candidate newt gingrich turns out as you write about he's also a major contributor to netanyahu what do you think we should take from this money aspect of this. it's kind of remarkable because there's a discussion in the u.s. media about adelson is role in the presidential campaign and no mention of israel they refused to say the israel word and adelson is game is he's a union buster in las vegas who became friends with newt gingrich he's funding gingrich's campaign he gave gingrich five million dollars to gingrich's again which aligned super pac right after newt gingrich called the palestinians an invented people at the same time adelson owns a newspaper in israel called him which is can considered netanyahu house organ his propaganda sheet and he's finance pro netanyahu think tanks so there is a clear so adelson is the link between netanyahu and the us presidential campaign what i'm on able to completely figure out and what i think a lot of people in the us are wondering is why is adelson funding gingrich's campaign which is so anti romney gingrich has dedicated his campaign to des

describe the most likable characteristic of netanyahu. >> prime minister netanyahu is strong. he is consistent. he told me is very sincere about this. many many times when i met with prime minister netanyahu he said "i am sincere. i want peace." i believed him. president of boss -- abbas ask me the same thing. are we done? i think they're both the serious. that is not the question. everybody wants peace on their terms. the difficulty is achieving peace on terms that can be acceptable to the other side. that is the political problem. if you said to be israelis, here are the israeli terms approval? it be said to the palestinians and you want peace, people would say of course. the public is they're just like the public is here. they're able to hold and convey contradictory views at the same time. they say that we want peace. we wanted on our terms. the challenge and the task of leadership is to reconcile those two conflicting demands. we can do it in a way that can make it possible for the other side to accept it. can i tell one more story c. debate. when i was senate majority le

of rhetoric is not good for israel israel is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu use of his kind of information i'd rather rick to get reelected he being serious indeed now the people you know i want to transcend like you are you're going to get i'm sorry for you because it's interesting to me go ahead john jump in no because what i understood as the obvious lesson obvious why he would a law i oppose working on nuclear weapons until he has them you know a ten year old child can figure that out he obviously wants to destroy your he was mayor of toronto and you think that he's lying about attack you sure of the law do you not me saying for domestic consumption it doesn't you know it just it was very powerful when i was given charge of the military you know in charge and you know his predecessor as president also said well what you want to gather this is what you want to do and when they launch you want to use weapons you have to go to sleep until they've got them ready you have to be an idiot to fall for that ok nader you want to follow if you want to use the propag

with the debate between romney and gingrich who would you know call netanyahu to get approval prior to any kind of u.s. policy which in some sense is unheard of in u.s. foreign policy circles again i think this is primarily because of who they were looking toward in iowa and the constituency in iowa there was a perception that maybe whoever kind of grabs hold of the evangelical vote will be able to determine you know the course of iowa. to a certain extent that was smart politics whether this will translate into a real election year issue when the republican candidate is chosen i doubt it i don't know i can't really see mitt romney using the israel issue to much advantage come the fall but certainly in the republican primaries it's useful politics and now with the arab revolutions do you think that has anything to do or affect in any way that presidential candidates campaigns i would like it to of course this is a major event on the world stage unfortunately the united states is rather poor especially with our elections and sometimes even the greatest transformations have very littl

describe the most likable characteristic of netanyahu. >> prime minister netanyahu is strong.is consistent. he told me is very sincere about this. many many times when i met with prime minister netanyahu he said "i am sincere. i want peace." i believed him. president of abbas asked me the same thing. are we done? i think they're both the serious. that is not the question. everybody wants peace on their terms. the difficulty is achieving peace on terms that can be acceptable to the other side. why would to get close to 100 approval? it be said to the palestinians and you want peace, people would say of course. likeublic is they're just the public is here. convey able to hold and contradictory views at the same time. they say that we want peace. we wanted on our terms. the challenge and the task of leadership is to reconcile those two conflicting demands. we can do it in a way that can make it possible for the other side to accept it. >> it is relevant of the current debate. when i was senate majority leader, the first president bush was in office. we have a terrific fight over

what about netanyahu. >> i got this call, do you want to go to israel and interview netanyahu who's been interviewed by the greatest in the world. it's great pressure, you only get an hour, going a long ways, cost a lot of money and a lot of people to watch this. it was the first one he did after the arab spring broke. i was nervous and excited and thought this could be a moment for me and the show establishing political credentials interviewing. for me, politics is a great phrase, politics is "showbiz" for ugly people. i thought, it's the same thing. show business, royalty, politics, news, in the end, we're dealing with human beings. they may be politicians, singers, artists, in the end, what i do, interview with people is get to the truth somehow, get to what they're really like, forever i'm doing you or evening man netanyahu. >> you will never be doing me. >> in your dreams. >> how do you think your interview went with netanyahu? did you watch your own interview? >> of course. >> what is your nightmare scenario? >> we don't want to see this starks midevilism that rolls us back a mille

and in word of mouth, at least, primary netanyahu says we want a two-state solution. but their present -- >> do you think he means it? >> i'm not sure. their present policies arelead ing to a one-state solution, which i believe in the future will be a catastrophe to israel. >> to the israelis who say that uh yo don't fully, i guess, feel their pain of being on the receiving end of the suicide bombing and the attacks and so on, what do you say to them? >> i don't have much chance to talk to the israeli leader anymore, but last time i was over there, i did meet with the speaker of the house and i met with the deputy prime minister and also the mayor of jerusalem. so i still talk to some leaders. but i just encouraged them to treat the palestinians fairly and to honor international law and to realize that israel can be a strong, safe, and recognized country by all the palestinians if they go back to the '67 borders. i love israel, i've been there many, many times. i have many friends there, including mow knacken bagen, who was my close friend, and many of the other prime

describe for us the most admirable characteristic of benjamin netanyahu. >> prime minister netanyahus strong, and he is consistent. he has told me personally, directly, many times, and he was very sincere about this -- he wanted peace. he wanted to try to get it done. i have to explain that by saying many times when i met with prime minister netanyahu, he said he was sincere and wanted peace. i believed him. i'd go to president abbas, where he asked me the same question in reverse. i think they are both serious about wanting peace. that is not the question. everybody wants peace on their turns -- terms. the difficulty is achieving peace on terms that can be acceptable to the other side. that is the political problem. if you said to any israeli, "here is peace" enlisted the israeli terms, you would get close to 100% approval. he said the same to palestinians, do they want peace on palestinian terms, they would say the same. the public their dislike the public here are able to convey victories used at the same time. what they say to their leaders is they want peace but what it on their

i'm not sure netanyahu will do that under any reasonable circumstances. i hope he will. >> you brought this amazing peace accord between egypt and israel. how much of this is done to individual personalities, leaders, who just get it and do we have the right people in charge of israel, of palestine? are they the people you could have done business with as president? >> maknockenbagen when he was first elected had a terrible reputation against peace, in fact, he had been branded by the british government before as the number one terrorist in the middle east. but he came around, because of persuasion by me and because of persuasion and because he knew what was best for his own country. and the peace agreement that we worked out, the camp david accords, had two major facets. number one was, no more war between israel egypt. that party's been honored for 37 years. the other was equal rights for the palestinians and a withdraw by israel from palestinian, which he agreed to. and the united states agreed to and egypt agreed to. that part of it has not been carri

i think he disrespected prime minister benjamin netanyahu.yn: threw eupl under the bus, disrespected on on he went. we did research here and found this gallop polling, look at this back in january of 09 when he took office he had a 83% approval rating among jewish voters. as of 2011 that number was down to 54%, almost a 30% drop. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show and mike gallagher is a fox news contributor. the president maintains he's been a staunch ally to israel. but that graph from gallop seems to suggest that jewish voters don't think so. >> the graph is wrong -- the direct graph is right it may represent the way jewish voters are now thinking. he's been terrible lee represented. mitt romney misrepresented what happened. benjamin netanyahu thanked the president at the u in in september for in his stance of not having a palestinian state at the time. ed koch who is influential with jewish voters. megyn: former meije mayor of new york. >> he said he would support obama based on new information about how supportive obama has been

of rhetoric is not good for israel israel is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu you know that is kind of information that rhetoric to get reelected he being here is a need now that people in you know how did you know then like you i mean when i say moderated you think it is interesting to me. do stay with us for cross talk later on are still to come in the program here faulty brakes on the go for european leaders it's back to brussels as the e.u. rattled by the euro crisis labor to install a spending seat belt for the blocks debt ridden economy. the u.s. reportedly sits down with the taliban but hopes for peace talks after a decade of conflict in afghanistan and we've got more analysis on that story in just a few minutes here in our city. the mayor of oakland has asked the courts to throw out occupy activists with a record of protest arrests about the city demand follows one of the most dramatic clamps down on the movement in its history more than four hundred people were arrested when what began as a peaceful rally against inequality and police brutality turned

there's talks to go ahead and succeed, and i would say as i did say to benjamin netanyahu this week, you know, you got to show confidence building measures to show the palestinians you're cease -- serious to get a deal, and i said don't add too many preconditions before you go into talks because you got to do the negotiation around the table rather than before you get there. now, both sides can give up a little and actually show they want to deal, they want to agree, i think we'll all know roughly what most of the end state solutions are. as one put it many times and i think here in davos, sometimes there's a light, but there's no tunnel. we need to get the tum right in terms of the talks process to >> "washington journal" is live at 7:00 eastern would segments on home fork -- home foreclosures. >> our road to the white house coverage continues today with several events in florida. newt gingrich speaks to the hispanic leadership network conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern. that conference in miami, we will hear from mitt romney and you concede that lie ahead -- on c-span at 12:20 p.m..

and israel jumps the gun benjamin netanyahu calls a new york tim barker raid all fast without waiting for a week a god of his to find and in the supplier. the battle over scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. with the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if london gives its blessing it comes as a fearful british government ramps up ridicule have a rather rick against the panel's bit as artie's or smith reports bond and grandstanding is roughly more than just feathers among the scots. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on whom soil the country is closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . very soon as they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending question that's have the debate and that's keep our country togethe

the boycott law is one of several controversial pieces of legislation being advanced by the netanyahu government a number of similarly criticized bills are currently under discussion in the israeli parliament another ball aims to dramatically limit foreign funding of nongovernmental groups critical of israel it's expected to receive cabinet approval soon this is a very conservative right wing coalition they have a solid majority in parliament but still they sort of promote these bills which which are preceded not only by the left but by the previous by the courts. is not encouraging them ocracy ok or sort of limiting free speech in israel many here think it's a way for the right wing coalition government of prime minister netanyahu to stay in power but for people like gershon baskin he says he'll continue to call for a boycott of the settlements and far from censoring him the law has only strengthened his resolve to stop israel's growing onslaught on democracy policy r.t. tel aviv. but i thought the car for you this hour here on our race to the finish well i think you all of the lates

this use of comparison he has been they have been used in israeli government by bibi netanyahu and the individuals like your guest this is wrong this is discrediting all those jews that died in world war two and it's comparing something that is really not comparable he has said negative things about israel and i think going back to what your guest from london said once you go and criticize israel especially the one you regime then the wrath of the united states will come upon you with all its tools covert all over it sanctions and that's what the problem is that's what the difference between iran and those other countries are none of them have criticized israel and that's the price you pay now i'm not saying good or bad this is the decision that they don't and government has made that is the price you pay because you get at senate approval of a bill with one hundred to zero how often does that happen and of course it was part of the military bill but at the same time it shows that if you fool around and you criticize israel does what you did so they have to deal with it and that's what

rhetoric is not good for israel is really is a very strong country and it doesn't need this bibi netanyahu use of this kind of information and rhetoric to get reelected and he being the need now the people you know how do you know them like you are going to be nice to you because interesting to me. syrian troops backed by tanks and have ammunition have reportedly regain control over the outskirts of damascus activists suggest over sixty people have been killed in the latest fighting just over a day after the arab league mission was frozen are you sara for us reports from the syrian capital. well a sense really that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already extremely volatile situation and unfortunately that's exactly what we've seen happen now for a minister lavrov was speaking on his tour of asia pacific countries and what he said about it was that he didn't really understand why such a useful tool was used in this way and now we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to a halt they never really recovered after that decision last week for the gul

obama's diplomacy you had another israeli cabinet member criticizing him certainly it's no secret that netanyahu and obama don't get along but to talk about the israeli elite as though it's one. unit dimensional anti israel behemoths because they don't like having another power in the region you know this is about iran's nuclear program that is threatening the state of israel when iran talks about erasing israel from the pages of history pursues and the reason is that based on you know it's not entirely clear that it's not entirely clear that was ever there was a bad translation of what the president of iran had to say so i go ahead i absolutely peter and that israel has two three hundred nuclear warheads it's been supplied by dolphin submarines by germany which can which can actually cause nuclear have a there it's got one of the biggest strongest army in the whole world and it's one of the biggest arms exporter so how can iran even if it's private even if it chose to weaponize its nuclear program which it has not done it will not be a minus for israel plus if ever iran attacked israel the unit

these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pressuring europe to impose an embargo on iranian oil immediately over the country's nuclear ambitions that you will decide of the sentients in a few days but may delay their effect until july while countries look for a new oil supplier iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz of bile world fuel supply route if the sanctions are a move us as could lead to military action. from the anti-war group and national action center says washington's determined to get its hands on a rainy in a while after losing control. ago. the motivation for the us to continue repressing the iranian people to assassinate nuclear scientists has nothing to do with any love of democracy it has everything to do with the fact that the iranian people rose up in one nine hundred seventy nine and took control of the oil resources and they have never ever forgiven them for that and the us has never wanted to tolerate the fact of the iranian people and not shell oil and not texaco control of the oil resources in iran any threats of wars must be strongly opp