i don't know if you know, obviously and i was in my twenties when i heard the killing of rachel corrie, how she was run over with a bulldozer by israel. i knew when her fear her family didn't get justice. that israel would have been impunity for future killings of americans that back the sharina family is forced to come here and demand that the state department in our government, the us government to get up literally to hold her killers accountable and prevent this awful tragedy from repeating itself again, again, and again. it's shameful. i remember lena telling me her nice telling me that this is what should i wouldn't want it to what it would want to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else. what americans are killed abroad? it is more or less the standard procedure for our government to open an investigation. but when the murders where israel uniforms there is complete silence . poor rachel, corey's family to this day has been waiting for justice since 2003 and still nothing. sure. he wasn't even only an american murdered by apartheid state of israel, but they were also sh

rachel corrie was murdered by an israeli bulldozer. and nation posting american died in israel. it happened about nine months ago. this is the third american citizen we know about killed by the israelis about which the united states has done absoluly nothing. i don't think if that happened somewhere else, we would see the same -- [indiscernible] amy: we are just about to go to sarah leah whitson to talk about this unprecedented trip, the first u.s. president to fly from israel to saudi arabia, the country where prince bahama been salman has been directly implicated in the killing of the washington post correspondent -- columnist jamal khashoggi. you go from shireen abu akleh to khashoggi. >> there is a pattern. i'm can citizens can be killed with impunity by regimes that the states wants to stay on good terms with. that is what is happening in israel and what will happen in saudi arabia. amy: rashid khalidi, edward said professor of modern arab studies at columa university. author of a number of books including "the hundred-years war on palestine." after israel, biden will go to