in ramallah. or anywhere else. i'm prepared to go to a warm city like new york or a cool city anywhere. let's get on with the business of talking peace and concluding the peace agreement. >> larry: so, forgive me, what's holding it up? he could watch this show. we did a show some years ago with arafat, with yitzhak rabin and king hussein of jordan, historic show. i was in washington. the three of them were in their homelands. it was terrific. why can't -- would you do that, if we had you and abbas and we had the king of jordan on? could we do that now? >> you're on, larry. from my point of view, immediately, no problem. >> larry: all right. so if we worked on that, we could set it up? because it's -- it's frustrating -- go ahead. >> well, i'm just saying that you're hitting the nail right on the head. i mean, what is there to prevent a meeting between the prime minister of israel, in jerusalem, and the president of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas, who's ten minutes away in ramallah, that's when you have tr

as opposed to most foreign journalists who are based in the centers of tel aviv and jerusalem and ramallah at that location itself. tends to select the focus of your work tends to prejudge what the issues major issues here are in the conflict and i think journalists who are based in the normal cities like jerusalem and tel aviv tend to assume that the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven that it's a product of the occupation of the palestinian territories the west bank and gaza whereas my focus has been based being based inside israel in a palestinian or arab community how do you want to describe it is to see that conflict predates nine hundred sixty seven why do you feel that is all should not be classified as a democracy bearing in mind that the arab community here can vote they can form their own political parties this idea that just because you have voting rights therefore you live in a democracy so superficially it sounds persuasive but actually it's not very persuasive and one of the ways to highlight that is by looking at the very early years the first twenty year

army as is well known by insiders is the only force that is protecting the palestinian authority in ramallah the jordanian monarchy in jordan and the jewish people and the and the israeli people who are not jewish dan i'm going to have to jump in here the muslim again i'm going to jump in here robert i want to give you the last word robert i want to give you last word go ahead one minute. first of all ma'ale adumim is partly built on totally provable arab land i know one of the land when i was there i watched him being thrown off i watched him going to court in the court they said this he said i would like to live in my ma'ale adumim with the jews and he was told you're not one of the people who's going to live in ma'ale adumim so he was trying off his land and went to a village where other members of his family lived six miles away and now every trace every stone of his house has disappeared that is simply not fair that he's not just that he's wrong but you know the overall point of this is come back to why is israel continuing to build more color news for jews and jews only on arab land wh

what ramallah, a still overwhelmingly christian nation though not overwhelmingly catholic, there were7% catholic and today it is it the first majority protestant state. almost all of that movement has been in the direction of the pentecostal. in guatemala, 80% said religion is very important. the u.s. clocks in at a still respectable 59% of our population says the religion is very important. look what happens when you get to europe. poland -- poland, ladies and gentlemen, is 36%. italy, the headquarters of roman catholicism is 36%. germany 21%. russia 14%. france, the oldest daughter of the church, 11%. the czech republic, 11%. contemporary europe is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the rest of the world in terms of the vitality of religious faith and practice. if that is the social climate i+ which policy makers are of living, moving and having the caribbean, it is no surprise that the attempt to defend catholic identity, resist assimilation to this culture secular -- to this altera secular movement. this is not just a private hypothesis. i give you the pope's most senior dep

in ramallah to protections no longer have to include the worst case spill scenario. you chose to replace a real case analysis with an exercise that was not realistic. the believe at the time was that blowouts' were such a low probability event that the time and effort being spent on analyzing them or cite specific was not worth the effort. do you agree that that decision was a mistake? >> going forward, you have to deal with the aftermath. >> do you agree the decision you made was a mistake? >> you cannot stop all drilling in the future. >> no one wants to stop all drilling in the future. did you make a mistake in 2001? >> i do not know the document you are referring to or have had the chance to look at it. he would have to have a reasonable analysis. >> was it reasonable to not to do a worse case scenario? >> it was reasonable to take into account what the history had been. >> >> very large spills. we have seen a very different change. >> and tigger leadership, they exempted most gulf of mexico and some runoff scenarios in their production plans. they were exempted