the palestinian president has to suspend recognition of israel as a further expression of palestinian and a following donald trump's decision on jerusalem but one of the consequences of caution ties with israel and the palestinians have alternative options inside story . and welcome to the program on elizabeth peron i'm palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called donald trump's peace efforts the slap of the century and promised a slap back now the palestinian liberation organization has outlined its strategy to face the u.s. presence recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the core demands are to suspend palestinian recognition of israel and to no longer regard the us as a partner for peace will discuss the implications with our guests and a moment but first the ports from the occupied west bank. late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconcil

cannot be used for palestinians in 2018. now, if mr. bennett is saying there's no space between the river jordan and the mediterranean, it doesn't mean he wants two states, he wants me to live under his occupation, he wants me to live in his option of one state to a system that's upper side, up side, upper side and i'm telling you this no palestinian will accept and the other option -- many palestinians are saying they want equal rights, israelis will never accept this. so what does this mean? it means that mr. bennett's ideology is going to lead to deepening the cycle of violence and counterviolence between palestinians and israelis and when i say my only option is a two-state solution, in the state of palestine, to live with security and safety with israel, i'm here to save lives. when abu mazen said in his speech an arabic term that means come on, he said it means to diminish your home. literally yes but if he's a middle easterner he know this is term is about come on and also the lies that we pay to kill jews. that's not

backing for israel and palestinian president like the u.s. embassy will be. next and washington will back two state solution but only if both sides agree and so much distrust and despair that u.s. policy is the so-called peace process still relevant this is inside story. other than welcome to the program i'm laura kyle donald trump's recent recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel provoked protests and outrage among palestinians the allies and other critics worldwide that anger hasn't been placated with the visit of the u.s. vice president the divided city israeli palestinian members of parliament were forcibly removed was listening to his speech the applause in the class it was especially loud when pence promised the move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem will be complete by the end of next year and when he repeatedly referred to jerusalem as the capital of israel we'll get to our panel in just a moment but first harry forsett reports from west jerusalem. on the day he would become the first u.s. vice president to address israel's parli

live in and lebanese camps and palestinian camps in lebanon syrians palestinians in syria. we've all seen the images coming out of yarmouk camp caught between different fighting groups. forces nobody else is delivering services but on the one we as a norwegian refugee council worked very closely with who are in schools where we do psychosocial support for example in gaza were children have been living for. their receipts for for more than a decade now and the conflicts multiple wars traumatized completely from otherwise there's a kind of services we're offering because our offer is the space where we can work with them we work with and the west bank with biased indians whose houses are being demolished by the israeli occupation all the time and providing them basic services we provide legal services for those people these are all over so what we're really talking vast vast. spectrum of services and people across the board that are going to be affected here and the the earlier the shortfall discovered the more that the crisis can be averted one other thing if a crisis happen

the ground strategy for the palestinians in one of your articles you suggested that if you were a palestinian you would to build on all palestinian owned land in area c. you would deploy old bulldozers in the west bank to open every road that israel has closed and you recognize that this is going to perhaps bring things to a boiling point what makes you believe that anything good may come out of this i think the key is whether or not the palestinians could couldn't here to. nonviolent popular resistance struggle if they resort to violence and throwing stones in my view is violent as well but you could have a nonviolent struggle where i said if i were a palestinian i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level of the national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation any more we want our independence we want our statehood we want to live in peace but we will not b

would a palestinian state be viable? that's a question we should ask if our policy is going to be to support palestinian statehood. think of thought experiment. let's assume su create a palestinian state and counter factually, there's no security problem. there is no security problem. there is no terrorism. it has been removed from the face of the earth. the palestinian entity that you have just created has no port. it has no airport. it has no currency. it has no natural resources. it has no productive economy. so i would think that the logic would be that that entity is going to be tied to, you might even say fall upon, one of its neighbors either israel or jordan. for survival. and the logic of it, i think, is the logic that existed decades ago which is makes a lot more sense for it to be related somehow to or in a form of con federal relationship with an arab muslim, suny state rather than the jewish state. the logic it seems to me is that the major city you turn to is amman, not tel aviv. the airport you turn to is

and that's not even acceptable by the palestinians the palestinians went hoping that the. rope can lift its circulation. because this sort of mission has not proved and they think. that clinton i mean we have been suffering because of the negotiations processes and that because of the false. promises of the united states mr gray let me go to you and pick up on what mr costin the saying just how realistic is a complete withdrawal from the peace process that has that started with in one nine hundred ninety three with no longer recognizing israel given the reality on the ground the cooperation between israel and palestinian entities in running the palestinian territories i don't think that the p.l.o. was mentioning or even the president himself recognizing israel it's recognizing the leadership of bibi netanyahu as a as a viable partner for peace defacto the peace process is that had it's been dead for a while it's not to recognize the reality on the ground and formally a new paradigm this leadership the palestinian authority led by mahmoud abbas has failed spectacularly they

so what do the palestinians do now? my guest today is mahmoud zahar, co—founder of the islamist movement hamas, which controls gaza and has been at loggerheads with the palestinian authority in the west bank for more than a decade. are the palestinians staring defeat in the face? mahmoud zahar in gaza, welcome to hardtalk. most welcome. i have to begin by asking you about your frame of mind, your spirit at the beginning of this new year, 2018. i look at the diplomatic, the political and the economic situation in gaza and i can barely imagine anything more bleak. is that the way you feel too? first of all, i'd like to address that this is one of the most important points in our history. yes, our life is very miserable, not because of bad management from our side but because of the crime committed by the israeli occupation and by the cooperation of the palestinian authority with them, and lastly by the impact of the international community represented mainly by mr trump against our human rights in the most important shr

not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe that rather than creating two separate states, one israeli and one palestinian, that we should have a one-state solution where everyone shares in the same land and has equal rights. i know i'm in the minority with this idea. still, the situation in the west bank and in israel is so complicated now that you have a scrambled situation, where the israelis are living amongst palestinians, and palestinians are living amongst israelis, and the question really is how to separate the two people. onone of the israeli intellectuals that dealt with this binational situation which we are in is the former deputy may

interests as well as the palestinian authority interests. i do not think it will lead to the collapse of the policy or thirty but i think it will lead to more violence perhaps not only in palestine but also in the region the u.s. as the previous reports have mentioned that the u.s. is the biggest contributor to the palestinian refugee agency the law it is out of the core budget the u.s. contributor on twenty six percent which is around one hundred fifty two million dollars a year and if you add to that also the u.s. support to the humanitarian projects that they also are implemented through the this number could could go up to three hundred sixty eight million dollars a year so this is basically a huge number and it will definitely affect the situation of the political refugees as they said not only in palestine but also you know in the arab region and the refugees will not remain silent i'm sure this will also lead to a protest would also lead to perhaps more violence will also affect the fragile security situation in also the arab countrie

a new more dynamic palestinian leadership. it's obviously not for us to decide who the palestinian leadership is but i would make the point that there's no point in talking about mobilizing international community because to a certain extent this is the palestinian tragedy feeling that the un of the international community will negotiate for them they should look i think the example of the late president sadat and that king hussein who sat with us made difficult decisions recognized israel's right to exist as a jewish state but had hard demands which we said that's the only way there's no other way the international community is not going to war borders between us is not going make a range and the palestinians have to sit with us and i understand it's difficult for me to do it but i'm going to mystically will eventually do so gentlemen i'm afraid we're going to have to end the discussion many thanks indeed to all of you moral bonnie sable and jeffrey ronson as always thank you for watching don't forget you can see the program

the palestinian cause for once and your for arab nations. just why is it not worth then to go all out to make their brothers in pakistan. very very. poor we have an occupying. force. kicking people out of their rightful home and instead of standing up with it then i'm saying we are. there to washington please please put me in a position of power ok. let's begin. do you believe with what sunny is saying that the palestinian issue amongst the arabs in the arab region has become a side issue well i agree with much of what was just said that right now i think we're seeing certain governments in the middle east courting trump and being courted by trump and it is about survival we should remember that the middle east today is not the same as the release of thirty forty years ago i think that many governments in the middle east are seizing more immediate challenges in their mind it's about staying in power so they care about for example what will happen with that on what will happen with the blockade what about the protests for example what we call

would a palestinian state be viable? that's a question we should ask if our policy is going to be support to support palestinian statehood. think about this experiment. let's assume you create a palestinian state and counter factually there is no security problem. there is no security problem. no terrorism. it has been removed from the face of the earth. the palestinian state that you have thus created has no port. it has no productive economy. so i would think that the logic would be that that entity is going to be tied to, you might even say fall upon, one of its neighbors, israel or jordan for survival. and the logic of it, i think is the logic that existed decades ago, it makes more sense for it to be related to or in the form of a relationship with an arab-muslim-sunni state than a jewish state. the logic it seems to me is the major city you turn to is amman. to peoplet you turn say it's unrealistic, unrealistic today. i don't think it's so easy to say it is unrealistic 10 years from now. the jordanian population it

agency for palestinian refugees slams america's decision to slash funding for the organization dubbing it the worst crisis in its history. and also russia's investigative committee presents evidence that it says refutes a key claim about alleged systemic doping by russia during the sochi olympics. thanks so much for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. north and south korea have agreed to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics and this is according to a statement made by the representatives of pyongyang and seoul following today's talks between the two countries. the north and south will march together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag from a single north south female ice hockey team. south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile western allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure campaign will continue until north korea takes decides t

the americans to continue financing of palestinian economic development and certainly the palestinian security forces the israeli position on is one that onerous an agency which is staines the refugee issue rather than getting the refugees integrated into palestinian society or into the countries where when really works in lebanon and in syria and in jordan and therefore as an agency for seventy years to sustain the refugee problem rather than helping to resolve it it keeps this dream of going back home which is now the state of israel proper and where those palestinian homes no longer exist so politically israel has taken the position that needs to be closed down entirely so if israel is not going to encourage the american government to continue paying for the room ok well mr bush going to fortunately we have to leave it there but it's been there very interesting though a very troubling conversation i appreciate you being with us and tell our viewers please keep the conversation going on out twitter facebook and youtube pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on w

in volte it's been stated by the palestinians that they cannot deal with the u.s. as an honest broker is that something israel could get behind as a way to moving the so-called peace process forward. absolutely not. look the palestinians are committed in the oslo accords to negotiate with israel not to negotiate with the us not to negotiate with the french and the belgians or anybody else there goes your actions have to take place with israel it takes two to tango it takes two to determine borders it takes two to agree upon the status of jerusalem and the status of the thirty's and all these issues are on the negotiating table now we know i think a lot of talk of international law i don't know whether. the two other people who are being interviewed are international lawyers i am. they met him at the united states has got the sovereign prerogative to determine whatever they want to determine respect to the the capital of a country and where they want to place their embassy but alan is not going to leave it and let them leave it at such an honest broker when it's try

scott: nabil shaath, former palestinian foreign minister and senior advisor to the current palestinian leader, says he, and all palestinians, were blindsided. nabil shaath: everything on their mind had to with mr. netanyahu. palestinians were not on their mind. i don't think they calculate did on the whole the world, actually, not only the palestinians. the thousands of people who took to the streets from jakarta to venezuela. i mean there were so many people who simply found it totally objectionable. scott: and, he says, when it comes to ending the violence in the middle east, this move radically alters the situation. here in the palestinian city of ramallah, many told us they had seen america as an honest broker in the peace process, now, they see betrayal. nabil shaath: you cannot be a broker if you are the enemy of one of the two parties, or if you are only the friend of one the two parties, or if you side with the, with the other party all the time, particularly in important issues, and before you get started. scott: do you ever see yourself at a bargaining table with president tr

if i were a palestinian i would seek to have myself and all of my friends and my family of leaders at the local level to a national level be arrested by israel what you need to do is hold a mirror up to the israeli people and say this is what you're creating this is the reality on the ground we're not using violence we will not cooperate with the occupation any more i plead with the public opinion to do internet nonviolent struggle because if you use violence you will never get the support of the israelis for the world. to one british man using a restoration but instead of a nuclear exchange so legislation there is still thinks it is a good day in this case since there's fear that. we've done just enough. welcome back russian opposition figure alexina valmy has been released without charge off to rallies took place in several russian cities on sunday the demonstrators had been protesting about the upcoming presidential election. reported from central moscow around a thousand people have been gathering here in moscow calling for the boycott of the upcoming this march presidential elect

to the international community there's really nowhere for the palestinians palestinians to go other than to walk away at this time it's just it's hard to imagine how they face their own public and survive in this context you know and presidents president trumps threat to suspend aid to the palestinians. i mean u.s. aid to the palestinians is two percent of their budget no country no person would would give up a core principle core belief over a two percent loss of finances it just doesn't make sense president from said nobody understands the numbers i think the first person who doesn't understand the numbers is president trump because two percent of it is just not enough to transform a foreign policy of. a movement or people or a foreign government but the problem is that doesn't seem to be anyone stepping into the vacuum you have the israelis playing along with trump right now you have a palestinian leadership which is cornered you quite rightly point out that the u.s. is isolated on an international level but the policy is getting very little support from the arab world there isn'

i would say that palestinian drugs are not for sale and we will not succumb to react mean palestinians head out of president trump after he threatens to cut off u.s. aid. and richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up after days of unrest tens of thousands of iranians rally in support of the government's. spent years cracking down on the opposition out the o.p.'s government says it will release all political prisoners bus or create tests hotline with the south ahead of talks designed to ease tensions on the peninsula. palestinian leaders are condemning u.s. president trumps threat to cut aid to the palestinian authority trouble also says truthfulness off the negotiation table donald trump angered palestinians last month by recognizing true islam as israel's capital palestinians one occupied east jerusalem as the capital of a future state tweeted asking why the us should make any future aid payments to palestinians when the us gets no appreciation. i would say that palestinian dogs are not for sale and will not succumb to the acme they're out imperatives and requirements

in the in the case of the palestinians that you began . your clip with over the course of the last year of the trump administration there's been a lot of bumbling and fumbling on the administration they went ahead and move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem without getting anything from israel causing a reaction from the palestinians and now apparently the president's trying to punish the palestinians for their reaction to that that's really a case where the u.s. needs to have a clear overall strategy on the other hand with pakistan the u.s. does have a clear overall strategy there was a very exhaustive national security process that resulted in a speech to the nation by president trump in august where he laid out a very clear policy towards pakistan and afghanistan and he said then that pakistan needed to do more if it wanted to continue its relationship the united states he sent the secretary of state and secretary of defense there over the last several months but so far pakistan hasn't done anything and it's not just the united states that i

standing by in brussels where palestinians president is meeting with the european union but first how the force that joins me now live from west jerusalem we may you could say how he that we've heard a lot of this before but he was very clear on certain points especially the embassy and he got a very warm welcome from knesset members. yeah i mean we may have heard some of this language before indeed as you say a lot of it but that the way it was concentrated so much in this very significant location and the way in which he allied the current us administration so closely with the current israeli administration was really remarkable to behold as you say there was this. protest a stand up of the israeli palestinian members that the joint arab lest some shouting slogans that jerusalem is the capital of palestine and then there was there was some scuffling as they were taken out of the knesset and that extended out here into the corridors outside as well at one stage an israeli member of the knesset who has a reputation for staging public showdowns in order to be on camera it seemed all of

ok more now on donald trump's announcement that palestinians won't get u.s. aid unless they work towards peace with israel palestinian ambassador to the u.n. in riyadh months or has told al-jazeera that palestinians have lost faith in the trumpet ministration. well the see when when the president and nikki haley say that jerusalem is of the table and there are tacking on a war and with holding money against this humanitarian organization which means that they are saying refugees are of the table then they left nothing on the table there is nothing left and if there is nothing left and they are totally in the camp of the israelis then they lost their capacity to be the mediator between us and there is the very least and to be the only one that is cast through the end of the process that is why we are saying we want a collective process from the international community to play a positive impartial role between us and the israelis that that can lead to the end of the israeli occupation that happen on the fourth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and t

what palestinian authority officials been saying. well sammy that's really along the lines of what we've been hearing i'm going to give you a little bit more of the reaction we heard from p.l.o. executive committee member when i should we who said palestinian rights are not for sale by recognizing occupy jerusalem as israel's capital donald trump has not only violated international law but he has also single handedly destroyed the very foundations of peace and condoned israel's illegal an extension of the city we will not be blackmailed the president trying to sabotage our search for peace freedom and justice now we also got reaction from mahmoud this money and he's another p.l.o. executive committee member he said that this is not the first threat and will not be the last one and he stressed the readiness of the leadership to go to negotiations immediately providing that it has a timeframe clear basis and accepting the two state solution now one more thing to add another reaction we've heard is from the spokesman for that's the u.n.