she letter to the palestinian wa'ted decy to the pla, it was just to the palestinians -- promised the u.s. would oppose actions that were prejudicial or precedential to negotiations, live israeli settlement expansion. this as with several other promises in the letter of assurances, was never kept. the letter also promised, and i quote, that the united states will act as a honesroke similarly, during israeli-palestinian negotiations in 2008, 17 years later, u.s. secretary of state, dr. condoleezza rice told the palestine yandle gage she wanted to meet with. the privately -- i'm quoting phloem palestinian documents leekdz by the -- she said i want to meet with you so i can tell you what i think'm of your positions without hurting my role as the honest broker. the letter of assurances sent by secretary baker to the palestinians in 1991, and secretary rice's comments in 2008, reiterate a central myth about the palestinian-israeli conflict that the united states serves as an honest broker between the two sides. in this book, "broker of deceit." i argue the united states has act net a thoro

the palestinian people speaking to palestinian a few days ago it was their number one issue of what they would want to see resolved in a kind of roadmap for peace so to speak it's extremely grave and it touches so many families that i think in the west maybe we can't really imagine how bad the situation is but it means that this person's husband is locked up this person's son is locked up this person's brother is locked out or even as i say children and not only are they. really your son answered political purposes but also as i say mistreated not only explicitly in some extreme cases with torture including electric torture but also. we've held adequate or even any medical treatment which is in the in the case of the man you were just talking about for example cancer patient being given basically piracy to whole to deal with cancer i mean it's just unbelievable i mean it's a stain on humanity the problem here is that as you well know in the west palestinian lives are not treated like israeli lives that's why i. shall eat but one israeli prisoner of the last few years of the israel p

holiday has served as an adviser to the palestinian authorities delegation, was not then the palestinian authority, but it was -- it was the plo delegation, although, not described as such during the short lived madrid peace process which led to the madrid process. he has a ba from yale, ph.d. from oxford, taught in beirut lebanon university, georgetown, columbia, and went do chicago for eight years for director of the center of middle east studies, and then he returned to columbia where he's now the edward chair for mod earn arab studies, and he will speak for half hour to 45 minutes and time for questions. thank you, welcome, and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> thank you all for those jen royce introductions. it's an honor to be in the nation's capitol in springtime. april 15th's coming up, good to see where the money is going before you send in your income tax return, which i have not yet finished, so i'm going to talk about the book, and i'm going to only touch on a few highlights. i hope that you all have some questions at the end. in preparation in 1991, the united states g

i will quote a palestinian friend of mine who said remembers this, there must be an independent palestinian state at least for 15 minutes. what he meant was there is a principal for them, to independence. exercising that right successfully is quite a different story. >> i am a professor -- i have a question. dimension someone is in your dock fifth, many israelis like myself believe the doctrine of islam, there can be no possibility for any reconciliation because what we need is reconciliation. we need real reconciliation so if you think given the doctrine of islam including the hamas document, in the palestinian complement, basically says the jewish people have religion and do not deserve their own country do you think this is remotely possible? >> we should separate the arabs from islam. you see in more modern governments winning elections in indonesia, bangladesh, that recently happened in the middle east. depends on what you mean by peace and what you mean by reconciliation. if we have a real peace that after centuries of war, germany and france have, i don't see that happening this. it

it provided for a palestinian state alongside israel the palestinians and the arab states rejected that went to war against israel let's remember the facts so yes there should be a palestinian state there are palestinian arabs living on that land they can have a state when they return to the bargaining table and negotiate for a state but to talk about apartheid to talk about replaces this and that colonization is just nonsense i mean the fact is that israel has a right to exist in peace and security with its neighbors the palestinians have rejected that the arab states have backed them up and gone to war against israel it's time to get to the bargaining table and put that history behind us go ahead jump in the way in which we have very different points of view here ok so on. mine probably is the most of the merger between the two. i agree that there have been problems with futile attempts at peace and that the two state solution is looking more and more blurry and to some impossible i think that it's if we just look at historical facts and figures and dates we will see quite different n

that they have no intention of allowing a palestinian state they are offering palestinians a self-governing status within a punt to stand system of apartheid in the program of the new government there is no mentioning of the palestinian statehood and the leaders of this government one of them minister of housing who is a settler himself has just declared that there will be no place between the river and the sea for more than one state which is israel and palestinians have to accept that so basically he came to a government that is most racist most. are going to stick to the possibility of peace. and he didn't say a word about it as you say the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu government has moved from being a right wing government to extreme right wing government exactly but even if netanyahu wanted to make peace with the palestinians his hands are not tied by the israeli government well of course because he created the settlement movement or he contributed to the symptom of movement he made the settlers so strong now they are inside the government three of them are the ministers a

good number of palestinians who troll. for negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the ways they. even. while palestinian prisoners in israeli custody claim they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied any medical treatment from the rector of the prisoner support and human rights association says the situation is complicated by the fact no one in israel is actually bothered over the plight of palestinian detainees unfortunately in the latest years there is no much reaction from there is that oily mess public in these shows of course there is human rights n.g.o.s really in geos that they would be condemning and of course following these cases and small groups of activists there they would be supporters of the palestinian cause but in general i think almost over the israeli community would believe that this person was a terrorist and he obviously deserved to be dying. and it's prison is it america's war on terror a call for

of the palestinian prisoners and. the demonstrators the whole thing can explode this was the second palestinian death in an israeli jail this year the three year old earth large i doubt died of a heart attack in temporary causes such as these only adds to the anger palestinians feel towards israel people on the street want some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of certain elements intensification of abduction and killing of people every aleksey which some believe could be ensured. that israel will. release a good number of palestinians. who troll who is. reading this for real negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the ways they in tel aviv even go to school or to. and from on it's online including sometimes why you just can't have enough to stick shedding light on the rising number of america's richest people cashing in millions in unemployment benefi

teenagers and they protest at the death of palestinian political prisoner. so to talk about this breach of cease fire going to human rights violations and whether or not this could all develop into a third intifada i spoke earlier with independent journalist harry fear his reporting from the ground in gaza palestine i first asked him what the point is of having a ceasefire if israel is going to continue to violate it and why the western media refuses to report on the disproportionality of these violations take a look. i want the ceasefire is not really in the interest of israel i mean if we look at what this stalled there is basically in comparison to the palestinian civilian casualties i mean. it is row fifty nine palestinian children were killed in the war in the book. was killed israel doesn't and has never really. within hours of the cease fire supposedly coming into effect is row as a matter of protocol broke the ceasefire what do i mean i mean that is right we. are. cut into palestinian space we didn't a few days of how this could be shot in the head b

israelis palestinians think. the death of my father was a direct result of a criminal negligence as well as moral powerlessness and of course the palestinians yet are. to such reactions and from. actions and from these very and it is possible that. to morrow when. you know of mr hamby you will take place in hebron the situation. indeed escalate into a violent clashes between b. israelis and we certainly keeping a close watch on that as you say to morrow inside twenty four hours mr hamdi of the palestinian prisoner will be buried you for cos there could be concerns of more clashes tomorrow. it all seems it all seems a bit bizarre to some that we can have this ongoing clash between both israelis and palestinians what has been going on for so many years now i mean the situation in israeli prisons i'm sure is far from perfect you say israeli negligence is due for the death of abu hamed from what i understand he died of throat cancer didn't. yes indeed but his medical condition had been known to abuse their lives for

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a good number of palestinians to. troll. readiness for negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it depends on whether israel has the good will to get it was the bank in tel aviv even called my team. and i t. is coming to you live from moscow a nearly three hundred protesters were arrested in montreal this week ultimately they were defying a law that was announcing the protests were illegal there are concerns that a heavy handed police repression is having a chilling effect on human rights so that's coming up after the break. mission. critical three. four chargers three arrangement three. three stooges free. old free volunteers to video for your media project free media don carty dot com. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. for about twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is artsy a new type of bird flu has been discovered in china this week promoting the government to cull tens of thousands of birds so far the virus has killed six out of the eightee

good number of palestinians. who troll goodwill. ready for real negotiations with the palestinians a simple solution that maybe to some but it still depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the ways they in tel aviv even called r t. and a more news of you online including a wire sometimes you just can't have enough with statistics shedding light on the rising number of america's richest cashing in millions in unemployment benefits. plus a miracle baby in india attend a month old girl survives after thirty six hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed eight story building in mumbai r.t. dot com has the story. behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strike as a guantanamo bay have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for two months now federal public defender carlos warner a lawyer for the guantanamo detainees told r.t. that the government has dragged itself into a no win situation. military is under estimating the number by at least two thirds i think we have at least one hundred thirty men

the palestinians are not seeing that. >> rose: doesn't the united states understand that palestinian state is in its own interest? >> i think that everyone of the last, every president since president carter with the sole exception of george w. bush and perhaps george w. bush understood that in some fashion and so did some of their senior advisors. one of the interesting things i talk about in the book with the exsomion of george w. bush they made a step towards that and was eventually pushed back. other wishes with having to do with saudi arabia or syria they push through the resistance. no domestic lobbying no pressure would stop them. they apparently dhoant see the palestinians that way. >> rose: the deceit is if the united states didn't see an overwhelming strategic interest with the palestinians and so therefore it does not pursue peace with the same passion or the same intensity, it does if it's saudi arabia or egypt or syria. >> exactly. the deceit is we're using orwellian conflict perpetuation as a peace process which the united states is not an honest brochurer. it's not a p

mock the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possibly the palestinian national council back in one nine hundred seventy four as a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails on wednesday about three thousand palestinian prisoners refuse they food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists told fifty metres of the prison fence at that prison which is on the outskirts of ramallah in the west bank where they mounted a palestinian flag and this forced the i.d.f. as well as israeli border police to use why it control measures to disperse the group also in gaza hundreds of people marched from gaza city to the offices of the international committee of the red cross the palestinian authority has sent and urgent letter to the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton calling for a prompt intervention to save the life of prisoners in israeli. generals who are currently conducting a hunger strike the most notable among them is a prisoner some is sol we who has been striking for some three

we are the sons of palestinian people and we feel the pressure of the israeli occupation not only in gaza but also in all the arab and muslim world and as the first retaliation we committed a fast and full scale attack on israeli web sites to warn israel and all its supporters about the threat that hangs over them they have weapons and we have our own means as a result of this attack we receive the names of those who cooperate with israel the aim of the attack was to show the world the true face of israel and its armed forces and we coped with our task we failed to fulfill by using force to resist but we succeeded through the cooperation of palestinians in the whole arab and muslim world so now we make a clear warning to israel in the future be ready for a new larger surprises of the curious thing about this however is that it seems that these really hackers have been maybe perhaps even more effective than these. government when it came to stopping d.d. o. s. attacks they have also had some of the palestinian sites and put up our pro israeli messages on there as well as they have del

palestinian political and other prisoners and so we palestinians in general on the streets in the palestinian street is very very angry about what goes on the thousands of palestinian prisoners of smelly of them held without trial even for months and sometimes for years so the palestinian political prisoners is a very big issue on the palestinians three and it could indeed lead to another uprising so as you say as you say the aggression the tension on the street is affecting all ages of palestinians whether it's the teenagers as we were mentioning obama to go all the elder ones as well the one thing i think it's important to note is that hamas has already been firing rockets into israel israel has retaliated of course as he always does but it was just a few months ago in november when we had that historic israeli strike i.d.f. strike on gaza then we had a more or less a bit of a cease fire over the past four months why it started all over again with a few rockets. well actually. the palestinian authority and. are interested in maintaining quiet and have tried to keep quiet in their respective

cut into palestinian a space within a few days of palestinian has been shot in the head basically according to strongly executed so this is not exactly a good will gesture within the first week of the ceasefire the western media doesn't pay any attention to the suffering of palestinians as a rule and. have a sense of being killed under the cease fire dozens of school was injured around gaza basically the western media doesn't. of course i wake up to hearing about these rocker rockets being fired in israel of course zero virtually zero discussion on all of these instances that you just pointed out over one hundred i think at this point let's talk about spring the most recent protests another palestinian prisoner. is last name just died in an israeli prison how dire is the situation i mean look at how many palestinians are really incarcerated without due process. i think the incarceration the mass incarceration arbitrary detention and even documented torture policy in palestinian children is one of the greatest human rights breaches of the israeli occupation the palestinian people speaking to

palestinians on the street the palestinians were throwing rocks at i.d.f. have retaliated with. with rubber bullets and tear gas and we know that at least twelve people according to the red crescent have been treated for injuries from the rubber bullets and of for gas and so obviously tensions are extremely high right now in this doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon because of course the funeral for a gruesome dia is tomorrow in hebron and we're expecting even bigger classes after the funeral procession and this is the second recent death of a palestinian in israeli conformant has triggered such a strong response. because it's the second the second death of a palestinian prisoner in israeli custody and in as many months just in february a thirty year old prisoner died from a heart attack that that caused a flurry of protest among palestinians palestinian prisoners themselves went on strike they went on a hunger strike in fact they have done so in this case two you have to understand there is almost five thousand palestinians in israeli jails right now some of them ha

almost five thousand palestinians in israeli jails right now and palestinians during their protest continuously ask israeli officials to either release those prisoners or at least treat them appropriately however it doesn't seem to be the case at least according to the palestinian authorities because as you as you see the palestinian prisoners keep dying like in this particular case it looks like there was no like no medical aid was given at an appropriate moment and this of course leaves palestinians incredibly frustrating and then of course there is the issue of in israeli occupation of several palestinian lands as well as the issue of settle settlements so obviously all of these issues just piled on top of one another and the mood obviously grows with every day. palestinian journalist khaled i'm not a who's in hebron which has seen some of the worst clashes over the past two days explains why the people on the streets are refusing to calm down. a state of widespread anger and diggnation or that of the. what many people here. a primitive. israelis palestinians think that the death of my fello

israel and gaza are seeing their heaviest exchange of rocket attacks following the ongoing palestinian prison riots and street clashes over the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody. the war of words on the korean peninsula with many south koreans fearing conflict as pyongyang suspends access to a crucial industrial zone jointly run with. with the presidential race now underway in venezuela we take a look at whether any of the main candidates could fill the shoes of the late top stories. from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day first to news we are receiving from russia's chechen republic a massive has engulfed almost all the floors of the highest skyscraper in the region's capital grozny we have bring you live pictures of that inferno which you can see just in the right of the screen there. it was once a recently completed forty story a lavish hotel which also boasted luxury apartments almost completely immersed by smoke and flames dozens of fire brigades are fighting the blaze or people said to have been evacuated from it before the

all the fatah on the palestinian authority in the west bank the palestinian street the people on actually want some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of settlements intensification of abduction and killing of people. activists have kicked off a month of protests against the use of drones both in war zones killing hundreds of civilians and in the us where the nervous about the rapid rise of intrusive overhead surveillance that is coming up a little later in the program along with plenty of other stories stay with us this is altie in the sky. about international airport in the very heart of moscow. continues here and u.s. troops may be out of iraq but allegations of military misconduct and abuse have followed them home but now the latest report has put the british army in the spotlight after its service men shared some uncomfortable revelations all the details the allegations and the response from the authorities. it was reportedly one of the most brutal u.s. run military facilities in iraq during the war but a new

well we did witness a large scale protests across the palestinian territories palestinian prisoner day is an annual commemoration and it marks the almost five thousand palestinian prisoners who are currently in israeli jails off that number of the five thousand some two hundred and fifteen are children now the day consolidate efforts to support palestinian prisoners in israeli jails and also support their right to freedom on wednesday some three thousand palestinian prisoners refused to eat their meals now this action coincides with a hunger strike by a palestinian president some near a single week now he has been conducting an on off force that has lasted more than two hundred and fifty days that has stoked weeks of protests from also street protests the palestinian government is calling on the european union to take immediate action concrete steps to secure his release at the same time at the beginning of april there was the death of a rather high profile palestinian prisoners being held in an israeli jail him via how he died from cancer but his death sparked massive protests because

absolutely in fact the palestinian issue of palestinian prisoners is a burning one in the relations between israel and palestine like i said there's almost five thousand palestinian prisoners some of them have been in israeli jails for decades a lot of them have been there in the so-called preliminary detention which means that they're arrested with no charges pressed against them they're not told exactly what they're being arrested for and they're held in confinement with absolutely no legal substance to their confinement but the. time period for which they're jailed keeps being extended almost indefinitely and there's hundreds if not thousands of them there is also some who have been arrested for and have been in jail for decades and that of course is something that human rights groups are saying that some of them should be already released from the israeli jails and of course the palestinians are trying to battle it with new prisoners have been trying to battle it with by their own means and that is a lot of them have actually gone on hunger strikes and in fact all of the forty five roug

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scary thing the violence against the palestinian people and the palestinians three. continue to tolerate the situation of injustice perpetually quiet is the main. purpose of the north. all the. palestinian authority in the west bank the palestinians three the people honestly want some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of settlements intensification of abduction and killing of people china is mobilizing resources to combat a new bird flu strain for have died from the virus already alerting neighboring countries to the threat but fear seems to be spreading faster and wider than the illness itself when the scare in a few minutes here in r.t. . the first the u.s. federal aviation administration has imposed an indefinite move fly zone over an area in our console recently affected by an oil spill it's the exxon mobil all company maybe trying to keep the t.v. cameras away from the scene marina point has more for us now live in the states right up why would a no fly zone be imposed over an oil spill

with security and law and order so to'' a palestinian friend of mine, there must be the independent palestinian state, at least 15 minutes. he meant with the right to independence and exercising that right meant quite a different story. >> i have a question many israelis, like myself believe there can be no possibility for reconciliation because the piece of paper is something else so give fein is long or the palestinian covenant basically says the jewish people of israel do you think this is remotely possible be think they should separate the arabs from his mom with more moderate government from bangladesh that has recently happened in the middle east. what do you mean by peace and what you mean by reconciliation? the kind of peace after, i don't see that happening in the future. it will take centuries but peace the absence of war even if rivalries and bad feelings is possible. the critical thing is the israeli strength and american strength. is quite obvious to the arabs is the united states all the right now and canada but we have a larger army. if they come to believe that israel is therefo

first scuffles erupt in the west bank as palestinians bury a long term prisoner who died while in israeli custody triggering a wave of bloody confrontations. china mobilizes resources to combat a new strain of bird flu after a third death is reported spread wide. the disease itself. and report torture and abuse at a secret prison in iraq while the ministry of defense denies any wrongdoing war veterans that tried to blow the whistle are being gagged those are our top stories this hour. live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day a nuclear attack on the u.s. has moved a step closer with north korea's military saying it is now being authorized to wage atomic warfare against what it calls washington's aggression pyongyang says conflict could break out today or tomorrow one american missile cruisers reported to be streaming into the pacific the war of words between the sides took a turn for the worse last week when you click capable u.s. north korean space he's going to picks up the story. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an