the people live israel are not occupiers in the land of israel. history, archaeology and common sense all make clear that we have had a singular attachment to this land for over 3000 years. i want peace because i want to great a better future for my people. it must be a genuine peace. one that is anchored in mutual recognition and enduring security arrangements, rocksolid security arrangements on the ground. israel withdraws from lebanon and gaza created enclaves on our borders for which tens of thousands of rockets have been fired at israel. these sobering experiences heightens israel's security concerns regarding concessions in the future. though security concerns are even greater today. just look around you. the middle east is in chaos. states are disintegrating. militant islamists are filling the void. israel cannot have territories for which it withdraws taken over by islamic militants yet again as happened in gaza and lebanon. that would place the rights of isis within a few miles of 80% of our population. think about that. the distance betw

israel on one side, a hostile jordan, ally of israel, on the other side, and in addition, one of israel's slow and steady u.s.-backed policies is to take ,ver the jordan valley one-third of the west bank, which would essentially imprison the rest, even more tightly, if gaza is separated from the west think. geostrategicajor, reason for the israeli insistence with u.s.-backing on separating the two in violation of the oslo agreement and the series of cease-fires that have been reached since november, 2005. well, the november, 2005 agreement lasted for a few weeks. january, 2006, a very important event took place -- the first full, free election in the arab world, carefully monitored, recognize to be free .nd fair -- it had one flaw it came out the wrong way. control of parliament. the u.s. and israel did not want that. you may recall at that period the slogan on everyone's lips promotion."cy the highest u.s. commitment in the world was democracy promotion. it was a good test. democracy. the election came out the wrong way. the u.s. instantly decided along with israel to punish the palestin

israel's lightning victory excited jews all over the world. they begin streaming and israel. there was a sense of that prophecy was finally being fulfilled. and many christians believe this as well. there was a sense that the consolidation of israel hearkened to prophecy, and the in the days when the messiah will return to the thrill of rapture was in the air. for muslims, the human vision of the six-day war also had a divine consequence. in the minds of many it meant that god had turned against them. and why would he do that? perhaps because we weren't good enough, muslims. we weren't pure enough. radical islam whispered into life and begin to express itself in acts of terror. after the six-day war, the u.n. passed resolution 242 in which israel signed to get states that israel with fashionable withdraw from territories seized in the six-day war. it doesn't say all territories or doesn't say the territories but it just has territories, which opens the idea that there is a possibility for negotiation over which territories would be. except serious negotiations -- excuse me, n

israel was caught by surprise. israel had lost 200 tanks, 35 aircraft several hundred aircraft had doubled. in desperation israel is returned to the u.s. for help. nixon agreed to resupply defense forces with the soviets were just beginning to resupply. american intelligence detector that israel might have been arming its nuclear missile in the case of an overwhelming defeat. israeli forces would cover an break your egyptian lines crossing the suez canal and trapping the egyptians. in the sinai desert. at this point the soviets sent three airborne divisions on alert and sent a naval flotilla into the region. now i'm nixon under siege in the white house because of watergate drunk most of the time raises the nuclear alert to the highest level it's been in america since the cuban missile crisis. took extraordinary diplomacy by henry kissinger to stop the superpower train wreck and disentangle the army in the sinai desert. this was the story of the first 30 years of israel's existence and continual warfare with its nei

by what they see on their media, you know, only what was going on israel. >> israel's media increasingly influenced by voices from the political right had little air time or slum space for opposition to the gaza war which israelis, according to polls numbers. >> the daily which publishes work is rare among israel media outlets in that it gives room to the counter narrative. >> that's much harder to find none of which has correspondent in gaza. >> we are a zinist newspaper reporting from that angle, what's happening, how this was affecting israel. i don't think we need to apologize for that. it's a plic indicated situation because we are not allowed into gaza. there are reporters on the border. we had a reporter go into gaza to see one of the tunnels that hamas had built. we have reporters that, you know, chased pretty much every code red siren that goes off within the country. >> i ambed with israeli soldiers, trailing tanks heading into the war zone. these are the only legal ways under israeli law for an israeli journalist to enter gaza. however, the army does not take imbedded journali

there's 2 million palestinians in israel. israel is 20% palestinian. so between the two, you would have a majority in no time at all of palestinians. the only way you can control them is with force. you don't want to do that. this was not herzl's dream. this is not what ben gurion wanted. >> charlie: there's a debate in america among american jews about the power with of american jews on american foreign policy. where do you come down on that? >> well, i think, clearly, american jews have an influence on american foreign policy. why not? >> charlie: so do american catholics. >> there's a boycott of cuba and it's not because i or you care about cuba so much, it's because a lot of cubans in miami want it that way. >> charlie: that's changing, too. >> everything changes. s in a legitimate impression of political desire. there's nothing wrong with that. we all recoil when the term "jewish lobby" is used. it's weaker than the n.r.a. >> charlie: ho how does media cover what we're talking about? >> there was a lot of criticism in the last go around in gaza ab

i educate our kids of israel. -- this is the way we educate our kids in israel. political leadership according to this change which is needed. and education. that is the first signal, for me to start to trust them. otherwise, we should be cooperating but ready to fight generated letter from a gaza strip or west bank. >> thank you. it was a pleasure to meet you. ♪ >> live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west," where we cover innovation, technology and the future of business. u.s. stocks extend their rebound with the s&p 500 rallying the most in a year. the s&p closed up. the nasdaq gained nearly 2.5%. the dow was up 1.3%. earnings wereate nude european bond buying fueled the gains.

there are two million palestinians in israel. israel is 22% palestinians. so between the two, you would have a majority in no time of palestinians. the only way you could control them was with force. this was not hertzle's dream. >> there's debate in america among american jews about the power of american jews on american foreign policy. where do you come down on that? >> well, i think it's -- clearly american jews have an influence on american foreign policy. why not? >> so do american catholics. >> there's a boycott of cuba and it's not because i care about it so much or you care. it's because there are a lot of cubans many -- in america that want it that way. >> that's changing too. >> there are a lot of things that are changing. this is a form of political desire. there's nothing wrong with that. we all recoil when the term "jewish lobby" is used as if it's ill line of scrimmage malt. it's certainly weaker than the n.l. dment n.r.a. >> would be how media covers the subjects we're talking about? >> there was a lot of criticism in the last go flound gaza

so far they are far away from israel. they're not deployed along their border, neither with syria nor with lebanon. but they fight hezbollah in lebanon, they fight now the syrian armed forces or the kurds in kobane, well-known kobane in syria. they should be stopped, anyhow. they feel like they're on the march. they actually ask jihadists all over the world to join them. and the idea, which we call the awakening of the west to deal with them, creating the coalition, actually two coalition, western one in iraq and our coalition, most of them lead by the united states t to deal with them, it might be successful if this operation is going to include not just air superiority but supporting the ground elements like the kurds in iraq, the kurds in syria, in other elements. to moderate the position, elements in syria, supporting them to fight isis. >> rose: what's the threat that they pose to baghdad today? >> they intend to take over baghdad, as they intend to take over whatever is available like damascus. they are deployed alr

israel. finally it was formulas which are very loyal because they say a is b but b is not a. and it was finished in march of '79. meanwhile there was a lot of back and forth. i want to -- i will just say something on camp david. i'm sorry for taking your time. the strategic achievement is just so important and these two people there with the president of the united states is the broker. i mentioned what they were. there is always a controversy whether personality matters or ideas matter in the making of history. i believe the answer is simple, both make history, but in that respect the two personalities of the people who made them were so important despite the fact that he had no arab experience, so to speak and the other had no jewish experience and both came from such different back grounds. that is why the u.s. thought that they shouldn't be meeting too much at camp david. the meetings were rather meager. there were ups and downs thereafter, too. i remember the story that somebody put into

condemn the actions of israel over the holy shrines, and we will told israel accountable to stop these repeated attacks, with aggression and dangerous escalation will cause more violence. the israeli government is responsible. >> is it the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu said that it's provocative. >> a few days ago, i said that we were facing a wave of excitement by the palestinian authority chairman, and he says that jews must be prevented from going up to the temple mount by any means possible. i still haven't heard from the international community giving one world of condemnation. the international community needs to stop and take action against those who try to change the status quo. >> israel controls the access to the site. this is the holy site for jews. the two of the most important sites in israel. though they visit the site, jews are not allowed to pray there. >>> occupying east jerusalem. >> while the situation in several neighborhoods right across occupied east jerusalem remain extremely volatile, where palestinians, mostly youth, have been confronting the secur

. >> israel records it's ambassador to stockholm after sweden officially recognized the palestinian state. we speak to the swedish foreign minister. also to come in the program, suspected of an attack on a jewish activist. more homes destroyed in egypt, as people are forced out to make way for a zone, next to gaza. now sweden has officially recognized the state of palestine, while palestinian president has hailed the move, israel has con demented it. and record it's ambassador from stoke heck the swedish capitol. we have more. and. >> decades palestinians have argued that the israeli government has tried to deny them recognition of three things. the territory, people, and government. but now sweden has added it's support by officially recognized the state of pal steen. >> today the government of sweden has decided to recognize the state of palestine. we have decided to do so on the basis of the fact that the criteria of international law are fulfilled, the territories of people, and the government. not to recognize palestine because of their occupation, would be against the principle of i

in fact, it's politics have been directed toward long-term peaceful coexistence with israel the israel withdraws to 1967 borders. it has offered a 50 year plan of peaceful coexistence. >> we're going to end were you again, notice the title of your book, "palestine: the legitimacy of hope." byhard falk, what you mean legitimacy of hope? is, if you look at the way in which conflicts have been resolved since the end of world war ii, particularly domination orign foreign rule in a third world decisive factor in the resolution has been gaining the high ground of international morality and international law. and not having -- military superiority has not produced political outcomes favorable to the intervening the more powerful side. so the hope comes from this pattern of gaining legitimacy and what i call the legitimacy war being more significant politically than being able to control the results on a battlefield. and that is a profound change in the whole structure of power in the world that hasn't been absorbed by either israel or the united states. >> richard falk, thank you for being wi

they cannot cross into israel for work or to go to the west bank. and the only exist is through egypt where people spend days at the border. >> i felt like i left to go to another country, you know? >> you went to another country. >> so you think i did the right thing? >> oh, forget it. >> forget it? >> yeah. >> they'll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. >> i'm always eager to come here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. 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 tha

israel consultative group meeting. this is a biannual meeting in which senior officials from the united states and israel need to engage in consultations on a broad range of regional and bilateral issues. fact thatng, and the it occurs every six months, serves as a testament to the unprecedented level of coordination and cooperation between the united states, israel, and between the president and prime minister. >> they just issued a pretty strong statement [inaudible] and administration officials who would say something that should basically be shown the door. does the president know who said that? will there be any sorts of -- anuences? >> in insert interesting observation by the speaker of the house who has a penchant for using salty language himself, it is pretty rich drama lecture about profanity from the speaker of the house. >> the prime minister? >> you would have to ask him. >> he has reportedly said that about the majority leader of the senate, as long as we are talking about that, and i think that is notable

scrutiny, but we also want to put under trial israel's occupation, israel's communication, israel siege and apartheid system. thank you for your time, joining us there live from the occupied west bank. it's confirmed it would be the second case in the u.s. a man in dallas has already tested positive, as many as 80 people including five children have contact with him. meanwhile, 9,000 household protection kits have arrived in liberia in west africa, the worst effected country. overall, 50,000 will be delivered. and sierra leone foreign minister, that nobody saw the crisis coming. he said one reason it spread so quickly is because initially cases were difficult to diagnose. now all of this is being discussed in london as britain's foreign secretary, rather make as plea for international health. barn biphillips has more. >> a few pledges i can tell you, the cuban government is here, they say they are going to be sending 63 doctors and more than one hup nurses to sierra leone, the australians have said they are going to be giving $10 million, the finish government is giving money. all of th

hamas backed by iran walked in and fired 15,000 rockets into israel. after we cleared every last inch of gaza. >> but to a palestinian in the west bank, if they hear what you're saying, they're saying i think we would interpret it as we'll never get our own state. >> i disagree with that and i think that it's too facile from the part of governments and others to except this notion because look at the middle east. i mean, states are disintegrating. militant islam is walking into the cracks. every place that western powers vacate has been taking over by islamists whether it's iraq and elsewhere. we vacated lebanon. southern lebanon, taken over by islamists. hezbollah on behalf of iran. we walked out of gaza. taken over by islamists. hamas and backed by iran. so we have a real problem. it's not merely our problem. it's also paradoxically also the problem of the palestinian authority. if you just expect israel to walk out, you'll be thrown out, too, by the islamists, okay? so how do we work out a deal, a protracted deal, where you get political independenc

israel, we should support israel, absolutely, financially. because israel has been aband abandoned by the wormd. look at what the united nations is doing to israel. so i think egypt, we're helping egypt so they don't attack israel. but don't send the rest a dime. to either support them or leave them to fend for themselves and get a job. they need a job. the palestinian people need jobs. they don't need terror. >> yeah, of course, 15 of the 19 terrorists were saudis. saudi arabia is the most dangerous country in this world. in my opinion, it's more dangerous than iran. but you know why, because at least iran fights for it. saudi arabia pays other nations to fight its dirty work through terror. and that scares me more than countries that are up front. they tell you, i'm your enemy and i'm going to kill you. now i can deal with you. saudi arabia says i am your ally, and here's the money. go fly airplanes into buildings. it's the most dangerous nation in the middle east. it's the home of islam. this is where muhammad came from. >> why do you supp

there's no sign israel is willing to lift its blockade. getting the materials in to begin rebuilding businesses like this, and giving gaza's economy a chance seems as remote as ever. >> reporter: so let's speak about the rafah crossing in the gaza strip. palestinians are hoping to raise $4 billion from donors. given the conflict has not been resolved, the nervousness, the wariness of donor nations, is that a tad optimistic? >> well, i think what we understand is that 1.5 billion will likely be raised in the first meeting, and that's perhaps why, as the palestinian delegation goes into the conference in cairo, they were describing it has a plan. broadly speaking, of 34 ministers around the world that are going to attend the commence, they understand that this is a long-term construction project. it will not be easy to rebuild the 15,000 homes that have been destroyed. the only power station and various infrastructure destroyed as well. whatever the case, more importantly, i think a lot of these ministers will be discussing broader ways to e

israel officials say all of jerusalem belongs to israel. the u.n. did not take any official action in favor or against these recent settlements. senior washington correspondent mike viqueira joins us now. the issue of settlements sparking a sort of diplomatic standoff with the u.s., a senior advisor to president obama called benjamin netanyahu a chick -- plus you a word we are not going to say on air. what is the fallout of these comments? >> it usually implies a lack of guts, cowardice, even. the comment has washington in an uplower and a new low. relations between the united states and israel, it is all about the settlements, that's where it begins. remember earlier this year, john kerry tireless efforts to impose or reach a negotiation and agreement on a two state solution went absolutely nowhere after israel did go forward with more settlements on the west bank and now this article appears scathing, all anonymous administration sources, but coming from the administration nonetheless is not disputed with a scathing critique of netanyahu's leaders

israel's not doing it. and the rabbenet, said don't go up to there, not because it's not holy, because it's too holy. wait for the messiah. but what happened is this new insurgent group says he now can historically delineate through archaeology where it is, and that's upsetting the status quo. the message of the security services, keep the status quo. make sure this powder keg doesn't go off. >> woodruff: how do you see this? >> i think there are important calming elements here that could be-- certainly the united states and the rest of the international community can help with incentives and disincentives to the parties to calm things down. we can play a significant role in encouraging the parties to do that. in addition, i think the public sentiment-- >> woodruff: even with the talks stopped? >> yes, even with the-- yes, because there are still bilateral relations, and certainly we did have this interesting take by jeffrey goldberg this week about how there's a deterioration. he discussed white-hot anger

a time when god -- rockets were pouring into israel. i think we have also recognize we have to find ways to change the status quo so that the israeli citizens are safe in their own homes and schoolchildren in their schools and the possibility of rock of iron, and also that we do not have the tragedy of palestinian children being killed as well. we will discuss extensively the situation of rebuilding gaza but how to define a more sustainable peace between israelis and palestinians. broader thanll be that obviously. work we'reief the doing to degrade and ultimately destroy isis and the broader agenda that i discussed at the united nations, which is mobilizing a coalition, not only for military action but also to bring about a shift in arab muslim countries that isolate the counselor -- cancer of violent extremism that is so pernicious and ultimately has killed more muslims than anything else. also an opportunity to discuss the progress being made with respect to dealing with iran's nuclear program, which has obviously been a high priority

israel says jerusalem's will be open for worshiperring on friday. it was chosed following the killing of a palestinian, suspected of an attack on a rabbi. the president has reportedly declare add state of emergency, following violent protests in the capitol. a u.n. envoy is being dispatched to the country, the unrest was sparked by an attempt to change the constitution to help the president stay in power, for another term. >> now let's go back to our main story, the growing pressure on israel which is also having an effect on business, and the business community. for instance, the drink maker soda stream has relocated it's factory in the occupied west bank, after rights about vests started a campaign to boycott the product earlier this year. the company says the decision is purely commercial. and sanctions campaign, is this a victory for you, then, getting soda stream to pull out of the west bank? i am thinking of all the jobs who are now not have jobs? >> we have seen retailers across north america, say they won't sell the products any more, and th

that was, of course, israel's objective as well. i think by and large, although there were some ups an downs, the treaty has proved it's self. peace has proved itself, also, after the iraqi war, after the gulf war, when king hussein, the late king hussein in jordan in general wral not in the good graces of the united states. israel, me as the ambassador, we made a major everett to really correct the relationship once again between jordan and america because israel has an interest in that. >> why don't you think there was greater public support in jordan if for this peace deal and how much support would you say there is among israelis to maintain it? >> well, i can't speak, of course, about public opinion in jordan. but i am sure that people who are really, you know, concerned and really understand the problems of both countries, but the problems as jordan as well understand the benefit of this agreement and it has proved itself. there is peace on the border. this is the most peaceful border, i think, jordan has and israel has so it'

and israel hits an unprecedented low. israel has closed one of the holiest site in islam, the mosque in jerusalem, preventing muslim worshipers from praying there. israel says the unusual step is meant to calm tensions among but it has had the opposite effect. violence escalated earlier today. israeli security forces fatally shot a palestinian man they say was responsible for a drive-by assassination attempt on an israeli activist on wednesday. in a statement, palestinian did not condemn the assassination attempt but lashed out at israel for closing the mosque. he called it a declaration of war against the palestinians and the entire arab and muslim world. emotions between arabs and jews were already raw over israel's plan to build about 1000 housing units in east jerusalem. also today, sweden's government recognize the palestinian state the coming the third western european country, after malta and cyprus, to do so. israeli officials say the already strained relationship between them and the u.s. have deteriorated to an

israel is entitled to self-defense. given that palestine is not yet formed and recognized as a state, although that seems to be happening in some interesting ways, and that gaza remains under colonial rule in the sense that siege is an instrument of occupation, and gaza in that sense remained occupied, precisely because it has no sovereign authority over its borders, then the appropriate framework for this conflict continues to be colonial rule and resistance to israel is the resistance to colonial rule. again, as i said earlier i would like to see the charter of hamas relinquished and repudiated as long as language destruction of israel remains couched as anti-semitic rhetoric, israel will be able to invoke self-defense for whatever destruction it causes. that said the way israel invokes self-defense gives it permission for unbridled and unlimited assaults. not only in relation to rockets sent into israeli territory that israel invokes self-defense, for some israeli self-defense transfers of palestinian israelis outsid

there's no sign israel is willing to lift the blockade. getting the materials in to begin rebuilding, and getting gaza's economy a chance is as remote as ever >>> regardless of the amounts of money pledged, the blockade is in place. how on earth will construction materials get in to gaza? >> that's right. gaza remains effectively blockaded and it was interesting listening to the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi using warm words to describe egypt's relationship with gaza. it's only nominally open. only around 300 people are able to cross on a given day. the flow of goods slowed to a trickle. until the issue of lifting the blockade and allowing goods and materials in to gaza - until that is resolved, we'll continue to see a lot of suffering here across the gaza strip. >> for the moment. thank you. live at the rafah crossing. we are expecting to hear from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas in a few minutes. we'll cross back to that conference as and when he speaks. for the moment we are moving on to the rest of the day's news. the

jordan may not publicly support israel. we have this report >>> when jordan and israel signed a peace treaty, they put behind them 46 years of war and mistrust. since then the two neighbouring countries had an uneasy relationship. king abdullah described his relationship with the prime minister as cold and unpleasant. this is how he feels now. >> today we have both. islamic extremism and zion. >> extremism. if jordan and others fight extremism within islam and the israelis are slaughtering our children. then we have a problem. >> fierce round angered the kingdom, which hosts over 2 mill join palestinian -- million palestinion refugees. jordan has a stake not only because it has the largest population, but because of its strong attachment to jerusalem. israel recollections the special role in looking after the shrines, and agreed to give a priority when israelis and palestinians negotiate the future of the city. >> by allowing the right wing groups to enter the al-aqsa compound. jordan feels they are undermining their role i

that is why israel is angry and concerned. sweden is a western european country, the first western european country to formally recognize a palestinian state. the concern here by israeli leaders that is other western european countries will do that. you only remember a few weeks ago, the british parliament symbolically voted he towards recognizing the palestinian state, again a symbolic vote. the ruling coalition abstained from voting in that, but it was nearly a anonymous vote and it really appears that there's this general mood and movement in western europe to recognize a palestinian state. this of course is being condemned by israel. they say that the only way a palestinian state can be formed is through bilateral negotiations, and this only emboldens the palestinians to seek ways are creating their own state by sort of moving away from negotiations. i do want to point out that earlier we were reporting that the u.n. -- rather the palestinian president wants to approach the u.n. security council with the resolution, which

sweden's decision earned it a major rebuke from israel. it's not clear whether this vote will have any lasting negative consequence for britain, but what it might do is encourage other european states to at least consider recognizing palestine. but for the british government. recognition can only come about through negotiations with israel if and when they resume. >> recognizing a state should only happen when the territory in question has got the basic requirements of a state. and through no fault of the palestinians, that is not true at the moment. and it does seem to me that the resolution before us is premature. >> reporter: the british prime minister david cameron has made it clear this vote won't change his foreign policy but might change perceptions of the rights of palestinians in future peace talks, al jazerra, london. >> so that's what happened in london let's cross to jerusalem to find out whether there has been any israeli reaction to the vote that was passed in the u.k. parliament? >> reporter: well, there have been reports th

the security council has always criticized israel's actions. while the united states cautions sweden against recognition, preferring a different solution, one that isn't forthcoming any time soon. >> we're going to live to stockholm now. and linda, the sweden's are saying this will add to the peace process. how do they envision that that works? >> well, what we heard earlier during the press conference is that sweden thinks like when we give this support morally and financially to the state of palestine, we'll make them more of a balance between the two parties. and margaret was emphasizing that the financial support, which will be over a five-year period, is 150 million euros and those money will go to women, women's rights and children, and also to build the state of palestine, but also climate was mentioned and building physically houses. >> and the new foreign minister of sweden also mentioned the excellent cooperation that sweden has enjoyed with israel. it might be a little unrealistic to expect that to continue, mightn't it? this >> you

. >>> salty lang at the white house, president obama's aides and unanimously and profanely slam israel's prime minister, perhaps making a difficult situation even worse. this is special report. >> good evening, it brett baier. the nation on a terror alert and continuing to fight the importation of a deadly entire ruts, torrent the -- it involves very pointed language, directed at the country's most important allies, here's chief white house correspondent ed henry. >> an already icy relationship between president obama and bepg netanyahu went into a deep freeze today, as obama administration officials ripped an american ally. calling him a coward and worse. >> i think it's abusive and it's very, very counter productive. >> one mx r -- the good thing about net tanyahu is he's scare to launch wars, the bad thing about him -- that drew a spinni stinging review from netanyahu himself. >> translator: were it not to defend the state of it not to i our national and security interests, they would not be attacking me. >> susan ride claimed all is well. >> the relationship is not in crisis, the rel

and israel. and every administration from truman to obama had a stit constituency that had an assumption guided about the middle east which is if you solve the israeli issue you'd region. by the way, if you solve it today, it wouldn't stop one barrel bomb from being dropped in syria. it wouldn't have -- soist wouldn't change its approach. you can go through country by country. i rack's problems today and so forth. so it's important to realize that. but that can't be an argument for not dealing with the issue. and by the way, if you looked at the video, sam's preoccupation with this issue was driven by how we defined american interests, how we defined the region, but also how we defined israel's interest. and so i do want to deal with that issue at the end because we haven't really dealt with it. but let me sort of deal with two broad sort of questions, in effect, and i won't belabor it too long because we'll have some time for questions. in the first case, how do we look at the region? i think sa

does it appreciate the fact that israel is counterproductive? >> we have enough challenges apart from isis. we have a very good relationship with many parties. coalition asin the well as the united states. emirates as well as -- >> saudi arabia? >> by having this bilateral relationship, this is our contribution to the operation. .e understand it is sensitive so you can do it covertly and privately, but not publicly? >> yes. president obama said it is a long effort against isis. what does he mean by that? why does it take 30 years? >> we should be ready for a very period of time. we should be patient, generally speaking. >> patient? because we want instant food, instant peace, instant solutions to everything. we should be patient. this is a long process, to deal with these jihadists. money takes the time. we should be ready for a long operation. netanyahubeen said -- may have said that isis and hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree. or you believe that? >> yes. but we are talking about in the middle east is about radical islamic movements

there's no sign israel is willing to lift its blockade. getting the materials in to begin rebuilding businesses like this, and giving gaza's economy a chance is as remote as ever >>> we go to the rafah crossing. the palestinians are hoping to raise $4 billion from donor nations. is that optimistic? >> it's a huge sum of money underscoring the serious problems across the gaza strip. they have lost their homes, which means thousands of homes have been destroyed. the main power station has been destroyed. water pumping stations have been destroyed. business efforts have been destroyed. so the infrastructure needs here in gaza are huge. as we heard in charles's piece, and you said earlier, one of the biggest challenges is the blockade, is the blockade that egypt - israel but in place for the past several years. i'm here at the rafah border crossing to point out something significant. that egypt plays a part in that blockade. the crossing is nominally open. it's quiet. there's not a lot of people, onward around 300 people are allowed to cross,

held responsible for almost everything israel does. i don't think everything is real buzz on settlement policy are all that constructive. is there a way to get to better understanding and more restrained? i would offer this one example which came during the gulf war, when i remember as we were thinking ahead to the possibility of war, it was assumed absolute given that if israel were attacked by iraq israel would respond militarily. it was also felt this would not be an american interest but there was a fatalism, no way to prevent that. the fact that israel was attacked pretty much continuously for 54 days and did not respond and the reason it didn't respond easily convinced them, we would do everything necessary to take care of israel's security, and as much as we could have. we met -- we are treating us like a relative with a social disease. even the egyptians say when we were attacked we have a right to retaliate and your asking us to give up our right of self-defense and we pointed out in need to understand first of all, we don't s