the conquest the west bank the settlement of the west bank will that blow up in israel's hands in the future and cause. real distressed israel many people think it will many other israelis think it's just fine and that they will solve that problem somewhere down the road we really don't know the answer to that yet ok you said it seems to me and you're all experts here so correct me if i'm wrong but looking at the entire career of ariel sharon i don't think he changed his mind on anything at all i mean he's the father of the settlements i mean the biggest problem in resolving this issue right now is the settlements he's the father of the settlements ok i don't see any change and i agree with what we just heard about gaza was just a pain in the ass get rid of it ok it didn't serve his interests all right go ahead please right well look you have to look at the man's career in its totality if you focus on you know one brief episode that where his intentions could be debated at the very end of his life to try to characterize the entirety of it i think you know we're not being fair jack tiv

he ended his career as the architect of the israeli expansion in the occupied territories of the west bank, largely his handiwork from 1977 onward. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. hundreds of thousands of west virginia residents are on their fifth day without safe cap water after a chemical spill in the elk river. the company freedom industries leaked up to 7500 gallons of an agent used in coal extraction on thursday. residents have been barred from drinking, cooking, or bathing with water from their taps. scores of schools and businesses have enclosed, including in the state capital am a. the head of the west virginia water company told residents to only use water for flushing toilets. >> right now, no water is safe. under the do not use as the governor mentioned, do not use it for anything other than sanitation. dozens of people have been hospitalized since the spill, with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, dizziness, rashes, and written skin. on sunday, the west virginia governor said the amounts o

during the mock raids. >> in the village in the occupied west bank all is quiet. on november the 5th, hundreds of israeli soldiers walked into towns. photos taken by locals document the arrival. young palestinians threw stones and soldiers fired tear gas. 15 soldiers entered this man's home. his 3-year-old daughter was terrified. the sold yours took up position on the roof. as night fell, they left without saying a word. the whole thing turned out to be a training exercise. >> they didn't disturb my routine, there's a sense that they can demand our lives, i feel that whenever they want they can break into our home in whichever way they like. >> what happened here is happening all over the west bank. palestine villages and towns are used for training. this was an evacuation exercise in august. also in hebron the israelis were seen training in a palestine cemetery. most are familiar with israeli soldiers on their land. the idea in which some raids, where people are detained for hours on end are training exercises, that shocked many. in defense of the practice the ar

he did the same thing in the northern west bank. there's a lot of talk now about what he might have done and what he could have done had he survived that stroke and gone on to be re-elected against as prment. there's no telling, of course. what he was able to do is say to the israeli public i fought for you, bled for you and almost died on the battlefield, therefore, you have to listen to me when it comes to secure security. >> nick, he's been in a vegetative state since his stroke eight years ago. in a sense, had israelis already said their good-byes to him? >> reporter: i think a lot of people have said their good-byes in israel. a lot of palestinians have also said their good-byes and spat on his picture. one of finance ministers here said it very well, i thought, this evening. he said, look, sharon has lived and died twice. the finance minister called sharon a young savage and gentle old man. he said he died twice as well, once eight years ago and again today. that gives you a sense of yes, people have said good-bye already, but

who stabbed him to death did not come from this arab neighborhood, he came from somewhere in the west bankr from the east bank. but the fact that he was stabbed by an arab or the people who live here, they couldn't care less if the arab is yellow, green, comes from africa. for them an arab is an arab. in september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. ma the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultiva

the film was someone from the west bank or from jerusalem. what was most new? not fall in love with people? and i said, well, this is really shocking to me. and she said this is the refugee camp for lovers. and that is -- those are just the two people that you need meet in my book were facing the consequences of this institution and the constitution of the demographic engineers that are at the base of the jewish state and its essential logic. they are suffering under these systems. honestly they are suffering in the most existential way with their relationship. and the future has been thrown into doubt. meanwhile, there are people like these who have recruited for the last four years strongman and put out ads calling for strongman to help out palestinians from their homes into move jewish settlers in. and who is just elected to the jerusalem municipal council. there are people here who have carried out a war on christmas. and i know that bill o'reilly will never report on that. he had banned christmas trees from appearing in the nazareth, which is a community l

israel can't have control over the west bank. the key question is, when sharon did the withdraw, he knew the prop -- party was split. now i know understands -- netanyahu understands the problems they see israel. if he leaves the party, no many people would follow him. this is a guy who is interested in maintaining his grip on the prime minister ship. i am not confident kerry can talk him into that boldness rate >> thank you. we will be back. stay with us. ,> the thing that every israeli every jew, wants peace. generals are not expected to live wars. -- and one >> i have had several conversations with ariel sharon. we conclude with those moments. friend you think of your ? how do you feel about the way he is running the government? what you say in these private moments? the stories you remain friends and have conversations about the future of the country. wax i have known him for 43 years. i have appreciation for mr. rabin. discuss national problems. i think that in this case, by shaking hands with a war criminal, by signing the w

or in west bank settlements.case is israel's banks, it is more indirect than necessarily directly financing construction. anna. >> thank you very elliott gotkine reporting. freeodyear managers are after being held hostage by union workers in france. this as other workers set fire to tires. these so-called boss-nappings are not that rare in france. caroline hyde joins us for more on this incident. what caused these buses to be napped. >> a year ago, goodyear said we are going to close this plant down in the north town of amiens . they have been battling it out for five years with unions. peacefulked demonstrations at first. later, they turned violent. then it came to a head wind is co-executives, one who you see walking free, were held. they were given phones and barricaded in using tires. it is all about getting more bonuses, getting more severance pay. the cgt leaders, the leader of the union, they said we are going to occupy the plant. the show is just beginning. >> this sounds pretty abnormal, not in france. >

after 1967, israel had the west bank, and gaza, and retain now, the palestinians want the israelis to base the talks on 1967 borders, and what the israelis want, for the palestinians to say, you're a jewish state. and the palestinians object to those things. and that takes away the right of return to all of the arabs to return to 1948. and clearly, both sides are far apart right now. >> what did mahmoud abbas say is his main concern in. >> well, i think that he's responding to in part is israeli concern that they're identified as a jewish state. but what i think the memberships reallpalestinianswant to talk ae settlements. they continue to build settlements in the west coast bank, and how can you possibly be talking about peace when you're not only building settlements but an entire infrastructure in the heart of the future palestinian state? and the palestinians say, question don't have a viable state. if you continue to build settlements and continue to build roads into the settlements that we can't access, and you continue to insist that the israeli soldiers stay within the palesti

he saw settlements in the palestinian west bank as bull works against arab neighbors he never trusted. >> all those communities that you build into there, su samari, the golan heights, they are not obstacles to peace. they are obstacles to war. >>> and there was no more nemesis than yasser arafat. he forced arafat in ex exile frm lebanon. and when he was president he laid siege to his compound. arafat was prisoner to his own home and in the end never saw the state that sharon so hard against. >> he is a murderer. he is a murderer. a pathological liar. >> sharon always promised israel security, and always took the long-term view. in 201 2001 in a wave of suicide bombs, he ordered the construction of a massive wall, took land palestinians called their own and once again redefined israel's borders. >> i believe understanding the peace, but of course, to bring security for the citizens of israel. >> reporter: when he decided that security meant removing st. settlers from the gaza strip, he was on his way to being re-elected prime minister, but in 2006 he suffered a massive stroke. he was

west bank and gaza, different story entirely, of course.he was a man who many say they're happy that sharon was dead, that his hands were washed in the blood of the palestinians. so in gaza already, there's been celebrations in the streets and probably on monday, that will continue. all around the arab world, there's a sense that an evil man died. that's the way many arabs see it. but on both sides of the divide, the israeli side and the arab side, it's obvious that each side is going to react in the way that it is reacting. but he's a controversial figure, a great person, a very controversial person on both sides of the divide, arab and israeli. >> nbc's martin fletcher, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. >>> discrimination and discipline, the feds announce reforms to end school punishments they say unfairly target black and latino students. the efforts to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline. >>> high demand and running low. a big surprise from colorado's legal marijuana sales. we're in denver with what's behind the sudden sh

all week and really conclude that all is rosy between the israelis and palestinians in the west bank we are able to see some very touching human connections that can serve as an exemplary behavior to others the game one and one jacobson in israel. i the and mm. new york is a continuance of conflict and frigid temperatures in the creek plummets into mulling this is causing big problems when you spend that dice waking up solid mid grade two conditions the work you're out of it that bravado so critical of eagle vale site it's freezing happy deal with that. just warm milk with the hot sweat on that double play and steel which shows that if we could get the green ribbon temperatures are expected to become more bearable in a few tapas until then it's sixty two others are doing everything possible to avoid the pump our mail but both parties staying warm and there. he has the added stayed great truths of our will on the day. as i'm waiting but then the color that those locks and a foot discos. despite regular lovers of mulling a sixteen celsius being sent to central pa some of the city's wha

. >> several hundred palestinians holding this protest in the west bank.hey are denouncing a visit by secretary of state john kerry. he is there pushing peace talks with israel. kerry in the west bank to meet with the palestinian president. nick there. what exactly is he saying in this meeting? is >> well, the palestinian president wants some indication that israel is willing to make some concessions, because kerry is asking the palestinians to make some concessions. both sides need to make hard choices in the next few weeks if there is any chance at all for even a semblance of peace talks in the future. what kerry is asking the israelis to consider is the 1967 borders, that means no west bank, no gaza, the palestinians are being asked that israel be recognized as a jewish state. they say we recognize your right to exist already, why do we need to say you are a jewish state. if we do that, we negate our right to return. and negating the 20% of arabs who live in israel. so he wants a compromise on both sides. but right now neither side really says that -- p

he was prepared to withdraw unilaterally from a significant part of the west bank. >> required him to actually depart from the party he, himself, had helped to create and create a new party. i think he was as prime minister, he once said as leader of the opposition, as leader of the state, he had a different responsibility. his focus was always on israel. >> mattered more on to him if meant defying people on the outside, so be it. if it meant cooperating with people on the outside, so be it. >>> at the end of the day, he would have wanted to have an understanding and agreement with the palestinians, but he would have been prepared to move on his own. i had a conversation with him two weeks before he gave his speech on disengagement, and i was making the indicates. this was an important thing for him to do, but wouldn't it be even better if he could do it in a way where the negotiations produced this and, as a result, he could show his way of non-violence and negotiations worked. and he said he was open to that but he wasn't prepared to allow what he felt was the palestinian inability

be repeated they say there today in some area which is how they refer to the settlements in the west bank will continue they are still many who are. angry. because of. the girls rupe and because of the threats the imminent. leg these would be. in the suburbs and this is something will still remain are as part of his. at the end of last week tel aviv published plans to build one thousand four hundred housing units in jewish settlements in east jerusalem and the west bank the palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat said that this is a slap in the face of the u.s. secretary of state john kerry's attempts to negotiate a successful mideast peace plan policia r.t. tel aviv. let's take a look now at some other world news in brief at least eleven police officers have been injured and up to forty people arrested in protests spreading across northern spain fighters attacked police cars smash windows and builds barricades demanding the release of those detained in previous demonstrations what started on friday as a peaceful rally against a road redesigning plan escalated into violent clashes where

it ghettoized some of the west bank. it took land and redefined israel's borders. >> the most important thing is to bring security for the cities. >> when he decided that security meant removing settlers from the gaza strip, the father of the settlement movement with stood heavy resistance. once again, he did what he wanted with landisis seized. he was on his way to being re-elected prime minister but in 2006, he suffered a massive stroke. he was brought by ambulance to this hospital and never woke up. always polarizing many saw him as strength. others saw the symbol of israeli cruelty. as one writer put it, his story became israel's story and today israel is sharon's israel. >> to give you a sense of how polarizing sharon is en in death, more recent statements in the last few minutes, shimon peres, the president of israel said he is one of israel's great protectors and important architects and hamas, an organization that nowruns the gaza strip that sharon fought tooth and nail calls him a criminal whose hands were smear

to build one thousand four hundred housing units in jewish settlements in east jerusalem and the west bank the palestinian chief negotiator said that this is a slap in the face of the u.s. secretary of state john kerry's attempts to negotiate a successful mideast peace plan paula severe r.t. tel aviv. let's take a look now at some other world news in brief at least eleven police and police officers have been injured and up to forty people arrested in protest spreading across northern spain rioters attacked police cars smashed windows and builds barricades demanding the release of those detained in previous demonstrations what started on friday as a peaceful rally against a road redesigning plan escalated into violent clashes when riot forces were brought in. crowds of protesters are descending on central bangkok and an attempt to shut down the thai capital they accuse prime minister of being a proxy for the brother of former leader who now lives in exile and are demanding his resignation officials have sent eighteen thousand police and soldiers into the city to prevent anti-government prot

the shin bet says out the this bread in the west bank was still at its conception and possible to stop . i missed n cheese melt between the afghan government to meet karzai in washington kabul is cracking down on advertisements to promote keeping us troops in the country after twenty fourteen. the commercials some funded by a us organization pen drive officials criticism since the urge president karzai to reverse his refusal to sign a security pact with the united states that would enable the troops to stay broadcasters which were in a spot for several weeks came under investigation on grounds that their source of funding was unclear the commercials often include interviews with afghans calling on cards eight to sign the accord meeting. the crackdown is the latest symptom of karzai's growing hostility toward the us last week he said in a deadly attack at a restaurant to accuse washington of doing too little to fight terrorism serious concerns remain about afghanistan's ability to handle its own security operations with questions swirling over loyalty among the ranks. a number of afghan

and what would happen if israel extended beyond the west bank and into the westend of london. >> this is our land as given to us by the almighty. >> reporter: that's our web video of the week. when fighting broke out a month ago and south sudan the story was framed as just another tribal tribatribal struggle. it's a fallout between president kiir and vice president machar. critics say the way they do their business when it comes to africa international news outlets resort to the same 'ol narrative bringing any conflict down to the tribal level which seems to explain everything without actually telling us anything. the question is why. one theory, in the world of journalism there is a hierarchy in africa. and international reporters have more than the loca reporters tht lack something in order to report it. our story this week is juba. >> south sudan is still a newborn trying to get on its feet. that's intensely interesting to the media. >> the world's newest country on the verge of tearing apart. >> to frame it as another tribal conflict. it's easy to fall into that trap. >> hundreds

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you know he's sort of he's quoted the famous famous term of turning the west bank into a pastrami sandwich of you know there's a bunch of sort of non-contagious palestinian bantu stands surrounded by jewish settlements i mean he was all for jewish colonization and you know jewish supremacy and greater israel that was his thing he was a very very says the man. and on top of that i mean we constantly hear about this praise of oh he disengaged from gaza yes he did evacuate some eight thousand jewish settlers from gaza which was you know settlers that he part of a policy that he put in place. yeah that is true he did it unilaterally but as you know admittedly. his reason for that was to freeze the priest process that was it because he was in any way interested in and being colonization of palestinian lands and you know that was a call that that called evasion was ramped up in the west bank as a result. and i also mentioned that he is responsible for the separation beagle separation wall the apartheid wall in the west bank that that is the whole point of it is to basically take more palestinian

: would he, in your judgment, and in the judgment of people who knew him have withdrawn from the west bank? >> , you know,, there are two theories of that, one is that he did gaza in order to avoid dealing with the west bank. the second theory, and this is where i lean, is that the man was ruthlessly pragmatic and, if he felt that the way to secure israel's demographic future, meaning as a jewish majority homeland that is a democracy ws to lift up the ten, 20, 30, 40,000 settlers from the west bank he would have done it and he had the power within the society to try to execute that. so i think that they were heading in that direction, we will never know, obviously but i think it is plausible. >> rose: we will come back to that, there is more to talk about in terms of what happened after the evacuation from gaza. as a zionist, talk to me about him. you a talked about, written about that. >> him as a zionist? >> yes. >> that's a great question. i mean, i think in a lot of ways sharon -- >> rose: the brand of zionism. >> what is weird is that sharon didn't come from either real camp of zionis

you know he's sort of he's quoted the famous famous term of turning the west bank into a pastrami sandwich of the budget sort of non-contagious palestinian land to stand surrounded by jewish settlements i mean he was all for jewish colonization and you know jewish supremacy and greater israel that was his thing he was a very very sister man. and on top of that i mean we constantly hear about this praise of oh he disengaged from gaza yes he did evacuate some eight thousand jewish settlers from gaza which was you know settlers that he part of a policy that he put in place. yeah that is true he did that unilaterally but that was you know admittedly. his reason for that was to freeze the preprocess that was it because he was in any way interested in and being colonization of palestinian lands and you know that was a call that that called evasion was ramped up in the west bank as a result. and i'd also mention that he is responsible for the separation beagle separation wall the apartheid wall in the west bank that that is the whole point of it is to basically take more palestinian land which is

as a minister, he pushed for the biggest expansion of settlements in gaza and the west bank, but in 2005, he did an about race and gave the order to end 38 presence inisraeli gaza. >> aides close to musharraf say he suffered chest pains, the third time the former president has failed to appear before judges to face charges of treason. musharraf denies the charges and says the accusations against him are politically motivated. >> a third no-show in court for former pakistani president pervez musharraf, but this time, he is in hospital instead. he was supposed to appear in court thursday when his health took a turn for the worst. was in the process of moving toward the court, he suffered some ailment. immediately --s instead of bringing him here, to the armed institute of cardiology. we are all praying for his long life and health and speedy recovery. >> the former general was president of pakistan from 1999 through 2008. he returned from exile in march last year and was promptly placed under house arrest. the hearing has been adjourned until january 6, but musharraf's lawyers say that wil

nick, protests on the west bank, a chilly reception by the palestinians and the israelians, things notoing well for secretary kerry. >> no, absolutely right, dell. this is very, very difficult as it has been for decades, and it is very difficult right now. what kerry is doing is shuttling diplomacy at a time when neither of the publics actually want their governments to make the concessions that kerry is asking of them. he is saying it's time to make hard choices. it's time to make concessions. he is trying to get both sides to agree on a piece of paper of where they are going to start to negotiate from. this is his tenth trip here. he is just trying to get both sides to agree. this is where we start from, and then we can start talking about the options. but as he's asking for these concessions and these hard decisions to be immediate, what both sides are doing, they are beginning to blame the other one. you heard that from benjamin netenyahu call the palestinian prime minister a terrorist. and while kerry is trying to get both sides together, both sides are starting to pull apart. >>