to the united states economy. and israel accounts for 25% of u.s. exports to the middle east. united states and israel share a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that has attracted intell, microsoft and google to israel. tens of thousands of jobs in the united states are created by israeli companies and it has the third most companies on nasdaq. and 65 years, israel has accomplished extraordinary achievements whether in technology, business, agriculture or defense. its innovations and advancements contribute to the daily lives of all americans. for example, some of the most important technology we use every day, including instant messenger, voice mail and computer processor was developed in israel. me medical is saving us. and israeli developed medical technologies are protecting american troops. mr. speaker, our partnership with israel is not just an investment in american jobs and american prosperity, but investment in freedom and democracy, simply put, investing in israel is investing in america and we must contin

thanks to the extraordinary come comeplace sense of a ran countries towards the united states' unflagging support of israel. the united states has always been able to align itself firmly with basic israeli -- what sustains this unequal equation? we all know that for decades this country's interests have determined washington's support for -- in particular the ruling families in the gulf. these monarchies were in pressing need of american support, given the inability of their countries to defend themselves against external enemies and with the exception of kuwait, all of these monarchies lack legitimacy. in consequence, even episodes of the economic upheaval including the arab oil embar go of 1973 did not change the equation. henry kissinger says, the rhetoric of saudi diplomats on behalf of the arab cause was impeccable and occasionally intransigent but behind the scene almost always helpful to american diplomacy. this is a basic pattern. i think it explains why it is not only the israel lobbiests that drives u.s. middle east policy; rather, since there is no contradiction between the american strategic in

secretary of state, and the president of the united states to israel. e all brought the same messages. the message is that the united states stands foursquare behind israel's security. the united states supports israel's right to defend itself by itself against a threat -- >> a top defense official in jerusalem just this week said tehran, the iranian leaders are watching what's going on in syria. >> i can't speak of any anonymous defense position. i know what israel has seen in the month alone, the secretary of defense, secretary of state, and president obama, have come to israel and said the united states will not allow iran to get nuclear weapons. >> do you see no downside, no possible risk of the president backing off syria in terms of iran? >> i think this is an american decision. you're not recommending any policy other than one exception, and that is if the united states decides to arm syrian rebels with lethal weapons, not just defensive weaponry, that those weapons and rebels be very carefully vetted. we had a very experience with libya where sho

the messages that the united states stands four square behind israel's security. the united states supports escapeddial's right to defend itself. >> and a top defense official in jerusalem just this week said tehran, the iranian leaders are watching what is going on in syria. >> i can't speak for any anonymous defense official. i know what iranians have seen in issuesial over the -- in israel over is the last month alone. every official from the secretary of defense and secretary of state and president of the united states president obama has come to israel and in israel said that the united states will not allow iran to acquire nuclear weapons. >> chris: he also said there would be red lien red lines ifa used chemical weapons. do you see who down side to the president backing down on the issue. >> we are not recommending any policy other than one exception and that is if the united states decides to arm syrian rebels with lethal weaponry, not just defensive weaponry, that those weapons and those rebels be very carefully vetted. we had a very bad experience with li

given this reality, begin this unwillingness of most to push on this issue, the -- the united states alliance with israel and countries like saudi arabia or egypt are not contradictory in any way, but seen as compliment complimentary, thanks to the complaint leaders towards the united states' unflagging support of israel. the united states has always aligned firmly with basic israelis where palestine is ngnc iniotr arab countries. what sustains this unequal equation? well, we all know for decades this country's interest determined washington support for the ruling families in the gulf. these monarchies impressed support given inability of the countries to defend themselves and the fact with exception of which all of these monarchies lack democratic or constitutional legitimacy. in consequence, even episodes like the economic upheaval caused by the saudi engineered oil embargo of 1973 # did not change the basic equation. kissinger says, "the rhetoric of saudi dip plo diplomats on arab cause was impeccable, but behind the scenes, policy was alos always helpful to american diplomacy." this is a basic patter

and those range from countries like you mentioned, the united states, israel, to china et cetera. of those 25, you have the united states, israel and the u.k. that have used them in combat. that have armed them. so a lot of people when we talk in hypotheticalsing people say well, you know, china hasn't done this yet. you're like yeah, because china is not at war. there is one other thing i wanted to not lose in the conversation that michael mentioned. the example where china considered carrying out the drone strike across-the-boardee into myanmar and decided against it, is one of the things that has been missed in this discussion of strategy, of overall u.s. counterterrorism strategy, the reason china in the end decided not to carry out that strike is they decided it was more valuable to them to capture the guy. >> rose: yeah. >> we may be closing off options for capturing guys that would be very valuable in the counterterrorism game because of this lowered bar. and again it's not that-- i don't think anyone in this panel is saying don't do drone strike, it's that we have to weigh

united states has only served to exacerbate the problem. the palestinian israeli conflict absolutely absolutely the united states diplomatically supports israel when it resists united nations efforts to censure it for its gross violations of international law it says to the palestinians when they try and take things the united nations no no go negotiate those of the israelis and then the israelis stonewall and so in effect the united states is the defender and the supporter of things like settlement expansion and various other egregious violations of international law not to speak of the fact that hundreds of millions of tax free dollars are funneled to these extremist violence sadler's by american so-called charities without the i.r.s. or the treasury doing a single thing about it the united states has actually exacerbated the situation made it worse sorry. i'm sorry i think that it's you bring up an interesting point is that the united states actually supports israel that it's american tax dollars that go to perpetuate these policies can you speak about you know how these policies are actually counterproductive to to american interests. wel

nothing else do you agree with us i know that there is a strategic alliance between the united states and israel i think continuation of occupation and a system of apartheid is going to addictive to the same values that the americans speak about all the time day and night the same values of democracy and the respect of humor it's a threat of terror so there is a big contradiction here second i think. these settlements and this apartheid system contradicts even the american interest in having stability in the middle east those who think that the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you will see more and more people in the middle east siding by the palestinians and demanding that out of the palestinians the continuation of a system of apartheid is the most disturbing in fact in the middle east do you think though that now with his second term in office president obama might in the future pressure on israel that perhaps this trip was just the beginning of maybe hearing both sides and it could develop into something else w

>> well, let me say at the outset, andrea, the united states and israel are sovereign states, each ofe states, whether it's the syrian issue or the iranian threat. we have the right and duty to make our own assessments, how to defend ourselves, what way to act. regarding the syrian chemical weapons. we've set our own red line which has to do with the transfer of chemical weapons, to the wrong hands, in this case, hezbollah's hands in lebanon. and we are very serious about holding up that red line. we will not remain passive if bashar al assad tries to transfer chemical weapons to hezbollah and other groups. this is a decision that the united states has to make for its itself. we share intelligence at the highest and most inmat levels. >> israel's intelligence has concluded that sarin gas or chemical weapons probably were used, most likely last month at the very least. >> israel's military intelligence made an assessment of the probability about it. and intelligence agencies are entitled to their assessments, but again we are discussing this at the highest levels, at the most intimate

motivated by chechnya, by pakistan, by syria, by palestine, and want to attack the west, the united states, israelhers seem to fit into the latter category. >> i should say, chris, i was looking at the websites and youtubes that he has up on his pages, and he's been putting up on his pages for the last three years and there's a mixture. there's a confusion. there's a -- this is a mixed up kid. i mean -- >> i read your column today. >> -- who committed a horrifying and evil act. but the level of confusion and idiocy on these pages is rich. you have both the nationalist element there. you have kind of chechen hip hop then you have videos of why russians who were originally russian orthodox became muslim. and in some cases radical fundamentalists. then you also have the videos of radical fundamentalist preachers from all around the world, from the arab world and most particularly this guy, fez mohamed, australian-born, speaks english and is really, really radical. he was listening to him. this process was going on for about three, four years. >> i noticed one of the e-mails or whatever here was a dec

iran and hagel also reiterated what he called the very special relationship between the united states and israel. >>> less than a week after the boston marathon bombings, a chicago teenager has been picked up for attempting to join a syrian jihadist military group. the fbi arrested 18-year-old abdella ahmad tounisi on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. >>> five people were killed in arizona over the weekend when their van flipped while being chased by border control agents. 22 people were in the suv at the time of the crash. >>> the search continues for survivors of last week's devastating earthquake in china. the government has so far confirmed more than 150 deaths and some 11,000 injured. >>> engines start. liftoff for the mission to mars. >> cool stuff. it was a successful launch sunday for a new rocket carrying supplies to the international space station. the rocket lifted off from a base in virginia on a test flight to send a cargo ship in space. >>> all right. in health news now, a new report from the journal of pediatrics warns young peo

they may as well do so despite the new claims coming out from the united states, israel, france and europe. >> thank you very much. the news on syria comes as the president leaves texas. the dedication of george w. bush's library in dallas to attend a memorial service for the victims of that massive fertilizer explosion in west texas. the president and first lady will join governor rick perry and thousands of firefighters from across the country to london the 14 people killed there. peter alexander is in waco. we'll get to the memorial. i understand you have new comments from jay carney regarding whether or not the white house or the president will make an official statement on this news with syria. >> reporter: that's right. we heard from the press secretary a short time ago insisting that neither he nor the president of the united states would make any comments either on or off camera today about the issue that you're speaking about in syria right now. the next time we do expect to hear from this president will be here in a matter of hours. we're at baylor university, of course. this is

deterring iran and hagel also reiterated what he called the special relationship between the united states and israel>>> less than a week after the boston marathon bombings, a chicago teenager has been picked up for attempting to join a syrian jihadist military group. the police arrested 18-year-old abdella ahamd tounisi on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. >>> five people were killed in arizona over the weekend when their van flipped while being chased by border patrol agents. 22 people were in the suv at the time of the crash. >>> in china now, the search continues for survivors of last week's devastating earthquake. the government has so far confirmed more than 150 deaths and some 11,000 injured. >> engines start. liftoff. test mission from the pad. >>> and look at it go. it was a successful launch sunday for a new rocket carrying supplies to the international space station. the rocket lifted off from a base in virginia on a test flight to send a cargo ship into space. always fascinating to watch. now for a look ahead we turn to cnbc's courtney

the main reason is he didn't fully understand h to al with the united states. and israel. he didn't understand that the kind of playing that he did the arab countries simply wouldn't work with the americans and israelis. he didn't understand the deal that he signed. he allowed the palestinians to in effect disarm and accept a deal which in my view provided the ceiling that prevented -- i mean he made a number of really great mistakes in his last decade. i think the plane crash in libya diminished his capabilities significantly. >> rose: do you believe he was corrupt? >> he fostered corruption. i mean -- i don't think he was personally corrupt but all around him were people whom he actively encouraged to be corrupt as a means of controlling them. >> rose: in the identify the argument about yasser arafat was that he didn't really want peace, he was more@oxf/g comfoe only people are the security people talk about are the israelis. >> rose: agreed. i know that is the way it is perceived. the interesting thing has always been to me is how would -- define security and it a diff

north korea but diplomacy is also failing with iran in your opinion do you think israel is trying to maneuver the united states to attack iran i wouldn't use the world maneuvering israel wants america to attack iran as a last resort when if diplomacy fails and it did failed so far even the sanctions are no where and at the end of the day iran would not cave in to the pressure and would assemble limbaugh in such a case israel prefers that america would do the job not only because it's more convenient but above all because america has the capabilities. to inflict a major blow on iran's nuclear sites while israel capabilities are very very limited what do you think was going on behind the scenes during president obama's recent. up to israel who exactly was putting pressure on these have iran i would say that america simply or president obama in this case simply asked israel daunte do anything which would not be called the native does in other words don't take iran unless it is coordinated with guns don't surprise us could israel carry out an attack without a coordination i i don't believe that israel would take i

north korea but diplomacy is also failing with iran in your opinion do you think israel is trying to maneuver the united states to attack iran i wouldn't use the world maneuvering israel wants america to attack iran as a last resort when if diplomacy fails and indeed failed so far even the sanctions on europe were keen and at the end of the day iran would not cave in to the pressure and would assemble limbaugh in such a case israel prefers that america would do the job not only because it's more convenient but above all because america has the capabilities. to inflict a major blow on iran's nuclear sites while israel capabilities are very very limited what do you think is going on behind the scenes during president obama's recent. as well who exactly was putting pressure on these have iran i would say that america simply or president obama in this case simply ask israel daunte do anything which would not be coordinated with the us in other words don't take iran unless it is coordinated with guns don't surprise us could israel carry out an attack without a coordination i i don't believe that israel would take y

state of israel is declared, united states recognize, then harry truman, arab states tried to to kill it in the cradle. the state is not secure. in 1949 or 1950 as we saw in 56-67-73, in some of those cases you could say things are too close for comfort and in some of those cases you could say only outside intervention saved the state. it may have been check weapons at one point. americans at another point. but i think for opponents of the state of israel and for people who hated its greatest ally, a less, during the cold war and now, there was no acceptance of the notion that the state of israel is a permanent factor in the world, continuing belief that it was a colonialist imposition and that it could be turned around. this is the hamas you. it may take awhile, a day, 65 years, another 65 years, references to the crusades. the difference is for so many people did is still not done. that is why -- time is up to a level end with this. that is why i think you cannot possibly ever exaggerate the importance to israel of the closest possible, most visible ties with the united states. this

north korea but diplomacy is also failing with iran in your opinion do you think israel is trying to maneuver the united states to attack iran i wouldn't use the world maneuvering israel wants america to attack iran as a last resort when if diplomacy fails and indeed failed so far even the sanctions are no where and at the end of the day iran would not cave in to the pressure and would assemble limbaugh in such a case israel prefers that america would do the job not only because it's more convenient but above all because america has the capabilities. to inflict a major blow on iran's nuclear sites while israel capabilities are very very limited what do you think was going on behind the scenes during president obama's recent. up to israel who exactly was putting pressure on iran i would say that america simply or president obama in this case simply asked israel daunte do anything which would not be coordinated with us in other words don't take iran unless it is coordinated with guns don't surprise us could israel carry out an attack without a coordination i i don't believe that israel would take you run we wrot

that is very serious with the israel / palestine conflict how important it is to bring out the voices across the political spectrum. i fear the media in the united states is changing, but as you report on powerhouse with the united states we see that with israel presenting the israeli government's side and we very much bring out different perspectives. we interviewed the former israeli foreign minister. he said it was the most extensive discussion he had had in the united states about is real. we don't just do sound by television in radio and we give the whole meal with extended debates and discussions about these issues. we interview palestinian journalists, academics, peop le on the ground and cause the, the occupied territories and the area that is overlooked in the united states is the israeli peace movement but public opinion is shifting to radically. students on college campuses , jewish and non-jewish have a different perspective on what israel is doing in the occupied territories it comes to palestinian prisoners a day are dying in custody, of the protests both with the west bank and gaza, we had a reporter that what is called the freedom floti

israel. he is doing this for this outrage just slander of the -- outrageous slander of the united states and a whole raft of things. but this is the way that the u.n. functions. we are talking about a united nations where the second largest voting bloc in the u.n. general assembly, nonaligned movement, 120 countries of the 193 is headed right now by iran the world's leading terrorist sponsoring state n that cost most richard faulk fits right in. jenna: when we saw the comments we were curious from the response from the u.n. we have a great reporter and journalist that covers the u.n. here for fox. we want to show viewers. a longer sound bite, claudia. we'll show this exchange jonathan speaking with the spokesman for the u.n., for the general secretary and just watch the exchange between them. let's play that sound. >> what is the position of the secretary-general in regards to mr. faulk's remarks and why if he refuses to make remarks on this, what is his position then about this? >> well i have to check on that. i have no knowledge of a letter. i have to check and see if a letter went to the

. >> they are a group people that come to the united states after a military duty in israel and do this business and it is not isolated to our county, it is something that happens across the united states. >> this case is scheduled to go to trial in june and as for the five who skipped town the d.a. will issue a warrant for their arrest. >> the postal service has dealt a blow to berkeley neighbors fighting to keep a historic post office open saying they have oh kid the sale of the berkeley post office building. city leaders say the 99-year-old building has historic significance and should be preserved and the post office said they will open a new post office as close to the country site as possible part of the effort by the post office to generate revenue. opponents have 15 days to appeal. >> the warriors face the nuggets in denver tonight in game two in the playoff sears. they almost pulled out a win saturday night but miller was able to make the game-winning basket with over a second left and the wore yours played without the all-star forward who is out for the playoffs. the cope says

their goals that the us is worse than any way jeff you think anything will stop the united states selling arms to israel. no not at all i mean that's a no no of course not. and that's that's another big reason why i don't expect to see any any moves out of congress and maybe obama will sign it but in the end you know the wait there may be one hundred fifty five countries but the weight behind arms exports is way heavier than those countries and to include russia and other other major powers so you know i don't i don't see. really again i just don't see any any changes occurring and if they do if there are new laws then these companies and these countries will just circumvent them somehow you know i mean if you have to go covert then you have to go seen that in the past. so i mean i know ninety nine see in the end if it was not a sort of a treaty it would have been impossible and now we are here we actually have a treaty how many people believe that that would have been possible in ten years and now do we have a lot of people who still think it's just law ok possible it's still just talk. well it's not i

but israel and the united states are mature democracies. we are friends and allies but we don't agree on everything. and that's a subject on which we don't agree. they continue to build, we continue to -- >> rose: as far as the subject of the palestinians the israelis don't agree because the palestinians are saying the more settlements you have the more difficult it will ever to have some kind of agreement. >> but the reverse argument to that, charlie, is the longer you wait to get in to negotiations and settle the border the more settlements will be constructed. >> rose: fair enough but listen to this, the co-chairman of the israeli palestinian center. he writes an op-ed entitled "advice to the president." "don't waste time on the process deal with the substance, your last person tried to get the parties into the negotiating room and that was so difficult that only 10% of his time was spent on substance" is that a fair observation? >> it's a fair observation although not wholl accure in terms ofhe numbers. the reality is, though, you can't

are the ones who count and i don't understand the compulsion on the part of the united states to make the plants for israel who is a sovereign nation. [applause] >> the compulsion is an interesting phenomenon. every secretary of state the except the obsession immediately upon entering the building and happened to paul, rice and even carry they want to do the same thing. i agree completely with your timetable but the road map had a time table 2005 there is no point* to set up the timetable because it will happen in life is too complicated to say this will happen next year than the year after that we do that. i think sure drone -- sharon made a huge mistake and knew that the and but it was too late. but he should have said if he decided as a general to pull the settlements out he should have said you 7,000 people are heroes of this date and you have made incredible sacrifices and incredible risks for this state but now i have asked for a greater sacrifice instead that government communicated they need to go they are a problem the sooner they get out the better i think that was communicated his the people aro

not going to do it unless it's pressured i guess well israel depends very heavily on trade the european union and military aid from the united states the european union the united states working together in a position to put the most enormous pressure on israel through sanctions or withdrawing aid or lift a lifting the trade agreement which also has a human rights course within it we need action urgently by those two key players in the situation because in france you time tonight screwed see. you're most welcome thank you europe's human rights court rules that ukraine acted illegally by jailing its former prime minister later in the program then we look at whether the decision could change anything incarceration that's coming up also coming up to medics he shifted to guantanamo to deal with a worsening hunger strike a psych psychiatric experts and that's why there's only one solution to the prisoners protest is couple of stories just a couple of minutes away. with . technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future covered. the international landlord in the very heart of moscow. europe's latest unemployment

friend who said this will be interesting to see if when israel a good teaching relations with the united states if he's voted into power they do let's not forget that israel is sitting on the world's largest oil reserves of the world is watching closely how this vast wealth is going to be moving forward but also people tell me that they want answers to all the problems that they see on the ground the big biggest concern being prime food shortages again. want to see answers fast. and i just remind you are. following developments at the polling station as well as all the latest updates available on how twitter feed one of the most recent posts saying that the queues are getting longer as millions prepare it's a cost it's. campaign endgame. chooses a new president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible venezuela choose after coming down to self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes open fourteenth. now a fresh attempt to break a months long hunger strike at guantanamo prison camp has led to clashes between guards and detainees inmates tried to resist being