november market to malta this month for palestine after an israeli offensive in gaza palestinians and human rights advocates a worldwide grieve for a people constantly struck by death and destruction but nearly two weeks later celebrations broke out after a successful bid for statehood at the u.n. it was then that the palestinian people experience starkly different emotions happiness relief and most importantly hope that finally things would change for many critics were also quick to point out that the un vote might be merely a symbolic representation of palestine's international support that it could really change the reality on the ground without direct a ghost. nations with israel so what is the tangible significance of this vote and how might it authorize the expansion of palestinian rights on the basis of international law talk about all that and more i'm joined by francis boyle a presser at the university of illinois school of college and law and author of palestine palestinians and international law dr boyle thank you so much for coming on and taking the time. well thank you ve

palestine moves up in the international arena becoming a un recognized the preserve a state which could allow to pursue israel now over claims of war crimes. egypt's power struggle spirals rival forces gather strength in a showdown over the draft constitution and the president's self-imposed supreme authority. i watch this space the more wiki leaks on the way a paralegal in the sun is promising more ground shaking revelations next year to talk to us about. hello i'm kevin owen with a major new stories the past week than of course the palestinians moved a step closer to being fully recognized as independent the un voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to a nonmember observer state the middle east correspondent for us policy reports now on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine. overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against for

justice in palestine is now life's cause. she is the author of witnessing palestine, a jewish american woman in the occupied territories and made numerous television appearances including a lecture and i'm sure many of you saw on the daily show and in 2009 she received the arab-american anti-discrimination committee's peace and justice award and certificates of commendation from the governor of wisconsin for her commitment to justice in palestine. she has given 500 lectures at churches, mosques, synagogues and universities. please join me in welcoming our two speakers. [applause] >> thank you for coming out. does this sound ok? can you hear me? thank you for coming out this afternoon. i would like to thank adam for those very generous words. my publisher pretty much dropped up this idea. colleagues, as it is called, not sure if courtney is here, loan spirit, i want to thank her. and most of all i want to thank anna for whom i have the highest regard. i do a lot of public speaking around the country and i always ask the questi

passed a resolution to partition palestine that. the palestinians did not accept this resolution and then began a massive attack to destroy the small jewish community that was living there at the time. and then miraculously within a year you know state of israel was created in the small jewish state prevailed and so forth. but then when you look at the details you see that the jewish community at the time which is a small group of immigrants really less than half a million immigrants were living there its eyes were suddenly given by the united nations the lion's share of the country and the palestinians who were the vast majority in palestine at the time were were deprived of more than half of their land which is absurd and then you look further and you see that the jewish community had a massive militia of almost forty thousand armed men which my father was a was your father was an officer and there was the equivalent of the palestinian side there was no fighting force in the both inside and then once again you keep looking for the

decision of granting an enhanced observer status to palestine and therefore recognition of palestinian lives as you see it especially given what's happened over the last week how committed you think both sides are in achieving this two state solution. well the two state solution is something that everyone is wonderful signed up to but the reality on the ground of still not having complete free movement in an adult and the huge number of settlements across the west bank and the settlers and of course the problems of east jerusalem suggests that it's quite difficult to achieve it unless there is a real will to withdraw the settlements or palestine to develop and i don't see that will at all with netanyahu ok let's put it another way there's all the fault then if you want to call it fault lie with the palestinian lie with the israelis should the palestinians have been doing more. well the palestinians given up a lot of land in lots of negotiations they've given off a lot of ground on lots of occasions and on this occasion when israel started bombing gas or retaliation so they say to the r

the week's top stories are from r t palestine moves up in the international arena becoming a un recognized observer state which could allow it to pursue israel over claims of war crimes. egypt is heading deeper into chaos after the country's top court halted all work in protest over being blocked from ruling on the new constitution is comes amid a public outrage triggered by president morsi self-imposed powers. plus watching this space there are more wiki leaks on the way joining us on promises more ground shaking of revelations next year the talks are taking. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us and the palestinians moved a step closer to being fully recognized as independent the u.n. voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to a nonmember observer state our middle east correspondent policy or reports now on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine. overwhelming suppo

week's top stories from palestine moved up in the international arena becoming a un recognized observer state which could israel over claims crimes. these are live pictures now from the west bank where triumphant of president mahmoud abbas has arrived after his victory in new york. egypt's power struggle spirals forces gather strength in a showdown of the draft constitution and the president's supreme authority. and watch this space there are more wiki leaks on the way. more ground shaking revelations next year as he talks exclusively to r.t. . you're watching our. carry johnston welcome to the program the palestinians moved a step closer this week to being fully recognized as independent u.n. voted to upgrade the station's diplomatic status to a nonmember observer state a middle east correspondent reports now on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un

." >> i have been able to visit israel and palestine on more than two occasions. and what i experienced there was such a cruel reminder of a at a painful to protest south africa. we were largely controlled in the same way. >> we will speak with the israeli and south african born co-director of the film, then reverend billy on the end of the world. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. people across the united states are expected to join a moment of silence at 9:30 this morning to mark one week since the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. last friday morning, adam lanza opened fire at the school, killing 20 children and six adults. a series of back-to-back wakes and funerals are continuing for the victims. those mourned on thursday include catherine hubbard, benjamin wheeler, jesse lewis, and allison wyatt, all aged six, and grace mcdonnell, age 7. the service was held in new york for teacher anne marie murphy, who is believed to have used her body to shi

week's top stories palestine moves up to the international arena coming if you will recognize a state could pursue israel over claims of. egypt's power struggle spirals brother forces gather strength from a show that over the draft constitution on the president's self-imposed supreme authority. also headlining from us watch this space sort of more wiki leaks on the way it seems. promises more ground shaking revolution revelations next year talk to us all about it in about. ten pm moscow time it's kevin owen here at r.t. tonight the big story of the week the palestinians moved a step closer to being fully recognized as independent the u.n. voted to upgrade the administration's diplomatic status to nonmember observer state now a middle east correspondent reports that on how the move may signal a change in the way the world sees israeli actions. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine. overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor n

independent and both of us understand that there is a difference between saying palestine independent and doing it on your own with the united nations without israel as a partner as if saying that the impediment is just the state that's here let's do this hand in hand without negotiations without us as a partner to do a one sided to impose it on israel and they feel the strong need to give a response as an israeli i can say that has to do with domestic politics personally i don't necessarily adhere to that stop i think you've heard a lot of criticism here in israel in linking it in such a way that is also about politics but of course israel maybe not helping them out on top of the the settlements israel is also announced is not going to hold over a hundred million dollars of aid to the palestinians to pay back debts to israeli companies is that really an option when of course you've got the world's largest refugee populations on your doorstep well that refugee population is something that needs to be taken care of in any case but i'm looking at these. as part of the last four years th

granted palestine member observer status palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of a future palestinian state and promising to raise the issue at the security council author and historian gerald horne says that with palestine's recent upgrade israel's playing a risky game. israel is making a very dangerous wager that its chief ally and washington can be protected from the reach of international law but i think that's a misjudgment on israel's part the enhanced status of the palestinian authority raises the possibility that the israeli beater ship can be dragged before the international criminal court in the hague for various transgressions not only that but the neighborhood of israel is changing with the rise of the south and the rise of the islamicist so i think israel is playing a very dangerous game in the short term and in the long term the problem is mr netanyahu does not want a settlement of this question he feels that his regime can continue in a grab the palestinian land and settling palestinian land which jewish settlers ad infinitum into the future however it's wel

that these two groups reconcile to put forth the possibility of you know a political solution for palestine but these these two groups are very different in the in what they believe and they belong to two different geo political camps in the region their demands are different. whether genuine or not it doesn't matter the question is whether. it's possible and i don't think reconciliation is possible with with the demands of both parties being so far apart what impact do you expect today's event to have inside israel after all benjamin netanyahu has already facing criticism for signing the cease fire agreement after the recent conflict with gaza that many believe strengthened thomas and today looks like a very vivid demonstration of that. well before the conflict in the red in november gaza had no deterrent it was basically israel's punching bag those eight days where you know palestinians fired several thousand missiles made a huge difference of course it makes the israelis nervous they don't like to be sitting there and they don't like to be told that they are the defeated party this is yo

not cottoned onto the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world support the right of palestine we just support the right of palestinians and therefore not of occupation of the west bank two state solution is something that everyone is wonderful signed up to but the reality on the ground of still not having complete free movement in and out and the huge number of settlements across the west bank under settler roads and of course the problems of east jerusalem suggest that it's quite difficult to achieve it unless there's a real will to withdraw the settlements or palestine to develop and i don't see that will at all with netanyahu if he can't even rely on governments that are basically quite sympathetic to israel and israel's claims then he's losing out big time all around the world and he just needs to wake up i think the washington support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected and the reelected president into a second term is at his most powerful and i think netanyahu might do well to remember that he also very much involved new self in the internal politics the

it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against looking at forty one abstentions six of important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations the national law and its violations of the rights of the palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal settlements palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizations giving them better by. getting chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced to put building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. further let's really believe the international community gives to this violation the us was also quick to cost account of the palestinian party may be unfortunate and

as something being supposedly serve in palestine isn't allowed. i have as active ports. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in the legal segment your see farmers this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. see my circle where i was told i could it's more the state of israel t

space and political isolation over the stop and start settlement approach and palestine whose state who was recently on pointed out that you are. on to be diagnosed it's published three countries to secrete economy gas and austerity prescription from the finance minister with the public being force fed ex hikes and spending. this is coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program tongues and all my vehicles have been deployed to the presidential palace in egypt's capital cairo after a night of street battles which cold file an injured hundreds the violence started once thousands of president morsy supporters moved into a crush of setting off his opponents the standoff became the bloodiest says they'll prising things the president began two weeks ago cairo based reporter belcher told me the latest. right now i have to hurry square work the scenes. the have been scuffles on the square here behind me outside the presidential palace i tried reports that the clashes have broken out during the day but basically we've seen very violent scenes overnight my colleague tom barton was t

in that can't even do it himself very much the administration the movement around the world for palestine for palestinian people is unprecedented netanyahu should wake up and recognize that and staying with israel every year either countries import tons of products from the country yet a lot of these products actually originate in illegal settlements on palestinian lands or disappear all over has been finding out more and calls where the end of walk to ban the trade. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possib

statehood bed in the un general assembly palestine was run to nonmember observer state status at the end of november with nearly all of europe is porting or eight or abstaining less than a day after that israel announced plans to build three thousand homes and palestinian land a move condemned by germany and the rest of the. merkel was has warned netanyahu here risks political isolation and massive military trade deals between the two states are still expected to go ahead on the other hand free trade with the you is something that supposedly sovereign palestine isn't allowed to have peace or all of the reports. of israel except this is a does real this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products are near each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to int

ambassador to the general assembly voted on thursday by a large amount and to upgrade palestine from its status as an observer entity to an observer state. the united states opposed this, as you just heard from susan rice. why is it a bad idea? >> the united states and israel put intense pressure on abbas and the palestinians not to bring it up, and the palestinians had already decided to bring it up. there is a rule in politics -- when you have the votes, a vote. they have the votes. i believe behind it was an attempt to buttress and support the palestinian authority, which has been eclipsed by hamas, it is strengthening its hand -- into strengthening its hand, that hamas had become the paramount force in the region. >> i believe this is on the anniversary of the vote for israeli acceptance in the un, wasn't it? 1948? exactly the same day. that was not a creation of israel. that was the partition resolution to create two states. that is the tragedy. that was a resolution 65 years ago that said there should be a jewish state and an arab state. the jews accepted, the arabs rejected. t