now we can talk to paul murphy who in a previous conflict in gaza was abducted with his colleagues by israel's navy while supplying humanitarian aid to the palestinians thank you so much for joining us here on r t international well let's look at what's happening in the u.s. at the moment is pumping and now there are two hundred twenty five million dollars into israel's iron dome defensive system defense system while spain at the same time has just become the second country to ban arms sales to israel we're having totally opposite responses here why. well what we're seeing across the world is a mosque revulsion a mosque at the states terror imposed by israel on the people of gaza in particular and we've had very significant protests really right around the world some of the biggest protests in history in favor of the rights of the palestinians and that is having pressure on for example the spanish government on the british government even on the u.s. government and fundamentally. you know western imperialism western capitalism the u.s. the major powers in the e.u. support israel they

paul murphy told us why he thinks countries are responding. well what we're seeing across the world is revulsion amounts horror at the states terror imposed by israel and the people of gaza in particular and we've had very significant protests really right around the world some of the biggest protests in history in favor of the rights of the palestinians and bodies having pressure on for example the spanish government on the british government even on the u.s. government fundamentally. you know western imperialism western capitalism in the us the major powers and you support israel with the function that kind of repressive state that it is with the likes of people three billion dollars a year in military funding from the u.s. . they do support israel because they think israel can be a safe basis for them in what is a vital region put their called me up against the revulsion of ordinary people and so that's why you have a potion of pressure on governments you know even the fact that the u.n. is forced by ki-moon is forced to describe what's hap

paul rieckhoff, thanks for your t time tonight. >>> going to bring in former pennsylvania congressman, patrick murphy. patrick, thanks for taking a few minutes tonight. again, we were talking about this with paul, but the first thing that every american thinks of, i imagine especially every veteran thinks of when they hear the president talking about military intervention in iraq, boots on the ground, getting dragged into something bigger than we thought it was going to be. what did you make of the case the president made tonight? does it meet the standard in your mind that he set? >> i think so. he was spot-on, steve. what the president said was we did a humanitarian effort, doesn't mean an act of congress. what he said was really isis, don't make a move. these 40,000 minorities, refugees you're trying to kill and murder, if you take one more step toward them, then i'm going to take action, military action. now, he let congress know about it. under the war powers act, we know that's constitutional, but, you know, there's a debate in congress whether or not the war powers act is constitutional or not.

paul rieckhoff, thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks, steve. >> we appreciate that. >>> going to bring in former pennsylvania congressman, patrick murphy. fission iraq war veteran to serve in congress, now an msnbc contributor. patrick, thanks for taking a few minutes tonight. again, we were talking about this with paul, but the first thing that every american thinks of, i imagine especially every veteran thinks of when they hear the president talking about military intervention in iraq, boots on the ground, getting dragged into something bigger than we thought it was going to be. what did you make of the case the president made tonight? does it meet the standard in your mind that he set? >> i think so. i think he was spot-on, steve. what the president said was we did a humanitarian effort, doesn't mean an act of congress. what he said was really isis, don't make a move. these 40,000 minorities, these refugees that you're trying to kill and murder, if you take one more step toward them, then i'm going to take action, military action. now, he let congress know about it. under the war powers act, we know that's constitutional, but, you kn

christi paul and victor blackwell put that question to mark murphy, a travel expert. >> some guy behindomparis comparison, but meantime, get that thing off the back of my seat and the lady on that flight did the right thing. she got the flight attendant involved and the guy with that device should indeed be thrown off and it's ridiculous that people would disrupt an entire plane of travelers for something as silly as this. >> do you think these should be illegal? >> they are banned frankly by alternate carriers, so the vast majority of airlines will not aloe it and will tell the passenger to remove id. the faa doesn't get involved with these silly devices. that just becomes a mask. but in the meantime, each airline can have its own policy and they do ban thipgs like this. >> let me ask you this. the seats and leg room, that's decreasing. americans are getting bigger. are you expecting we'll see more of this? >> yeah, once you have an agitated flying public. oh, my gosh, it's going to cost 100 for this flight that i didn't anticipate. then you get on the plane, a full flight, no open sea

murphy, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> we are edging toward the 8:00 hour here on a beautiful saturday. i hope the sun is shining where you are. i'm christi paulnd. >> yes. >> if you are traveling, you may see ramped up security. >> u.s. officials insist that is not necessarily linked to an increased terror threat, but the obama administration is looking whether to expand isis targets into syria. even as president obama continues to take political heat for saying he has not finalized a strategy on dealing with isis. >> across the atlantic, the u.k. heightened the terror level to severe. now prime minister david cameron says more must be done to possibly strike on home turf. >> it is becoming clear there are some gaps in our armory and we need to strengthen them. we need to do more to stop people traveling and stop those who go from returning and to deal divisively with those already here. >> what might those measures look like? perhaps taking away passports of suspected terrorists trying to slip back into the u.k. we have cnn's karl penhaul with us. >> reporter: he said this battle against radical islam could be generational. he said it could