especially with my friend omer. he was protecting villages when he was taken and we have not heard anything about him in nearly two months. though it's not the best look on my face, i can agree to that, i stand there kind of trying think of him. this conflict hits so close and it's so difficult -- i should be studying for my math final at this point if i'm being honest. >> i know you continue to pray and worry about your friend. so i wonder if you can -- hearts go out to you and everyone involved, related to omer. is there a way to kind of describe the feeling on campus? you know, regarding anti-semitism and islamophobia. you mentioned at the top of the interview it's a shame that so many of you students are feeling scared. but talk to me about what the feeling on campus is, you know, that in light of the criticism about how your university president answered questions about campus policy and threatening language as it relates to genocide. which all led to her resignation ultimately. >> yeah. so on campus, though i

i know omer is an american citizen from long island. the united states also of course playing a role in this. are you satisfied with the response from the u.s.? >> well, you know, we met with a lot of u.s. officials, congress, and senate, and of course in the white house. we met with the president himself, and we did see high level of interest to bring this conflict to a close, bring our dear ones home. they're really concerned about it. we have had numerous productive conversations with anybody in the government and high-ranking officers. and they are pushing -- we know they're pushing to the release, for swift release of hostages. but so far we haven't seen results. and the news today about the mother, grandmother, judy weinstein, another american israeli that was declared dead today, just showing the urgency here and the fact that there's no time. the clock is ticking. those hostages are in bad condition. they're not getting proper nutrition. they're not getting medical attention. the red cross is not allowed to get in. i mean, this

on omer mokhtar street, the zionists have the only progress they have had in the last 20 days here onkhtar street it has been around the maamdani hospital and the gaza jama mosque on the side of jamal abdul nasser street. also , the resistance here is heavily involved with them, and the partisan and occasional attacks of the resistance, which occur either from underground, from tunnels or from buildings , cause it is possible that the zionists have suffered heavy armored losses here and practically cannot advance through these two streets, namely jamal abdul nasser street and omar mokhtar street, which are the main axis of their advance in the west of gaza. and zionists, they could not do these two unite jabbeh on the jabalia side, and they still haven't been able to enter gaza city from this side, and there are heavy battles going on, these are minor for now. in gaza city and the fierce resistance of the palestinians, thank you very much, we say goodbye to mr. shadlou and now we are going to gaza to hear the latest news from gaza from the words of our correspondent ahmed sahmoud in t

amy: i want to bring omer bartov and to this discussion. you're considered one of the leading scholars on genocide. go to the second point. congress member stefanik was asking a college president, she said, well, let me ask you this -- will admission offers be rescinded for any disciplinary action be taken against students or applicants who say from the river to the sea, or fight at, advocating the murder of jews, equating from the river to the sea and intifada with the murder of jews? can you respond to this? also explained that term and how it is been used by both hamas but also protesters and the likud party in israel. >> thank you for having me. first of all, i what to agree with what peter was saying. i think this whole debate is so offkilter. the terms that are being used, are being misused, and not being challenged by these three presidents who should have been better prepared -- not by their lawyers, but to have studied the issue itself and have spoken about how they think about it. using the term intifada is wrong , as peter was sa

omer, just to start with, you're here in san francisco. i know it's an offbeat way to start this conversation in. i hope you had a good cup of san francisco coffee to start with every morning, every morning. and you know where i'm going with this, because that cup of coffee, to boil it down to its very essence, it wouldn't be possible without the honeybee population, a population that is under threat right now. tell us more about that. so i think you touched exactly the point. the population is growing. we need to produce more food in the next 50 years, we will need to produce more food than what we produced over the last 10,000 years combined. so the challenge about food production has become a big thing for everyone. and i think one of the things that we did not realize in the early days is how much we depend on bees, even the fact that we call them honey bees focus is on the fact they make honey and this is what we use to take away from them when they were foraging and pollinating plants. so we took the honey as a as a sweetener. but as

after the power outage, omer ramadan went to the kitchen to figure out a way to prepare breaking the fast meal for the family despite the severe lack of ingredients. as for abu ramadan, he was out in the market looking for any available ingredients. i am going to the market to buy some vegetables to break the fast for the children. and hope we find it open, you know the way there and people feel afraid of going to their farms and collecting vegetables. most of the vegetables we have come from the south and people feel afraid of coming to the gaza city. no one went to his land because they feared to be bombedd in their lands or houses. the market is closed. the market is closed, there are no vegetables, i don't know what to do, you think you can manage by anything at the house? okay, goodbye. i'm frying vegetables, i'm making fried potatoes and egg plants to break our fast with them. today my husband went to the market and found it closed because of the war. i am prepared. food now using what i found in the house. abu ramadan returned home to help his wife prepare the fast breaking me

islam, and the mko organization recruit them and then the issue of moral degradation. admissions by mk omers relate the stages in which the group aved its fail attempts by terrorizing the people, those were throwing molotov cocktails at shops and houses, setting fire to shops and houses and cars which had pictures of revolutionary icons pinned up, mko forces were ordered to destroy anyone who appeared revolutionary or was dressed as a soldier together with shop or house they were seen entering. the next stage was even better. it reads conveniently, if he won't give you his bike, shoot him. anyone refused to hand over his car or motorcycle to mco military units would be warned up to three times. after that, they would be assassinated. to mr. razi, the mko is the godfather of other terrorist groups such as daesh. in your opinion, how does the mko compare with other terrorist attacks, for example, the isis or daeshh in? the godfather of isis footage and documents of isis actions exist, it shoot people the streets, kill children, send suicide cars causing dozens of casualties and conduct blind t

omer takssi says that it has been 10 years now, which means that you have passed a worn out life. yes. the executive director of the country's technical examination also says: the penetration rate of the technical examination certificate in the country is about 55%, and this means still. many people do not believe in receiving the technical inspection certificate. there is a deadline of 3 days . my car model is 137. in the last 3 months, we have closed 8 centers. they can have different reasons. the worst thing is that the issuance of the technical examination is fake. air pollution is not only different from tehran. in some cities, the level of pollution has exceeded the balanced limit. all our stations are in red status. we, who are working , really entered the city. while the only action of the authorities for not to pollute the air more, people are advised to avoid unnecessary traffic. people also have other opinions. one should not take his car outside. one should control the factories. with this category , remove worn-out cars. respect myself. take less cars and get rid of l

these posters every way here to show support for his relatives, guys on a, some 50 kilometers away omer, together with more than 130 other is really is on foreign nationals. remains in captivity somewhere there. so close in terms of distance and yet still so very far, but the families ready to go the extra mile to do whatever you can to help bring this on back home. re from ocean are all t reporting from get data in israel. is that the government support how most among policies in both garza and the west, by my school, into the opinion polls conducted by a policy and research center to that i'm of those bossing. the meltzer group has mold, i'm tripled in the west bank since september a month before the will began. that has been or has also been an increasing support among residence and goes up. the survey results also shows that the majority of policies are critical of the performance of present mahmoud abbas is political policy rivals. i'm us. well, the 90 percent of the respondents in the west bank and 80 percent engaged. those as mr. boss should resign. those opinions implies from th

this is omer interview him, i suppose that shortly after the surprise attacks in the south of israel lying half naked in a pickup truck, his hands tied behind his back. this is how the family learns that the home or had been abducted back in 1944. it was to still be the army that saved the lead, her family and all the jews of to liberate the romania from the nazis today. so you least calling on russians to help save owner and he's moment of an energy chef be should be lee. now for me, this is the 2nd how low cost she goes. my grandson is in the hands of him, us almost a terrorist and they are horrible. and almost now, so blood to me or pretend to do so, me will the red on the deep all the jews who were in my get to most go, has assisted in the release of at least 5 russians. citizens held by him. us and the families of the remaining hostages. now believe the kremlin to help them to russia is a big influence on every country that we are not speaking with them. we sold the trash, i dates a very pressure on the home us and the home us release civilians that are russian. the president pu

omer, just to start with, you're here in san francisco. i know it's an offbeat way to start this conversation in. i hope you had a good cup of san francisco coffee to start with every morning, every morning. and you know where i'm going with this, because that cup of coffee, to boil it down to its very essence, it wouldn't be possible without the honeybee population, a population that is under threat right now. tell us more about that. so i think you touched exactly the point. the population is growing. we need to produce more food in the next 50 years, we will need to produce more food than what we produced over the last 10,000 years combined. so the challenge about food production has become a big thing for everyone. and i think one of the things that we did not realize in the early days is how much we depend on bees, even the fact that we call them honey bees focus is on the fact they make honey and this is what we use to take away from them when they were foraging and pollinating plants. so we took the honey as a as a sweetener. but as

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. >> ronan, we will keep telling omer's story and we thank you so much for being with us.ing on these hostages, as we know that your family and so many others are doing everything that you can to bring him home as well. >> thank you very much for having me. >> still ahead on cnn news central, today marks five years since american paul whelan was detained in russia. cnn, speaking him today. plus, what we are learning about the efforts to bring him home. >> today marks five years since american paul whelan was detained in russia. the u.s. marine corps veteran was in moscow for a friend's wedding back in 2018, when he was arrested on espionage charges, allegations that he vehemently denies. considered wrongfully detained by the state department, whelan has spent recent days placing phone calls to news outlets, expressing a sense of abandonment by the u.s.. >> cnn's jennifer hansler is one of the reporters who's been speaking with him. jennifer, you actually just recently got off the phone with him. what is he saying today? >> well, boris, today, paul whelan's message is he do

shelley's son omer was kidnapped at music festival on october 7. >> look me in the eyes, your childrenave been like ours. would you have waited 59 days to bring them home? amna: over the weekend, biden administration officials deliver their sharpest criticism of israel's campaign in gaza yet. vice president harris at the u.n. climate summit in dubai. vp harris: frankly the images and videos coming from gaza are devastating. we believe israel must do more to protect innocent civilians. amna: and defense secretary lloyd austin at a defense form in california. secretary often: in this kind of fight, the center of gravity is the civilian population. if you drive them into the arms of the enemy you place a tactical victory with strategic defeat. amna: the u.s. military said three commercial ships in the southern red sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from yemen on sunday. iran backed rebels claimed responsibility. they say they were targeting israeli vessels, although none of the vessels nor crews were israeli. >> the you many armed forces continue to prevent israeli ships from nav

we last heard from omer on october 6th.s in israel and we are here in new york, he made a point in keeping in touch. we spoke a lot, whenever he could. and on friday night we spoke just like, you know, a regular friday before the weekend and he said that he expected it to be a calm weeknd, it had been a really tough month before that with the jewish holidays and him positioned close to the border, and that they were told that it was expected to be calm, and things were under control, and obviously a few hours later we know that it was anything but calm. and he was on the front line and he was positioned there to protect the villages around there which we know needed the protection but they were not prepared for what happened that morning. they were ambushed and raided and he was taken and they, you know, they show him in their own videos taking him out and taking him into gaza. we have not heard from him since, no sign of life, nothing, it's been 60 days today. it's a long time. >> bret: it's a very long time. when you hear

omer, just to start with, you're here in san francisco. i know it's an offbeat way to start this conversation in. i hope you had a good cup of san francisco coffee to start with every morning, every morning. and you know where i'm going with this, because that cup of coffee, to boil it down to its very essence, it wouldn't be possible without the honeybee population, a population that is under threat right now. tell us more about that. so i think you touched exactly the point. the population is growing. we need to produce more food in the next 50 years, we will need to produce more food than what we produced over the last 10,000 years combined. so the challenge about food production has become a big thing for everyone. and i think one of the things that we did not realize in the early days is how much we depend on bees, even the fact that we call them honey bees focus is on the fact they make honey and this is what we use to take away from them when they were foraging and pollinating plants. so we took the honey as a as a sweetener. but as

and i'm going to introduce both of my interlocutors here, omer shakir and and nathan thrall. but i want to say, as a preface, you many of us have been and strained and stressed and in tears about the situation, palestine and israel since october and on college campuses where i teach, where many of my colleagues teach, it's been very difficult to have conversations, have been very emotional exchange and it's almost like rational has taken a backseat to side. one is on. i feel like book offers an opportunity to wade in to walk in to lead with our hearts, to open our hearts, to learning about the experiences of palestinians in occupied palestine, but doing it in a way that invites us into our largest humanity and. so i met nathan actually by reading an article he wrote that was a prelude to the book, and i didn't know him. i, you know, didn't know anyone who him. and i wrote him an email and he responded to it. and a year or so later, when the book came out, he asked me to to moderate this. as it turns out, we have many friends and comrades and in common, but but that openness,

i told you we had the parents who live on long island, israeli-americans of a 22-year-old named omer,th. can you speak to the tactical difficulty of reaching these hostages, and what would you say to parents like those of omer right now? >> so, we're all hugging these families right now, obviously. it's a holiday, hanukkah. it makes it even more difficult. you know, these hostages have been held there for two months now. it's unfathomable. we have definitely some idea, some intelligence, but it is a very complicated situation. we're fighting there. we want to bring them back, and we know that hamas only responds to pressure. if we didn't put military pressure, if we weren't hitting them as hard as we are right now, and we did before, we wouldn't have seen the release of hostages. that's what we're doing right now. >> you have that truce for seven days that you got some of the hostages released. that broke down. >> day eight. >> is there hope that there could be another truce, that we could get more of these hostages home to their families? >> one way or another. we're working in vario

they include omer neutra, a 22-year-old from long island. itay chen a 19-year-old born in new york city. adan alexander, a 19-year-old from new jersey. a 35-year-old father and son to a former brooklyn res dent. hirsh gold better-polin, a 23-year-old born in berkeley, california. keith seeing -- siegel, a carolinian native. all of these are american citizens, born in our communities, educated in our sch schools, teens, grandparents, parents, husbands, sons, mo mothers. we owe it to our families. we owe it to all their families to never give up hope. we must do everything we can do to bring them home. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin. quorum call: >> the 200 cys we need to have a statistically senate study. -- senate study. we've included requirements as directed by congress, congress gave us authority for the department of transportation to add safety measures as necessary to insure safety, and we have done that. we continue to market, communicate, reach out and build