperation that you want from our intelligence services and the russian knowledge of services is going to be limited the problem is that we're in a kind of cold war situation and it's characteristic of cold war that you get conflicting narratives they don't have an opposite and i think the thing that's that's interesting so because russia gave our intel the a step could they now say we told you so they could say it but it wouldn't be a good idea the best thing is to try to figure out what went wrong and fix the problem with putin said yesterday thursday in his marathon press conference he didn't speak at length about boston but he said but in kind of words we told you himself and he made the point about his narrative that i just mentioned he said the problem has been

gain from undermining peace in the middle east many would argue that it's in the u.s. interests to create peace in the east there are two state solution well it's clear that achieving peace between major countries like egypt and israel for example was in the u.s. interest it was in u.s. interest because the. clash between egypt and israel had the potential back in the days of the cold war of a superpower conflict in one seventy three for example fortunately on the palestine issue there is no weight of opinion no body of powerful interests that say you have got to resolve this because it will be harmful in this and that way to the united states if you don't there was briefly during the occupation of iraq when you had a number of leading strategic figures the van secretary of defense secretary gates the then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mullen and general petraeus when he was commander in iraq all of whom said america's bias on this issue america's failure to resolve this harms it in the arab world but you don't hear that forcefully argued in washington

right now the middle east effort is to try to stabilize the situation.here at the pentagon top officials have been updating military options for weeks. they have been watching they believe in the last several weeks the regime has continued to move chemical stockpiles around syria and they are not sure why. they believe they're still under the security of thechiefs of stn last week he couldn't be sure anymore where the chemical stockpiles were. i think there's another very interesting point in this letter, wolf, why are they uncertain? well, the letter talks about and i quote "this assessment is based in part on fis owe logical samples." we don't know what that means at this point, but what we do know is troops working in the area were going to bring out medical evidence of exposure to chemical weapons and that may be the first step in some of this. >> in this letter the white house sent to the armed services committee and the senate, they also said the white house we do believe any use of chemical weapons in syria would have very likely originated with t

john kerry will return to the middle east as tensions are rising. two weeks after president obama visited the region, violent clashes have taken place on the west bank and crocker -- rockets were fired out of gaza for the third day in a row. is there any chance of bringing the two sides to the table? in his new book, an author accuses the u.s. of undermining the peace process in the middle east and he joined me a short time ago to explain why. i want to ask you what you would expect from john kerry's visit next week. >> the secretary of state seems to be intent on trying to do something. i do not think he will have much success. the entire framework for this negotiation i think is showing it is a complete bankruptcy. they have been at this for 35 years. 28 to go back to the madrid-oslo process and i think the structure is unfit for achieving a breakthrough. >> president obama when he came in after president bush did try to play the part of the broker. he had this intention of being more of a mediator between the two sides and what happened was he lo

finds out they ever high tensions in the middle east have spilled over into a full on propaganda war in america as the international community continue searching for the best path to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious ad war in new york are purple a sunni and group recently unveiled an ad campaign that calls on the u.s. to stop sending three billion dollars in aid to israel every year. policies to the south african apartheid and also includes a quote from dozen to two who led the fight against the apartheid now this campaign is being sponsored by the american muslims for palestine national grassroots advocacy group now in the meantime really a group called the american freedom defense initiative is planning to fire back with a campaign depicting what it calls its apartheid counter ads which have already been submitted to transit officials for approval show the image of two blindfolded iranian men getting wrapped with nooses the caption below reads under islamic law shari'a another ad shows a woman dressed in a white burqa getting whipped and there the c

those who think that the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east siding by the palestinians and demanding the right of the palestinians the continuation of a system of apartheid is the most disturbing lies in fact in the middle east do you think that now with his second term in office president obama might in the future pressure on israel that perhaps this trip was just the beginning of maybe hearing both sides and it could develop into something else we'll believe it when we see it up till now we've seen none of that and we're not going to sleep with illusions we're going to look at facts and realities meanwhile we have to make our own reality and we've made up our mind we will create our own reality by insisting on changing the balance of power by through our nonviolent resistance by that i mean to unify all palestinians together and by demanding a stronger international solidarity campaign including boycott divestment sanctions against the israeli a

well i think that the desire for a nuclear weapons free zone in the middle east is an old item it's been on the calendar certainly of many i don't know assemblies or general conferences for many years but he said he was going to see is see i think it's i think it's i think it's probably a manifestly aspirational goal to have a nuclear weapons free zone in the middle east until conditions are set that allow people who have them to make a decision that they don't need them anymore and clearly we aren't confronted with those kinds of can do but only one country has nuclear weapons in the middle east well i think that israel's nuclear weapons aren't the point i think the point is that we need to be careful about how we talk about the situation with respect to israel's nuclear weapon or anyone else's as i said earlier my concern with the iranian program is not so much necessarily that once they develop a weapon they might use one but that it might encourage other people in the region in addition to israel to adopt their own independent nuclear deterrents and i think that that's not a good thi

well i think that the desire for a nuclear weapons free zone in the middle east is an old item it's been on the calendar certainly of many analysts or general conferences for many years but is that. the is is this somehow to see i think it's i think it's i think it's probably a manifestly aspirational goal to have a nuclear weapons free zone in the middle east until conditions are set that allow people who have them to make a decision that they don't need anymore and clearly we aren't confronted with those kinds of conditions only one country has nuclear weapons in the middle east well i think that israel's nuclear weapons aren't the point i think the point is that we need to be careful about how we talk about the situation with respect to israel's new weapons or anyone else's as i said earlier my concern with the iranian program is not so much necessarily that once they develop a weapon they might use one but that it might encourage other people in the region in addition to israel to adopt their own independent nuclear deterrents and i think not a good thing i think that's something tha

those who think that the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east siding by the palestinians and demanding that out of the palestinians. and you can watch all the exclusive interview in full with a modern one about a good t. that will be here on our eight hundred forty five g.m.t. . north korea has barred workers from the south from entering a jointly operated factory zone it's pyongyang's latest move in a conflict between the neighboring states which has been simmering in recent weeks the kind of song industrial park is being one of the few successful efforts of reconciliation between the two koreas from which the economies of both countries do benefit south korea based journalist joseph kim has this report. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and china james main objective is actually to start a dialogue with the u.s. with north kor

those who think the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east side by the palestinians and demanding the right of the palestinians. so you can watch the full exclusive interview with marwan barghouti that will be here at. eighteen forty five g.m.t. . north korea has suspended south korean access to a joint industrial zone it's pyongyang's latest move to ratchet up tension with the south and north korean leaders have already declared a state of war while the watchful u.s. is building up its military muscle in the area south korea based journalist joseph kim has this report. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's main objective is actually to start dialogues with the u.s. with north korea's recent what the u.s. calls provocation is it's actually easier for the united states to prevent its military back and studio something ab

we are dealing with the largest chemical weapons arsenal in the middle east. it is diverse. it is stored in different ways. and access to syria is very, very limited as you know. they won't let u.n. inspectors in as well. we are not making any call. >> chris: your people seem more defensative about this, sir. >> our assessments are similar to those of the united states and britain and france. we are looking at the same intelligence material. we have a close intimate intelligence dialogue. we share our intelligence and i think you have seen the results of that. we are not making any calls for the united states here. >> chris: i understand that. i do want to -- i know you made at great length the idea you are not pressuring the administration to do anything. >> absolutely not. >> chris: for months president obama said if assad used chemical weapons it would be he a game changer and now he seems to be steering away from any talk of precipitous action. let's see that then and now you. >> that is a red line for us and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing m

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