he was a member of the knesset and met with yasser arafat. we will talk all about that when we come back. ,"re on "democracy now! democracy now dot org, the war and peace report. amy goodman come here with juan gonzalez. >> as a youth, our guest joined paramilitary group, which he quit to become a leading peace activist in israel. in 1950 he founded a news magazine and 15 years later he was elected to the knesset on a peace platform. in 1982, uri avnery made headlines when he crossed the lines during the siege of beirut to meet with yasser arafat. in 1993 he started the grocery shalom peace movement. he turns 91 next month and he still writes a weekly column. can you go back to 1982, uri avnery, to talk about that moment when you met with yasser arafat? ?ow significant was that to my mind it was very significant. the situation was in a way similar to the present one. the plo, palestine liberation organization, was considered the main enemy of israel. ,t was located in south lebanon and the israeli army started an invasion of lebanon in order

the yasser arafat international airport was a multi-million dollars initiative paid for by the internationalmunity. just over there where the dome was was the vip section of the airport, beyond that was the runway. it opened in 1998, but it was only open for a few years before it was bombed by the israelis, and has never been functional since. three times over the last six years, gaza has needed reconstruction after conflict. this time, says the u.n. is the last time. >> they are all tired of this cycle. their secretary general said a couple of weeks ago that this must be the last time that we are repairing gaza, and, you know, even before the war there were plenty of things to do here. 52% without work, young people without hope, and 95% without potable water. >> reporter: but without a real political solution to the conflict, people in gaza will end up rebuilding their lives from scratch many more times. jane ferguson, al jazeera, gaza. >>> with the ceasefire in place, two leading palestinian figures have come out of hiding. this senior hamas leader came out of hiding shortly after the new

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beautiful you sure we'll all be sure to join up and safety is not the only thing the listening on yasser arafat that all those we spoke to here told us they are in need of practically everything humanitarian aid provided by city authorities is not easy to get. there is the yellow witch of the girl who still loves it obviously going to have to trudge through the little surgical mask it sure didn't kill your miserable even though your skin the bestowal live there is that illiterate did mr coco which is less leadership were inserted table most just like your tortured remote markets to use a brainless quarter for much of their menu whom i should be approaching the usual desire to see yesterday this handwritten notice tree in one of the most shelled districts of lugansk invites anyone who wants to flee the city to come to it is ignited place on any given day get those who haven't got out yet don't seem in any rush to pack their bags and escape yet now that we must know we have them when you get the newspaper in the city better than ever before that but there are those who want to get out but can't.

the yasser arafat international airport was a multi million dollar initiative paid for by the international community. this airport was to international standards just over there where that dome is. that was the vip section of the airport. beyond that was the runway. it opened in 1998 but it was only opened for a few years before it was bombed by the israelis, and it has never been functional since. three times over the last six years gaza has needed reconstruction after conflict. this time says the u.n. is the last time. >> we're all tired of this cycle. this must be the last time that we are repairing gaza. and even before the war there were plenty of things to do here. 62% without work. young people without hope. and 95% without portable water. >> but without a real political solution to the palestinian-israeli conflict people in gaza will end up rebuilding their lives from scratch, many more times. jane ferguson, al jazeera, gaza. >> well, the open ended cease-fire between the israelis and palestinians in gaza appears to be holding for now. as part of the agreement israel agreed to ease

palestinian authority a shape of all of this rules that are showing all of his role as palestine yasser arafat's the arch terrorist honored with the in the middle of this and the cliffs not promoting terrorism more this is through the process of the storage is much more and i just want to because really all i have seen is kind of these info graphics and cartoons kind of backing up your point there and i wanted to see max's response to what you just said. well this is the hysterical michigan that we're hearing from the apartheid lobbyists in washington from their air conditioned offices who have no contact with the palestinian civilian population that's being decimated before our eyes the families in the gaza strip are having to choose which room they sit in to decide which part of the family will be destroyed in the event of an airstrike we've seen the neighborhood of shoot wave wiped off the map the area of qana. units wiped off the map the entire areas forty percent of the gaza strip has had to have fleet to un shelters two hundred thousand palestinians are in un shelters right now and scabies

that is why president clinton said to palestinian leader yasser arafat if you say the temple never existedyou're not only defying the jewish faith, but my christian faith. >> in that sense you've given a great history of the essence of a lot of the conflict of it. it's yet still today, you have christians and jews and muslims, etc., they come here. like a convergence. >> yes. it's a convergence of three different religions. for christians, the real high point is the church where according to christian tradition, jesus was buried for days until he rose. is in this this tiny area. the church of the hole temple is a ten minute walk from here. >> okay. they have the stations. >> stations of the cross. where jesus carried the cross, stopped, where he walked. >> yes. >> one last thing you wanted to say? >> in light of what's happening in the middle east, isis, threat to freedom of religion anywhere. for anyone m in the world to put pressure on the city of israel to redivide the city of jerusalem and pull us out, we're the protectors of jerusalem for great faiths. i hope caring americans and worl

the ship yasser arafat was founded in 1854 and most of the damage is on the exterior and most of theead glass ones are still intact a huge vice to one vallejo police officer who was on a call yesterday morning when the earthquake struck. >> the ground just rolled. like riding a wave. the cars were moving. there had to be 1' movement between the cars when they went up-and-down like a wave of water was under my feet. >> slow he had reports of water loss and water main breaks and minor roadway dam but nothing major. so far, 41 structures have been damaged and an estimated $5 damaged and an estimated $5 million in damage. >>> coming up, we will take you to the street to show you other hard hit area of downtown napa and the people cleaning up. >>> the wine industry was hit hard by the earthquake and the next stem for the important bay area businesses. >>> this is the all new abc7news.com. >>> everything you need to know to stay on the screen throughout to stay on the screen throughout the expire commercial you'll connect withnte, your doctor any time, ♪ anywhere. another way care and cove

that is why president clinton said to palestinian leader yasser arafat if you say the temple never existed, you're not only defying the jewish faith, but my christian faith. >> in that sense you've given a great history of the essence of a lot of the conflict of it. it's yet still today, you have christians and jews and muslims, etc., they come here. like a convergence. >> yes. it's a convergence of three different religions. for christians, the real high point is the church where according to christian tradition, jesus was buried for days until he rose. is in this this tiny area. the church of the hole temple is a ten minute walk from here. >> okay. they have the stations. >> stations of the cross. where jesus carried the cross, stopped, where he walked. >> yes. >> one last thing you wanted to say? >> in light of what's happening in the middle east, isis, threat to freedom of religion anywhere. for anyone m in the world to put pressure on the city of israel to redivide the city of jerusalem and pull us out, we're the protectors of jerusalem for great faiths. i hope caring americans and wo

that is why president clinton said to palestinian leader yasser arafat if you say the temple never existedu're not only defying the jewish faith, but my christian faith. >> in that sense you've given a great history of the essence of a lot of the conflict of it. it's yet still today, you have christians and jews and muslims, etc., they come here. like a convergence. >> yes. it's a convergence of three different religions. for christians, the real high point is the church where according to christian tradition, jesus was buried for days until he rose. is in this this tiny area. the church of the hole temple is a ten minute walk from here. >> okay. they have the stations. >> stations of the cross. where jesus carried the cross, stopped, where he walked. >> yes. >> one last thing you wanted to say? >> in light of what's happening in the middle east, isis, threat to freedom of religion anywhere. for anyone m in the world to put pressure on the city of israel to redivide the city of jerusalem and pull us out, we're the protectors of jerusalem for great faiths. i hope caring americans and world

they did not abide by that and it yasser arafat was saying one thing in the west end something else to his people. mahmoud abbas has been different in that he has not partaken of violence but palestinian society, charlie, is basically split in two. you have political leadership israel'sommitted to destruction openly and the other half of palestinian society is not prepared to confront the first half. they are not committed to violence and it's good that president abbas has not committed to violence. granted, take that for but for abbas to be a peace partner, they have to accept israel's right to exist. they don't. they say they never will. willterror organization just arm itself in order to achieve that goal. looking at the negotiations, john kerry was in paris negotiating with the foreign ministers of qatar and turkey. david ignatius was critical for trying to negotiate with qatar .nstead of egypt do you agree with david ignatius on that? do you think you should talk to somebody who talks to hamas? an issue in actually achieving the cease-fire because the relationship between the egyp

we got commitment signed on the white house lawn by yasser arafat and abu manzen that gaza in the westank will remain demilitarized forever, come what may. this commitment was signed by abuse ma abu manzen, the palestinian president, 20 years ago. that gaza will remain demilitarized forever, come what may. so to tell us now that it's dishonest to demand demilitarization of gaza once more, this is ridiculous. you know what, really, this is the core of the problem. why we don't have to fight around ramallah, only because the demilitarization of ramallah, the west bank, was not violated. nobody has struggled thousands of iranian rockets into ramallah. now has launched thousands of rockets from ramallah into tel aviv. so the only difference, the only reasons why we have to fight around gaza, with a lot of suffering, both from israelis and palestinians in gaza, is hamas is violated the demillization of gaza, struggled demilitarized zone and launched thousands of those rockets into israel, almost 4,000, only in the last few week. no democratic government can accept such rockkú9íl attacks o s

the national security interest with israel -- he hated going to the white house and shaking yasser arafat'sand. >> the last head of the israeli internal services sent publicly that he failed to focus on the real issues facing israelis. he focus also on the iran issue. this is a man who spent hours and hours in meetings with the prime minister over many years. i think he probably has a right. >> he focuses to divert attention from the palestinian issue. he says iran is the big enemy and nuclear weapons by them would be the worst thing to happen. >> according to the head, real problem israel confronts and i think it is obvious to anyone watching tv today, this relationship with the palestinians that are not 1000 miles away but are next door. they have to find a way to live with each other -- >> a strong palestine next to israel with strong trade, strong bonds is the best thing that could possibly happen? long-term national security for israel. how long do you think it will take for that to happen? are you pessimistic and is time not on israel's side because of it? >> if you look at the develo

national security interest with israel -- obviously he hated going to white house and shaking yasser arafat's hand. that's why camp david happened. >> the last detail on the national security service publicly said b.b. failed to focus on the issue. this is the man who spent hours and hours in meetings with the prime minister over many, many years, and i think he probably has a right. >> charlie: so let me understand that. he focuses on iran to diverta tension from the palestinian issue. >> right. >> charlie: he says iran is the big enemy and nuclear weapons by iran will be the worst thing that can happen. >> and i think it's obvious to anyone watching tv today that the relationship with the palestinians that aren't 1,000 miles a way but are next door, israelis and palestinians have to find a way to live with each other, otherwise they're going to be going through this -- >> charlie: an economically vibranvibrant palestine next tol is what is best for israeli's long-term security. >> exactly. >> charlie: and is time not only israel's side? >> if you look at development of al quaidaism in the r

national security interests with israel, obviously he hated going to the white house and shaking yasser arafat's hand that's why he did it. that's why camp david did. >> the last of the israelly security service has said publicly that bb has failed to focus on the real issue facing israel and that's the palestinian issue. he focuses on the iran issue, to divert israeli opinion. in is a man who spent hours and hours and hours in meetings with the prime minister over many, many years and i think he probably has a right has it right. >> let me understand he focuses on iran to divert attention from the palestinian issue he. >> right. >> rose: he said iran is a real enemy and nuclear weapons would be the real threat. >> the real problem israel confronts and i think obvious to thinl watching tv today is its relationship with the palestinians, there aren't 1,000 miles away, but are next door. israel is and the palestinians have to find a way to live with each other, otherwise -- >> rose: and economically vibrant pal sign next to israel. a strong economic trade, strong bonds of that kind is the best thi

had been advocated by a few among them will yasser arafat of his friends who were mostly working in kuwaitesert alone headquarters and after 1967 they moved into the plo to take over and we saw the emergence of the nationalism in the claim to sovereignty and independence as an issue for the first time so instead of having an image of the large or massive arabs it became little but a strong against tiny and we palestine instead of the issue to be israel because now was the occupation of territories were several million palestinian arabs live. from people who tried to deny the jews a state of their own now was a question the jews or israelis trying to deny another people estate of their own which is the palestinians so i gave though whole conflict a different look but not a sufficient explanation of the hostility against israel today. it may be the world came to care about the aspirations but this itself requires explanation because no one cares about other occupations. who gets exercised about the occupation of tibet not to mention the brutal occupation of the palestinians in with those nat

presidents, indira gandhi, yasser arafat, nelson mandela, nikita khrushchev, fidel castro, and mahmoud ahmadinejad. the national press club is truly known as a place where news happens. i'd like to thank the world affairs council for partnering with us today to bring president sassou-nguesso here today. please join me in welcoming president denis sassou-nguesso to the national press club. [applause] >> madam president, mr. president, i thank you for the honor you have evtended to inviting me in this hallowed hall. you have a loud and african voice to be heard -- allowed an african voice to be heard. the universal nature of keys and insult. in an roosevelt hadthe with such insight at the beginning of the second world war and he stated and i broken,herever he's is it is the entire world -- peace is broken, it is the entire world that suffers." today still in europe and latin , peopleand in africa are at each other's throats. e bombs that fall stifle the voices. [speaking french] center in the mecca of the america. peace and security in central africa. this is a region of the hemisphere,

a sponsor for ever since bill clinton stood there on the white house lawn with his arms around yasser arafat and yitzhak rabin ourthey shook hands -- ability has been affected by that. >> you are saying on the palestinian side and broader arab side as well. of the critics of secretary kerry's initial attempt at a swift cease-fire said that the danger of that effort is it would have given power to hamas and its violent rejection of israel at the expense of fatah abbas, who has embraced the two state solution. clearly the delay in getting to -- this delay has come at a horrific human price. has it successfully avoided a situation whereby hamas is empowered at the expense of fatah and the plo? what is a cease-fire -- if they get the terms on a lasting cease-fire, what do those terms need to include in order to ensure that mahmoud abbas remains the central player for the palestinians in any future negotiations with israel? as to the first question, i would say no. the fundamental calculation that palestinians draw conclusions on an entirely different set of assumptions than folks in washington d

he was appointed as minister of finance over the palestinian authority under yasser arafat from 2002 to 2005 and won praise, high praise from the international community for introducing extensive economic and financial reforms and cracking down on corruption. and late 2005 he resigned from the cabinet to found and run the third white block an independent party that would run and win in two seats in the palestinian parliamentary elections of january 2006. in march 2007, dr. fayyad was appointed again as minister of finance, international unity government and in june 2007 appointed prime minister, a position he held until he stepped down in june 2013. dr. fayyad will be a fantastic a addition to the atlantic council team. i look forward to working closely with him as the scowcroft center continues to expand its work on middle east security, especially on israeli-palestinian negotiations in the middle east peace process itself. i'm sure the scowcroft center will become a leading voice an this critical issue. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dr. salam fayyad to the podiu

foreign minister, he won a nobel peace prize, along with then prime minister yitzhak rabin and yasser arafate oslo accords. after decades of progress and setbacks peres tells me he is hopeful about the future. >> hopeful and optimistic. >> reporter: and the possibility of a lasting peace. >> but there is no real solution for the palestinian for us without having real peace. i think the fight in the middle east is more about the future than about the past. >> shimon peres speaking with me yesterday. we discussed what is going on here in the middle east. just ahead, nato's new fears about russian aggression. stand by for details of what has officials so concerned right now. if you wear a denture, touch it with your tongue. if your denture moves, it can irritate your gums. try fixodent plus gum care. it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. and prevents gum irritation. that's why i always choose the fastest intern.r slow. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. th

yasser arafat recognized the plo -- recognized israel but still has no palestinian state. recognition is not what is missing. that happens 25 years ago so there has been lessons learned. i believe hamas is looking to create -- is not looking to create from the river to the sea but they want to end the israeli occupation and their resistance is seen in that context for palestinians. even if we don't accept that, you make peace with your enemies and not with your friends. you cannot expect people to jump through these hoops that you want them to and say in order for you to qualify for a peace process with me, my enemy, your enemy, you have to do x,y and z. that paradigm does not exist anywhere in the world. you make peace with your enemies as they are and you hope that enemies don't remain enemies afterwards. >> i would note that even for the united states, it took the 1988-1989 declaration to open talks -- factions have learned lessons for that and i take the point. it strikes me that the israel-plo mutual recommend -- recognition of 1993 is the one thing from the process t

he was appointed as the minister of finance of the palestinian authority under yasser arafat from 2002 to 2005 and he won praise, high praise from the international for introducing extensive economic and financial reforms and cracking down on corruption. in late 200 5, he resigned from the cabinet to found and run the thirdway block, an independent party that would run and win in two seats in the palestinian parliamentary elections of january 2006. in march 2007, dr. fayad was appointed again as minister of finance. in a national unity government in june 2007 he was appointed prime minister, a position he held until he extent down in june 2013. dr. fayad will be a fantastic addition to the atlantic council team. i look forward to working closely with him as the center expands its work on security especially on the israeli/palestinian relations and the middle east process itself. i'm sure the center will become a leading voice on this issue. please join me in welcoming dr. fayad to the podium. >> thank you so much. >> thank you very much. i thank you for the kind introduction. i thank y