my father was born in palestine in 1950. his family of 12 shared the this, and this is where the tel aviv airport is now standing. many of you have entered israel through this. i cannot go back. imagine, the early zionists were making plans to make him homeless. he lived there until july 1948 before he was forced into exile with the establishment of the state of israel. can you continue? today marks the 64th year of that tragic event. fleeing what was supposed to be temporary. their homes and lands were fenced off. they ask that they occupy native lands. they ripped away from their cultural legacies to be in a two-tier system, much like those in palestine are living as second-class citizens. many know what this is like to leave their families and homeland, because they're often trained by the united states. they have been paved by better treatment. the migrant workers have to endure this. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i am a professor at ucsf. i am a member of the acc. since the 1990's i have been visiting the gaz

and so i started to read for a short sleeve on israel palestine. so now i have both the event and the scholarly commitment and then obviously i'm jewish so i had a personal commitment and the three came together. as i went back to the occupied territories during the first intifada i went to live with a couple pounds to the families in. developed enduring relationships. norman was always a very political person even in tenth grade eleventh grade he was always very political he was probably more political than anybody that i knew with the time and we were many of us very political beings being against the war in vietnam was very was that was involved that was the thing to do but norman was truly was truly against it. you know i could understand why you weren't torn apart by what the u.s. is doing you know nothing seems to help you know the real cruel things to the russians of being insane or from my parents i got the moral commitment but when i got from professor chomsky was a way to articulate it intellectually without losing the passion and commitm

for them, representing palestine in the olympics means more than winning.hk world, gaza. >> all right. time now to check the world weather forecast with sayak sayaka mori. >> let's start off with asia. a new tropical storm has formed over the northwestern pacific. this is now packing winds of 65 kilometers per hour. already impacting the southern islands of southern mariana islands with very heavy rain and a strong wind. some strengthening is likely but will move away from the islands. up towards the north, still wet and cool across the eastern half of japan under the influence of this strong low pressure system but things will change. we are looking forward to dry and warm conditions across much of the country today. in tokyo, our high is expected to be 27 degrees. more than 10 degrees higher than today. out towards the west, there's a strong low pressure system bringing heavy rain across inland china, and that will move towards the east and will affect the shanghai area tomorrow. down toward southeast asia, heavy rain is falling across northern portions o

palestine has a stash resonance for the true ish people to imagine i'd sure stay in charge. in uganda or elsewhere simply the work of the jewish people who makes no sense i'm bashing the jewish state houses are made sense for the jewish people. we're talking to professor alan dershowitz he's author of a new book it's called to be the case for israel in debate with norman finkelstein among his books the holocaust industry and in each and reality of the israel palestine conflict now one thousand nine hundred eighty four one joan peters published a book called from time immemorial the book was universally recognized by serious scholars to be a fraud without wanting to toot my own horn i'm largely recognized as the person who exposed the froid. i know that book inside out i read it at least four times and i went through all eighteen hundred and fifty four footnotes i started to read your book mr dershowitz. i think came to chapter one footnotes ten foot no the live and footnote twelve footnote thirteen footnote fourteen footnote fifteen footnotes sixteen all of the quotes are fr

she said i'm twelve years old or twelve years old if you're twelve because i love palestine and i was twelve years old enough to that was the end of life. from twelve years of age and. it was a good learning you remember things like that. after the barber. and after the shame not done robbie well by the odd and after the anger about them although there still remains the hope. i'm not that i'm on and i know that i can get in a lot of trouble for what i'm about to say while a man you cannot argue my second. self with i think that there's a lot represents the hope like and i thought of them hezbollah you must. sometimes i think i have an effect it's a very good thing and now i'm going to tell you and hezbollah inflicted and hezbollah a huge defeat as you might then be attacked and this way you have to keep knocking them until they hurt while i am and you and you also will doubt about i don't see how they reached their son and. yeah i would. let them off and get even yes his fame has come from one of his books about the holocaust and other books about the israel palestine conflict. and st

at last year's in south korea he set a new record for palestine. now he is again giving the long-suffering people of gaza something to hope for. >> translator: i don't think anyone imagined that a boy from gaza would compete on the world stage. even if he doesn't win, he will make us proud. >> reporter: but gaza's training facilities don't meet olympic standards. the track that he practices on is rough. people are everywhere. hamas, the islamic movement allows farra to use the track only 90 minutes a day. hamas does not encourage sports and the palestinian authority does not help him much either. al farra goes through his paces as israeli fighter jets fly by. because of the limited amount of time on the track, he also practices on a beach. >> translator: it's difficult to train for the olympics in nditions like these, but i wa to show the world that athletes from gaza can compete with the best. >> he's coached physically and mentally. abu marra was an olympic athlete himself, the first pal standin to compete in the games. in 1996 he ran in the 10,0

for proposing a two state settlement to the israel palestine conflict rather than. like thirty children since i think they're still prize i think maybe irish you know if you and your club but you know my club if you go if you go to mainstream jewish congregation you'll find a lot of hostility to i mean he's called israel as a country this is not a mainstream view within the jewish community it's just what i mean i don't generally you know really going to lunatics look if you want if you want to use that remember you marry your organization was very mainstream in the early in the early one nine hundred eighty s. but i think i suspect you're now seen or your organization is now seen as very much on the right wing fringes of the. jump in your last forty seconds go ahead. well it's very dismaying that i went from being lionized by the jewish community to being a pariah in the jewish community and about thirty or thirty seconds. it doesn't seem to me any longer if you look at public opinion in general international opinion public opinion in the united states jewish opini

partition resolution keep creating an arab and jewish state in palestine, which the jews accepted. and it was a big debate again in this country whether the united states should ask of recognize the re-created jewish state but in any event which is completely unique in the annals of american foreign policy, and i know of no other case like this, higher foreign policy establishment and the united states, state department, defense department, pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. of america recognizes this jewish state will be a cutoff of oil from the east to the united states. american soldiers will get antiwar over the because they don't have to defend themselves. don't do it. the secretary of state at the time, george marshall, said if the president recognize the jewish did he, george marshall, wouldn't vote for them in the next election. the president was a gentleman named harry truman who claimed to have memorized the bible by age 14. and had himself joined a restoration and group called the american christian committee for palestine. h

which already people felt a century ago to be untenable, then any land would do- uganda as well as palestine- of the time. and this provoked the first great debate within the zionist movement between those who are for seeking sovereignty in the land of israel, and those who said, well, sovereignty can be achieved elsewhere too. this was the first big territorial debate. then the next phase was in the thirties when the british proposed their first division of what was then palestine, which included both banks of the jordan river, the east bank and the west bank of the jordan river, and to divide it into two- the east bank, which will be what we now call jordan, and the west bank, which would be palestine- would be some kind of joint jewish and arab state. this provoked again another big argument within the settlement then in the land of israel among those who said, "only the entirety of the land," and those who said, "well, better some of it rather than the entire bit." and then the six day war is just another phase in this ongoing argument. the same argument went on also in 1948, and the dec

the right of returns, my parents were forced out of palestine. we were not allowed to return to our homelands. this goes against the nine state resolutions. this is to protect the society. in the united states, we recognize israel as a country almost immediately. and this allows for palestinians to be forced out of their homeland. they have a lot of -- this is for anyone in the united states. with the right to have land. what i am here to let you know about, when you look back to other people's struggles, you have to look into this as well. >> can we also played the side show? i have been in city hall of lot lately, working around the san francisco civil rights ordinance. i want to talk about hypocrisy that is going on. i have a lot of faith in the san francisco government. as we recognize small business month, i want to know that my grandmother is turning 90 next month. they have the same -- to have a small business since 1967. i consider myself an activist, in making this better. this of autocracy exists. we have this bill in the place of the a

the palestinians and the is really leadership have said they want to build eight future state of palestine, a state that many believe is becoming increasingly unlikely -- leadership have said they want to build a future state of palestine. >> practicing heart stopping trips. it is not skateboarders we are talking about. in later years, extreme unicycling has increased, with some devoted in canada. we look at how this curious board caught one man's eye. >> my name is -- and we are here in montreal. i am an extreme unicyclist. [cheers and applause] so i started this 10 years ago in school. they were doing service activities, and i picked unicycling, and then years later, i started doing it in an extreme way, and i realized i was not the only one doing it. i looked on the internet and found videos, and that is how i got into it. it started in the circus about 100 years ago, and in the late 1970's, people started to pick it up in the mountains and doing trials, jumping. i do more street riding, being creative with what is around us in the city. twisting, slipping, spinning. we have areas like

the historical compromise should be two state solution it is only twenty two percent of historical palestine but yet it is a prime minister netanyahu and the right wing in israel which is the mainstream are refusing to this historical compromise and they are proposing bantu stands there will be no compromise unless there will be independent palestinian state in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven occupied territories do you think that empathy will come from the netanyahu government especially now that he has formed a coalition government giving him a safe majority and making him potentially the most powerful prime minister in israel's history no i am not naive there will be no change in their policy of the israeli government even after i've got in to the coalition they tell me a whole is leading this government he did and he decided about it there is available athenian track and according to the letter he sent to president mahmoud abbas no change in his position and there will be nor the romantic developments in the israeli palestinian track but in the past advances on the israeli palestin

the palestinian refugees should be resettled in palestine. to do otherwise is to transform israel from a jewish state into a palestinian state because today, the descendants and great-grandchildren of the refugees from 1948 number anywhere between 6 million and 8 million. their return to pre-'67 israel would be another existential threat to us. both of these issues can be resolved with the jews in their state and the arabs in their state and we can begin the process learning to live side by side with mutual recognition and security. >> i think we have time for one more question. >> [unintelligible] >> good questions. that's a hard one. under the exchange of letters in september of 1993, israel recognize the plo as the sole representative of the palestinian people and that did two things -- recognize the palestinian people and the palestinian people. unfortunately, the palestinian people did not recognize the jewish people and that was a mistake. the plo is the interlocutor and its representative on the ground as the palestinian authority. the

i'm from palestine. to give me this chance to be this evening in front of you. 22 years ago i was -- it was a month after my marriage and the second time in my life i had been at a peaceful section. i was waiting to see what would happen to me. when my back began to hurt, soldiers took me in handcuffs to a hospital. the doctors there told the soldier to remove the cuffs in the hospital. i was no more or less than a patient he needed to heal. when the doctor examined me, he found that i was pregnant. thanks to him, he asked them to release me immediately. and i was done next day. the doctor is the kind of person i have met often in the conflict. as israelis and palestinians connecting -- sorry, the kind of person i have met often in the conflict israelis and palestinians connecting with one another as human beings. living next to one another in peace, two people, two states. in conflict, not every encounter is easy. but i remember the day i finally knew without no doubt that the only way forward was throu

refugees is it the intention of these refugees to actually return physically to the state of israel palestine there is the arab peace initiative it is clear and obvious and it is still in the table there is an article dealing with the issue of refugees. agreed. solution to all parties. here is alone is not even. the link with that. proposal with the arab peace initiative neglecting their outstanding a readiness of the arab countries to have a peace accord truck historical peace contract with israel and to accept it. in the area fifty seven countries and muslim countries are saying. that you see they short of the jews should be. in the negotiations. there isn't really a. rejection of the issue even before sitting to the debate this is a very important and delicate sensitive issue for the palestinian. people and it should be discussed seriously and thought of as meant to be thank you very much for joining us here on our to thank you. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact possible. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. thoug

their judgment is based on policy and the policy that matters most is the israel- palestine policy. host: this past week, our guest posted a policy which is available on-line at politico. this from one of our viewers -- to economic problems paid about -- play a large role in the egyptian elections? guest: they do. but they are talking that is putting bread on the table, freedom, and dignity. those are the things people chant all the time. when we asked in the polls, what drove their a electoral behavior and the parliamentary election and what is driving their behavior toward the presidential election, we find the economy is up there as one of the top three issues. the other two are first party affiliation, which is why the brotherhood did particularly well, but followed by the economy and personal trust. the economy and employment are high up there. they are major factors. tied to that is a sense that the economic uncertainty is tied to security uncertainty. the no. 2 candidate who will face off with the muslim brotherhood candidate -- these elections have not officially been announ

and the policy that matters most now is the israel-palestine policy.ver the decade, it has been primarily the iraq war plus the israel-palestine question. host: we should point out our guest posted a piece "what do the egyptians want" available on line at politico.com and also this from one of our viewers. do economic problems play a large role in this -- these egyptian elections? guest: yes, they do. we see that, the chant in the square is three fold. it's bread, putting food on the table. freedom, justice, dignity. those are the things that people chant all the time. when we ask them in the polls, what drove their behavior in the parliamentary elections and what is driving the behavior towards the presidential election, we find that the economy, you know, is up there as one of the top three issues. the other two in the parliamentary election was first party affiliation interestingly. that's why the brotherhood did particularly well. but followed by the economy and the presidential election, personal trust but again, the economy and unemployment is pr

where the palestinian and israeli leaders should have said they want to build a future state of palestine. a state that many believe is becoming increasingly unlikely. >> they normally hang around urban parks for they perform heart dropping tricks. extreme unicycling has gained ground with a particular devoted group of fanatics in canada. he told us how the sport caught his eye. ♪ >> we are here in montreal. i am an extremely unicycle is. -- unicyclist. ♪ i started 10 years ago. we were doing circus activities in the elementary school. a couple of years later, i started to get into it any more extreme way. i discovered that i was not the only one doing it. i started to look on the internet and found videos and that is how i got into it. ♪ it started and the circus about 100 years ago. people were dry -- were jumping over obstacles. i do it more street riding. being creative with what is around us and the city. -- in the city. mostly on the internet, there is a big forum. we exchanged tips. most of the people are on that website. it has taken me to new zealand, then to san francisco, los a

is about the size of israel is palestinian land by 2015 as i figured it out if you to jordan and palestine the jewish is released and i don't think that is a survivable situation. let me if i can tell you a little story, you know, people say i used to interview a lot of guys that were very extreme and i used to interview and he would come in and he was a very smart guy coming eventually got murdered up there on the bridge, but he told mechem he said mr. buchanan could realize israel is under the democratic for its plan to be jewish and we are not going to be both. he was arguing for pushing the palestinians off of the west bank and jordan because he says demographically they would overwhelm us. as i said the altar orthodox would become more and more prominent in the politics more and more prominent in the government and the rest of it because the of the part of the european is diminished. they got a low rate. this is one of the reasons i was talking about birth rates is anti-semitic but i don't think it's anti-semitic because what is happening demographically to western civilization there

convert into revolutionary or mercenaries and why is a freedom fighter and why the taliban or hamas in palestine are not? >> let me make sure i understand your question. i'll restate it very differently. how do you use a term like freedom fighter which is so positive with one situation and then you talk about other groups as terrorists. >> yes. >> is that in short? >> well, my understanding is i call someone freedom fighter who is fighting for something which is taken away or which he or she thinks that wrongly she's not allowed to enjoy. and by that definition, i tend to believe that most of the terrorists who are now being branded as that they also have a cause that they're fighting for. but who don't call them freedom fighters. >> yes. >> so i would like to see what the the difference between this freedom fighter. what is the bottom line that we'll tall them freedom fighter or not call them freedom fighters. >> yes. thank you for asking that. i am going to see what comments you all have because you're living in the situation. i can answer in terms of in my own mind, but, please. >> if someone

palestine is going on. iraq is going on. men are coming home from wars killing themselves is going on. you see, so, you know, to just rise up from this one occasion, means we must rise up for every occasion that it happens. we must rise up in this country, when the supreme court justice would convenely forget how the inauguration thing happened. he said it wrong, by golly, but i looked up in the place called washington, d.c., and said it's begun. this nonpeaceful thing has begun. when a republicans come out the next day and said we're going to make sure that this man will succeed as the first black president. i said then, you should resign, then. because you are here for the american people for we the people, not for yourselves. not for your unbelievably sick selfs. this is about mesh america not about what you believe in all the time. what we must do at some point be the child, black, green, purple, blue we're in america over seas, whatever. we must respond to it. it's not always it's the usual way. we must respond it to at

the nationstate of the jewish people called issue, the nationstate of the palestinian people, palestine living side-by-side in mutual security. and mutual recognition and peace. those are our common goals. on the iranian issue, very complex current issue. again, we are communicating daily at the highs, the most intimate levels about iran. we both agree that we are determined to prevent iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities. we agree that the best way to do this is through a combination of crippling sanctions and incredible military threats. we agree that containment is not an option, that there has to be a military option, a viable military option, a credible military option. and we greatly appreciate president obama's recent remarks at the aipac conference we sat in front of 12,000 people, he said initial has a right to defend itself against any middle eastern threat to the iranian regime is threatening to wipe us off the map. and only israel as a sovereign nation knows best how to defend its citizens. we are living through historic times in the middle east but i don't have

web sites about what it is they expect or want, how they want to manage the message about egypt or palestine and now about syria. they want to send the message that syria is the place for the mujahadeen to congregate. the reality is the shia is smaller. but now and this is an interesting tact, okay, he's asking for much more to exploit the sectarian violence in syria. and that's important because as shireen indicates, it plays into another theme in the middle east which is the split over the n h nuclear weapons but this belief in riyadh that the lest decade has helped to -- tactics don't belie strategy. to the extent al qaeda matters, it matter for what its overall aspirations are. if an aspiration says only violence can bring change, then you've not go al qaeda. you have something that would be analogous to trade unionists or social democrats. but that takes 100 to 150 years to fully develop through the political process. if they all want to talk about is getting a new parliamentary procedure in parliament, then they have won. they are now in a plit cal process. toe sew al qaeda in that ana

but the marriage itself ended what was called the first palestine war, so a period of peace went after that because -- until -- as long as he lived, that is. it's a very significant find and a significant event. >> the next caller's from nutoma, kansas, carine, hello. >> caller: thank you. i teach fifth grade history. and i wonder what are most important topics that i should relate to my students. and if you have know suggestions for resources besides the dvd from today, i'd be interested in knowing those suggestions. >> well, that's a huge question. i don't have my bibliography with me. but i know that there is one volume -- well for fifth grade, i guess it would be a little complicated. but there's a volume of original documents that teachers might want to look at before they talk to their students. it's called "jamestown narratives." and it collected most of the original eyewitness accounts of the first 13 to 20 to 15 years, these things that were written about jamestown. the most important things, of course, i think really is the park and partially a national park because the first

role in supporting the palestinian resistance that have been his resistance in claiming brights and palestine and things like this and this is not doesn't sit well with with israel so if we can not change the role of syria we will destroy syria so that it doesn't have any international monitors are on the ground investigating the massacre in houla where it's not clear who's fully responsible for the deaths of over one hundred men women and children also on a regular basis they observed destruction from suicide bombings which bear all the signs of terrorist attacks we need. to understand that this is going only to create more suffering for the women and children the syrian people from outside syria back in saudi arabia a young man named ali was allegedly sold with the equivalent of four hundred thousand dollars maybe only a million and a half a million and a half we have a winner. we don't know the fate of khalid maybe he is now on his way to syria to bomb something or maybe he is behind one of the deadly blast which already happened there with the u.s. supporting the proactive approach of its

different websites what it is they expect or want and how they want to manage the message about egypt or palestine or now about syria. and clearly zawahiri wants to send the message right now that syria is the place to congregate. and he has said, he much more than bin laden. because bin laden did not want to take on the shia until after they dealt with the outsidin fidels. and the logic here was the shia are smaller, at our beck and call and mercy once we recognize the i'ma, the faithful on the sunni side. and this is an interesting tact. zawahiri is asking for much more to exploit the secondtarian violence against the al awhite in syria. and that's important. because as sha reason indicates, that does play into another broadening theme in the wider middle east, which is this shia/sunni split, which is anchored on re add and tehran hostilities over nuclear weapons but also over this belief in re add that the last decade has unfairly advantaged iran. and so this is all playing out here, as well. so this is the interesting tactical shift we see here. let me talk about tactics, though, okay? tactics