mahmoud abbas, while he was with yasser arafat said officially and publicly and officially that he wasagainst terror when arafat was conducting terror against the state of israel. so i think abbas was the best possible partner for a peace agreement. he and p.m. fayyad were doing many dramatic changes in the way that the administration of the palestinians is handled in the west bank which are very positive much beyond what most people anticipated that they could do. so they have to get credit and i think they are moderate and terror leaders that want to make peace with the state of israel and they are the natural partners and we have to work with them rather than fight with them and i think that the punishment of not giving the money so we collect for them is another mistake that we are unfortunately making for no good reason. hamas received from qatar $450 million as a gift and abu mazen, mahmoud abbas and fayyad, the prime minister, for monies that belong to them. why do we do it as a punishment? because they went to the united nations. they went unilaterally to the united nations. th

people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood see what's. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics. think it devalues the whole concept of the peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever at its mates and the international community coming to it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that i went to athens i was greeted not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it. frankly i grew up in a europe that was divided from east to west and i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this uni

how could anyone look at a nobel peace prize with a straight face when it gets to yasser arafat.credie to be given the number old peace prize, there were times whether people like mother teresa, and. it stands for a hit against u.s., or hit gain values we told deep, if it is politically correct they are fine, if it is not forget it. neil: so much for that nobel prize for me. >> neither one of us will get it. neil: klein is buying, -- china is buying, this is getting insane. >> we mean it, santa knows, prices are insane! hit my me, t me [ laughter ] neil: those predicts within 50 years china could be premiere financial economic giant, they have moved it to 20 years, and it is getting less and less time as we speak, so within 20 years, china eclipses us as the financial juggernaut of the world, carlos gutierrez, what do you make of that? >> they reduced growth rate to about 5% of out years, they must be making low assumptions about u.s. growth rate, but this is a wake-up call we have to be thinking about the future, for some reason, the report talks about a governnnce gap. i think

me of barack obama getting a peace prize before he had done anythi, except win an election, and yasser arafatal gore, they say live as i say, not as i live, they live the royal life, and spread cake crumbs out there. neil: this takes the cake. we're giving ourselves a prize. >>inning nobel peace prize no longer has anythingo do with peace, or prosperity, it depends on how much you wanto beat up on the united states or our life styles, if you are willing to do, that well then you deserve the peace prize, these folks are living the royal life, what does bloomberg know about what is happening in rockville center with regard to fa. i was out there last week, people there is aking, whe is fema, they have no clue, they want to regulate our lives, all of these bureaucrats, whether the european or mayor bombergs who tell us how mh salt they want us to eat. neil if george bush were guilty of se sort of detachment, the press would be all over him, they were, but not now, not he. friends of the media. befo it was liberals and media who were attacking bush, it is not liberals and media work not who are n

people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood so what's the done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's worthy of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the face . if they governments. skeptics can't get enough for you devalues the whole concept of the peace prize when you find out that the chap in charge of the committee is actually fully paid up your paid a big salary and promised a big should by the council of europe you begin to think what's going on among more moderate voices there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award now it's been suggested that this year's winner of th

forensic experts exhumed the body of yasser arafat to try to determine if he was poisoned eight years ago. north korean celebrated the firing of a long-range rocket into orbit. many believe the communist nation is advancing its nuclear technologies. taliban gunmen tried to assassinate a pakistani school girl who spoke out against them. but she survived and promised to keep fighting for the education of girls. 68,000 u.s. forces remain in afghanistan. is come a year after u.s. troop -- and a year after u.s. troops left iraq, more than 2,000 people died in ongoing violence. in italy, two americans were among 32 passengers killed when the costa concordia sank and the captain abandoned ship. the pope made a historic visit to mexico and cuba despite his frail health, the 85-year-old even began tweeting. across europe, anger over the failing economy spread as millions protested government budget cuts. ecuador granted asylum to wikilocations founder assange. if he takes one step out of this british embassy, they will arrest him. he faces sexual assault allegations in sweden and claims the u.

here a guy wrote an article who by his own biography has served as an ambassador to yasser arafat, an article based on six unnamed sources -- i can understand an article that has a couple unnamed sources -- six unnamed scholars, two independent scholars, either unemployed or on the payroll of someone they don't want to mention, and this creates noise all over the world as if it's the reality and everyone else has to respond to it. i think there's been a biggies information campaign going on in a number of media sources that are trying to break apart israel and azerbaijan and trying to make azerbaijan pay in the muslim world for its close friendship to israel. i think these articles that are always talking about military cooperation here, military cooperation there, if you show a map, there's a lot of countries that israel's going to have a military attack on iran, there's a lot of countries it has to pass over before azerbaijan. that would mean its planes were flying over turkey, georgia, and a number of other countries before it reached azerbaijan. i think we have to be very careful

ask about my beard i will will tell him i was going tore the ben affleck look but instead i got yasser arafat>> bill: that's very very good. why don't you come on with a little head gear then you can make your point. adam carolla on leno tomorrow night. as always we come right back. bernie goldberg on costas, guns and the terrible kansas city chiefs crime. berne is next. >> bill: thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the weekdays with bernie segment tonight. let's get to the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com who joins you from miami. you heard bob costas at halftime talking about the gun situation as it relates to the kansas city chiefs guy. what do you think? >> well, like you i know bob does stats. he is a good friend of mine and is he a very thoughtful guy. the first thing, just to get it out of the way, he was on for less than a minute and almost all of the time he spent quoting a very fine columnist out in kansas city named jason whitlock. as far as bob himself is concerned, i spoke to him today at length. and he told me that he, in no way, wants and if he could even snap his f

it's not by accident a year after the war ended in 1968, the p.l.o., under yasser arafat, emerges as this powerful force in the arab world. we have been living with that as well. 1967 war was also inaugurated the strategic relationship between the united states and israel. people forget that israel fought the 1967 war not with american arms but with french weaponry. france was their principal ally. before 1967, one israeli prime minister one time for one hour had visited the white house. it wasn't israel's founder. june 1964. today ariel sharon or any israeli prime minister comes to washington, it's obvious he will march into the white house. that began that very, very close relationship, that cooperation began in the aftermath of 1967, not before that. >> as you acknowledge, one more book on the six-day war. there have been a lot of them. what do you have new? what kind of things? >> look at my bibliography. i always encounter that question why we need another book on the 1967 war. the principle reason is the phenomenon of the 30-year rule. that is the rule that attained to most wes

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