there is no homeland for us except palestine. there is no land for us but palestine. we shall not accept an alternative homeland nor an alternative land. palestine is our homeland and shall remain so. our people will continue to build institutions and will continue to strive to achieve natural reconciliation to restore the unity of our nation, people, and institutions by resorting to the ballot boxes which will confirm our people's democratic choice. our people are also determined to continue peaceful popular resistance, peaceful popular resistance, consistent with international humanitarian law, for the sake of freedom, independence, and peace. mr. president, ladies and gentleman, prevent the occurrence of a new nakba in the holy land. support the realization of a free, independent state of palestine now. let peace be victorious before it is too late. peace be upon you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> see the first of the presidential debates wednesday night live on c-span,

what role did the people of palestine play in this event?re very clear and transparent questions, sir. the third question i have, if a historic event, if a historical event has indeed taken place, why so much sensitivity surrounding it by politicians? >> if i may -- >> translator: this has already come and gone. >> let me move on. time is short. let me move on. >> translator: everyone knows -- >> time is short. prime minister netanyahu has been making it very clear that he believes iran is developing uranium now with the specific purpose not to help people with cancer, as you would say, but to have a nuclear weapon, and he is also indicating that israel may take some preemptive strike against iran. if israel does launch a strike against your country, what will your response be? >> translator: the response of iran is quite clear. i don't even need to explain that. any question, and any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself. but my question is this. why should the world be managed in such a way that an individual can allow himsel

imagine one day in palestine, there is no longer occupation.ccupation no longer exists in palestine. what else would remain? >> do you believe in a two-state solution? >> translator: about the decision of the people of palestine, i cannot express an opinion. that is their prerogative. but the people of palestine must be allowed by everyone and helped by everyone to allow them to give them the right to choose for themselves, to choose their own future. >> if they agreed, mr. president, if the palestinians agreed to a deal with the israelis which recognized a two-state solution, would you then recognize the state of israel? if the state of palestine was accepted by the international community, would you accept a two-state solution? >> translator: but before that, allow me -- allow me to say something. i believe what is our common responsibility, all of humanity, must help to end and eradicate occupation, bullying. eradicate bullying. no longer impose or meddle in the internal affairs of anyone. there are about ten million -- there is a ten millio

but jerusalem, like the rest of israel and palestine, is bitterly divi between muslims anjews.t the beginning of the 21st century, arabs in the israeli-occupied territories on the west bank and the gaza strip began an uprising they called the "second intifada." it was marked by a seemingly endless cycle of arab attacks and suicide bombings followed by israeli repriss. in order to understand the prospects for peace, we explore the historical geography of israel and palestine with special emphasis on the sacred space of jerusalem. for half a century, israelis and palestinians have battled over jerusalem and a larger homeland. helping to mediate competing claims was dennis b. ross, special envoy for the first president bush and then president clinton. as his term ended, the peace process crumbled. the intifada that began has had lots of casualties. unfortunately, one of the worst casualties-- in addition to the true human suffering-- has been a loss of complete faith and belief in peacemaking. what is so disheartening for someone like me, after having doted so much ti to th effort

we will get to palestine in a moment.adcast today on the federal holiday known as columbus day, that others call indigenous peoples that, dennis banks, can you share your experience as a native american in this country? >> first of all, i have been watching your program this morning with these young people from the college and i want to say i feel great that the young people are really getting up there and speaking. i am almost 80 years old. i feel like i can sit back and retire in say, "look, our young people are taking over." that is what i like to see. i am very impressed with the students you had on there this morning. but to say, are we still talking about columbus day? it has been four years since i talk to you. we should be talking -- i don't want to talk about columbus, but i will talk about this day. and south dakota, which i thought would be the last to adopt the day like this as day of anative american debt, but have proclaimed today as native american day. it is a day for observation, celebration, looking at t

i knew nothing of israel palestine. due to the inadequate distorted media coverage we have on this very important subject. just to set the scene i will mention a few years ago we did studies on u.s. coverage but being at how the u.s. news media covered death of both populations. rediscover the first year there were 28 israeli children and 131 palestinian children killed. how was this covered prime-time news network? would get the chart a we've boarded israeli children's death and 14 times greater than palestinian deaths of many americans have no idea that they are being killed at all. the final chart is "the new york times" report the first curve year times reporting on israeli children death during the first year. mess -- next to see the actual death curve and it is the light blue column following a similar kerf although little lower because they had follow-up reports. for the palestinian children who were killed the first year is the red line and follows a similar curve to the israeli children death in is lower but si

contributor to salon dot com and in london we cross to naseem oxman he is a senior researcher at the palestine return center all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect you can jump anytime you want and i see if i can go with go to you first i mean where is the arab spring going we're literally in the fall right now is there a winter approaching for the arab spring. i think so far. nothing settled at the moment the dust from the arab spring which started three years ago has not totally settled but having said that there are many positive signs within within egypt the. morsi has made very very strong comments about. israel and also his has maintained his his status as a president without. causing too much. controversy within the arab world we need of course but having said that there are of course groups within is within within egypt who are trying to derail this project but they are few and far between but overall i think there is a positive sign and only in the next few decades we'll know how how well it evolves into a good. economy clear successful democracy and i see if i can stay with y

bush on a variety of issues whether it was palestine in israel whether it was the use of military force etc but the reality of it is that in many ways a fair number of the obama policies are so are similar to the bush administration's i was listening to a conversation on fox lately yeah and it was about whether the u.s. should stop meddling in the affairs of the region in the world was divorced from the region and the anchor at the question that he was that he was asking but what if we divorce what if russia and china come in and then it will end up in boldly ran so that there was like in a very conversational manner very short question and i thought that that phrase might have spelled out the complex that washington had when it comes to interventions after the vietnam war there was a sense that and you could see it in our culture in our news everything was more local than global that americans were sick of war and didn't want to invest any more in terms of our human beings that number of people were killed in terms of ever. domestic you know economy and development well and that's why

on israel and palestine but in fact when it came down to hard political realities has backed off here with the eventual was do you think there's a crack between the white house and tell me over iran or is it just like good cop bad cop game that they're playing i believe that obama has been working on it very carefully because of elections ok but that obama has alternately tried to communicate yeah we're going to be strong on iran and we will be even stronger and stronger if iran doesn't back away but but he's made very clear that he's not willing to talk about and put on the table significant threat of military intervention and that's what's bothering netanyahu thank you ok. if you're passing through russia's very region you really can go on the wild side. thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and then surprisingly locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunt is. going on he has been hun

on israel and palestine but in fact when it came down to hard political realities has backed off here with the eventual was do you think there's a crack between the white house and tell me over iran or is it just like good cop bad cop i came at a game that they're playing i believe that obama has been working it very carefully because of elections ok but that obama has alternately tried to communicate yet we're going to be strong on iran and we will be even stronger and stronger if iran doesn't back away but but he's made very clear that he's not willing to talk about and put on the table significant threat of military intervention and that's what's bothering netanyahu thank you ok. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. salem's to become and herds cattle as part of this prepar

his top priority is his unfinished scientists business and palestine. it is unfinished. that is why out of 3300 words in his u.n. speech, recent one, 70 are dedicated to the 4 million palestinians living under islam. an additional bonus for bebe in focusing on iran is the fueling of the shiite-sunni divide and the cooing signals that sense to some arab zionist. so far, bebe has succeeded brilliantly but he is probably the most dangerous leader in the world today. i now turn to the most obvious aspect of palestinian-israeli relations is the kosovo ace -- colossal asymmetry between the two in power. the palestinians in the west bank and gaza are de facto prisoners. he can travel to new york because bebe travels -- allows him to travel to new york. a bus can return to its headquarters but he can only return to his headquarters in because the nine allowed him to return to his quarters in. how can there be direct negotiations between the jailer and the jailed? one possible partial symbolic counter is in the international community, some kind of membership for the palestine in

against palestine. against the israelis occupation of palestine a malaysian told me that palestine is existential. it's totem i can to muslims. >> rose: so you were in malaysia it could be indonesia, too, the largest muslim population. is that more of a question of religion or geography or when you talk about geography you're talking about religion? >> it's about technology creating new geographical communities where you can have a pan islam. my previous book was about the indian ocean. >> rose: "monsoon" as i remember. >> right and the islam in southeast asia is very different --. >> rose: you talk to them and that's what they tell you. >> but because of technology muslims from one part of the greater middle east to the other part and to the muslim community in southeast asia can now interact with each other and rediscover their faith as a unit rather than a separate groups. so it creates a new geography of islam. it's still about space so each place interacts with every other so in order to understand

. >> the foundation gave charity to committees -- charitable committees in palestine. they were given a by our own government. >> the government's case relied on israeli intelligence, as well as disputed documents and electronic surveillance gathered by the fbi over a span of 15 years. the first trial ended in a hung jury, but prosecutors obtained convictions in a retrial the following year. seventeen people were arrested on thursday protesting u.s. drone warfare at the hancock field air national guard base near syracuse, new york. members of the upstate coalition to ground the drones and in the wars were detained after creating a blockade outside three of the base gates, holding signs and pictures of children killed by u.s. drone attacks overseas. it was the latest in a series of protests outside the base, where the drones are operated remotely. the late former democratic senator and presidential candidate george mcgovern was remembered thursday at a funeral service in his home state of south dakota. mcgovern, best known for running on an anti-4 platform against presi

let's listen to what he said about palestine. >> i look at the palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of israel and these issues and i say there is just no way. so you move things along the best way you can, hope for some degree of stability but recognize this is going to remain an unsolved problem. >> this is what he says today about israel and palestine. >> i will recommit america to the goal of a democratic, prosperous palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the jewish state of israel e. on this issue the president has failed. what should be a negotiation has devolved into heated his disputes in the u.n. only a new president brings the chance to begin anew. >> a new president who said i might not do anything differently. what do you make of this? >> i'm in greet with secret romney. >> on some things uh i would hope. >> it's a hard problem. how many problems have tried to solve it? everyone since cart. no one has managed. i assume the next president whether it's barack obama again or

which is two states, the secure state of israel, state of palestine. yet we can't seem to get there. now i think personally, we can get there. but i think we are over this next period it is maybe more difficult once you have everything happening, including here. but i think-- . >> rose: you mean the elections. >> yeah. it's-- you know, it would be odd if we were able to take a major new initiative right at this moment. however, i do think that it is possible to put together a credible negotiation, provided alongside that negotiation, and this is my sort of fixation having dealt with this now for a few years, you've got also to make the changes on the ground that support the political process. so if you carry on in a situation where the facts on the ground are working against a political solution t will never work. so i believe it is possible to do this. and i think it remains absolutely urgent. >> i assume are you talking about settlements on one side as a fact on the ground and what on the other side. >> there is the question of settlement where settl

she's from palestine.he has been training by herself, just wearing, you know, normal, she's never worn shoes with spikes, so suddenly she's training with spiked shoes and just like is impaired, instead of being-- so she has to relearn, basically, how to run. >> the next is a video by your sister of a basketball play frere somalia. >> yes. >> take a look at that one. >> may name is marian hussein, i'm was born in somalia. i moved to canada. i'm a pipefitter in the oil rig in alberta. basketball is the thing that i don't know, i think it shows me up. gave me the ability to think that i could do anything. i used to play with the guys all the time. i barely played with females. and when i started playing with females it was just much easier. because you are always used to the guise. and guy was in the give me a chance, i'll tell you that. so it gives you confidence t gives you structure. it gives you order, i would say, like to be on time for practice to encourage others and it opened a lot of doors for me. i