good morning, ladies and gentlemen... ..it's a pleasure for me to be in ramallah again. i would like to thank the prime minister ham dala and his cabinet members for their warm welcome and hospitality. i was lastly here in july during a tremendously difficult time. civilians in gaza were dying by the hundreds, and suffering by the hundreds of thousands of people. i travelled to the region, then to country, to the international effort to stop the fighting. the message of hope. the hope of rebuilding gaza, and creating a brighter future for the people. i just attended the cairo conference on pal tain restructuring gladda. we are told to -- gaza. following the unprecedented level of destruction caused by the recent conflict. the amount of which had been committed, pledged by the international community is encouraging considering current international situations, the crisis happening here and there. i was encouraged. construction - deconstruction with the support of the international community. we'd like to see them succeed in right responsibilities and functions in gaza. i'

we would have seen isis on the move, we would have been able to strike early before they got ramallahjah. we could have stopped ahead of time. >> sean, keep the oil. we should have never left. we could go back and get it right now, but that's what should have happened. >> who inspires you in the political arena today? >> you don't have too many people. you go back to the great -- i had somebody who gave me a great picture the other day of ronald reagan. and you look and you said -- >> he had it. >> he was making a speech, beautiful framed picture. and i thought he was terrific. i knew him a little bit. i was young. he was older. but he was terrific. and i don't see that. do you see that on the horizon? >> i'm looking. >> well, look hard. >> i'm looking real -- are you going to get into the arena. >> we'll see what happens. >> are you going to start this again? >> no, i'm not. >> you're not, you're out. >> no, i didn't say that. i said i'm not going to start that again. don't forget, i never did start it. they put me in polls and i do well in polls. every time i do well in polls, they

he didn't talk about-- and ramallah. the way to political horizon in the region is not in ramallah but is going via some other capitols in the region to our own mind. but in order to reach it, it's another problem which we call it misconceptions, and also believe when we talk about a peaceful situation, we have to look to official, formal agreements written by lawyers. we don't believe in it. we believe in interests. >> yes. >> it might be big six in the region. anyhow, you need big stick, and carrots, sharing common interests, common enemies. that is the west's best way to manage the polit sqaltion in the region. >> rose: so what else you are saying is that if we're forced to attack iran, we think we can count on these aforementioned countries to be supported covertly of what we did. >> i don't want to discuss this scenario. but anyhow. >> rose: . >> not just the iranian common enemy what about isis, what about al qaeda, what about the muslim brotherhood as the common enemy. hamas wasn't supported by those sunni arab co

they met on monday in ramallah in the west bank. he says it's possible to start massive construction efforts in gaza but all relevant parties need to be committed to carry out a plan monitored by the un to deliver building materials to the area and he's urging both israeli and palestinian officials to start peace talks. he travelled to meet with benjamin netanyahu and demanded a blockade preventing construction materials from reaching the strip be lifted. >> construction must start without delay but this is not enough to break the cycle if conditions in gaza revert to where they were before this escalation the clock will be reset on more instability on the development and conflict. >> on sunday ban attended an international donor conference in cairo. this they pledged aid to help rebuild gaza. he is scheduled to revisit the strip on thursday for the first time since 50 days of fighting between israel and hamas. >>> russian and chinese leaders are working to boost their economic ties. they signed several energy, trade and finance agr

separated in ra rah ramallah, 5y conflict with israel led to more than 100,000 palestinians losing theiromes. >> the palestinian government, consensus will play the lead role in managing these funds. and supervising gaza's construction, reconstruction with the support of the international community. we'd like to see the unity government succeed in assuming its right offul responsibilities and functions in gaza. >> translator: i have stressed to secretary-general ban ki-moon that all these programs and the aid will never achieve its goals unless the israeli blockade on gaza is lifted. we raise the economy and get reiterate of the israeli doimghtdomination on goods and . whether the israeli government should recognize palestine as a state. prime minister david cameron isn't taking part in the debate. >> 134 countries bilaterally recognize palestine, sweden the platest to do so. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu warns against. what is the point if the vote at the end is nonbinding? >> reporter: well, adrian, as you were saying, the prime minister won'ting voting and certainly his mi

. >> remember the president didn't lift a finger as ramallah and fallujah and tikrit were all and mosul were all being decimated. >> as far as i can tell the only foreign policy is do nothing to get him compared to george w. bush. even if george w. bush was right. and i thought the former president was quite restrained in his remarks to brian. because the reality is obama has sent troops back -- or sent people, americans back to fight in iraq. that alone is evidence of a foreign policy failure on the part of the obama administration. and president bush, was too much of a gentleman to say that. >> he's been quiet the entire six years. yesterday was the one-year anniversary of healthcare.gov. let me run through issues. a disaster. even you admit that was a disastrous roll-out. >> the roll-out. >> $2 billion later it's still a disaster. you've got the v.a., the irs, benghazi, illegal immigration problem that now every state has illegal immigrants in it. you've got north africa, libya, you've got -- let's see, afghanistan, russia, the ukraine, crimea, iraq, iran, israel, gaza, you can go th

therefore, to achieve that peace, we must look not only to jerusalem and ramallah but also to cairo, abu dhabi and elsewhere. i believe peace can be realized with the active involvement of arab countries, those that are willing to provide political, material and other indispensable support. i am ready to make a a historic compromise. not because israel occupies a foreign land. the people live israel are not occupiers in the land of israel. history, archaeology and common sense all make clear that we have had a singular attachment to this land for over 3000 years. i want peace because i want to great a better future for my people. it must be a genuine peace. one that is anchored in mutual recognition and enduring security arrangements, rocksolid security arrangements on the ground. israel withdraws from lebanon and gaza created enclaves on our borders for which tens of thousands of rockets have been fired at israel. these sobering experiences heightens israel's security concerns regarding concessions in the future. though security concerns are even greater today. just look around you.

. >>> speaking in ramallah, are pledging $5.5 billion to help rebuild gaza. the 50-day conflict led to 100,000 palestinians losing their homes. >> the palestinian government of national consensus will pray the leader on in managing these funds and supervising gaza's construction, recontradiction with the support -- reconstruction with the support of the international community. we'd like to see the unity government succeed in assuming its rightful responsibilities and functions in gaza. >> translator: i have stressed to secretary-general ban ki-moon that all these programs and the aid will never achieve its goals unless the israeli blockade on gaza is lifted and unless we liberate the palestinian national economy and get rid of the israeli domination of individuals. >> whether the government should recognize palestine as a state. prime minister david cameron will not take place in the vote. 139 countries do bilaterally recognize palestine, with sweden being the most recent the do so. let's go live now to london, hang on a second. we're going to hear now from

. >> an economic analyst joins us live from ramallah. $4 billion is the sum that the palestinian government says that it needs to rebuild gaza. is that a realistic figure, a tad over optimistic? >> no, i think for the first stage, yes, it is very realistic. it's reasonable. i think it was based on field assessment and surveys. and i participated in preparing part of that plan on economic needs. and i think this is the minimum this we can probably ask for for the earlier recovery, and relief stage or phase. but to bring the economy and gaza strip to the - where it was, seven years ago, we need more than $4 billion. because the cost of blockade, war against gaza probably reached more than $10 billion. we are talking of seven years of blockade, and the economy. unemployment is a standing at 50%, and i think huge social services. $4 billion for the first phase, yes. everybody can understand that. >> all right. but we have got a donor conference under way in cairo. the palestinians want $4 billion from donor nations. to what extent are the pledges from donors dependent upon the political climate

. >> her strength is shown by attending protests, like this in ramallah. everywhere here has family members in gaol, and is demanding that israel release them. there's 7,000 palestinians held in israeli prison, the highest number in five years. after 2500 arrested over the past three months, many haven't been charged with a crime at all. >> which has people like this concerned. he's the cousin. both arrested by israel in 1978 for killing a settler, and were sentenced to life in prison. he was released in 2011 after spending 33 years in prison, and tells me he doesn't want to go back. >> as long as there's occupation, there's concern of arrests and rearrests. the israelis take it out on us. they want to make it harder on palestinians, especially prisoners. >> back at the garden, she is hopeful her husband will be freed, but nose there are no guarantees. israel has not made public statements about the mass arrest, officials are refusing to include the issue as part of talks in relation to a ceasefire deal. for now, all they can do is wait and hope they will

pattern, israel is establishing permitting the establishment of a center for palestinian elites in ramallahwhere you have nice restaurants, theaters, and so on. in thehird world country colonial system had something like that. that is the picture that is emerging, taking shape for our eyes. it has so far worked very well. if it continues, israel will not face the demographic problem. when these regions are integrated slowly into israel -- actually, the proportion of jews in greater israel will increase. there are very few palestinians there. those that are there are being dispossessed, kicked out. that is what is taking shape before our eyes. i think that is the realistic -stateative to a two settlement, and there is every reason to expect that to continue as long as the united states supports it. professor -- >> professor noam last tuesday in the hall of the u.s. general assembly before 800 people, ambassadors and the public alike. it was hosted by the united nations committee on the exercise of the inalienable rights of the palestinian people. after i spoke i interviewed him in front of t

. >> joining us live from ramallah. an advisor to the palestinian president. explain the significance of this first cabinet meeting of this unity government in gaza. >> well, this is a step in the right direction. it's been long-awaited by palestinians, and is the beginning of the healing process. what has long taken years. every palestinian is watching the news out of gaza, is very excited. it could mark a significant period of time whereby palestinians are able to heal the wounds. focus on the future and the very reason as to why the factions that have been divided have been formed, which is the end of occupation, and focus on what was reported from gaza, mentioned in the forthcoming conference. >> is this a pr exercise, and a bid to show unity to attract donors? >> no, not at all. it may well be the case because of the presence of that many reporters in knaza, due to the significance of the step, but this is certainly not a pr stunt. this is a serious step in the direction of showing unity, the donor community that the palestinians are ready, ready for the

and ramallah, fallujah, tikrit, now they are in kobani. they're slaughtering the kurds. nato forces and the turks are literally watching a slaughter not lifting a finger. and now baghdad potentially. what does it say about this president? >> well, we've got 44,000 -- 4,400 guys killed 40000-plus served. bill collins son served there in the marines. i think baghdad's about to fall. it's very very close. the problem you've got is if you want to stop this, 35000 to 40,000 guys, that's u.s. soldiers have to kbo go in. >> that's the updated map. all the territory that we fought -- not we, american military. 4,000 dead americans between afghanistan and iraq, 40000 injured americans blood, treasure, toil sweat, tears and death for what? to give it all over to these guys? >> i'm telling you this. it's a terrible picture. however we got here you want to take it back. we're talking about 40,000 guys have got to go back. i said if. and right now congress has no stomach for it, not until the midterm elections. and the administration is not going to touch it. that's such a crap state

whatever the president knew, we had 4,000 americans die in iraq, the surge worked, and he stood by as ramallah and tikrit and fallujah and mosul and city after city fell. and he didn't lift a finger. he bragged about how he got us out of a war. he didn't keep the troops on the ground for intelligence and training purposes. is that his fault that iraq has been lost and isis now has this land mass? >> absolutely. it was clear to all of us who go over there for any length of time that we were leaving iraq in a bad spot if you pulled everybody out. if you'd left 10,000 behind, isis wouldn't be in iraq today because we could have stopped them. the iraqi army would still be in tact. political progress was still being made. i think he has two legacies he jealously guards, obamacare and ending the war in iraq. and this political strategy to defeat isil is going to fail is actually -- excuse me, a military strategy to defeat isil is not what we have. we got a military strategy around a campaign promise that i'll never have to go back into iraq. and he's creating danger to our country by allowing these

you can be between jerusalem and ramallah, you're talking about less than 10 miles and it might have been -- might as well have been from here to the moon, at least psychologically. i was there right after the cud knapping of the three israeli teenagers which turned out to be the murder of the three israeli teenagers. i was there before the murder of the palestinian teenager but what i saw in israel was a cundy that was under a sense of national -- national trauma because of the kidnappings. and what i saw in ram alla were they fingers being held up to celebrate the idea of the kidnapping. it was profound -- from the time hen i was our negotiating -- negotiator it was never close -- the gap between the two sides is as wide as i've seen it. where it'sall a time been like this. the one hand if you look at his approach towards hamas these days seems to reflect, shall we say a very high degree of except six. he's not -- skept six. he's not israeli has the same view but the idea that the israelis at this point are prepared to take a big leap given what they see around them, the idea at th

over the summer we saw more than 60,000 chopper and making a dangerous life-threatening trip from ramallah el salvador over to the u.s. going through and dealing with drug cartels and going through a different path just to make it to the u.s. there is nothing humane about that and we cannot encourage and give our neighboring countries the wrong signal that people can come here and be able to stay. we do welcome immigrants and we will always welcome immigrants. we are in nation of immigrants that has to be done the right way and people have waited a long time and we must continue to follow our laws. so as far as immigration goes, we're pretty confident we we are pretty confident we will take the senate this tuesday or maybe louisiana and georgia going to a runoff but we will see what happens. we feel confident we have the momentum on our side and we will see what the legislators had in mind but it remains immigration is an issue that needs to be addressed and solved whether it is a step-by-step for ibb that is going to be a step-by-step but it's an issue that remains a top priority. >> let

was the secretary general's message today when he appeared with the palestinian prime minister in ramallah? >> good morning, stephanie, well, some very strong language used, saying the endless, mindless suffering of the people of gaza needs to stop. he went on to say that the situation here can only be resolved by ending the nearly half century occupation. >> why rebuilding is important, we must also tackle the root causes of instability in gaza. this is the only way to avoid yet another tragic conflict in the future. >> he also said that it was very important that both the israels and palestinians not lose hope in the peace pros, the process which has been in place for 20 years now, a clear reference to palestinian president abbas's plan to go to the u.n. security council to put through a resolution which will set a time table to end israel's occupation of palestinian territories. >> of course today's visit with mr. moon follows the international donor's conference in egypt. how will that $5.4 billion pledged sentenced be used? >> it's a huge sum of money, over a billion dollars more than