i'm joined by yousif nayar executive director of the jerusalem fun and educational program the palestine center thanks so much for coming on thanks for having me so set the stage for us in terms of the israeli elections what are the main parties and who is the most viable opposition to netanyahu right now well it's interesting because there isn't really serious opposition to netanyahu i think one thing that is often misunderstood is that there is a left in a right in israel even the parties that are not in the government currently the parties that make up what many referred to as the israeli right there their backgrounds their ideological backgrounds mostly come from the traditional israeli right so and i'm referring here to kadima and and leaders like show and livni. there's really no left left in israel what you have now is extreme right and right and they're very clearly wrong on the issues. you have most disturbingly in this upcoming election a phenomenon of extremely right wing annexationists settlers who are going to take a significant number of seats in the israeli knesset become a major

patients in general grey that it's the center left leaning parties who are expected to be the net loses question baskins cochairman of the israel palestine 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 sanct

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