south africa occupied namibia. international court of justice at a 1971, if south africa does not engage in good-faith negotiations to end its occupation of namibia, that occupation is illegal under international law. israel has refused to engage in good-faith negotiations to end the occupation of palestine could just like in the case of namibia. it is now an illegal occupier palestine, and there should be a conference of or sanctions imposed on israel until and unless it into the occupation of palestine under the terms of international law. >> we will either there, normal finkelstein, author and scholar. ofin rabbani, senior fellow palestine studies. that does it for this discussion today. we will continue the discussion of what is happening in gaza. back in a moment. ♪ [music break] on monday was woody guthrie's birthday. he would've been 102. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> we turn now to look at new developments in what critics dub the gree

instinctive and immediate and i do remember -- i don't remember much about the plane trip back from namibiahere i buried my son but i do remember that i sat writing a furious letter to the nra, which then eventually was altered into the first essay that i wrote about him, which was published by the same people and it happens that christopher was on the staff at the st. pete times at that point. but when i look back at it, it seems to me that the writing helps me in three different ways. one was that at first i just flashed out everything, the grave come, the anger and the loss in my journal. and then at some point i began to realize that i had been enormously helped by books that other people i've written about suicide, about depression, about soldiering and it began to seem to me that what i was doing in my journal was telling the story of my grief but i wasn't telling the story of my son, whereas my experience day by day was brief memory, brief memory, brief memory and there arose a new desire to tell his story which i know it's not his story of his story. it's mine. he would not have tol

instinctive and immediate and i do remember -- i don't remember much about the plane trip back from namibiaere i buried my son but i do remember that i sat writing a furious letter to the nra, which then eventually was altered into the first essay that i wrote about him, which was published by the same people and it happens that christopher was on the staff at the st. pete times at that point. but when i look back at it, it seems to me that the writing helps me in three different ways. one was that at first i just flashed out everything, the grave come, the anger and the loss in my journal. and then at some point i began to realize that i had been enormously helped by books that other people i've written about suicide, about depression, about soldiering and it began to seem to me that what i was doing in my journal was telling the story of my grief but i wasn't telling the story of my son, whereas my experience day by day was brief memory, brief memory, brief memory and there arose a new desire to tell his story which i know it's not his story of his story. it's mine. he would not have told

to from central africa with eastern africa and chad and the condo and southern africa and also of namibiaand says it up with the head of the a you and we have been having meetings and a big problem is heidi reduce those priorities into a workable framework? after many meetings this was held in new york september with the emergence of the un the first thing to try down the idea of priorities so let's see what are the issues? so with those five tellers but also with the development process and where is the world going? not just about africa's priorities but also looking at and where the world is going and what kind of world do we want to live in or partnership to establish? one of the biggest or the down side was the partnership was not thinking where they were supposed to go that it is the important aspect of the process. oread structural economic transformation it is important with the president to say it during the process to keep repeating it in a matter what you do or how you deal with social issues if you don't deal with it use still have problems because that is a source of exclusion

i spent one year overseas with -- we had a child just a year and a half old in namibia and i look at that and think, you know, the difficulty that is to have one child away from cousins and parents, grandparents and everyone else. you've done it many, many times, your service is appreciated. all the families in particular. mr. heflin, with regard to cabo verde, the millennium challenge -- we're in the second iteration, what did we learn in the first? what lessons are we taking what forward and how can we make sure that we expand on the benefits? >> money and challenge corporation has not quite finished its after-action report on the first compact. the second compact, it was decide ds d to spend the first years getting the legal and regulatory framework if place. once that's done, and only once that's done, we will move onto construction and other spending. >> mr. allen, trade surplus is a pretty good surplus. we've got -- how much of it traditionally is military equipment? is that typical, year-to-year? or is that just lately? >> thank you, ranking member. the trade surplus and the t

namibia chooses to look at the scheduling is, have a rigorous independent review, determined that they are sound practices aligned with our policy in their first guy credible data for external consumption of us for our own internal actions. >> what is the expected cost of the audit? >> i don't have a number for you. >> again with regard to the bonuses, have any bonus is then rescinded to willful misconduct for negligence management? can you answer that question? >> i will give you the best dance or as i know it. there were some bonuses rescinded recently that were rescinded with administrative error. the law allows us to do that. we are the areas sub team learned after the end of the performance. and after the performance contract is officially the performance beneficiary approved we don't have the ability to go back and change performance evaluation. we do have the ability to go and reduce ballot and take better action would be to difficult actions upon some subsequent information that affected performance during our performance. >> okay, last question. i understand implemented a hiri