is israel's problem. but she will fight monday at tom on the need for case or a container, it will become your problem. so i think it should be a joint effort of the western society, meaning the u.s., israel, canada, but it will only be a leadership decision. [inaudible] >> i do not know. >> the u.s. is israel's only friend. i think people are pretty disgusted with the kind of undemocratic behavior going on there. >> well, if you show me a stronger democracy in the middle east, or a stronger ally of the united states in the region, i will agree with you. but i don't agree with you because the cheapest aircraft today of the united states and the middle east is in that region. we are in the front by not presenting the same principle. if israel will not be there come you'll find those forces coming to your shows. >> you know, i share your concerns about iran. i worry about it all the time. i think it's real. but growing up jewish, i learned that being jewish also miscarrying about the stranger from the bible

possible not under international law wayne sorry israel but israel is serious repeating what israel is and then the united states gentlemen. all right i don't want to make a liar program on it is why it's really easy there's all of the world's big washington d.c. is the capital washington d.c. is the capital of america and we don't really care what the rest of the world thinks and i'm wondering israel feels the same way through slim's the capital the draw the israeli people are in fact the most industrious people in the entire world the most productive industrialist per capita the most successful entrepreneurial the fact that mitt say that it gets a lot of the american a it is through our ok penny go ahead before we go to the break well we give six billion is how i think your enemies so let's be fair go ahead penny. i would say i mean we are we are absolutely wrecked we do recognize the right of israel we do our record recognize you know the capital and of jerusalem and we also but at the same time are we also understand that we're also part of the larger conversation we're being asked

. >> israel. >> israel. >> israel. >> israel. >> israel. >> israel. (laughter) >> stephen: i was playing a drinking game last night where i took a shot of manischewitz every time -- (cheers and applause) every time someone said "israel" and by the end of the debate i was totally diabetic. (laughter) but, folks, this wasn't just about israel it was also about countries that pose a threat to israel. a threat that obama has done nothing to stop. >> we're four years closer to a nuclear iran. we're four years closer to a nuclear iran. >> yes. four years after obama was elected, four whole years have passed. (laughter) the president did nothing to stop the march of time (laughter) not only is iran four years closer to a nuclear bomb, if you think about it, everybody is. even me! (cheers and applause) admittedly, i'm still far away. the mentos and diet coke stage. but still. (laughter) and, folks, mitt laid out his prosecution of the president's weak leadership. >> four years ago the president began what i called an apology tour of going to variou

in the parliament it's along this line is israel a democracy or israel a potential jewish two ocracy so i think of these different mission will not hold water for long recent article israel's fading democracy you know mental state of israel's democratic values what are some of the most imminent danger to israel's democracy it's not an easy question to answer because you see we can a says in democracies all over the world i mean you see the erode the trust of people in their democratic elected institutions all over the west so part of what happens to the western democracy is happens to israel as well and this is. the performance is not the feeling of the individual that somehow they do not serve me but they serve the they the elected to serve their own. purposes or goals or so fulfillment missions or whatever it is and it's not for me so this part of it what happens to the entire west. in israel you have at least three more components the first one is we spoke earlier and this is the inevitable coalition between church and state. the second is if you define israel as a jewish democrat

and i believe the united states of america must always be very pro israel and that's where i stand with mitt romney ok take a penny i'm going to go to you in washington what do you want to react to what wayne just said there. well it would be nice to know if we actually knew it mitt romney actually stood for i mean similar to where he is on the domestic policy we still don't have a clear picture of where he is on the foreign policy i mean again his speech after speech is just more about platitudes than it actually is specifics and he says he disagrees with barack obama but when you look at his actual what he does actually say when he gets to just as sampling of details it is it is similar to what the president said he says you know the president needs to be tougher on iran what are you going to do met or i'm going to do the same sanctions that the president is doing we need to get out of afghanistan what the president shouldn't be getting out to get afghanistan but you know what i'm going to pull the troops out in twenty fourteen as well so you know he was all over the map similar to al

a partisan issue do you think that israel remains an asset. to the united states or has it become a liability new orleans for i can give you is america still in their support of israel because whether israel is an asset for us you have to ask them ok though. not at all sure if we should continue with the kind of one side the strategy of the israeli government siding with the harshest. new york american philosophy is. the more the most difficult right wing. merciless capitalist economy on one hand and being very very conservative views of the enemies and powers and fears and threats etc these are some other stuff israel will not for long will be above the political debate in that it states of america it will be an asset for the republicans and a liability for the democrats in body in the media will be totally removed from the american political equations the severe strategic mistake led by the israeli prime minister binyamin at the neo israel should remain out of any political nuance in america partisan political nuance in america. thank you ve

israel's plans for iran go far beyond banning or supporting t.v. channels until of eve's top ally the united states will have to choose whether to back or block them archies going to can now reports for the next u.s. president it will ultimately be a choice between israel support and the good of his own people. a road alone should be drawn right here. the line beyond which lies war with iran and many thought benjamin netanyahu is message at the u.n. general assembly this fall was addressed not so much to the international community but to washington netanyahu would like to be able to communicate to the world that . the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the full support of the united states and he's not getting that the tension in the media peaked when president obama practically referred to is world's worst mongering as noise that he's trying to block out any pressure that i feel free to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there pledging full and unconditiona

i think israel if israel were convinced say mr romney is elected if israel were convinced that he would join in after they initiate an attack on iran they would be tempted to do so i don't think that israel is willing to undertake an attack on iran where there is the position that the united states would be taking might be questionable i don't think they have the resources to do it they realize is that there is considerable downside for them to and i don't see that as a potential option i believe that they are mostly looking at their their war rhetoric and their talk of red lines as a way of drawing the united states automatically into a conflict and that's what they were trying to trap president obama into doing with this this seeking for red lines they believe that romney is of course already on board just fun and can we take a one perspective of the troubled region the full blown conflict in syria the chaos in libya at the moment just one of the challenges though do you think the next u.s. president will have to face just briefly. well there is a fundamental challenge of the fundamen

the story still to come first recent calls by israel to bomb iran have stoked the u.s. presidential debate making support for television a tough issue for the candidates and as it is going to explains president obama and his rival romney and now walking a tight rope with less than two weeks left until election day a red line should be drawn right here the line beyond which lies war with iran many thought benjamin netanyahu his message at the u.n. general assembly this fall was addressed not so much to the international community but to washington netanyahu would like to be able to communicate to the world that . the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the full support of the united states and he's not getting that the tension in the media peaked when president obama practically referred to is world's warmongering as noise that he's trying to block out any pressure that i feel is simply to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there pledging full and unconditional support for israel is

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, the nation of israel. let's talk about that for just a second. mr. netanyahu has been unsuccessful over the past few weeks, no matter how much he has tried, even inside of israel, making the case that he has tried to make about the red line and backing the obama administration and the u.s. government into a corner to make a particular statement about these red lines. he has not been successful at that even with his speech at the u.n. i raise that because the jewish vote does matter. let's be frank about it. more important or as important, and jewish money matters. the biggest giver in this campaign on the other side is they do, -- is a jew. the issue of israel is important as is always in u.s. foreign policy. how do you think that plays out in the election, particularly given that netanyahu has not been successful, but a significant number of jews who feel that obama has been disrespectful to netanyahu? >> let me back up on two quick points. i think it is important to distinguish the jewish money from pro-

and if israel is attacked, america will stand with israel. i have made that clear through the my presidency. >> so you are saying we have already made that declaration? >> i will stand with israel if they are attacked. and this is the reason why working with israel we have created the strongest military and intelligence cooperation between our two countries in history. in fact, this week we will be carrying out the largest military exercise with israel in history. this very week. but, to the issue of iran, as long as i'm president of the united states, iran will not get a nuclear weapon. i have made that clear when i came into office. we then organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against iran in history. and it is crippling their economy. their currency has dropped 80%. their oil production has plunged to the lowest level since they were fighting a war with iraq 20 years ago. so their economy is in a shambles. and the reason we did this is because a nuclear iran is a threat to our national security and it's a threat to

of israel. their refusal to accept the right of a sovereign state, a member of the united nations as a viable state, a state which is legitimate, is unacceptable from any point of view. from any aspect and angle whatsoever. we cannot accept the iranians will be allowed to legitimize another state whatever it is. and certainly not from our point of view not israel. they will have swallow two bitter pills not one. one pill will be the pill of the threat nuclear threat and the other will be the threat of accepting israel right to exist. despite the rhetoric we are hearing from teheran, i believe that many iranians in places of power understand that israel is here to stay. they realize that israel not going disappear as it will not disappear. and therefore, they will have to come terms with this reality. and these two elements means to say in order to achieve the aim, you have to find ways of giving them what did i say a few minutes ago? to resort to the use of dignity. it's a different good thing t

because whether israel is an asset for us you have to ask them ok though. not at all sure if we should continue with the kind of one sided strategy of the israeli government siding with the harshest. new york on american philosophy is. the more the more. called right wing. merciless capitalist economy on one hand and being very very conservative views of the enemies and powers and fears and threats etc preserve the some other stuff israel will not for long will be above the political debate in that it states of america it will be an asset for the republicans and a liability for the democrats in body and the media will be told to remove from the american political equations the severe strategic mistake. by the israeli prime minister binyamin at the neo israel should remain out. any political nuance in america partisan political nuance in america. thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. leisure. mission free credit taishan free transport charges free. range missile free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media p

so i want to show you a little bit of a talmud here, jumping half a world away to israel. we went to the hartman institute in jerusalem, and talked to dr. lorberbaum, what an interesting thing, they're taking this ancient text, the talmud - it's almost a liberal jewish think tank, and because of the social difficulties in israel, which there are many, both interfaith and intrafaith - there's sometimes more argument between the various jewish sects there - what his group is doing, from an academic perspective, is inviting the talmud into the conversation; it's saying, we can learn how to really make israel function harmoniously if we go back to this ancient text. but just so you can get an idea of how myth drives the quest for identity and relationship and is played out in wonderful words in an endless dialogue in the jewish way of doing this, i want to show you the talmud. so if we could go to the hartman institute, dr. lorberbaum. >> the fundamental canonical text is of course the bible, and of course, speaking in a jewish context, i mean, the jewish bible, which includes

hundreds of nuclear weapons to functionally destroy israel as i said israel's a very small country a handful of nuclear weapons maybe even only one nuclear weapon some people refer to israel as a one bomb country could do the same damage it would require hundreds of nuclear weapons to do to a much larger country so i think their concern is why take any risk that maybe the current leadership in iran is completely rational but maybe a future one won't be why take any risk that there could be these kind of miscalculations in a confrontation so say there's a then israeli iranian equivalent of a cuban missile crisis say over hezbollah or syria and instead of ending in a in a sort of tense standoff that resolved peacefully as in the cuban missile crisis this one actually results in the exchange of nuclear weapons think the israeli attitude is you know we have maintained all along we will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the region we don't want anyone else to do so either because why take the risk you know when u.s. president barack obama was addressing the u.n. g

policy you still have two primary drivers in terms of national interest and that is oil and israel. you know given given american politics you see it's not a matter of an intellectual the american politicians the majority of american politicians we've seen this time and time again are absolutely convinced that these are two negotiable priorities not only as a matter of principle but as a matter of being reelected oil and israel meaning guess prices and be. concerned if you look at american politics the concern of most politicians in congress ok the concern is not only out of commitment to the state of israel but also in terms of you know the ability to be reelected and you also see it in our campaign now look at how me and obama ok have been courting the jewish vote and it concerned about it obama has to be concerned about losing what is a you know a long time tradition of american jews voting democratic obama what happens with obama in the last two years the administration has backed away from it's putting pressure on the netanyahu government remember after the cairo speech obama w

in israel, sharon defeats barak. he comes down hard on palestinian terrorists, but then condemns jewish occupation of arab land. president arafat appoints mahmoud abbas as prime minister without any real constituency. and after standing back for two years, u.s. president george w. bush specifically calls for a palestinian state as part of the so-called "roadmap for peace." squeezed between hamas on one side and jewish settlers on the other, moderates on all sides wonder if these are the men to finally make jerusalem the capital of two states. in the region of northern africa and southwestern asia, turkey is one of the most strategically located countries in the world. americans learned why when turkey did not allow the u.s. access to invade neighboring iraq, despite nato membership and an offer of $6 billion. but turkey was torn, as they are on many other issues. are they european or asian? are they secular or islamist? are they democratic or authoritarian? are they urban or rural? here we explore the regional geogra

israel security with israel because not only is israel security at stake israel is a true friend it is our greatest ally in the region and if israel is attacked america will stand with israel we will stand with israel and if israel is attacked we have their back look we know that both of you love israel but hold on it wouldn't be fair to highlight israel without talking about the daily human rights abuses suffered by the palestinians right so let's see what they had to say about palestine hyo awkward our aid we get it you got israel's back but really not a single mention of that little piece the land being bulldozed and slowly phased out of existence by the israeli military but i guess it's not that sexy to talk about is it in fact the only country mentioned more than israel during the debates was the wrong one and the rhetoric was so full of blatant hypocrisy in the propaganda was shameless. they have said they want to see israel wiped off the map. ok a hold up we know romney might be dumb enough to believe that's what argument it actually said about israel but obama come on man i kno

he was referring to israel. the country that ranks highest in european polls has the most dangerous country in the world. right about iran. not incidentally in the arab world, where the public regards the united states as the second most dangerous country right after israel. in the arab world, it ranks far lower as a threat among the populations that is not the dictatorships. with regard to iranian nuclear weapons, nobody wants to have them -- nobody wants them to have them, but in many polls, sometimes considerable majorities have said the region would be more secure if iran had nuclear weapons to balance those of the major threats. there is a lot of commentary in the western media, journals about our attitudes towards iran. what you read, is the arabs want decisive action against iran. which is true of the dictators. it is not true populations. but who cares about the populations? what are called the spiritually the arab street? that is a reflection of extremely deep contempt for democracy among western elites

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responsible people for the security of israel have to clear out and that an attack from israel against iran would be disastrous in addition to this we have to see that there's a tremendous threat and that be allies of iran especially and they're well hizbollah will attack israel this could be a devastating effect on israel and another very important impact would be and that oil prices would increase dramatically and this would be a tremendous blow for the whole economy of the world so there are too many objects and it's against the israeli plans to attack iran but surely if israel attacks iran before the u.s. general election a bomb has to support them doesn't this is just what the american government doesn't want to do it all because obama has won in the last election mainly because he had promised we will bring bring back our boys from iraq from afghanistan and he had promised not to start any other involvement in the region so it would be extremely unpopular and also the increasing oil prices would be a major problem during an election campaign so would you suggest that beast threat

washington and tel aviv before israel in gauges iran. i think if they could have knocked syria out if they could have been there for a split syria which is what they talk about under bush they would have their position against iran would have been much stronger but my own view is that they messed it up they failed and that iran is not going to let syria go down neither is russia for that matter and so therefore the plan to use syria against iran has failed but its course that was the intention you you knock out syria you knock out one of the props of iran independent journalist or robot harness or joining us live on r t a great pleasure thank you. for the iranian opposition has a new voice this on the airwaves of a london based t.v. channel the founder of iraq t.v. a businessman and leader of an anti government movement says its primary goal is regime change in tehran by the launch came on the heels of a ban on more than a dozen state run iranian t.v. and radio straightens all across the e.u. taking up the story now artie's party boy. in

and if israel is attacked, america will stand with israel. i have made that clear throughout my presidency. >> so you are saying, we have already made that declaration? >> i will stand with israel if they are attacked. and this is the reason why, working with israel, we have created the strongest military and intelligence cooperation between our two countries in history. in fact, this week we will be carrying out the largest military exercise with israel in history, this very week. but, to the issue of iran, as long as i'm president of the united states, iran will not get a nuclear weapon. i made that clear when i came into office. we then organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against iran in history. and it is crippling their economy. their currency has dropped 80%. their oil production has plunged to the lowest level since they were fighting a war with iraq 20 years ago. so their economy is in a shambles. the reason we did this is because a nuclear iran is a threat to our national security, and it is a threat to isra