passed a resolution to partition palestine that. the palestinians does 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 are living there it's i were suddenly given by the united nations a lot of the lion's share of the country and the palestinians who are 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 was your father was an officer and there was an equivalent of the palestinian side there was no fighting force in the post inside and then once again you keep looking for.

for the status quo there is little interest in coming to a just peace with the palestinians and palestine nor does it seem israel is on course to change its behavior in stable hood so what exactly happened in this election. to cross-talk israel's election i'm joined by patrick tyler in washington he's a former chief correspondent of the new york times and author of two books on the middle east a world of trouble and fortress israel and in jerusalem we have robert restraints he is a professor at hebrew university and author of a lethal obsession or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want all right patrick i'd like to go to for you first in washington before we talk about the meaning of the outcome of the election let's talk about the election itself was quite lackluster and a lot of people commented that foreign policy and specifically the palestinian issue was hardly mentioned even by the labor party you find that surprising what does it tell us go ahead. and i did i did find it surprising i think if you if you look at benjamin netanyahu his first

the palestinian authorities official renaming of the state of palestine does little to help the families of israel's pows pollutants. and also reporting the french film started out arrives in russia amid speculation he's come to receive a russian passport after putting in a tax route. around the world online on satellite this is a t.v. twenty four hours a day live from moscow the u.k. government's charitable enterprises abroad could be doing nothing to help the world's pull in fact a center right think tank says the billions of pounds in taxpayers' money being spent and part of a p.r. campaign to promote the image of the government when earlier i discussed with smith when exactly this cash is ending up. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of british eight ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies b.b.c. investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help poor people it was used by the ethiopian government meant a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the gover

and make it look like it's necessary for our security that we have to support the occupation of palestine necessary. we can definitely keep this conversation going but we are unfortunately are to at a time really appreciate you coming on the show. a co-founder of existence is resistance well these days when you hear t.s.a. when you think about a big hassle at the airport some passengers have found their searches to be too close for comfort. please. leave your daughter was blind as no fly i said excuse me it's absurd my life is pretty much in their hands when i walk their bodies together with mine from the pump on she was right to be weary the pump stopped working just her job but. she and i meet each actually your. touch my very much like the you know your group i believe your life you know you do they're here to test my joint going to have your rest. but you'd be surprised what they found during their searches some of their best finds are of two thousand and twelve are detailed on t.s.a. his blog. this here is a bag of eels confiscated from a passenger in miami the t.s.a. says from time

israel and they can look like it's necessary for security that we have to support occupation of palestine necessary and clear we can definitely keep this conversation going but we are unfortunately are to at a time really appreciate you coming on the show. a co-founder of existence is resistance think that is going to do it for this hour but for more of the stories we covered you can check out our you tube channel that is youtube dot com slash our team america our website our t. dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter at liz wahl we'll be back here in a half hour. well . science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. deadly rivals some decades. if good fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will attack myself and michael attack my brother understand my contact immediately. going to be basically attacked the columns of my anger and my frustration. that. well into the top. two of the most violent gangs in us his

taxpayer but undoubtedly the palestine question is the heart of the matter it's the flaw at the heartof western policy towards the east and until there is justice for the palestinian people there will never be peace in the region and if there's no peace in that region there'll be no peace in the world yet netanyahu the serial killer the man who's literally paving the illegally occupied west bank of the jordan with illegal israeli settlements will be received in washington and london with the same red carpet no matter what crimes he commits and we know from the all of our hard conversation between president obama and then french president sarkozy that neither could bear to look at the other look at netanyahu his face they agreed with each other they didn't know the microphones were switched on they said that they could not bear to look at this man and yet when it comes to writing the checks sending the weapons and rolling out the diplomatic and political support they can always be counted on to do that. stay tuned for the rest of my interview with george galloway right after the break

taxpayer but undoubtedly the palestine question is the heart of the matter it's the floor at the heartof western policy towards the east and until there is justice for the palestinian people there will never be peace in the region and if there is no peace in that region there'll be no peace in the world yet netanyahu the serial killer the man who's literally paving the illegally occupied west bank of the jordan with illegal israeli settlements will be received in washington and london with the same red carpet no matter what crimes he commits and we know from the all of our hard conversation between president obama and then french president sarkozy that neither could bear to look at the other look at netanyahu his face they agreed with each other they didn't know the microphones were switched on they said that they could not bear to look at this man and yet when it comes to writing the checks sending the weapons and rolling out the diplomatic and political support they can always be counted on to do that. stated for the rest of my interview with george galloway right after the break lik

physically look at the map to see the space that is allowed to us now going from you know historic palestine to to now less than what amounts to less than historic less than ten percent of of our historic homeland that's where palestinians are located most of us are in refugee camps or in a diaspora in the rest of those those who live inside palestine live under a horrible military. haitian that that is slowly and daily confiscating more and more palestinian property pushing palestinians out of their homelands imprisoning them ignore izing them how can you see how i don't understand how in the face of all these overwhelming facts that you could take any objection to the word eradicate when that's precisely what's been happening and not just not just you know these these are these are indisputable facts and secondly you know the rhetoric coming out of out of this election. is even is it is even more proof of that i mean on the one hand you have you know. i think during lieberman's party for example used to be the far right now you actually have people who are who are to the right of lieberman

the palestinian authority's official renaming us the state of palestine does little to help the families ripped up by israel's. president as a protector of animals by french film star brigitte bardot threatens to abandon her country and russian. live from moscow this is our rule research a thank you for joining us today the u.k. government's charitable enterprises abroad could be doing nothing rather to help the world's poor and center right think tank says the billions of pounds in taxpayers' money being spent and merely part of a p.r. campaign to promote the image of the government my colleague bill dodd discussed it all with laura smith. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of british eight ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies a b.b.c. investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help people it was used by the ethiopian government meant a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this

and cochairman of the israel palestine research and information center thank you very much for your time. well one of the most pressing and divisive issues of this election has been settlements as we were just talking about with mr baskin it's a theme that has the that the right has campaigned on tire of this one man though brought his own perspective to the issue infiltrating the ranks of diehard said there's filmmaker nimrod kaymer known for his prank documentaries has this from the west bank my name is no more than is really citizen living here among arabs in white chapal don't you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem i can also live among our allies and i think i can get them much better deal with the wise over the. i will in my leg would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this because i'm hearing the property value might go up he's been told that one flat is one million shekels his father's flat in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those

nations and brought him back with a one hundred thirty eight countries recognize in the state of palestine as a nonmember as an all state as a number state of the united nations this is exactly what president about promises people to bring when he was elected back in one in two thousand and five and he's going along the same path which was supported a big time by the palestinians in gaza despite the very very awkward situation in the gaza strip which has been taken over by hamas as you rightly. mentioned earlier for the last five or six years so how significant is this are we seeing perhaps an indication that the two rival groups as they have been in the past are now perhaps seeing some sort of unity that hamas and fatah could indeed come together now. but today i think today is forms a historical intersection in palestinian history simply because what was yesterday is not going to be tomorrow tomorrow will look. really different totally different now hamas will have to look and to further hand the audience that i would have to look into the hamas in the eye and both sides have to agree on

two parties but not one of them has been honored or implemented but how it's going to take over palestine the concerns of netanyahu are baseless and groundless he's the only israeli leader who has been giving support to hamas are not only to hamas but out to every extremist group on the palestinian side simply because he's dumping the palestinian moderates is dumping the leadership of president abbas he's dumping the put a political negotiations with the with the palestinians and he's carrying on his own agenda of increasing the number of do with settlements in the west bank even though they are illegally they are illegal under international law he carries on his policies that set up every chance of reaching a two state solution between the palestinians and the israelis if the israeli withdrawal from gaza was based on an agreement with the palestinian authority we have we would have seen a totally different middle east today. president mahmoud abbas has officially changed the name of the palestinian administration to the state of palestine but despite this and the recent status upgrade by

mideast peace to israel league's two state parks with palestine. yet this was their reality israel's assault on palestinian militants in gaza israel's anti-missile shield repelled the most attacks on its territory but a strike claimed the lives of more than one hundred sixty palestinians many of them civilians despite harsh condemnation from many in the international community the war and israel's subsequent decision to construct three thousand new settlements effectively slammed the door shut to any prospect of peace people power moment you step aside and let democracy in. get lost get most notorious kuantan the most prison permanently shot. euro zone cuts the cuts and lifts austerity. but the news of austerity only tightened as deep public sector cuts brought thousands of angry demonstrators to the streets of greece spain italy and portugal. the worst economic crisis of a generation has battered the european union's very foundations exacerbating tensions between member states but some regions desperately wanting out i grew up in a europe that was

right israel must to move all of its a half a million settlers out of palestine says a fresh un human rights report dubbed bias and counterproductive by television investigation states of the grain settlement rushed to the scene as mine. she has managed to get exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army in a town liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces and information of civilian casualties in mali has been notably scarce we spoke to a local journalist gonzalo one who told us of the region's other disturbing tape as we continue moving north and find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of war crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of survivor not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok today in the center of the town making the rest of the population watch you also hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as

that has given palestine nonmember observer state status but despite this the nation is still a long way from unity as artie's fall asleep reports thousands of families are torn in two by barriers put up by israel. this is the erez crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed live to gaza in search of a bit of a life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear. i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid i'm not my father must come back here we must go and live with him but he can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind him of him are photographs and the occasional phone call oh. love me i can't live like this anymore i'm sick i'm having a nervous breakdown this happens when a man is

most called in the in palestine ok what's a fitness in the end as palestine so a lot of the land in in one area is confiscated but this land in particular is still privately on and even israeli newspaper ha'aretz have done their research and found out it's still proposed to him privately owned so of course the vision was illegal but you know with the patient forces they are above the law or allowed to fictional police obviously went ahead despite the fact using on private land what i do want to ask you what about international law recall international law that's on your side because international law regards israel's development on that land as being illegal so is that going to help you at all and so i can too. and circa who will let me just quickly ask you that question again what about international law or if. you can hear me at all or what i think we'll probably have to leave that then if you can hear it or not we'll try and do this a little bit later if we can sorry for that as i said we're trying to get back to maybe in the next hour here on r.t. the people of venezuela are still

forced to israel and palestine when the second intifada started and that resolution was vetoed i'm told by the united states by israel and at that point activists around the world decided to form this movement to bring internationals to the area to stand in solidarity with palestinians and there were only two requirements for being a part of i assume one needed to believe in the principles of freedom and equality for the palestinian people and only nonviolent forms of resistance in challenging the israeli occupation that had been going on for so long. and craig you guys decided to take on the israeli government two thousand and five why did this take so long i mean you guys just got a verdict last year well of course it started. right at the rate was killed when we through diplomatic channels to find some sort of answer and actually president bush was promised a thorough credible and transparent investigation by the israelis the prime minister sharon promising that the day after it was killed but in two thousand and four we heard in writing that. of course they had done some sort of inv

research information center he holds little hope for progress towards peace with palestine now. since the government of israel hasn't done anything to move the peace process forward in the last four years we shouldn't expect any change the government will continue to hold to its position that there is no partner on the palestinian side that the leadership of mahmoud abbas is not a leadership which wants peace in the eyes of the israeli government and therefore the israeli government will attempt to keep the status quo in place which has been rather comfortable for israel we have had no real terrorism there's no uprising taking place in the palestinian territories the separation of the west bank and gaza has played into israel's interest and i think that the government of israel will seek to preserve the status quo for as long as possible the question is whether or not the international community will move beyond words in its isolation policies of israel if there will be economic sanctions or other political sanctions that we've yet to see but i think that an increasingly hardlin

the you one israel has stepped up measures which threatened the possible formation of the united palestine does the jurors say it continues building barriers and thousands of settler homes in the occupied territories it's not just those divided families to. report. this is the it was crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border. these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed al qaida ran left gaza in search of a better life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind distress and fear yes although i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid a lot my father must come back here or we must go and live with him but it can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind him of him are photographs and the occasional phone call. over with love the words and then i can

right israel must to move all of its a half a million settlers out of palestine says a fresh un human rights report dubbed bias and counterproductive by tel of eve investigation states of the great settlement russia is seen as a fine. she has managed to get exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army in a town liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces and information of civilian casualties in mali has been notably scarce we spoke to local journalist gonzalo one who told us of the region's other disturbing tape as we continue moving north we find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of war crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok to in the center of the town making the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants all sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook

coalitions that have yet to form could very well mean a change in direction for how israel deals with palestine egypt and iran but as long as peace talks continue to be cast aside all the break in that this that that set in joining. just yesterday in jordan held its first election since the arab spring now proponents say this parliamentary vote is a step toward greater democracy in the region while opponents are saying that it's nothing more than an empty pageant as long as the outcome favors king abdullah's regime despite certain factions within the country calling for a boycott of the election it was reported fifty six percent voter turnout over the last year jordan has seen a growing dissent against its monarchy at the simmering uprising curiously absent from the u.s. corporate media so we're going to say. most of what's happening on the ground in jordan right now. are two correspondent catherine office in jordan as we speak lucy thanks so much for coming on. and as we know i'm there how are you i am great thanks for so as we know jordan is a monarchy and people because of that i mean people