israel israel and israel thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation of israel god says i will bless those who places where. i am personally i'd like i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor in televangelist john higgins the christians united for israel so many those plenty of big names including glenn back john bolton and members of congress i want you to look over the. just right. in the worst of her shoes to destroy most. each show me. and i was really. something else like oh was he a leader or my. hostess let. each year the conference brings together christian and jewish leaders for prayer. speeches we stand up and say no more no more hatred no more demonizing israel not my helen thomas is not more to scholarship no more misrepresentations we can set the limit on one thing and a celebration of the special bond between israel and the united states when ever we kind of stiff israel something bad happens here we we pushed people out of gaza and so forth and then we had to train over here where people were pushed into di

and the united states being a pretty pro israel country and having a pro israel stance in politics and also very strong for israel lobby do you feel like you have kind of the trade that you do christian tradition in the united states. i don't exactly know what judeo christian tradition you're referring to i think the concept of a jew tayo christian tradition is un-american since we have other religions in the united states and we have. separation of church and state separation of religion and stay but what's remarkable about the this particular christians united for israel conference is the open presence of officials from apac which is the key arm of the israel lobby in washington jeff mendelssohn and jonathan kessler and robert satloff who is from the think tank of a. pac which is called we now are speakers at this conference this is the first time in my recollection that apac officials have actually publicly appeared at coogee and this is sort of the secret of christians united for israel which is that they were kind of set out by back to broaden the israel lobbies reach into middle

called israel. you never expect other democracies to accept what israel has gone through. i mean, we've had-- can you imagine another democracy with 12,000 rockets pounded on the city and there has to be, to take special care, special caution not to take action against the offending enemy's rocketeers? this is a country half the size of belgium. the size of new jersey. can you imagine what your viewers in new jersey, 12,000 rockets pounding new jersey cities, trenton, you know? and where was frank sinatra born. >> mike: hoboken. >> hoboken. >> mike: glad i know that by the way. >> i knew that, that was a trick question. but okay, all of these cities are pummelled by rockets. what do you think the people of new jersey would say, that they'd do anything, do everything. >> mike: and it wouldn't take 12,000 rockets. mr. president. i've looked at the extraordinary cache of rockets stashed behind the police station, i've often said it wouldn't take several thousand, it would only take one and american peo

executive director of the association for civil rights in israel. the passing of this was a bad day for freedom of speech a bad day for is a democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation of the rising good wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of his that had a mock recy for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as a country with strong democratic attributes but what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which these letters column and is by itself undoing eroding those democratic principles not just a call along to keep ation for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of. minorities in the as well and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and ability to function freely something that we've always taken for granted and is now being gradually eroded and also targeting the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. w

israel instead of tolerating and encouraging violent extremism and anti-israel incitement. we must no longer make additional concessions that would compromise our democratic'sial eye safety and security. recent calls for israel to return to the 1967 borders are unacceptable and dangerous. continuing to provide assistance to the palestinians, assistance amounting to $2.5 billion in the last five years alone is certainly not the answer. congress must not agree to the administration's 2012 budget request, which would provide yet another $400 million bailout to the west bank and gaza, including another $200 million directly to the p.a. there are also many other steps that congress and the administration can and must take to support our ally israel and to encourage the advancement of peace and security in the region. the u.s. could show its support for the jewish state's sovreignty and right to exist by moving our embassy to jerusalem, israel's eternal and undivided capital. we should demand that the united nations stop its relentless activities to demonize israel and the jewish

israel's leader made his case for why any peace agreement between israel and the palestinians should not include a return to the borders, but does he feel our full support? i traveled to jerusalem for a wide ranging exclusive interview. >> why does israel matter to the typical american family? what difference does it make? >> i think most americans see a parabalance -- pairable of the struggle of mankind and humanity to lift itself up to a brighter future. it is the people of israel, the jewish people. we were left for dead, sthroan out of our land several how years ago and thrown into programs and we come back from the dead and we rebuild our life. our life in our ancient homeland. we build an enterprising economy. it tells people there is hope. there is hope for a free people with enough guts and with enough courage. there is hope for everyone. americans in tan tane yusly identify with them. it is one that struggles for the better future. it is a future that all-americans and instantaneously understand and uh uh-huh appreciate. i think it is the bond of the value and hope and coura

israel israel and israel thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation of israel god says i will bless those places. and personally i would i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor televangelist john higgins the christians united for israel summit plenty of big names including glenn back john bolton and members of congress i want to keep the liberty of the strike yesterday in the words of the orange to destroy all those years in each oh. oh. oh those were really.

on the what today is israel. never talked at all about destroying the state of israel he could talk about continuing to commit to a cease fire nonviolent. period and since he. signed that agreement not one bullet was fired across the gaza border. he also encrusted president bob as with continuing negotiations whenever he receives. assurances that this negotiation will produce a process i think have masses remarkably committed itself to a changing position as far as i understand the palestinian authority still hoping to go ahead with this united nations vote on that recognition of the palestinian state in september i still hoping to get those one hundred thirty votes that you initially set your sights on absolutely we have one hundred and sixteen countries who have. recognized the independent palestinian state committed themselves to help us become members of the united nations and one of them of course is russia and. i believe that. adding another twenty to this one hundred sixty is not difficult we don't really

all these actions speak for themselves israel wants peace israel works for peace and our hand is extended it should be taken at face value and you will see what we can achieve once there is good faith from the other side. as you just said mr palmer working together is key to solving the issue is and as we can see there are a lot of issues to be ironed out there thanks very much for your views from the countries ministry of foreign affairs. i senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york in an attempt to revive the long stalled talks over his country's controversial nuclear program the moves come just days after a top and away from the north and south korea set together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia there they agreed to renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions were halted after north korea shelled island killing four people saying it was responding to a provocative military drills however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal is discussed north korea must first ismail its nuclear facilities to d

israel seriously. it's quite the opposite of delegitimization or whatever. it's saying we expect the government of israel to have a response, we expect for them to be able to bear criticism and to engage with it. >> reporter: parsons asserts that christians are treated better by israel than by other middle eastern nations. and he raises another controversial question, the role rising islamic fundamentalism may play in the christian exodus. >> a lot of people look at the conflict, they look at the plight of palestinian christians, they look at so many of them leaving, and ey want to understand why, and most of them know that the main culprit in this is islamic militancy, both towards jews and towards christians. >> reporter: palestinian christian leaders acknowledge there are some tensions with muslims, but say overall the two communities have lived together peacefully for centuries. >> our relations have been really normal relations, like neighbors. there are sensitivities in the sense that sometimes p

and will normalize their relations with israel but the present government of israel is not interested this is really the problem now why doesn't this pressure forthcoming part of it has to do with the the history of the jewish people i mean israel in the final analysis has. try to resolve and ition with the jews in europe in particular and in germany in specific where. persecuted and in fact of a genocide take place during world war two against them and therefore it is very difficult to put pressure on people who all the time refer to that genocide that happened to read the book of course. those who did the genocide . europeans and not the stimulus are not arabs and we were willing to share in the solution but not account for the sting in people of their dignity their rights of determination and this very difficult really to do to see what israel can get away with that no other ok prior. as a strategic relationship between the united states and israel and that statistic relationship there has only very rarely been used and put some pressure to get the israelis to warm the people on th

the border with israel. the wiki leaks founder julian assange holmes will be back in london's high court today to fight extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations his supporters fear that if handed over to swedish authorities it won't be long before a sound finds himself behind bars in the u.s. or tease more emmet reports. seven months since julian our souls was released on bail he returns to the high court to appeal his extradition if he fails will be sent to sweden within ten days but many believe his feet won't touch the ground next stop america i think. the worry is that sui which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was show us a possible. dog to. water awaits him in the us is this. a notorious neo conservative group helped the swedish prime minister friedrich reinfeldt win reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas bloodstream his firm's representing the two women br

democracy and human rights you consider the security of everyone and if you see israel israel today is controlling a four and a half million palestinians with no rights in another. how frights are these people not supposed to be defended. the best way to defend them is to stop oppressing them and the best way to defend. the jews is to stop oppressing them the israeli government has urged for the flotilla to start in either the israeli port of ashdod or egypt of our race and they said that they will be personally responsible for making sure that all the cargo goes to gaza once they've checked that there are no guns ammunition and weapons on board so why not support this because we want the goal is not to help the people of gaza bringing things with. things should come from a normal economy that the borders are open or at least open the way that people can control what goes you know it goes out they can buy whatever they want israel is controlling everything that goes in and out of gaza and economically making sure that the israeli market uses a captured market in gaza to put whatever we

between israel and the u.s. president obama spoke in favor of a return to established in sixty seven borders. israel vast swathes of palestinian land and a sense declared not of it as its own gathering it also comes with the u.n. vote and. officially recognizing understands the sovereign state of. israel. explains why there is such a state and see the words to. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as ineffective there's a sense that cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they have reached a dead end and made the failure to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the state of palestine there and urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance for the global mediators to prove their efficiency before it the possible vote in september be by international community which it most certainly will there is a vision that all

minister of israel to the u.s. congress interrupted by thirty separate standing ovations i think reveals the fact that support for israel the united states comes from the right the left democrats republicans and it explains why america stands so strongly with its democratic friend israel now speaking regionally one of israel's security concerns is from iran and iran does have a nuclear program what do you think there could be a conflict in the region because of this and to what extent do you think israel is ready to keep iran from gaining nuclear weaponry but first of all i hope there is no conflict no one wants to see. conflict secondly iran is not just an israel problem as any of the arab countries that surround iran as we have if we visit many of them iran is first on their list in the wiki leaks proves that iran is first on the list so it's a problem for russia it's a problem for the arab world it's a problem for europe it's a problem for israel the us and europe of said we want to solve this problem it should

that is what israel does. this is a country half of the size of belgium and it is the size of new jersey. can you imagine what your viewer in new jersey with 12,000 rockets pounding new jersey cities, trenton, you know? where was frank sinatra. hoe boken and all rockets. >> i anyhow that. >> i knuthat. that was a trick question . so all of these cities are pummeled by rockets, what do you think the people of new jersey would say. do anything and everything. >> it wouldn't take 12,000 markets and i looked at that extraordinary cash of rockets stacked and i have often said it wouldn't take several thousand. it would take one and the american people would demand things be done. >> that is same of european countryies and true of russia and china. israel is held to a triple standard. >> why is it so different? it seems illogical that israel would be asked to sit back and take another few thousand rockets and no other nation on earth and especially the united states would tolerate that? >> i think a lot of people pe

the most positive review we got was in israel and more or less "the new york times" of israel covered the book in three separate pieces including one major review by daniel and all were positive, so we got a much better -- we got much better treatment in israel than in the united states. >> why do you think that is? >> i think it's almost impossible in the united states to criticize israel for the u.s. is really relationship in the mainstream media, and if you do it, you'll pay a price. i think much more comfortable about themselves and much more aware of their affordable, and it's much more open and free society when it comes to talking about israel and the united states. it's quite amazing the extent to which israel is a taboo subject here in the united states. >> why? >> well, mauney who view it is the strongest supporters of israel share in the united states war against israel and the united states to have a special relationship. they want the united states to give israel large amounts of material in the diplomatic assistance, and they want us to give that assistance and research,

minorities in the israel and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and that ability to function freely something that we've always taken for granted and is now being gradually eroded and that's a good thing that the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. well you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com the latest news and blogs and videos here's just some of what you can find there the shady circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor who shot himself in his workplace when there was a balance. in the street racer tries out the full potential car race in central moscow using disaster. the french parliament to show you all to vote on an extension to the military campaign in libya government there says it's determined to take the fight to clone gadhafi and some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left to president sarkozy. knock out like leakage but. books is like bragging will destroy the

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and will normalize their relations with israel but the present government of israel is not interested this is really the problem now wasn't this person. part of it has to do with the the history of the jewish people i mean israel in the final analysis has. try to resolve an issue with the jews in europe in particular and in germany specific where. persecuted and in fact at a genocide take place during world war two against them and therefore it is very difficult to put pressure on people who all the time refer to that genocide that happened we that got all. those who did that genocide. europeans and not the stimulus and not the arabs and we were willing to share in the solution but not on account of the still people their dignity their rights so due to. this very difficult really to do to see what israel can get away with that the other a compliant. is a strategic relationship between the united states and israel that strategic relationship. only very rarely be used and put some pressure to get the israelis to warn the police on the peace table and it's like we have a very interesting

you have salute lee what has begun in israel is a very arrogant response to. what we've seen in neighboring countries with the question can arabs actually do democracy has actually two and formed into an entirely new is a sham an inspiration of what we've seen people are chanting similar slogans on the streets of bill shaver nazareth and all over the country certainly inspired by that sense of people power that the country belongs to people and the people are rejecting the idea konami disparities and the senseless privatization that we've seen over the last fifteen years in this country. according to polls over eighty percent of israeli support these demonstrations are some analysts say it could be a threat to anyone netanyahu has control would you agree with that. because one of the most interesting aspects of the quarter so far it's been its insistence on saying what is wrong with the current reality but at this stage yet not committing to any specific solutions so very powerful sense of people insisting on staying on course and stating in the most frank and

>> guest: my view is the strongest supporters of israel here in the united states wants israel and the united states to have a special relationship. they want to give israel large amounts of diplomatic assistance and material and to give that assistance without qualification and give it to them no matter what they do. that is what makes this relationships so special. we have a large interest group called the israel lobby working overtime for decades now to put the united states into a position where it supports israel unconditionally. a few of have an open debate where israel is criticized for pursuing policies in ways to make it clear the american and israeli interest are sometimes at odds with each other, then you begin to question in the special relationship to say why are we supporting israel when the interest of the two countries are at odds? the lobby does not want people like john mearsheimer saying israel and united states have different interests because that might undermine the special relationship. instead what the lobby wants is for everyone to be on the same page to say is

you're not asking about creation of israel? >> now, i'm asking about when he was president and they were coming in now, going through, you know, how israel was taking over some of the territory governed not involved in the agreement. what was his feeling about that? >> if you talk about the pro-feminism, i only know about the suez situation in gaza. i am not very qualified to speak about the rest of it. he certainly put enormous pressure on israel to withdraw after the suez crisis any appeal to the congress in february 20, 1957 for support for that and the congress turned him down. and so, he turned around that i and went to the people with a televised address. and behind the scenes, according to news mars company threatened to the israelis to cut off private contributions from american to israel, which at that time was really, really major. whether you could've done that, i don't know. by the entrance, the politics of the united states, eisenhower took appropriate steps to impose israel's policy at that time. now, the earlier

would even say the majority in israel the current regime in israel is not really interested in promoting a viable peace accord with the palestinians through many various manipulations and setting. setting impossible to be in negotiation the israeli government has managed in fact to in nearly any kind of force ability for advancing the peace process this move is not only another bash in the face. of the chances to where to reach a peace accord but also you know in a certain sense to a very strong step forward diligent always being the israeli peace that is fighting for the advancement of such peace accord. well you know what's interesting in the wormhole the fan the bill in the high court says it borders on being unconstitutional so what are our chances in high gear. well the. interesting issue about the appeal to the high court is not necessarily the fact that this law has many chances to fall because it's unconstitutional but i think two other facts that in this in this context are very central to the debate first of all israel has no constitution for many years due to. too many correla

in september israel says it will scrap the low accords ninety three agreements which is the main road map for resolution to the conflict while we are cross live to jerusalem for an israeli perspective on the issue helmer from the country's ministry of foreign affairs joins us live from there is a problem thank you for being here in the program now the old lower courts confiscated sixty percent of palestinian land in the west bank and granted israeli settlers exclusive access what israel is by scrapping this. first of all we're not talking about any punishment or about the retaliatory measure i think this rhetoric crumbs from the commons thing is because that's how they want to depict what we're doing but that's totally not what this is all about what we are examining are the implications of a palestinian unilateral move to the un to get unilateral recognition and that could mean in the effect that cancellation of the all slow agreements now if the palestinians should recur to that's kind of measure they must bear the consequences and now we are examining what this would mean to relati

now israel has a low unemployment rate g.d.p. is growing and economic performance is pretty good overall so why are people protesting. well you are right israel has a great economic accomplishments recently but it doesn't really translate to the ground meaning that despite the high g.d.p. egypt also had pete had actually five point one percent and still face the process as well as in similar situation for example two thirds of the poor in israel are working poor people who are working every day people who have a great jobs and still are not able to go above the poverty level so that's a reason that people are coming out of the street i was listening to your thirty fifth you people who are protesting and there's a couple for example who both have a great jobs one is a graphic designer one. is an engineer and they had one baby and they can't make a living in television so despite the growth in g.d.p. it doesn't really translate on the ground the prices are incredibly high there israeli government has cut a lot of the social service

and tried to enter gaza from israel they would not be. loud because what we have in general is a closure policy that is not imposed only for security reasons but is also preventing purely civilian goods and civilians from entering and leaving ok for example israel is preventing people from traveling between gaza and it was the same say we have this quote israel's are very people you are traveling these are the guys that are once in collier a warehouse allowed three pounds of going up and into egypt and the entry of goods from egypt into gaza so all aid that's in the gulf is kind actually necessary anymore. humanitarian aid enters gaza via the israeli controlled crossings and it enters in sufficient quantities but no goods are allowed to travel back and forth between russia crossing it despite the easing of the closure of rougher and rougher there's not a resolution for people seeking to travel between gaza and the west bank which is controlled by israel so it is true that people in gaza do not need humanitarian aid to come in the the sea

on the israel lebanon border. now with the american space shuttle program and you to officially end the return of atlantis from its last mission on thursday there are some that say the country's dream of space exploration is now over position rejected however by robyn williams and distinguished astronomy and then behind the hubble space telescope he says the golden era of space research is in its prime you can see a full interview with him next hour here. we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that are really advanced or understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul sawers qualls ours. the existence of planets around others in the past fifteen years th

in israel. solomon hotel to. hotel jerusalem. if you just joined us. live here in moscow top stories now a diplomatic dust up between russia and moscow reportedly hits out of the french the libyan rebels saying it was a u.n. resolution on the conflict. over the worse is portugal's dead gets downgraded to junk status with an exploding over where it will end. and japan approves a second disaster recovery budget devastated communities psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. and germany is reportedly planning to sell two hundred tanks to saudi arabia and the human rights concerns in opposition politicians as illegal. that's it for me today. with less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime cross talk looks to lebanon one of the political a military group hezbollah is finding its reputation bolstered by being more closely linked to murder that's next. and you can. follow and welcome the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle a united nations tribunals has indicted some members of the lebanese shia movement hezbolla

being felt by the middle classes you've also written about the fact that you believe israel stopped long ago being the welfare state that its founding fathers really dreamed of but why do you think that that's . exactly what happened is during the seventy's and eighty's. left the well first great model and began to dream in. the cardiology and since then the gaps in society has waited tremendously this used to be one of the most equal societies in the west and now it's only second to the united states in the gaps between rich and poor and there his has been some outrage by the middle class about this issue but we never see him as protestants because of this one and a connection. do you think between israel's state problems that you've been talking about and the occupation on the palestinian territories the very unique in sternal struggles that we see taking place in israel today. but i don't think that this protest was affected directly from the geopolitical game or from the occupation but i think it will have effect on it and said that this is a real challenge for what has been so

minorities in the israel and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and the ability to function freely something that we've always taken for granted and is now being gradually eroded and also targeting the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. so nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you would art see us here shortly with the business for now let's check out some of the headlines from around the world this hour the heart rather the afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home and actual reports suggest he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards and the taliban is claiming responsibility. at the kandahar provincial council as one of the most powerful politicians in the south of the country he was a controversial figure accused by critics of in corruption cronyism and criminal activity that shrouds the current afghan regime. the hacking scandal surrounding the world's most to read the english language ne

i think you will see a real revolution in israel. more than a year has passed since the indian government announced precedented rights to education act the one saying that something out of it received battling the country economic divide the concept was to provide compulsory and free education for all children aged six to fourteen avarice artie's sure it's covered form is facing tough challenges. it's dawn in india's capital city of new delhi an eight year old cushy just wall is getting ready for school while there are nearly two hundred million elementary school children like cushy in india only half that number ever complete the eighth grade most end up leaving school to help their parents with domestic work or to get a job to bring in some extra money and i haven't studied much that's why i want to educate my children after growing pressure to address the educational disparities in india the government passed an act making it mandatory for all children between the ages of six and fourteen to get a free education it even requires e

totally is not acceptable and anymore to increase the pressure on israel what judging by what israel must dismiss what i know and what i want to ask you now is then can you see israel's side to this at saw do you have any sympathy at all with the fact that israel says it's defending its blockade of gaza on the basis of militant activity there and is fear of the hamas government can you see any mileage in their argument. entering the cement to gaza what kind of danger it's wanting raw materials access for to be able what kind of danger in israel and that this is a big thing the international law that's what gazans in need for justice. gaza was in need for freedom we were talking about twenty eight children who are in bad need for medical treatment outside gaza and they want to prevent it to get this medical treatment because of the this illegal siege what kind of danger of these babies and children are coming to israel it's a big question it's just a humiliation and the operation on the other thing is what living in gaza we will in gaza and bad need for development we are we do thank