netanyahu is a different type of is really part minister and a host of ways.o not think we can depend on those prior approaches to necessarily reflect what is going on this time. >> i want to turn to some of the comments made recently by israel's ambassador to the u.s., speaking monday he said that israel is threatened by iran and away the united states is not. ambassador michael oren was speaking at msnbc. >> there are structural differences we cannot ignore it. the u.s. is a big country with large capabilities located far from the middle east. israel is a small country located in iran's back yard. israel is threatened almost weekly, if not daily, with annihilation by iranian leaders. so as iran continues to expand its program both increasing its stockpiles, we think we have -- we think they have five bombs worth of enriched uranium -- if they keep moving at underground the places which will be beyond our capabilities, then it is built in our considerations, our clocks are moving faster. >> the israeli ambassador also said all other measures had failed to per

channel ten in israel and he reported that benjamin netanyahu is determined to attack iran before our presidential elections. ilan, you first, why are you so convinced an attack will happen? >> i didn't say that, i said the prime minister seems very determined to lane much a strike between now and october. the time to act is now. he believes if he waits and passes the november elections, no one, including the u.s. will do anything in order to stop iran and the next time it will have the operational conditions to launch a strike against riir in the coming spring will be too late. he still needs to pass some very

were their most reliable ally, too, but they humiliated netanyahu at the white house. that was outrageous, so i was not happy about that. >> netanyahu is the most aggressive, tenacious. you feel sorry for him? >> i think it is milanee -- humiliating for mr. obama to keep ahead of one of our closest allies waiting annan then tell him he is an -- and then tell him he is too busy. it is outrageous. it is inexcusable. >> the reason i am pushing back is because the reason i am pushing back, i have seen you talk about poverty. you are goi to spend more on defense while poverty is threatening our democracy. >> let me back up several steps. we have more than a enough to spend on defense if we would just have taxes at a proper level. i hate to say it. now i am going to be waylaid on the way home by my republican friends. we tax too little. our taxes are just too low, so we do need to raise some money. i would like to see that money go to military pay but also to comprehensive training of the poor people so they can get out of poverty. i do not think we can pay people to get out

panetta told benjamin netanyahu that u.s. officials are committed to resolving iran's nuclear issue. >> we will not allow them to develop a nuclear weapon. and we will exert all options in the effort to ensure that that does not happen. >> netanyahu said that sanctions have hurt iran's economy but he said they have had no impact on the nuclear program. he suggested that israeli patience was wearing thin. >>> president bashar al-assad has told his troops that their battle against opposition forces will determine the fate of syria. his written message gave no clues to his whereabouts. assad has not spoken in public since the bomb in damascus last month killed three of his security aides. assad issued the statement in a military magazine on wednesday. the founding day of the syrian army. he said the rebels are terrorists plotting the country's fall. [ explosion ] troops loyal to assad are fierce fighting and it continues in the city of aleppo. u.n. observers have confirmed the military is using war planes to fire on the rebels a

he told benjamin netanyahu they are committed to resolving iran's nuclear issue. >> we will not allow them to develop a nuclear weapon. and we will exert all options in the effort to ensure that that does not happen. >> netanyahu said that sanctions have hurt iran's economy but have not had an impact on the nuclear perhaps. >>> syria's president says his government's battle against rebels will determine the country's face. it's the first official statement since a bomb in damascus last month killed some of his senior government officials. assad's whereabouts are unknown. he issued the statement in a military magazine on wednesday. the founding day of the syrian army. he said the rebels are terrorists plotting the country's fall. fierce fighting continues in the city. u.n. observers have confirmed the military is using war planes to fire on the rebels and the opposition has tanks and heavy weapons. the violence is worsening. veteran video shows the free syria army executing fighters. >>> workers at a brand-name japanese television maker will rather working at one just isn't what it use

you quoted prime minister netanyahu, who was basically making the case that sanctions have failed and diplomacy is not working. does that mean that he is going to order an attack between now and, say, the presidential election? i think the chances of that, while there is a significant chance, are relatively low. probably 25% to 30%. a good deal of what is going on right now is an effort to try to get president obama to make more commitments for the u.s. to join in such an action eventually because the u.s. has such a capability, if the moment came. but the question is more a political one and a technological one. he is trying to imagine who he think will win the election and whether he thinks that even if mitt romney one, whether he would spend a year or year and half getting his feet solid and trying to figure out what it would take to go stop iran. >> very briefly, if there is a strike against iran, the region itself is in absolute turmoil at the moment. it could be disastrous. >> it could be. there are many people advising prime minister netanyahu, including his intelligence and mi

government that keeps crowding at home but splashing around to score political points prime minister netanyahu popularity is dropping massively as people's outrage grows. and forty people are reported injured and brain police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters demanding political reforms while a leak to video allegedly shows government mercenaries driving cars at demonstrators . spain's given the strongest indication yet that it might finally mean to lean on europe's a bailout fund next nobel economics laureate and word prescott explains what he thinks has gone so wrong in the region and what needs to be done to put it right. noble economics laureate edward prasco says the euro is doomed old boy in the schools of america will have a joint collapse much bigger than in two thousand and eight mr prescott let's start with the euro was it dead in the water and if you have. for children and give more credit cards. but tell me that they have to behave responsibly and one of them does. what he. is going to be problems and that we have to sort of cut out that it's analogous to the sub. whic

government of israel pin the never report set up by prime minister benjamin netanyahu basically found that there was no occupation despite international criticism how will prime minister netanyahu deal with the inevitable embarrassment and fallout following this report first of all over you know what he will do with it if you're asking me if he could base some activity based on this recommendations i doubt it because it would be very difficult to defend those actions in the supreme court of justice of israel but i'm not saying that he want to try i don't know i really don't know what he's going to do. i think it gave a kind of. inspiration to the people from israel their whole issue of the west bank is a matter of opinion if you have the right wing opinion in israel then you could read this report if you are a left wing they say that i am you are right this report what i am saying hears that the most important thing is there while the authorized organization that got this report and decided what to do with it. i wrote a report that the prime minister adopted that the government of isr

neighboring countries the tech like this you don't know how to how the region will react and if netanyahu the rational would be happy and safe and think no they won't dare to unfortunately i'm not sure that that and you know is that rational i mean he's increasing he's really increasing his tanks israel attacks. and i'm afraid his calculation might be because the us election i can attack iraq a bomb has to back me after the election he might not want to back so that gives us a really really bad chance that the netanyahu might attack in october as soon as october it starts with an attack and the question is how an attack from. tools for a nuclear science in iran how will that develop. i'm not sure it will develop an all out war but i mean tanks on israel will happen then you don't know how to react there's a street of formals whether they were close or not that would definitely start an all out war in terms of germany's role what job is that germany to do and germany could really change a lot in that region it was. germany nine years ago to to mediate in the conflict on the not the program

shame on you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the week i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as humans they think we're animals in the soup already people have set themselves on fire if nothing changes we'll all start doing it too by comparison not one person appears homeless and outposts like this one in the ground as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding answers to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor in existing communities policy r.t. migwan outpost in the west bank spain's prime minister has given his strongest indication yet that the country might need a bailout months after denying any that rescuing but mariano rajoy is reluctant to sign up beef for stringent cuts being imposed until you know what the conditions might be spain's banks are already receiving one hundred billion euros of help from the e.u. later nobel economics laureate edward prescott explains why the single currency is ruining the region's finances. you have. poor children and

tension in the middle east, given the perspective that time, according to israeli prime minister netanyahu is running out for diplomacy? >> i think that is why they need the iron dome system for protection against the shorter-range missiles and the kinds of things that could come out of syria, or hezbollah. the terrorist group in lebanon. or hamas, in the gaza strip. just as they want arrow-2 and other systems to protect against longer-range threats but i think it underlines for the united states why we have to have not just plans but be moving now to make sure that assad's stock of chemical weapons is not used in this conflict and, indeed if his regime falls, whoever succeeds him gives the weapons up and turns them over to the u.s. or the international authority for destruction, should be a real objective of ours. >> kelly: ambassador, thanks as always for your perspective. obviously israel is facing a lot of situation right now in northeast. thank you, sir, have a great day and by the way, we'll have more on this in our next year with the former chief of staff to israel prime minister be

according to a major daily israeli newspaper the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his defense minister would like to strike iran as early as before the u.s. presidential elections taking place in november this year now amid escalating media reports and expert predictions that such an attack could in fact be around the corner the peepers front page article on friday offered by its senior commentators and reportedly based off of conversations with israel's defense minister says that if it were up to benjamin netanyahu and his minister of defense israel would cause a military attack on iran sometime within the next several months importantly israel's security cabinet ministers have been resisting such an option for now what's important here is while israel is weighing this option we know of course that iran continues to insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes exclusively and we have seen the obama administration be careful in urging israel to stick with diplomacy and now of course the big question is whether israel may in fact go ahead with such an attack and whe

presence in the country israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is planning to bury a recent controversial report on west bank settlements according to israeli media the document was sanctioned by his own government and states that the country's presence in the west bank is not occupation something netanyahu doesn't want to discuss in order to avoid international scrutiny artie's spoke to an alter of a previous report on the issue which produced very different findings that interview is up next. with me i have tellus a son a noted attorney and also the author of a two thousand and five israeli government sponsored report that documented the legality of the building of outposts on the settlements thank you very much for joining us here on our t. there has just recently been another report also government sponsored the levi report that found exactly the opposite that these outposts in fact on legal in the country of law how is it possible to have these contradictions my or poor. in flying on the supreme court of justice of israel decisions for decades for forty five years old morse that inte

shame on you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the week i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as humans they think we're animals in the already people have set themselves on fire if nothing changes we'll all start doing it too by comparison not one person appears homeless and outposts like this one in the ground as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding answers to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor in existing communities policy r.t. outpost in the west bank. activists in bahrain say at least forty five people have been injured after the country's security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters hundreds of demonstrators have been in the streets demanding political reforms forty people have also been arrested in the gulf war like in the early hours of friday on thursday members of the opposition blocked a key highway pushing for their main demand and the elected parliament bahrain's uprising began a year ago and a half i should

shame on you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the week i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as humans they think we're animals in the already people have set themselves on fire if nothing changes we'll all start doing it too by comparison not one person appears homeless and outposts like this one to make one as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding answers to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor in existing communities policy r.t. outpost in the west bank. so coming up in the program refusing tree for in downtown washington these are wells in the united states firing on ordinary americans desperately seeking jobs sold to iran punk trust her to. those. over north was taking the funds from selling arms to iran to use to fund the contras and. understood no it's not the world what you got it and now we make iran out to be the bad guy but here we were exchanging arms with them why do you think the world is ok with that though because america is in the po

what is the message from the israeli president and inside the netanyahu administration?mpany him when we gave him the presidential medal of freedom. at the end of the day, the decision has to be made by the democratically elected government of israel. that is our duty, that is our right. that right has been recognized by president obama. obama said israel has a right to defend itself against any middle eastern threat. only israel as a sovereign nation can decide how best to defend citizens. >> you are saying that pers has ceremonial role in israel and this does not speak to netanyahu administration. >> the buck ends with the government of israel. that buck is in jerusalem with the democratically elected government. >> bret: we will follow this closely. ambassador oren, thank you. >> as always, thank you. >> bret: so do you think israel will carry out a unilateral strike on iran before the election in the u.s.? let me know on twitter. follow me. is joe biden helping or hurting the president? we talk about that and the campaign news when the fox all-stars join me after the

in a statement today, netanyahu said: >> reporter: now, u.s. official have counseled restraint telling israel over and over there's still time for diplomatic efforts to work but, scott, it's hard to find real optimism on any front. >> pelley: thanks, bob. there's not much optimism in syria, either, where there is growing concern that the dictatorship stockpiles of chemical weapons could get loose in the chaos of the civil war there. today we asked mitt romney what he would do as commander in chief on syria and iran. is it worth going to war to stop an iranian nuclear weapon? >> we certainly have to maintain all options that we have, but iran becoming nuclear and potentially providing fissile material to hezbollah or other of the groups that are associated with that nation, the potential of those groups bringing that fissile material to our continent, even to the united states, that's unacceptable. no question in my view that we can put all manner of pressure upon the regime that's there but they have to also know that a military option is one w