traffic who was 10-year-old when he went to work to serve as a cook's helper and messenger, or israel, as tough as any human being who ever lived. or the people who just signed up and marched away, leaving their families and everything they loved in order to carry forth the glorious cause of america, as they said. joseph hodgkin's, a shoemaker from massachusetts, who poured out all of his feelings about what he was doing in wonderful letters to his wife, sarah, back home. she wrote about what she was suffering because the women too were finding life very difficult, very uncertain, with shortages, inflation, lack of labor to run the farm, or keep up support of the families. men deserted by the hundreds. men march the way home when their enlistments ran out. they didn't care, went home. many of them defected to the enemy. they were not all heroes. washington never stopped. he never took a day off. he never gave up. he wanted to attack again and again. it was very good at his general staff had councils of war, kept him from attacking at times when he was desperate to do so because it mig

american company competing with siemens somewhere in the world whether it be russia or venezuela or israel you really do have much of a chance. interesting read lies briars and pearl quite the international entrepreneur cadets. with a handful of state government still in financial crisis we'll take a look at the impact it's having on the municipal bond market. that's coming up in chart talk next. the municipal-bond market seems to be on h. right now with the handful of state governments that have yet to pass their 2010 budgets california being the most critical is the eighth largest economy in the world. this is a big idea in a big market here a lot of investors have flocked to prominence of poke bonds in the past several years because of tax exempt status for a lot of the interest rates and quite frankly paying a higher interest rate but still be sent in, compared to the equivalency of the u.s. government debt. the yield on some of these exchange traded fonts are pretty healthy around 3 1/2%. let's take a look at one of them and you beat is the largest the t f is a national e t f that inc

i wod say it is still ira whether or n israel will bomb iran, whether t.s. or the obama in the session will go along with it. that policy has not been there. joe biden,ith a little slip of the tongue. he also unerstands the pow of aipac better than anyone. anybody who has served in congss as long as joe bid knows this. th is a crude w of going after anything. he wou have to overfly parts of iraq. saud arabia will do a nk and and nod. they have 11 air-to-ai refueling tankers. what the chairman o the joint chiefs, mike mlen and others, and i'm surehe president feels the same way, thairan has asymmetrical abiliti up and down the gulf. you n have oil at $0 almost ovnight. take bahrain, two-thirds of the population ishia, and they are under a ruling family. >>et's clarify these term antheir position as oil exporters. it is not just thathey export 1.5 -- two 0.5 million broke -- barrels, but the nation's waterways. >> they had a major nal base there, they can hurt her u.s. and our friends interest up and down t gulf. that doesn't even begito mention hamas. >> seven

bombing the nuclear weapons' programs facilities by the united states or israel. that would be the most extreme version of the effort to stop the nuclear weapons program but it may turn out to be the only way to have a chance of stopping it. >> the military strikes is what would that hit and could they really hit what they need to hit. obviously you disrupt any sort of nuclear weapons program but that is what concerns the military more than anything is what can they do beyond disrupting it and if you have just disrupted it and have the reaction in that part of the world as michael points out, that's a very very serious step and clearly one they don't want to take. i -- when i think about north korea and iran and them both wanting nuclear weapons and continuing nuclear weapons program you have to go back and say why do they want them and in particular north korea. north korea has so many domestic problems. such poverty, people starving to death there. they want this as power. they want this as a bargaining chip and that's what they're doing now. that's the pattern

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i think unless the united states and/or israel steps up to the plate and knocks out iran's nuclear programthink israel's future is very bleak. glenn: ben, love you, thanks a hot. talk to you in a second. glenn: i ask you to go to glenn beck.com. i have a free e-mail newsletter and a perspective of what isap

israel. he had gone there in the 19 tos or maybe even earlier from the soef yacht union.ere very shocked that marshal didn't know who it was. his name was mentioned. they said, who is he? we never heard of him. eliaser who went to the american university in beruit, spoke five languages. he first represented the jewish agency in america. he became the first ambassador from israel to the united states. >> you've mentioned several people who changed their name. >> one of the things they did when they created a jewish state. they wanted to make hebrew the official language. they made a rule at first. yidish was forbidden. everybody had to learn hebrew. we are going to create a jewish state with hebrew as the language. all those -- the famous first long-time ambassador of the united states from israel, whitesman was his mentor. he wept to london. he changed his name to abba. they all took hebrew names. >> when you talk about the religious state. the last time somebody told me that only 25% of the israels are synagogue going. >> the leaders and founders of israel weremo secular

a sum of five licenses with a vote at a packed together paris is there an arms embargo in israel or not? >> i can't confirm in detail the issues that you have raised, the five contracts and i will write you on that. >> can i go on to the question us rely them, prime minister derrin on the tenth of july the times reported about 1,400 refugees are dying every week in the largest of the idp camps. we know that this relates to government has blocked. excess. the red cross and other agencies have an order by the dormant two scaled-back the humanitarian operations and journalists were banned from the camps as well as murdered elsewhere on. sri lanka cannot run concentration camps and expect the world to look away. sri lanka has been impervious to all the representations made about humanitarian access, about open since the transfer is a. none of us support them but not just what is happening to civilians in sri lanka. what are we doing to raise the issue with them? putting pressure of the suspension and making sure that sri lanka can get humanitarian rights? >> i have talked to the president o

. >>> we haven't heard much lately about iran's nuclear program or what, if anything, israel plans to do about it but a series of reports the pastifies about the options israel has. the israeli newspaper says israeli's now urging the obama administration and other major powers to prepare a plan "b," calling of what it called paralyzing sanctions against iran in case any dialogue against that country does not produce any results. vice president said israel will not stand in israel's way if it decides to attack israel's nuclear facilities. >> israel can determine for itself as a sovereign nation. >> whether we agree or not. >> whether we agree or not, they're entitle dod. >> >> meanwhile, the times of london's reporting during secret talks with israel earlier in year, saudi arabia agreed let israeli planes fly over its territory during any attack on iran. saudi arabia has denied report. and today, a top iranian parliamentary official warned of dire consequences if theisraeli. >> >> translator: such a mistake would threaten peace and stability in the whole region of the middle east, as w

>> many villages have little or no running water. israelontrols most of the territory, it keeps 80% of the water here according to the world bank. this is not enough. >> we have just come across this water tanker. this is what many families used to get water. they say it is contaminated but they have their choice. it is either this or no water at all. >> palestinians paid privately for this water and it cost them dearly. on clean wateunclean water make. >> this is very expensive and we need this money for other things, electricity, food, clothes. we have to find water. >> finances have dried up. palestinian villages traditionally depend on farming. for that, you need water. israel says it is not to blame. palestinian planning is. they claim that the village never applied to join the water grid. human-rights groups disagreed. >> this has much less water than the israelis. water is scarce. the little that we have is distributed unequally. >> a palestinian farmer shows the lush fields of an israeli settlement in next door. religion lies at the

and we know that progress towards peace cannot be the responsibility of the united states or israel alone. ending the conflict requires action on all sides. the palestinians have the responsibility to improve and extend positive actions already taken on security to act forcefully against incitement and refrain from any action that would make meaningful negotiations less likely. and arab states, have a responsibility to support the palestinian authority with words and deeds, to take steps to improve relations with israel and to prepare their public to embrace peace and accept israel's place in the region. the saudi peace proposal supported by 20 nations with a positive step, but we believe that more is needed. so we are asking those who embrace the proposal to take meaningful steps now. anwar sadat and king hussein posed an important threshold in their vision, mobilized these constituencies in israel and paved the way for lasting agreements. by providing support to the palestinians and offering an opening, however modest to the israelis, the arab states would have the same impact. sending

and the next day their audience will see on al jazeera or abc that israel is starting a new settlement. >> reporter: for prime minister netanyahu, a settlement freeze is easier said than done. his government is built on settler votes. and they are defiant in the face of american pressure. >> my people come first. and it makes sense. every american will tell you, my people come first. >> reporter: tonight, an israeli official tells abc news of a possible compromise, a settlement freeze which would allow israel to finish buildings already started. we shouldn't expect any breakthroughs this week. simon mcgregor-wo, abc news, jerusalem. >>> and one more note from overseas. the president of france, nicolas sarkozy, wasas rushed to a hospital by helicopter today, after feeling ill while jogging. we're told the medical tests came back normal. but sarkozy is spending tonight in the hpital as a precaution. >>> and coming up on "world news" this sunday, the stock market is up, way up. why are so many of us still so far down? we're going to look at what the numbers mean. >>> it is a staple of sci

challenging, and we know that progress toward peace cannot be the responsibility of the united states or israel alone. ending the conflict requires action on all sides. the palestinians have the responsibility to improve and extend the positive actions are taken on security, to act forcefully against incitement, and to refrain from any action that would make a meaningful negotiations less likely. arab states have a responsibility to support the palestinian authority with words and deeds, to take steps to improve relations with israel and to prepare their publics to embrace peace and except israel's place in the region. the saudi peace proposal supported by more than 20 nations was a positive step, but we believe that more is needed. we are asking those who embraced the proposal to take meaningful steps now. on horse and dog and king hussein's crossed important threshold -- anwar sadat. that paved the way for lasting in agreements. the arab states could have the same impact. i say to all sides, sending messages to -- up peace is not enough. you must also act against the cultures of hate, and tol

israel lost. that is simply taking out four or five tankers in the middle east. coming out of the persian gulf, strait of hormuz. they could hit opcac with missiles. would the take as many days to take all the missiles out. meantime you drop a couple missiles into opcac. six million barrels off the market. hedge funds tell me, price of gas goes up to 10 to $12 a gallon. if that's, not that we can trust hedge funds these days but, the point is it's a deterrent any president that will hit iran think about. fine, we can go into tehran. when i sat down to write this book, i proposed to publisher that i write the best and brightest it came to iran. how did we lose iran? not just how we lost iran how about did we miss it all these years? why did we ignore it? why is it a can we kicked down the road? it was a war we didn't want to fight. including reagan. you're not david halberstam, why don't you trust something else, your personal point of view. in all the years in cia i served on periphery. i was in tehran in 78 leading up to the revolution, the place was absolutely

or israel, but many other countries will be targeting sites in iran.that that could eventually lead a future government to step back from the iran, from the nuclear capacity, and we should reinforce the validity of the libyan path. that is that iran should know that it has an option to step back from the brink, and if it incontrovertedly surrenders its nuclear materials and could go to a weapon, that it has the option of being welcomed back into the international family much like libya did. so let me just end it right there. >> great. so we're going to quickly go to the audience and just very simple ground rules, if you'd just raise your hand and wait for me to recognize you, and if you'd just announce your name and affiliation. so while you're thinking of your questions, we're going to do a quick lightning round. i love the john mclaughlin thing. in 60 seconds or less we're going to jump in a cab, go to the white house, you get a minute with the president. what do you tell him? >> oh, my goodness. crs, we don't make my recommendations, but what i woul

i mean, is it, at this point -- can you actually stop israel from developing a bomb or are you delaying- excuse me, are you stopping iran from developing a bomb or delaying them? >> i don't think anybody anymore -- at least in the last year since the technical threshold they can stop it. the issue is how many years or months they can delay it. >> as well as the unintended consequences. >> there's a key issue in israel because there is a consensus they will not live with an existential threat. israel has made a point in the past in 1981 with the bomber in iraq. september 2007 we saw the bombing of a nuclear website in syria. that is an israeli red line that they don't want to cross. they are not willing to cross it unless -- and unless it becomes absolutely -- some kind of situation where nothing is going to prevent them from crossing it, israel will have to act. >> so there's no sense that, you know, it's sort of learning to live with an iranian bomb is not a big discussion. >> not in israel. among some think tanks, perhaps. among some commentators, perhaps but nowhere in advertise rayl

began to notice a lot of governments were uncomfortable with al-jazeera, whether it is saudi arabia or israel and to some degree i do think it is the role of thing takes and journalists and writers and pundits to eventually buy the hand that feeds them. fundamentally have got to walk a balance between reporting, dealing with things that are coming in and i have been fascinated and impressed by the growth of al-jazeera and i am one of the people in the united states who has long been supportive of al-jazeera's activities around the world and in the united states and in disturbs by the discrimination that has been written about in terms of giving access to al-jazeera and others. let me tell you a few things about wadah khanfar, he is managing director of the al-jazeera network. he was interestingly, of the baghdad bureau in 2003, luckily not in the office when it was bombed. there was a controversy at one point where george bush in discussion with tony blair allegedly joked about and talked about bombing al-jazeera's office and i was fascinated by the revelations of this and wrote quite a bit a

and we know that progress towards peace cannot be the responsibility of the united states or israel alone. ending the conflict requires action on all sides. the palestinians have the responsibility to improve and extend the positive actions already taken on security, to act forcefully against incitement and to refrain from any action that would make meaningful new doshi asians less likely. and arab states have a responsibility to support the palestinian authority with words and deeds, to take steps to improve relations with israel and to prepare their public to embrace peace and accept israel's place in the region. the saudi peace proposal supported by more than 20 nations was a positive step. but we believe that more is needed. so we are asking those two embraced the proposal to take meaningful steps now. anwar sadat and king hussein crossed an important threshold and their boldness and vision mobilized peace constituencies in israel and paved the way for lasting agreements. by providing support to the palestinians and offering and opening however modest to the israelis the arab states c

to use a barge you do not needed long-range missile with the unincorporated site missiles to hit israel or europe but that does not matter they could put on a barge or a freighter or a large ship it also comes out if they wanted to do is such a way there are no fingerprints they could turn the barge over to a hezbollah crew or al qaeda or whoever wants to do with the ship could be scuttled afterwards or maybe slink away in the middle of the night while everybody is confused but in your novel it is not clear who has done this. >> guest: one of the things that concerns me is we have to get out of the cold war paradox the world i grew up was duck and cover. growing up in the new york city area many smile and remember i show it to my students every year. i remember the cuban missile crisis we practiced every day. remember mutual assured destruction worked. i often say now thank heavens of the opponents at that time were communist and atheist because they are very pragmatic they're not going to inherit the smoking gun we're dealing with a situation now in iran that mutual assured destruction is

israel this week. i think the most important visit is by secretary of defense gates. his central task is to try to persuade orect israel not to launch a preemptive military attack against iran's nuclear weapons program. that is something israelis have under active consideration. the obama administration, at least as far as we can tell, dead set against it. >> why do you think they are? >> i think they believe, the obama administration believes, at some point they will find a way to negotiate with iran this is a central element of their foreign policy, critical aspect, they try and distinguish themselves from the bush administration. it is a near religious faith they have in negotiation israeli attack obviously would change that >> as someone who has done his fair amount of negotiationses over the course of your career what do you think about the possbility of coming to some understanding with the people of iran? >> if it was negotiation with the people of iran, that would be different. i tell you this, there is chance, zero chance iran will be negotiated out of its nuclear weapons program. everyday that goes

but many arab muslims don't believe the united states is a fair broker, and less they see israel pay a cost or if they see some negative for israel. and likewise, israel in terms of talking about the very term pro-israel almost requires there to be a zero-sum loss for air of interest. did you see, does the network promote the notion, or do you see developing anywhere in the arab world a notion that you can have a win-win solution that is not based upon one side getting a tilt from the united states and ultimately leads to a cost to the other? this is one of the biggest issues that perplexes me. >> we can take the issue, we can forever argue about the issue of settlement and then we can be caught in details. how many meters they extended, how many houses were built, so on and so forth are without looking at the big picture. the big picture says who are we, but the palestinians is not out of this process. if you take the amount of suffering and the amount of economic crisis, and the fragmentation of the west bank and the siege on gaza, these are not give a magnificent picture about what a peacef

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there are missiles could hit israel or europe.they could put it on a barge or a freighter and by the way, this also comes out in your book -- if they wanted to do it in such a way that there were no fingerprints, they could turn the barge over to a hezbollah crew or an al-qaeda crew or whoever wants to do it. the ship could be scuttled afterwards or it might be taken away in the night. in your novel it is not clear who has done this to the united states. who has been complicit in this act. >> one of the things that concerns me the most here we have to get out of the cold war paradigm. for 30 years -- the world i crew up in was duck and cover. as a boy growing up in the new york city area i think many in the audience smile the duck and cover. i remember the cuban missile crisis where we practiced evidence. but remember mad, mutual assured destruction and it worked. thank heavens our opponents at that time were communists and atheists because every pragmatic -- they're not going to inherit a smoking room. we're dealing with a situat

israel. and how the two countries communicate or how they live together. >> it changed my life. t to windows, i was thinking that israel people are really bad and they think of us bad and they don't like us. so when i met the group, it was like shock for me. now i really change all of my thoughts about israel. and i'm really happy about it. >> reporter: the teenagers who made this video know it won't solve all of their problems but for the moment, at least their song is louder than the drums of war. this is matthew cullman reporting from the medialine from tel aviv. >>> and that is "worldfocus" for a tuesday evening. and a reminder you can always join us anytime on the web. that's worldfocus.org. i'm martin savidge. we thank you for joining us and hope to see you back here tomorrow night. until then, have a good night. >>> "worldfocus" is made possible, in part, by the >>> "worldfocus" is made possible, in part, by the following funders -- -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

or savannah. brian: let's talk foreign policy. is israel in iran's cross hairs?calating for israel as fear spreads that they could be the ultimate target from iran. brian: ralph peters thinks this highlights the global problem with the obama administration's foreign policy. colonel, why does israel -- why is israel emblematic of some problems you see overseas? >> it's emblematic for several reasons, but the most important ones are that the obama administration has really intensified an old washington problem to a dangerous point, and that they just can't see the world through the eyes of not only our enemies, but even our allies. the obama administration can't get into the heads of anybody who lives east of martha's vineyard, and this is critical, and let me give you two quick examples. the obama administration, the president himself, believes that by reaching out to the arab world, shoving israel to the sidelines really pandering to other populations in the middle east, he can create peace between palestine, the arabs, and the israelis, but if you're a member of

just how tough they should and they mightave blundered into a slightly larger crisiswith israel than they want to or intendedo get into. onhether hand, ihink what the isyales a starting to wake up to is th there is really a new guy town and the last two admistrations -- both clinton andush jr. -- soou have essentially 16 years of american poli that was very, very, ver prosrael. and this n one, there's a litt bit more hands-off. we're going back, to esntially, bush one and caer, in which the israelis are basically going t find that theyon't always g their way and they d't always have a friend in the white use who is absolutely going to take everything the israelis say as face vae. >> i want tourno china real quk before we run out otime. another big week ofmeetings there. wheris this relationshi going e s. and ina? >> i thi right now what we see the administration strate is emphasizing the ecomicaspects of the relationship. over human rights, political issue and ihink they're acceuating the positive because right w with the economy being so uncertain and china such a bieconomic engine. about foreign e

tough they should be and they might have blundered into a slightly larger crisis with israel than they wanted to or intended to get into. on the other hand, i think what the isyales are starting to wake up to is that there is really a new guy in town and the last two administrations -- both clinton and bush jr. -- so you have essentially 16 years of american policy that was very, very, very pro-israel. and this new one, there's a little bit more hands-off. we're going back, to essentially, bush one and carter, in which the israelis are basically going to find that they don't always get their way and they don't always have a friend in the white house who is absolutely going to take everything the israelis say as face value. >> i want to turn to china real quick before we run out of time. another big week of meetings there. where is this relationship going e u.s. and china? >> i think right now what we see the administration strategy is emphasizing the economic aspects of the relationship. over human rights, political issues and i think they're accentuating the positive because right now with the eco

>> with discussion under way on how to revive the peace process, israel has started to make movement easier in the west bank by opening or easing checkpoints and road blocks. the latest move came this week when israel said that a major bridge connecting the west bank to jordan would now be opened 24 hours a day to accommodate more than palestinian commercial activi activity. the checkpoints were put in place to stop terrorism but they have also made movement extremely difficult, as we hear in this report by matthew colman of israel's medialine. >> reporter: palestinian cars waiting for security inspection at an israeli checkpoint near qalqiliya. there are more than 600 road blocks scattered through the area. that means dozens of vehicles can be backed up for hours just trying to get from one palestinian town to another. sometimes wasting a whole working day. juda jamal runs the holy land company for agricultural marketing in investment. he says it's almost impossible to predict when his farmers can deliver their produce. >> cannot predict. we have to stay in the cube withoutanything. instead of you know taking your produ

or capability. if i can go back to the israel question, i really think the israelis are sitting there and watching like we all live. we do not know what is going to happen. we can have an optimistic scenario. my optimistic scenario, that an assembly of experts will get together and they will have not one supreme leader but a council of leaders. they will reduce the power of the guardian council. maybe ahmadinejad will stay and maybe not. it will shift gradually towards a real islamic republic. we will transfer and gradually going that direction. if that happens, that will be a very good move. the israelis will be happy with that because we will put controls in place to make sure the nuclear generation is really nuclear generation. the question becomes, why are we supporting hezbollah and hamas? in the election, israel is not an issue in iraq. it is not an issue in iran. the revolutionary guards are in much more powerful positions then we think. if that is the case, we are moving towards a dictatorship. we are moving into not a military dictatorship, but they dictatorship of thugs. the military is compl

israel. and howhe t countri communicate or how they live togeer. >> was my last because before i went, i nt, israeli people a reallyad and they think of us bad and ey don't lke us so when i met the group, i was like shock for me. now i really change all of my thoughts about israel. and i'm rally happybout it. >> reporter: the teenagers who made this vid know it won't solve all of their proems but for the moment the song i louder than t drums of war. this is matthew calman reporting from the media line. >>> andhat is "worldfocus" for a tuesy i'venievening. you can watch u anytime on the web, that's worldfoc.org. i'm mtin sidge. we thank you for joining us and ho to see you back here tomorrow nit. until then, ha a good night. >>> "worlocus" is made possible, part, by the >>> "worlocus" is made possible, part, by the following funders -- -- captions by vitac -- www.vit.com

vice president joe biden says israel can go it alone. is he right on oressage from the administration's official policy? we'll discuss. >>> and what's so funny, a man formerly known for telling jokes is ready to tackle will some very serious problems facing the country. will al franken be a reliable democratic vote when he's sworn in as senator? all of this coming up, plus the best political team on television. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> a new york congressman has some harsh words, very harsh words, about the coverage of michael jackson's death. he says the news media is glori glorifying, glorifying a lowlife, his words. representative peter king of new york says jackson was a pedophile and doesn't deserve all the attention he's getting. let's go to new york, cnn's mary snow is following the story for us. mary? >> reporter: well, congressman peter king says he understands jackson's impact on pop culture but he's slamming the media, saying ten days of coverage is going too far. >> this is crazy. this is insanity. >> reporter: con

i am staying at this place, there is a man that either is or looks exactly like benjamin netanyahu from israel, sitting by himself on a couch. i went to introduce myself, then, i am not going to do that. i don't know whether it was or not but it sure looks like him. it is a fancy place. the hot house was the fanciest place they had when i used to come to atlanta but i am glad to be back to talk about the battle of pittsburgh -- vicksurh which i'm sure you are interested in. if you aren't, you should start. when i was in high school, i had a history teacher, i am sure everyone had the same history teacher. his name was dunbarfield at the ended up being a football coach which is all right. what was it? why was it important? let me try to answer that question. vicksburg in the civil war, was an enormous confederate fortress along the mississippi river, about midway, was important because it reared up 200 feet down the river, a 20 story be of building, bristling with confederate guns and foreclosed the opportunity of the people in the middle, chicago called those places in the midwest, timber and

ed, johnny bolton had an op ed in the washington post saying it is time for israel to launch a military strike on iran. agree or and what do you think about the rumor that the op ed was ghost written by jay bolt's mustache? >> i think israel is going to have to pretext itself. doesn't look like this nation or anybody else is. i also think the two state solution is nonsense. no two sovereign governments can rule the same piece of real estate. doesn't make sense. >> greg: what about the mustache? agree or disagree? >> agree. >> can't not not disagree. >> you made it clear that greg wouldn't be welcome to stay at your house if he goes to arkansas but i would, right? >> you put me on the spot here but we have a nice lawn and we will throw the tent up for you and you can enjoy it. >> perfect, excellent. >> you gave him the tent and you won't even let me sleep on the lawn. the neighbors will. >> mustache got his own bedroom. big kayaker. >> he paddles with both sides of the mustache. >> a lot of wax but he can handle it. >> greg: yes. >> gwyneth in spain. this isn't the first time that she dissed america. remind us i

but many arab muslims don't believe the united states is a fair broker, and less they see israel pay a cost or if they see some negative for israel. and likewise, israel in terms of talking about the very term pro-israel almost requires there to be a zero-sum loss for air of interest. did you see, does the network promote the notion, or do you see developing anywhere in the arab world a notion that you can have a win-win solution that is not based upon one side getting a tilt from the united states and ultimately leads to a cost to the other? this is one of the biggest issues that perplexes me. >> we can take the issue, we can forever argue about the issue of settlement and then we can be caught in details. how many meter without talking about the big picture. the big picture is about the palestinians and the peace process. if you take right now the amount of suffering on the ground and the amount of economic crisis, and the fragmentation of the west area, it does not give a magnificent picture about what the peace process should be about. i think, you know, people are negotiating for how many

do, if we have a devotion to engage should there be a strike by israel or a strike from iran on israeltuation a great deal. >> the thing about engagement is you can disengage. if it becomes evident that they're not playing by certain rules or our allies are in a different position, you cut off talks and say boom. that's the bu beauty of it. it's not like a marriage. you can get out of it rather quickly, like in a day. >> the european union, 27 of its ambassadors are considering actually recalling all those ambassadors out of iran, taking them out of iran. does this put more pressure on the obama administration to take a tougher stance with iran? >> absolutely. it does. essentially what you have is the only nation here that is still willing to engage and is still at the table would be the u.s. and now -- now we're almost the sole proprietors of diplomacy. the fact -- >> we don't have an ambassador anyway. the fact they withdraw wrau ambassadors doesn't mean they don't want to talk, but their behavior certainly doesn't help them at all. but the idea that somehow or another we're just goi

israel. is it a feel-good ad or the opposite? let's just say the answer might depend on which side of the wall you live. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, this is reporters and analysts, here is what is happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. we're going to begin tonight with some important developments in the war in afghanistan. as the united states, with about 57,000 troops in that country, engages in the biggest offensive against the taliban since the start of the war. today, the military reported the deaths of two u.s. marines, in what it called a hostile incident. for its part, britain said it was sending 140 additional troops to afghanistan. joining more than 9,000 british soldiers already there. and then for the british, the impact of the war hit home again today, as the remains of eight british troops were returned to england and large crowds came out to pay their respects. >>> in this country, presi

threatens to wipe it off the face of the map and rockets continue to rain down on israel from terrorist groups whether they be hamas or hezbollah. israel is a true friend and partner of the united states. and we must now more than ever show unwavering support for our friend, not only through this legislation, but through every other available means. i'm deeply concerned about the funding provided in this legislation to the united nations relief and works agency. without determining that the agency does not have members of hamas on its payroll, u.n. agencies such as that, for example, such as the so-called human rights council, a club of tyrannies, do not deserve american taxpayer support, just like the useless embarrassment that is the organization of american states. there's some good things in this legislation, legislation provides $165 million in economic support funds, for example, for haiti, to help the authorities consolidate democratic gains and promote development. since the recent devastating storms hit haiti, i have called first on the bush administration and then on the obama administration to grant tempora

the idea -- yet another human rights organization is presenting to israel and the world testimony without fully investigating details or credibility. furthermore, this organization denied the idea of presenting the report to idf prior to publication. >> the israeli military says the went to extraordinary lengths. leaflets were dropped in areas soldiers were about to enter, warning them to leave. the israeli army's actions have been questioned. in gaza, bbc news. >> stay with us, if you can. edit troops have left baghdad. we find out if people feel safer there. >> china has urged citizens in algeria to be vigilant amid reports the militant group may seek revenge for moslem uighur s in china. almost 180 people were killed. 1600 people were wounded. a correspondent in beijing reports. >> the chinese embassy in algeria has issued a warning. chinese internationals should be extra vigilant. it says is especially calling on organizations and personnel to raise the security awareness and strengthened security measures. this heightened alert follows alarming news from a security consultant who says anne al- qaeda-affiliated gro