but cracks soon appeared in the process, not least because rabin was assassinated by jewish extremists i1995. since then, successivepr israeli e ministers including benjamin netanyahu have all accepted the idea of a palestinian state but have had different views on how that should manifest itself. the timing of the announcement s also worth noting. donald trump and benjaminneeds netanyahu. both men face elections this year. both face prosecution. mr. trump is being impeached on trial in the u.s. senate for high crimes and misdemeanors the . netanyahu has been indicted on criminal charges of corruption, bribery, and breach of trust. let's hear from the middle east correspondent fm "the independent," saying that netanyahu has been indicted on corruption charges hours before he is expected to join trump for the launch of the disciples of netanyahu dropped his bid for immunity after it became clear the israeli parliament would vote agnst what a day. one of the people giving reaction to today's developments is former british prime minister tony blair. he was the middle eastth envoy o u.s.,

come out of there who would be in power and how close might they be to russia might they be to the rabin countries or to the west but i think in the end that should be something that the libyan people decide so giving them the opportunity with the escalation and maybe another round if you're like to something i think would be a good. future do you think the e.u. should even be intervening and do you think that the european union for example has even a united vision when it comes to libya no own nation states a necessary on the same page if you think about the former colonizers for example it's really they have a different vision but we have seen some differences especially between france and italy when it came to libya which is why i think it was a very smart move in the foreign affairs council on friday to give the man the to germany and to heikal must to actually negotiate and to come up with a building with a building conference so i don't see any way that you could intervene militarily if that is what you meant but to deescalate and then bring everyone to a common page of for the fut

but cracks soon appeared and yitzhak rabin was assassinated by a jewish extremist in 1995.njamin netanyahu — have all accepted the idea of a palestinian state, but have had different views of what it should actually be like. the timing of the announcement may have as much to do with the political and legal needs of donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, as it does with the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough. both men face elections, and prosecution. mr trump is being impeached, on trial in the us senate for high crimes and misdemeanours. mr netanyahu has been formally indicted on criminal charges of corruption, bribery and breach of trust. this from the middle east correspondent for the independent: bibi dropped his bid for immunity after became clear the israeli parliament would vote against it. someone else who's reacted to today's news is the former prime minister tony blair — he was middle east envoy to us, russia, the un and the eu for eight years — and he's been talking to the bbc. one of the things with this administration is they'll, they'll do what they're going to

the world call that annexation, and yet you had yitzak rabin negotiate of the future of the golan heights, you had ehud barak do it -- nada: if i could cut in -- dennis: and bibi netanyahu as well. nada: we have already seeng israel plann vote in parliament to annex these territories. place.is already a plan in is it realistic that any future president would be able to undo this once ilding is underway? dennis: well, as i said, t golan heigs, administration was extended in december 1981, and in fact you have future israeli admistrations that were prepared to negotiate over it. administration that would be prepared to modify the borders that had been in a sense asserted at this point. if israeli law and administration could be extended to the golan heights in 1981 and has three different prime ministers negotiated over withdrawing from the golan heights after that, that suggests that whatever is done now does not have to be permanent. nada: that was ambassador dennis ross speaking earlier. , also in washington todnald trump's defense team wrapped up their arguments in the president's impea

country basically but also to the party itself so i think that is a process which yielded prime minister rabin. prime minister so he continued with the process pro reform my gender that my party and his party whether this is nobel committee cited his achievements as lifting the country's state of emergency granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners for years you always denied there were any scrapping media censorship legalising outlawed opposition groups dismissing military and civilian leaders suspected of corruption all the things that you failed to do when you were in office by the way do you know that 9095 percent of the prisoners released due to my office. before i left office and before i resigned so i think what i would be did was they remaining 5 percent which has to be released so the decision was a decision of the party. and i took that action before i resigned how many did you release almost all the millions something. more than 3000 or so here where there were many more than 3000 in jail yeah but it's only young people who've recently been arrested been released but the m

who shot and killed him while he was talking about peace the center of tel aviv but we don't have mr rabin today we have mr trump and we have mr netanyahu and the comic show last night really shows the impossibility of these people begin the peace process i mean if you really were not an american you will see that america is trying to play the role of a peacemaker but brings with it in. enlightened on television the the leader of the country that really occupied palestinian land and they have really thought amended the palestinians in every way possible what kind of business let me jump in there just to let me jump in and take this question back to robin before i bring in phyllis because i can see us i'm sure phyllis has something to say about this but robbie you said that look the palestinians have to be reasonable and stop rejecting plans and this plan does give them something is or doesn't want a state doesn't really even i mean when you look at the detail of this if the palestinians accept giving up east jerusalem accept giving up the occupied land where the settlements a bill to accep

breakthrough, we need leaders that will take where their people are and move them. , andrs like itzhak rabin what you have on the israeli side and the palestinian side is neither of those. you also haven't donald trump a president who seems incapable to listening to both sides. i think you would need a change of leadership in all three capitals before you would have a serious discussion about trying to move forward with the real process. have heardthing we in advance of this is some arab countries may support or not in -- or not oppose this process. is it likely some arab countries will come forward and say we think this is not a bad idea? noura: what the arab countries do is of less importance because they have colluded in order to undermine palestinian rights. we should not look to them to further undermine palestinian self representation in their quest for freedom and sovereignty. i want to highlight this is not just about bad brokers, this is about structural issue. you can remove netanyahu or trump and you will still have a situation where the u.s. is providing $3.8 billion of aid to is

in the case of iran, i'm reminded of something that the late yitzhak rabin, prime minister of israeld also that we will negotiate peace with the palestinians as though there were no terror and we will fight terror as though there were no negotiations. and the one fault i would find with the obama administration's iran policy is that for the sake of the negotiations and the agreement, they didn't really challenge what the iranians were doing elsewhere in iraq and syria and, of course, in yemen. that i think too is a mistake. so in terms of taking soleimani off the field as dexter filkins said earlier, it's going to have an actual impact. there's no question. i think that's a basic good. what i want to see is has this administration got a plan, because it's going to take a plan. there are going to be a number of moves ahead we're going to have to be ready for and prepared to counter. >> ambassador sherman, i have heard critiques about having a plan for the entirety of my adult life. i was 21 years old when september 11th happened, 22 years old, and for 19 years, the longest period in t