give you to the conflict 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

there in tel aviv thanks. thank you very much. well this is live from the russian capital still to come in the program for you this hour a manhunt in southern russia police sweep the north caucasus searching for the militants who attacked a hydroelectric power station. but first a ruling against an alleged near nazi group has been postponed while four of these suspects go through psychiatric assessment the group is accused of dozens of ethnically motivated killings and terror plots and could spend the rest of their lives in prison if convicted. has more. uh some of the defendants said that they are guilty of some of the charges some of them say that they are innocent so there is a nit picking of who is guilty and who is and at that and we spoke to a defense attorney of one of those people during a break and he really went at the prosecution saying that they had errors in the polyphony investigation and their error is going on right now as that is the reason why this trial is closed now the not the defendants on this case are young

. >> reporter: no this isn' jerusalem, tel aviv. the sane of this celebration of israel was the washington convention center. christians united for isrl or cufi has seen their ranks grow including throughout campuses throughout the u.s.>> there is a passion for anyo that believes in the bible. >> he started it in 2006. >> we have received from israel, the word of god, the patriarchsthe prophets of the old testament. we have received mary, joseph, and jesus. >> cufi is the largest the united states. the summit attracted several proisrael lawmakers and tough words for the obama administration from both sides of the aisle regarding israel. >> this administration has become the most antiisrael administration in american history. >> when the administration seized every opportunity to criticize israel for building apartments for its people in the undisputed neighborhoods in east jerusalem creating a crisis uncessary, unwise, and bad for israel, i spoke out and condemned the actions of the administration. >> reception different for israeli

the area a and israel because of the terrorism that had washed the streets of tel aviv jerusalem haifa and other cities had frozen other pullbacks because the palestinian authority as is widely known by the clinton administration and by the bush administration after that had made egregious violations of international law and murdered israelis so i wonder whether after the seven seventh's did not whether it. was my mother look at at their. i didn't hear you what were you saying go ahead robert go ahead what was that so you would agree you do agree that the ninety five agreement and then why river did mean for the pull back which was not fulfilled by the israeli. go ahead dan you know both in one thousand nine hundred three exchange of letters the one thousand nine hundred three exchange of letters i'm sure mr fyshe is one of the great scholars of the middle east is aware was all based on the fact that there would be a complete end to palestinian terrorism violence indoctrination and incitement and in fact all of those four. acts of terrorism both verbal and diplomatic as well as physica

well another much discussed potential nuclear standoff involves iran and israel tel aviv claims tehran poses a real threat but veteran british journalist alan hart says iran would never strike first. let's just supposing iran had one to three dozen nuclear bombs do you think he would be stupid enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course he would because the whole of iran would be devastated the real reason why israel is paying up the iranian threat is to deflect political and other attention away from what it is doing in the occupied territories but the only real problem for israel is if you ron did possess nuclear weapons it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region. and you can watch this interview in full next hour right here on r.t. well moscow is seeing its hottest days since records began one hundred thirty years ago and there's no end in sight to the scorching weather that's plaguing russians as the unprecedented heat wave in the country's sizzles on thick smoke from burning peat bogs is spreading over moscow as emergenc

yesterday thousands brought tel aviv to a standstill demanding the government do whatever it takes to free israeli soldiers. he's been held by hamas militants in gaza for four years but those tensions took a back seat today in washington where the two leaders turned their attention to refreshing an old alliance. joining us now to assess the stakes and the undercurrents at today's meeting are robert. until last month the head of mission for the international group working on the peace process. a former deputy assistant secretary of state under george w. bush, he's now a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. and robert malley who was special assistant to president clinton for arab-israeli affairs. he's now the middle east program director at the international crisis group. mr. malley, stephen hadley the former national security advisor to president bush was quoted last week as saying this meeting between these two was doomed to success. he's speaking about the atmosphere of it. is that right? >> that is right. i think both president obama and prime minister netanyahu had on