i want to have the least interaction with the israelis as possible. >> many israelis don't want to know about palestinians. they don't want to reach out. they don't want to cross into streets and neighborhoods where the palestinians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city w

politicians well politicians and israelis i mean israelis vote for those politicians they don't just show up but israel is a democracy if you're an israeli jew and the mayors and the members of the knesset and the cabinet all represent the opinions of israelis of jewish israelis so they do represent that and the discourse in israel has become more and more racist with time and today it's a very it's a racist discourse people are not afraid to say things like this and i think it's a sign that they feel that they're being defeated they feel that the holding on to this racist notion of a purely jewish state is the only thing they have and i think they know very well that by all this time it's by two thousand and twenty there will be a palestinian majority between the mediterranean and the jordan river in other words that land that israel controls right now will be predominantly palestinian the population within it was predominantly palestinian yet they don't want to allow it to become a democracy. so that's the problem and of course they hold on by being more and more racist you know co

how did that change your view of israelis? >> during our protest we met some of the israelis. and for me as a palestinian girl, i was 15 at that age, from my experience with jews and israelis, they were the occupiers, they were the soldiers. they were the people who were taking my father away from me in jail. so this is my idea about the israelis and jews. and i didn't want anybody, for me, to define for me, i could see it in my eyes, all what i could see was the soldier who was arresting my father, the soldiers who was harming my family, but for me in the process seeing israelis on my side, and resisting the occupation, that was a very big thing. and also, the fact that the people of boudros accepted them among us. >> and i want to listen to -- are israelis of course have big safety concerns because of all the issues after all this time. and we have a clip from the film where daron spielman, an israeli soldier, talks about the fence. >> the primary concern of the fence is security. the security of israeli lives, that trumps everything. the fence in places does go onto palesti

>> well, there are some in the israeli press saying that some israeli officials may be having sleepless nights on the issue. you are right, the israelis signed the chemical weapons convention in 1993 but they have failed to ratify it. every time someone says, "oi why haven't you ratified it?" they say, "look at the syrians, they are not good neighbours, and what do they have?", if you are interested in making the regime chemmial weapons free, if you can inties the syrians -- entice the syrians to give up the weapons, the syrians won't have that excuse. it's an idea that is clearly being discussed. >> you mentioned enticing the syrians. now that the chemical weapons deal has been agreed pon - what comes next? >> well, from the israeli perspective, they want everything on the table as the detailed plan that john kerry and his counterpart sergei lavrov mentioned in geneva. the israelis in jerusalem, you can guarantee will be looking at the results of each of these time line deadlines that have been set by the plan. they have, for example, mentioned that they'd be interested to see what the

by israeli forces this year and the israeli foreign ministry says it cannot comment on specific cases. the muslim brotherhood will appeal against an egyptian court decision to ban all activities and freeze it's assets and the ruling allows police to arrest anyone taking part in protests organized by the group. and correspondent in cairo we are not naming for security reasons sent this report. >> this is the first major verdict against the muslim brotherhood and the group was not represented in court. most of the senior leaders are either in hiding or in jail. the judge ruled the muslim brotherhood should not be inv m vovovm solved in activitien as it damaged national security and public safety and this is a secular party here. it bans the group from activities like charity work, transferring money and dealing in real estate. their bank accounts will be suspended and assets frozen. >> the court did not have a choice but yield to people's demands and they alleviated the powers in egypt and tried to be the absolute power. >> reporter: the muslim brotherhood will appeal the decision and s

army now we've been unable to get any kind of comment from either the israeli police all the israeli army what i can tell you is that this is one of three different communities that in the last six weeks has been targeted by the israeli army for this particular community that comprises of some one hundred twenty people in the west bank they want to hold given a court order given by the israeli high court for the army to demolish the homes saying that they were illegal but it does point to a much bigger problem that you have here in the west bank among between communities and that is that the communities themselves say that they need the land for the grazing of the cattle that they families have lived here for generations and that they simply have nowhere else to go in this particular community there were two attempts earlier in the week by the european community to try and reach the bad ones they did manage to get to them and put up some tents before these were forcibly taken down by the israeli army now the european diplomats who come from countries such as bush and so on spain irel

what do you make of israeli involvement? >> there's a good chance israeli are involved. they have significant security interest in kenya, and in that region, they are the premier counter terrorism force, so it would make sense that advisors would be assisting in one capacity or another. >> geo politically, when it comes to international reaction, obviously the priority is to deal with the siege going on at the mall, but after that, what would you expect the international impact to be? >> once the attackers are identified, and they could have pass ports or other indications on them, cell phones, credit cards, whatever. as much intelligence will be extracted from that as possible. this is going to kind up going outside of that cell, it can help identify the network that they come from, any ties to other governments. this is really going to open up the net for the investigation. so every country -- there's going to be quite a few countries, probably that have an interest in that, and i'm sure that kenyan security services are going to share that information. >> thank you ve

>> this is an israeli jail. one time we were here with speed sisters and there were problems because of the prisoners. so i just stopped my car over there, and i was walking, i wanted to see what was going on, and the israeli soldiers, they came running at me and started shooting at me. i got shot in the back. it was tear gas. >> the canister hit you? >> yeah, so my speed sisters took me to the hospital. i fainted. >> have you thought of challenging the israelis to put up a team? >> i can't race because my car is palestinian. >> what if they come over here? >> they're not allowed to enter the west bank, and we're not allowed to go to jerusalem, so how can we race together? >> silly question. mom, dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. ♪ [ dad ] jan? ♪ make my mark i wawith pride.ork. create moments of value. build character through quality. and earn the right to be called a c

diplomats saying that the israeli army has a moral responsibility that is also bound by international law to look after the kids as well as assist people who are living in occupied territory now at the same time we're talking here about a community of bad ones this is one of three communities that in the last six weeks has seen it has its homes destroyed and earlier the israeli high court will that this particular community which is known as the kid a bit maku community comprising some one hundred twenty people were living illegally on land that was israeli and as such they gave the order for the israeli army to bulldoze their homes their kindergarden as well as their stables but the argument from the community as indeed has been the argument from other bedwyn communities who have faced a similar type of scenario is that they have nowhere else to go they've been living on the same land for generations and that the land is also needed as herding ground and balance for their cattle to graze in the same that is their source of livelihood they will attempt earlier. to try and assist this

falafel is an israeli food. it's been done for generations here. and here, you get falafel that's just been fried. you don't get it any other way. when i come to a place like that, i see there's a few left from the previous customer, i don't take that. i want them to fry them for me. that makes all the difference in the world. >> a whole different animal, isn't it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it? >> who made it first. the one thing that's very clear in this part of the world, palestine, lebanon, syria, it's been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other hand, you get jews from yemen coming here -- >> they say hey, my great uncle was in syria at the time. hey, i remember distinctly -- >> so there is actually no answer to it. but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there's an armenian

falafel is an israeli food. it's been done for generations here. and here, you get falafel that's just been fried. you don't get it any other way. when i come to a place like that, i see there's a few left from the previous customer, i don't take that. i want them to fry them for me. that makes all the difference in the world. >> a whole different animal, isn't it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it? >> who made it first. the one thing that's very clear in this part of the world, palestine, lebanon, syria, it's been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other hand, you get jews from yemen coming here -- >> they say hey, my great uncle was in syria at the time. hey, i remember distinctly -- >> so there is actually no answer to it. but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there's an armenian

falafel is an israeli food. it's been done for generations here. and here, you get falafel that's just been fried. you don't get it any other way. when i come to a place like that, i see there's a few left from the previous customer, i don't take that. i want them to fry them for me. that makes all the difference in the world. >> a whole different animal, isn't it? so is there a historically provable answer to who invented it? >> who made it first. the one thing that's very clear in this part of the world, palestine, lebanon, syria, it's been cooked for many, many, many generations. on the other hand, you get jews from yemen coming here -- >> they say hey, my great uncle was in syria at the time. hey, i remember distinctly -- >> so there is actually no answer to it. but the question of food appropriation or who owns the food. you can go on arguing about it forever. the old city is divided into four quarters. there is muslim quarter. there is a jewish quarter. there is a christian quarter. and there's an armenian

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the united states where he will be meeting with the american president barack obama and also addressing the united nations general assembly the focus of that address and his meetings will be on iran and here the israeli prime minister's message is quite simple don't trust the rain ians netanyahu has ordered his government members not to give comments regarding the recent phone call between the radian and american presidents in fact he's ordered them not to talk at all regarding the whole issue of iran and this is presumably to avoid any kind of embarrassment while natanya who is in the united states and also for israel to seemingly present a united front prior to leaving israel for new york netanyahu said that he was going to use this opportunity at the united nations to show the truth about to rant particularly now while all these plays in trees are being said last week when the rainy and president rouhani addressed the united nations general assembly netanyahu criticized that addressed severely saying that was full of hypocrisy and c

so the israelis have been doing this, and will keep doing it for sure. >> after the israelis have been treated and they recover from their injuries what happens to them? do they get to stay in israel, or are they sent back from what you are hearing? >> they must go back to syria. i doubt they would stay in israel, unless they are work with the israelis and wanted to stay. this is the situation in lebanon where the israelis occupy south lebanon for many years for about 18 years there was lebanese in the south who were armed and trained and bays by the israelis and when the israelis were thrown out of lebanon in 2000, many of those went into israel and lived there and some of them still do today. they found refuge there, because they were working with the enemy, they were traitors to their country, they were agents of the foreign hostile power, and they stayed in israel. so it is possible that some of them may stay there, if they have those kinds of security links with the israelis. there's no evidence of that, i should say. we can't rule that out, was i would imagine the majority of the

moscow and lindsey france thank you for joining european diplomats and foreign activists have accused israeli troops of manhandling them as they tried to deliver aid to the west bank security forces also seized a truck carrying tents and emergency supplies meant for palestinian bedouins whose homes were demolished by israel earlier this week artie's polish lawyer has more on the incident that has caused quite a stir in israel and abroad. most particular incident happened on fine day from the information we have a group of european diplomats were driving in a truck when they were fired at by the israeli army now they say that they were targeted by some grenades that a french diplomat was literally yanked from the truck before the army drove away the diplomats had inside the truck tents as well as emergency supplies that they were trying to deliver to a bad one community that earlier in the week had seen its homes its kindergarden and its stables demolished by the israeli army now we've been unable to get any

more than 40 israelis were hurt with one israeli killed. at the roadblocks and check points along the west bank and gaza the restrictions on the freedom of movement of palestinians continue to pose a major human rights concern. odai's prognosis is not encouraging. remains unable to walk. his parents are gone and his grandparents know they won't be with him forever. >> may god's mercy be on him so that he could at least walk again. he's just 16. what kind of future will await him. >> reporter: grandson and grandparents sharing a tragedy that spans the generations on the west bank. al jazeera, bethlehem. >> the israeli government for reaction from that report. we received this from the foreign ministry: >> the foreign ministry cannot comment on specific cases reviewereferred to in the repor. >>> 45 has been killed in the powerful earthquake in pakistan. it hit balochistan province. these pictures show people leaving buildings in karachi, more than 900 kilometers from the epicenter. the quake was felt as far away as new delhi. >> it frightened

>> this is an israeli jail. one time we were here with speed sisters and there were problems because of the prisoners. so i just stopped my car over there, and i was walking, i wanted to see what was going on, and the israeli soldiers, they came running at me and started i got shot in the back. it was tear gas. >> the canister hit you? >> yeah, so my speed sisters took me to the hospital. i fainted. >> have you thought of challenging the israelis to put up a team? >> i can't race because my car is palestinian. >> what if they come over here? >> they're not allowed to enter the west bank, and we're not allowed to go to jerusalem, so how can we race together? >> silly question. >>> it's right there for all to see. and it feels like something out of a science fiction film. this is the wall. from the other side, from inside this place, for instance, the refugee camp in the district of bethlehem doesn't feel like anything other than what it is, a prison. this is the founder of the children's theater center. >> so we'

the israeli embassy. when it comes to the beirut bombings much of what was relevant and is relevant now. succeeded as the head of hezbollah islamic organization, the international strike went battle plan to the bombings, but watched the bombing and fold from a nearby rooftop and then as pressure built up in lebanon, they fled to assad. it was there according to new zealand officials that i spoke to that they helped formalize and found his homage reorganization to the covert operation wing of hezbollah which is self, and a variety of militant lebanese groups are coalescing of the time in the 1980's. we now know only in retrospect that the united states edges of the communication of september september 261983 reached before the bombing. from the iranian military and intelligence to the iranian ambassador in damascus to our ambassador to contact a senior militants tied to hezbollah from a later one of the leaders of hezbollah and to direct and said take spectacular action against the u.s. marines. if there w

israeli people have soured relations in the gaza war in 2008 and those who control the strip does not participate in negotiations and we can speak to ali in jeresulum and welcome to al jazeera and i will ask you first what has the oslo accord achieved? >> i think they achieved the fact whenever you sit and talk you come back to the same perimeters, the problem is that we don't often talk and the last four years or five years we hardly met each other but now when the sides are talking it's the same principles and that is the main achievement. >> so nothing in effect apart from the fact they are vaguely talking and john kerry wanted to push talks forward but whatever happens at the talks won't go anywhere unless somebody has a big stick beating both sides. >> i think when you look at the public attention in israel at the moment, it's 90% syria, 10% egypt, 0 on the palestinians. this is not an atmosphere of peace. you need this big stick and you need somebody to push the positions of both sides especially of the israeli side, very hard, the united states is busy, the u.s. is busy, the re

that was israeli and as such they gave the order for the israeli army to bulldoze their homes their kindergarten as well as their stables but the argument from the community as indeed has been the argument from other bedwyn communities who have faced a similar type of scenario is that they have nowhere else to go they've been living on the land for generations and that the land is also needed as herding ground and valen for their cattle to graze in the same street that is their source of livelihood they will attempt earlier in the week by the e.u. to try and assist this community falling trees day and wednesday they did manage to reach the community they managed to put up some tents but these were later taken down by the israeli army can also hearing from european union diplomats who were involved in this unfortunate incident is that what israel is doing is not helpful to negotiations let me remind you that just last month the israelis and palestinians off to a three year hiatus returned to the negotiating table and certainly in these kind of incidents are not going to do anything to push the pe

the israeli prime minister has to prove to the u.s. an un. change of tone is nothing but a smokescreen as recent signals of a thawing in tehran relations with the west fail to soothe the binyamin netanyahu combative stance. good morning from moscow where it's just after eleven am on monday i'm. for this our europe is witnessing a surge in support for far right parties a right wing populists have just swept to power in norway greece's golden dawn is the country's third largest political group and then austria the right wing freedom . almost a quarter of the vote in sunday's general election a short while ago i spoke to. from the. well the big story from sunday's ballot is that the fall right freedom polity in austria picked up almost a quarter of the vote now what that means is that they've really increased the amount. of their popularity here in the country they. campaigned this time on a not just an immigration policy but also on a policy on a very much a euro skeptic campaign and that seen them will draw in the voters from by the by the sac

the israeli prime minister is in the us he says to tell the truth in the face on the sweet talk and also lot of smiles which is how he described the iranian leader's recent speech at the u.n. benyamin netanyahu is concerned about the consequences or historic phone call between house arani and barack obama on his middle east correspondent policy explains why these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the united states where he will be meeting with the american president barack obama and also addressing the united nations general assembly the focus of that address and his meetings will be on iran and here the israeli prime minister's message is quite simple don't trust the radians netanyahu has ordered his government members not to give comments regarding the recent phone call between the rain and american presidents in fact he's ordered them not to talk at all regarding the whole issue of iran and this is presumably to avoid any kind of embarrassment while natanya who is in the united states and also for israel to seemingly present a united front prior to leaving israel for new

that's been very much on the minds of israelis this week as the crisis over syria unfolded. "newshour" special correspondent martin fletcher reports from israel. >> reporter: for israel, syria is really a four-letter word, iran. that was prime minister netanyahu's message to new navy officers last week and to president obama. speaking of syria's chemical weapons, he said, "the world must make sure that whoever uses weapons of mass destruction pays a price for it. the message that is received in syria," he said you" will be received loudly in iran." here, every move that president obama makes on syria is seen through the prism can israel trust obama to stop iran's nuclear weapons program? it's especially relevant this weekend, the 40th an verse of the 1973 yom kippur war when syria and egypt launched a surprise attack against israel. the american president back then ordered weapon airlift that helped save the jewish state. based on president obama's handling of the syrian crisis, how confident are israeli officials now that he will stop iran from making nuclear weapon? shimon

video has just been released showing israeli soldiers manhandling a group of european diplomats as they tried to bring supplies emergency aid as well as tents in a truck to a community of bed when living in the west bank this particular community just a few days earlier had their homes destroyed by the israeli army if you look at the video you can see the diplomats being surrounded by huge group of israeli soldiers as one french diplomat later complained she was physically dragged from the truck she was forced to the ground without any kind of a guard to force her diplomatic immunity not the idea of her said that it is launching a probe but at the same time the army has said that this was a provocation and also to quote the idea of a disturbance of the peace the e.u. diplomats deny this they say that there was a blatant disregard for international law that they were physically manhandled and at the same time to quote them what happened was shocking and outrageous the e.u. diplomats are saying that the israeli army has a moral responsibility that is also bound by international law to loo

well i've spoken to both the israeli foreign ministry is what is the army spokes persons units and i was asking them for they reaction to the reports we have that there is an imminent threat being planned by syrian rebels originating in territory in syria that is controlled by the syrian government against israel now the reaction was to quote one of the spokespeople for off aged the response was simply a refusal to comment as of yet no reaction in the israeli press it's difficult to say whether or not we expect such a reaction because very often this country is reluctant to comment publicly and certainly the officials don't want to go on record giving any kind of statements of what is happening inside syria but the information we are getting and this is from sources that are close to what is happening on the ground in syria is that as i say this attack would originate in a sad cold controlled territory but it will be carried out by the rebels the result of this is that the blame will be firmly put on the shoulders of the assad regime now at the same time the important point to make i

in 2005, the israeli defense forces left the gaza strip and all israeli settlers were removed. now inside gaza, hamas is in charge. considered a terrorist organization by both the united states and israel, they got elected in 2006. this is laila haddad, a native gazan, journalist and author of "the gaza kitchen." >> the catches are not as big as they used to be and that's primarily because the fishermen can't go beyond three to six nautical miles. >> if you go beyond, what happens? >> they'll shoot at the fishermen, destroy their boats, they'll cut their fishing nets. they'll detain them. so it's obviously really risky business. nine nautical miles, that's where that deep sea channel is where you're going to get the really good catches. gaza is the last palestinian area with access to the coast. that's really important to remember. you know, you have the west bank just an hour away, but many of the palestinians, they have never seen the sea, have never been to the sea. >> the family owns a small farm in the eastern gaza strip. she and her husband are unusual in that they cook t

>>guest: some of the initial reports about the movements are coming from israeli sources. john kerry is very dependent on israeli intelligence in terms of caring out the deal he made with putin. even in the best of times it would be hard for any country to disarm itself of a thousand tons of muses toward gas, sarin gas but they going to do this in the middle of a war. from another standpoint the israelis are worried about this being perceived as a win-win for bashar al-assad the he gets to say and obama initially said he has to go; second, he can go on killing his own people with conventional weapons, if not chemicals; finally, he is the one who this all depends. the rebels, then, would have been fighting bashar al-assad, are disspirited by this agreement. >> let me ask you this, quietly behind-the-scenes what are the views of israeli leaders toward president obama the way he has handled this situation? >>guest: they do not trust him. they believe in the end israel must depend on itself. on the other hand, they are also aware of the fact that israel is not able to inflict