.— singapore's middle east institute. ., ., , institute. being with us on — institute. thank you for being with us on newsday _ institute. thank you for being with us on newsday on - institute. thank you for being with us on newsday on bbc. | with us on newsday on bbc. we're seeing a clear focus now on the south as the picture suggests understatement to suggest. what is your assessment of what we are to see in the military operations here? ~ . , , ., , here? what we see is nothing is really different _ here? what we see is nothing is really different from _ here? what we see is nothing is really different from what - here? what we see is nothing is really different from what we i really different from what we saw in the north. that is first, heavy varmint on what the australian defence force is believed to be hamas locations, and particularly infrastructures and the commanders of hamas. what we also see is a ground incursion into the south and in the city of khan younis where the idf believes the most important leadership of hamas, so mainl

i've talked to him about how many also while we electra at the middle east institute at the economy, a university in turkey at a very warm welcome to today. so thank you very much for joining us here on our team to now to looking forward to your commentary, i have to say that as, as you will know, is there any officials now one of the countries to take in refugees from guys. i mean, i guess right off the top of my head, my 1st question would be, um, what about israel is obligations to civilians in that region off to? well, the homeland which has been destroyed to yeah, the whole issue of his own distribution for that. how could he can such a tri city actually told intended to method you aside? and to me as a nation on the condition on the also for the building in order to create such a crisis. it was intentionally and may, june the force of the service. ready population will be there, or can she actually your wi fi or to supplement that was about the other transitional. take that that if you use a peaceful god, this hopefully answers to some kind of a wishful change. and from the gov

escalating israely violence and extremism in the west bank and east jerusalem, according to the middle east instituten focused a conflict in the gaza strip, the last six weeks have seen dramatic escalation in israeli settler and army violence across the west bank and in his jerusalem, since then israely army in casians and mass arrest have intensified in numerous west bank cities resulting in a deaths of 185 palestinians and the detention of at least 2,200. moving on, western countries, eu condem extremist settler violence in occupied west bank, adadolo. agency rights a group of western nations and the eu on friday condemned the violence acts committed by extremist settlers which are terrorizing palestinian communities in the occupied west bank urging israel to take immediate action against record high settler violence. a joint statement from australia, belgium, canada, denmark, the eu, finland, france, ireland, luxembourg, the netherlands, norway. spain, sweden, switzerland and the uk call on israel to take immediate and concrete steps to tackle record high sitler violence in the west bank. they als

escalating israeli violence and extremism in the west bank and east jerusalem, according to the middle east instituted's attention focused on the conflict in the gaza strip, the last six weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in israeli settler and army violence across the west bank and in his jerusalem. since then israeli army incusions and mass arrests have intensified in numerous west bank cities resulting in a deaths of 185 palestinians and the detention of at least 2,200. moving on, western countries eu condem extremist settler violence in occupied west bank. adadolo agency rights a group of western nations and eu on friday condemned the violence acts committed by extremist settlers which are terrorizing palestinian communities in the occupied west bank, urging israel to take immediate action against record high settler violence. a joint statement from australia, belgium, canada, denmark, the eu, finland, france, ireland, luxembourg, the netherland. norway, spain, sweden, switzerland and the uk call on israel to take immediate and concrete steps to tackle record high sitler violence in the west b

ambassador at the nato from arlington. virginia is how that is going, the senior fellow at the middle east institute and director of palestine, and is really palestinian affairs at the institute also from washington. dc is zayna as raleigh hutchison, director of development and expansion of the american arab anti discrimination committee. you're an activist. thank you all for joining us. robert. first question to you. since the u. s. is, is real single biggest backer diplomatically, politically, militarily, economically. how much of this q material and disaster, and we've just seen those those, that footage of people fighting to get that food at the roof of border crossing. how much of this humanitarian disaster is the us actually responsible for? perfect. okay. everybody here sympathized. advertise with israel on october, the 7th, and how i subtract account to about 1200 people. and it took $240.00 hostages. but that was now 2 months ago. sense van with a major is really on a slot on gaza, which is code i guess, an excess of 20000 people now. and maybe 50100 and the displacement of 8590 percent. ma

i'm getting the senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington dc. i wanna thank you both for joining me today. then i'm going to start with you since october 7th, israel has consistently reiterated about to destroy from us. it's estimated that from us has 30000 fighters at least, uh, and by these really armies own records in its own account. the air strikes me attacks of killed somewhere around $1.00 to 2000 have mass fighters, given the level of destruction that we see so far a given the current situation on the ground is a military victory for is really impossible. you know, but that's not what they watch it from the beginning mark their idea of destroy him . us is code for destroyed casa, and anybody who's been watching those knows that this is what exactly what is real means. and that's why you see that the vast majority, 62 percent of those have been killed, are pulse any and children under the age of 18 and women. and so all along with their attempt has never been to destroy him, ask because they know that that's not achievable. and this is no

qatar's role, i spoke with brian katulis, senior fellow and vice president of policy at the middle east institute of guitar in these negotiations, it has clearly had some success, for example if you look at the truce. what do you think makes qatar a successful negotiator? first it has the relationships inside of gaza, particularly with the hamas leadership, by virtue of the fact that it actually hosts some of the hamas leaders after the civil war broke out in syria about a decade ago. some of the hamas leadership is there. second, it has the relationship, in part because israel and in particular benjamin netanyahu asked qatar to actually help deliver funding to hamas enter the infrastructure in gaza many years. to find salaries of school teachers and other things while hamas was ruling out after 2007. because of those relationships, that is what makes qatar an important negotiator in gaza and also has experience in other places, including afghanistan, iran, so it plays this role, though a small country, it punches above its weight because of that role. its weight because of that role, , .,, its w

he's a senior fellow on national security at the middle east institute.good to have you here, general. thanks for being here. let me start with that. what is your reaction to these attacks or attempted attacks that we saw over the weekend? >> you know, we've seen this from the houthis before. we've had some challenges with them in the past as they have targeted ships that are moving through the red sea and particularly as they get down in the south, this is not completely unexpected by the houthis. i'm glad to see the positioning of our ships in the right place so we can begin to address this. come to the aid where necessary of some of these vessels under attack. i think it highlights the bigger challenge that we're having across the region, which is responding to these elements that are loyal to iran, but doing iran's bidding in a variety of different ways. >> martha: the "wall street journal" wrote a piece today. it was titled "about those nonterrorist houthis." the biden administration took them off of the u.s. list of foreign terror organizations. it

middle east as tensions with iran increase. for that we turn to paul salem, the president and ceo of the middle east institute, a washington-basedsan think tank. thank you for being with us. how do you interpret the comments from israel's former defense minister, current member of israel's war cabinet, who is clearly warning about the potential for military escalation against hezbollah? paul: there has been tension between israel and hezbollah from the first date of the hamas attack against israel october 7. reporting indicates u.s. talked israel down from a preemptive attack on hezbollah in those early days. this tension is coming back centerstage and the israelis have made it clear to the americans and to the world that they want some resolution to parts of the situation on their northern border with hezbollah and lebanon. otherwise they will take military action, or at least that is what they are threatening. geoff: is israel capable of starting and maintaining a two front war right now? paul: i believe it is capable of doing that. obviously that would take a lot of manpower and a lot of effort. particularly as they may be tr

egyptian jews of al-assar, who today , he has israeli american citizenship and founded the middle east democracy institutehis main concerns is the use of human rights tools to ensure israel's security and actions the pressure on the countries is one of the biggest sponsors and supporters of human rights in the world , it is one of the staunch defenders of the israeli government, which symbolically announced its support for the zionist regime and participated in the celebration of the 80th birthday of the head of the zionist regime, shimon perez , but perhaps the history of none of this organization and the institutions are not as big as the aristocratic family of rothschild in england. the rothschild family can actually be called the main financial sponsor of the establishment of the zionist regime in 1948. the rothschilds have been in palestine since the 19th century in pursuit of the formation of a jewish state, and finally at the end of the first half of the 20th century, they succeeded in their dream. implement themselves. at the same time , they established an institution called the human rights inst

it is the results of a survey by the policy research institute middle east washington shows that most saudi people are against the normalization of relations with the zionist regime. according to this survey, 96 saudis believe that arab countries should cut ties with the zionist regime because of the gaza war. 911 the saudis announced that despite the crimes of the occupying regime and the widespread destruction of the palestinians , they won this war. 87 the saudis also say that the occupying regime was defeated from within, and the saudis have increased from 10% to 40% compared to the previous survey. the american court acquitted three police officers of the murder of a young black man he growled. manuel eliz, a 33-year-old black american, 3 years ago when the case was arrested. the police were beaten and killed. during the beating, this young man said that he could not breathe, and moments later, he went into a coma and died. medical sources declared the cause of death of manel ellis as homicide due to lack of oxygen. a group of human rights activists protested after the arrest of

for more on the situation, i spoke to analyst and former nonresident fellow at the tahrir institute for middle eastalk with us. i want to start with some of the events of this week. the paramilitary forces capturing wad madani, what did you make of that and do you think this could be a turning point now in this conflict? it is definitely a turning point. obviously, the significance of it stems from wad madani, south of khartoum, have not been part of the violence in the past eight months, around 500,000 citizens from khartoum sought refuge in wad madani actually after the conflict erupted in khartoum in april. so it is a city that hosts a lot of displaced people, but also a large population who have thought for quite some time they are in a safe place, and it wasn't part of the conflict in any way. 0bviously khartoum, the capital for two militaries struggling fighting over power, it makes sense that they would fight in khartoum, that also is the traditional kind of base for iraqi support forces so it also made sense that there was a lot of fighting going there. there was no kind of justifications t

so many lectures about how israel is the best place to invest long term in the middle east for pension funds and institutional investors. and then the next hour, those same leaders say israel bases an extra special threat. both of those things can not simultaneously be true. the former is and still is and the latter is politically expedient. and we need to recognize that, well, let me play you a clip along those lines from secretary of defense, lloyd austin, who had something to say about this crisis less, less than that. what compound this tragedy, if all that was waiting for the israeli people in your palestinian neighbors, at the end of this awful war was more in security, fury and despair. and that was a very sobering words in the united states, secretary of defense about the neighborhood. you just talked about risk, you're one of the greatest risk calculators i know. is this really robbing itself in this moment of that triple a, you know, gold star rating of, you know, a relatively low risk investment for the rest of the world by not taking an off ramp to some of what we seen. how is this real playing wi

stories and accounts for them on a should tie a is a non resident fellow at the top career institute for middle east policy. she says, methods action infringes upon basic right to assembly and free speech. it's not only about ad growth and it said different the policies, practices, and are discriminating against palestinians. since the beginning of this ongoing crisis, we've seen a, i'm going to be biased, comfortable duration of bias and policies biased and defend the practices that has been used to discriminate against palestinians and their allies worldwide. and we're speaking about different kinds of, uh, restrictions, as you've mentioned, account suspension. so the binding at content take down and different other kinds of kinds all violations. and all of those are weeping eyes gazed, not only but a scene in our big content, but other content in different languages, such as english among other languages. and by that, the palestinians are facing the, the, those restrictions on top of that actually human rights violations that we are exposed to on the ground. and besides all of that, ongoing genoc

middle east. live coverage from the u.s. institute of peace and washington, d.c. begins live at 1 p.m. eastern o c-span2 or c-span now or online at c-span.org. >> u.s. defense secretary general lloyd austin held a joint news conference with his australian and british counterparts in mountain view, california after a meeting on the aukus security agreement which provides us right with nuclear powered summary capabilities and collaborating on advanced technologies and information sharing. . . >> good afternoon, let me start by thanking deputy prime minister morals and secretary sharps for coming to california for second aukus defense ministerial meeting. it was definitely worth the trip. we had a very productive and wide-ranging session and today, just underscore that aukus is a once in a generation opportunity that will promote peace and security throughout the indo pacific. the department remains deeply focused on the indo pacific and aukus underscores that fact. for more than two years, our defense forces, industries and scientific communities have led this historic endeavor. in march

middle east. analysis for the institute for the study of war suggests israel is nearing the final stages of its operation in the north. the institute says israel has degraded hamas'rigade in the area as intense fighting continued yesterday. the associated pressepts air strikes killed dozens of palestinians in southern and central gaza yesterday. meanwhile, the guardian, cites a qatari official as describing talks to free more hostages as positive but added a truce deal involving hostages is not believed to be imminent. >>> at annual new year's reception yesterday the israeli president spoke to foreign diplomats and expressed openness in securing a humanitarian pause in the conflict. he presented the idea as an opportunity to get hostages home and allow for more aid to enter gaza, but he said responsibility for securing the pause lies fully with hamas and its leadership. >>> still ahead, we will have a look at this morning's other top stories including what the senate was able to get done or rather not before going on break. >>> plus an update from the southern border following a record day for migrants c

middle east. and some of your big institutions have also been engulfed by rallies and pies. protest is lit flags, and the colors of the apollo send you a flag. and they brought portraits of us on french prisons, calling them complacency, more crimes. some occupations were held at the governments in germany where crowds to bundle the bell and stop sending weapons to israel. and the milan, hundreds marched through the streets, waving pala, send you flags on something, slogans of the processes. united with one message, the blood shed and gaza must stop been throwing up the sound of the juices ended in the genocide continues from windows stuff. people when there is no more water to or function hospitals in together street because it's a genocide, as you know, when they bomb and destroy houses in school school, it's a genocide. anything that is what we are fighting against the depths are still occurring on the policy and side, many people have lost their lives that has to stop. that's why politicians have to do something to achieve peace and human justice. yeah. yeah. the guys that conflict is yet ano

in the middle east, they get involved supporting these ivy league institutions and others as well. their concerned about middle eastern money and concerned about humany mant humanity. the state of israel, talk about genocide, the jews, that's about hornet and within my life -- a little before the my lifetime but within current history and shouldn't be forgotten. too many young people don't have memories of holocaust the idea why israel was created to give the jewish people a homeland to be free and not in ghettos, holocausts treated like second-class citizens. they were treated that way beginning of the last century at these ivy schools. so many jewish students at these schools, lots of discrimination. people don't realize that. the young people. and why they are quick to jump on israel with, they should be with the palestinian people but not in any way with hamas. some lose track of that and get wrapped up in the idea being for the underdog. the underdog government, hamas, is a fascist theocratic group for genocide. >> and i do want to ask you about the israel-hamas war. i mean wha

spon sponsoring academic programs, that seminar coming out of the elliot school, institute of middle easte seen at georgetown and northwestern and other universities. views can be said, but there is no balance here andimis has been promoting for for quite sometime before and after october 7. a bit of picture of what it looked like after the seventh. there was an expert panel with faculty members and they were either not anti-israel, but critical of israel. when you have seven faculty members go in with this. they brought a film called "israelism," two days afterthat. and other events that are skewed. danger we're seeing in the classroom, place we're supposed to get educated and it's turned into indoctrination and it is morally shameful. >> lawrence: there has been so much talk ab about diversity, equity and inclusion. >> jews have been framed into this world view, they are white oppressors and palestinians are

yeah, institute for middle east policy. she says, max is actions, infringe upon people's basic rights to assembly and free speech. it's not only about ad growth and it said different the policies, practices, and are discriminating against palestinians. since the beginning of this ongoing crisis, we've seen a, i'm going to be biased, content will duration of bias and policies bias and defend the practices that has been used to discriminate against palestinians and the allies worldwide. and we're speaking about different kinds of, uh, restrictions, as you've mentioned, account suspension. so the binding at content take down and different other kinds of kinds all violations. and all of those are weeping eyes gazed, not only but a scene in our big content, but other content in different languages, such as english among other languages. and by that, the palestinians are facing the, the, those restrictions on top of that actually human rights violations that we are exposed to on the ground. and besides all of that, ongoing genoci

middle east and latin america. live coverage here on c-span2. >> 1984 as a public nonpartisan institute dedicated to help prevent, mitigate and solve violent conflict abroad. it's a great honor to welcome senator peter welch to usip forr a discussion on conflict in the world and the role that though united states plays in an era of growing strategic rivalry is him. there's a lot of dark clouds on the global horizon. democratic stagnation and authoritarianism is spreading, impacting areas of as diverse as the western balkans in central america. conflict has erupted in middle east. there been a rash of coups in host with africa and tensions in the south china sea are rising, risking possible confrontation between the world superpowers. .. the 16th years including multiple terms on the house intelligence committee and member of the human rights commission. the senator patrick leahy on the judiciary, and joint economic community. the need for clear guide leadership. >> i think you are a master of understatement. gaza, israel and america's role in the world and the democracy we see around the world. i just want to say a couple

middle east and australia. during the second world war through. the role of the so-called middle powers in the international arena is growing as the previous system of institutionsl, when the middle powers also have a whole storehouse of resources, it’s absolutely great. why the importance of the gulf monarchy is increasing, we asked one of saudi arabia's most respected oilmen, sadad husseini. highlight something else. what happens when their professional qualities are only guided by people who are incapable of this, as we now see in europe or the united states. development programs developed here. combine political, economic, technological aspects, they inspire confidence in people and markets, and ensure controlled development. the contribution of the russian leadership to these processes. was extremely important, thanks to this it was possible to assemble opec plus, a coalition of countries with effective governance, sustainable markets, modern technologies. these countries are able to resist the pressure of consumers who would like to get everything for free, so to speak. leadership is the main thing. in the raw materials sector, nothing has changed qualitat

more, more drawn into the middle east conflict, under any, under any conditions, so according to the assessments given by the american military, there are all sorts of institutionsl, no way, they don’t even pull two, most likely that means in the far east, they will now also try to avoid this conflict, that is, to come to an agreement that they are not doing anything, they are not declaring independence there, the status quo is being maintained and to deal with what is happening in the middle east, here, of course, the big problem is what we need, now we think that russia has seized the strategic initiative, but now... they are moving, what is happening around us in europe, for example, serbia, it also seems to me that this is also a blow to russia, this is consolidation, consolidation of this european space, remember how someone destroyed serbia, the americans, of course, but they stood on the sidelines, let the europeans go ahead, the europeans, of course , could not do anything, the americans intervened, the dayton agreements, and the europeans were shown who they were. in fact, in the essence of the treaty, they are obliged to participate, whether they have

institutions, schools, everything. you can't recognise gaza any more. 0ur middle east correspondent sally nabil is in washington and hasctually blamed the us for a lot of what's happening because he clearly said that if the us wants to bring the assault — the israeli assault on gaza — to a halt, it can. it's the only country that can pressure israel. he also referred to the veto the us has used lately to disrupt a un resolution calling for a ceasefire. and as you've heard, he said that what happened is far beyond a genocide or a disaster, it's far worse, and that gaza at the moment is unrecognisable. he also spoke about the ability of the palestinian authorities to run gaza after the war. but that's a very controversial issue given the huge lack of trust, or at least the huge differences, between hamas and the palestinian authorities. will the people in gaza accept the palestinian authority to take control? that's highly unlikely. so that's a big issue at the moment. he also talked about israeli efforts to push the palestinians into the egyptian sinai peninsula, and that has been one of the main concerns of the egyptia

angus blair is founder of the signet institute — a cairo—based think tank dedicated to the business, economics and politics of the middle east he told us about some of the economic challenges egypt has been trying to navigate. internally, over years, you have to remember that egypt's economy was changed fundamentally in the �*50s and �*60s, nationalised and so on, and there have been three periods of economic reform and we are in the third one now. and when you look at what is happening, a number of fundamental issues haven't been addressed. demographic issues, population growth — 1.6% per annum, adding to problems as government ministers say that even if they try harder to address economic issues, you have the growth of population that needs health, housing, food and education and other services, which adds to the bill of around 60% of the population needing constant support of food subsidies and other subsidies, so that eats into government spending, reducing fiscal manoeuvrability. inflation — very high, not helped by internal monopolies and oligopolies, particularly in food but not only in food. food inflation running ab

institutions, schools, everything. you cannot recognise gaza any more. our middle east correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem and gave us this update on how the war is expanding beyond the gaza strip. we've had the palestinian ministry of health saying that some 300 palestinians have been killed by israeli forces and by israeli settlers. and just overnight, we saw that there was an israeli raid on tulkarem, on the nur shams refugee camp close there, and that has killed six palestinians, according to palestinian health officials. it really shows just how there is this constant fear of an expansion beyond gaza, into the west bank as well. and we've actually had the israeli defense minister yesterday also warning about a multi—front war, including the west bank in that, saying that there are seven theatres in which israel has to kind of look around the region at the moment. it's operating, he said, in six of those, without specifying where. also along the border with lebanon, things have been extremely tense. lots of cross—border exchanges in the past few days. we've h

institutions, schools, everything. you can't recognize gaza anymore. samantha: for more, i spoke to our middle eastrespondent who is in washington. >> he blamed the u.s. for a lot of what is happening because he clearly said if the u.s. wants to bring the assault, the assault on gaza to a halt, it can. it is the only country that can pressure israel. he referred to the veto the u.s. used lately to disrupt a you and resolution calling for a cease-fire. he said what happened is far beyond a genocide or a disaster. it is worse than that. gaza at the moment is unrecognizable. he spoke about the ability of the palestinian authority's to run gaza after the war, but that is a controversial issue, given the huge lack of trust or at least the huge difference between hamas and the palestinian authority. will people in gaza except the palestinian authority taken control? that is unlikely. that is a big issue at the moment. he talked about israeli efforts to push palestinians into the egyptian sinai peninsula. thatas been one of the main concerns of the egyptian officials. they said if that happens, that would