. '60se in the '50s and believes that united arabs -- divided arabs are weak, but united they will be strong. in recent decades, we have a new political phenomenon, political islam, expressed as jihadism. that all of the borders dividing muslims from one another, including those created by sykes, are artificial and should be destroyed. they brought a bulldozer and. islam -- bulldozer in. that was islam's primary point of reference. that was symbolic. whatever the political affiliation of someone in the middle east is, whether it is an arab nationalist or islamist, they all know about the sykes-pico agreement. it's something they learn about in schools, a trail of duplicity's perpetrated on the islamic world by western imperialism. it's held a very bad odor. >> next question. >> yes. trudell --ed your gertrude bell. i'm sure there's a lack of time, but she spent her whole life traveling the middle east. it was my understanding from reading her books that she was pretty influential in drawing those lines. is that so? >> that's quite right. she was the first female graduate of cambridge

board of arabs to. talk to the countries of the world in order to support the palestinians and further the palestinian cause. and anything that is different from the nineteen sixty seven borders. including judicial and eastern jerusalem as the capital. will be refused and we hope that we present i. proposal to the security council in this respect. we ask all the countries of the world to come quickly to visit jerusalem and to denounce the american decision and the israeli decision which i will support the palestinians in this respect. and to stop. dies ation of jerusalem the holy land. and also to support jerusalem as an arab capital and you do. recognize that all are muslim and christians have rocked it will be no peace. with palestine and palestine will never be. in existence without judicial lim we hope that you support palestine and generous and thank you. i thank you dr riyadh in multi before jordan's like to thank you for somalia who attend for the first time the. we've been listening to the imagi

>> [ chuckles, speaking arabic ] >> translator: i have no idea. [ conversing in arabic ] >> outside, dusk is falling, and they must now say their final farewells and board this bus to the airport. as hard as life has been as a refugee here, they've made friends, and they have a sense that they're all in this together. w they have no idea what awaits them at the end of their very long journey. this must be the biggest trek of abu ismail's long life, a grandfather taking his family clear across the world. 24 hours later, here they are in chicago -- tired, rumpled, but together, trying out a new word for their new world. >> hello. >> while back at the camp, an amazing phenomenon -- the triumph of hope over reason. [ horns honking ] every day, syrians try to voluntarily head back across the border -- if only bashar assad and his barrel bombs would let them. i asked the former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright, an immigrant herself, if she agreed with trump's view that the travel ban is about keeping america safe. where is this going to lead to? none of these countries that have

arab australians accused of being enemies with them. and attacking the way of life we're treated like we're all suspects we were all under suspicion struggling to adapt to their new found home. al-jazeera explores the history of the lebanese community in australia. once upon a time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera. and i'm joined on and other top stories on al-jazeera india's prime minister's declared victory in two state elections including a closely fought race in his home state of gujarat in the render body found voters via twitter for their trust in the ruling b.j. . the un security council voted late on monday on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem it follows the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital there was anger across the palestinian territory of a night of protest as burning effigies of the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. israeli military says it has attacked a hamas training compound after rockets were fired from the palestinian territory of gaza this video is said t

the first arabic paper in germany it's for the arabic speakers here the newcomers and settled also but we have a lot of followers on facebook where fifty thousand people and. there is no r.c. translation right now for us i mean we are a group of syrian and arabs so we don't speak first unfortunately. these activists are well intentioned but dealing with arab refugees is as new to them as dealing with german activists is for me on one side there was one of these stupid questions which came up always in the newspapers begin to discussions how much money does or if it you get already or if you're rich it gets more money. than a halt. to its person hurts for receivers our welfare recipients. claims that the german government spends more money on the refugees than on the poor german the fact is refugees and hurts for recipients both get four hundred euros per person per month. he's still a human and he still can't believe you can. i deceive says he didn't know they called. it's monday night in dresden near the beautiful square showcasing the cultural glory of germany's past each week thank

israeli arabs like me and his family. and much of their everything you see here all these houses belong to a single extended family. yeah but this is my father and the oldest man of the entire family who is the first born the head of the family rule he will be for nine hundred forty eight there was no state of israel and of course no border either no i mean. yes let's go on the roof from there you can see the entire region that isn't there. is a museum with the green line separates have a nice family from the in. the palestinian city is just a kilometer away on the other side of the highway that connects israel's north and south. after they've built the wall a border post was set up there it's back there by all fame and. behind that hill we have family in qalqilya. and when we talk to them on the phone because and when we want to visit them they're not that we need to make a huge detour. they aren't permitted to visit us so we are very close to them. the family has been split into. nany and his family are glad they live o

or semi-independent arab states. one would be in the orbit of france, that would be region eight. and the other in the region of great britain, in area b. client states, in effect. as the essentials of a agreement were in place, sikes travel to petrograd where he obtained russian approval and britain and france signed off on the agreement in may, 1916. britain's government did not mind at all that sykes had given up palestine to a would be international administration. the feeling in the government was that it's bleeding french ally needed some type of awardaction, some type of to keep it going. in britain's foreign-policy establishment, including mark sykes, were not so sure. they felt that the agreement was far too generous to france. and soon after the deal was struck, sykes stated that he would do whatever it took to amend the palestine portion of the document in britain's favor. negotiatingykes was the imperial carve up of syria and mesopotamia, entirely separate negotiations were proceeding between britain and

muslim and arab. care for if it is a country that if it falls the whole world gets upset and if it is angry the whole world is angry because of it and jerusalem is angry today yes it is angry today. this very very unnatural version of the american situation. has shown that there is a blind. a blind action from the. american administration towards israel and it shows that the israelis do not care about any peace process and they wanted. to gain have gains whatsoever what the. jews who think that from. promise is i continuation of the balfour declaration and it is part of the god's promise is wrong and as you. said. that this promise is a reward to israel for its denial of all the way a resolution and not an end of years in the continuation of apartheid build in settlements and abuse in the law and of course this helps the. extremist groups to wage war within the. region that goes through many decisive wars this decision encourages the abuse under international law including breaches of human rights. it

with other arab children. so they created a team with arabs and jews so that we would mix. and we played together wearing jerseys in the same color but a lot we practiced together and we played in cuts around us and even in turkey of all time on. why don't we want to get along with them as long as they don't hit us or do anything bad to us. but i want them to leave our country and this country used to belong only to us the hand gun had with us so small. i'm not saying i don't want to play with then. i meant that we enjoy it it was i give you. what they took our homes away from us and that hurts me east jerusalem is now home to as many israelis and palestinians. thing count each other every day especially in the old city home to the temple mount which arab school her shareef on the western wall. every monday on thursday roy gives tours of the western wall to families from across israel. this israeli family from tel aviv on celebrating their son's bar mitzvah at thirteen he's attained surely just maturity. as i

onto the popular uprisings and the arab spring all of those major this major developments in the arab world were tied to palestine palestine has been at the core of major dramatic changes in this region so even if we don't hear anything substantial as we never do from arab league because it's really useless in general but i think something got to give and it always does when it comes to palestine i expect changes maybe not in the short term maybe not immediate maybe not direct but the palestinian question has a way of weighing in in this region if those ambassadors of those foreign ministers don't react if their leaders don't react sooner than later i think the arab streets or the arab world in general and the muslim world in general will react because there is have been a major escalation on the part of the united states on the question of jerusalem interesting times and very good to get your thoughts now on the show that our senior political analyst. let's take a look at the developments across the middle east now dozens of people in palestine have been injured and arrested in the f

and israeli ally there were mass protests as well these demonstrators are chanting jerusalem is arab. the alan said that i'm woman well trumps needs to know that palestine is in the hearts of all the arabs muslims and every free person in this world and in some sort of you has either. but the outrage spread beyond israel's neighboring countries from the streets of the somali capital mogadishu to the mountains of kashmir. was that i was. lucky and in pakistan trumps decision seem to trigger a general backlash. that trump is a madman the american people must take a stand and make it clear that they do not stand with trump otherwise we are left with no choice but to consider the american people to be anti islam. i proof that the israel palestine issue has not faded in the minds of muslims worldwide i. well there's also been official criticism of this decision at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council the un's middle east envoy nicholai a lot of warned about the risk of a violent escalation he told the security council this move will hamper peace efforts in the region the u.s.

arab australians accused of being enemies with them. and attacking the us the way of life we were treated like we we're all suspects we were all under suspicion struggling to adapt to their new found home. al-jazeera explores the history of the lebanese community in australia . once upon a time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera.

in arabic there is no capital. but what i do is i consider every letter as a capital so i separate everything. so in this one in calligraphy you can do it like this. this is the ra. and now the alif like that. and then this letter, the jim, takes the same shape here and then this is the letter nun. this is typography, this is calligraphy. and someone who is arabic can read that? yes. they can decipher it. arabic calligraphy is what made me realise that identity is not unique. iam french, tunisian and ironically, arabic calligraphy made me accept my french identity. i could not do what i do today if i were not french. if i had learnt arabic from a young age i would not have this freedom to do what i do with it today. finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. over half a million people come here each year in search of father christmas and his reindeer. you can not say you have truly experienced the delights of lapland until you have been on a reindeer safari. and that is what i'm about to do. i h

strategy on middle east conflict with the arab center washington d.c. he says the arab league countries will have to figure out how to defend palestine as well as many good relations with the u.s. . we'll have that in a moment we'll come back to it in fact here it is. jordan egypt has already peace treaty with. with israel and some other countries. either on the table or public or diplomatic relations or maybe commercial relations with israel but the main point here is the relation of the relation with the u.s. a stray should not with israel the issues that trump decision. not that it cannot help the issue of the us cannot escalate diplomatically it is there because of their interests so they have to do this but i think they need the population at home and then try to maintain and minimal delish not only strong but the us establishment in general not to cut the streamers i mean the other because be dysfunctional for a for a what spring game or just. there's something usually funny when when the arab league form a committee it's always about the u.s. it'

will shortly the arab league which is an umbrella organization of twenty two arab states will be holding an emergency meeting in cairo i'm joined now by michael thinks she's a journalist who's in the egyptian capital ruth thanks for joining us so the arab league has called this emergency session to discuss downturns recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital just what are they hoping to achieve at this meeting . well it seems like the most likely outcome off an evening of debate is that we're likely to see a statement old condemnation concerning the decision now the question. that you know will be asked by commentators and observers of this evening's meeting is who exactly that statement of condemnation is likely to be targeting is it israel in which case that would be an end with a lot of other statements previously made by the arab league or is it the united states and if so that route be something of a break from tradition for the arab league and it would also put countries like egypt and saudi arabia which have very good relations with the trump white house it would be a they certa

leadership in addressing the challenge of zionism to the modern arab world they haven't been able to make war they haven't been able to make peace and this is the consequence an american president who expresses almost total disdain for the rights of arabs and muslims in jerusalem for the sentiments of arabs and muslims and for international law and all you're going to get is as declarations which are already getting about a day of rage and demonstrations in the street and the united states doesn't particularly care about this what about hamas is positioning movements like hamas so we heard the organization come out and say that the u.s. embassy move would quote cross every red line. well movements like hamas could or islamic jihad or other militant groups like that could take action by firing some rockets into israel to to make a point but the problem with that is historically over the years the israelis have retaliated with massive attacks against civilians mostly in gas and other parts of the arab world lebanon for many years they did it so the destruction that is suffered in the a

have to stop paying arabs to murder jews stop naming schools the streets if they are killers of job and stop inciting but we're going to have to live in peace thank you very much more inclined president of the zionist organization of america for sharing your very passionately as with us. thank you very much. a german activist who spent months in jail in turkey is speaking out about his time behind bars he just orders legal problems began earlier this year when he visited turkey to speak at a human rights workshop was then accused of supporting a terrorist organization and imprisoned in turkey for months in late october after one hundred thirteen days and pretrial detention he destroyed not was released and allowed to return to germany however the case against him is still continuing in his absence the forty six year old was recently honored with the quaker it helps service peace prize for his work as a human rights activists. and today story where w. exclusively about his time behind bars and his hopes for the future mrs don't know first of all thank you so much for taking the time

he is not exactly the best friend or even close to being a good friend of the sunni arab established that there are no friends in the international community let alone in your own region but we are talking about responsible politics and geopolitics what i ask you and i would not be. you know to paint a picture of mr add on the believe me i know he speaks about how do you do after all russia had its own very very difficult period of it turkey after turkish and on our own plane over syria that's not what i ask you about i ask you about why that it was responsible to take these kind of decision that does not bring any immediate benefits not israel nor to the united states that the united states does not even plan to follow up with indyk next coming years and by the nature of making that decision give all that fire give give all that rhetoric give all that thought are to. international figures like mr ed on do you think that was responsible i think it's very responsible for the following reason if you want to have stability security in the middle east you had better be on the team that i

world at an emergency meeting in egypt on saturday arab leaders the u.s. to abandon the move saying it was a violation of international law no not of congressional overhead but in the selim we call on all of the world's peace loving nations to raise their voices clearly and to reject the u.s. president's illegal decision. we call on the world to recognize the state of palestine with east jerusalem as its capital. the palestinians say president mahmoud abbas has canceled a planned meeting with u.s. vice president mike pence as clouds hang over the white house washington looks to have lost its role as a piece in the middle east balance the diplomatic reverberations extend further israel's prime minister cooling many european countries hypocritical. while i respect i am not prepared to accept a double standard from it i hear voices from their condemning president shrub's historic statement but i have not heard condemnations of the rockets fired at israel or the terrible incitement against it. you know more macdermott. netanyahu made those remarks before board

an emergency meeting in cairo after donald trump's decisions are recognized as the capital of israel arab league members are trying to come up with a unified response to the move which has drawn worldwide condemnation of sparking violent protests from palestinians in the west bank and gaza also coming up. a hundred sendoff for the singer known as the french elvis presley pays an emotional farewell to johnny hallyday the man who tossed the country to rock. the dark swedish comedy the square is the big winner at the european film awards in the bring you the highlights from europe's answer to the oscars. thanks for joining us of the arab league is holding an emergency session on donald trump's controversial decision to recognize your roots in the capital of israel the foreign ministers of twenty two arab countries are meeting in cairo to try and come up with a unified response to going to use by the u.s. president the palestinian delegation is calling on the organization to take urgent action after trumps policy shifts. it has drawn global condemnation and sparked violent protests among pale

governments people in the arab world have long understood that the u.s. was never an honest broker in these talks it was never an honest broker that's not new and it's understood to be not new across the region certainly for palestinians but for people across the region as well one of the u.s. longtime negotiators said in his book we acted as israel's lawyers and most of us knew that it wasn't acknowledged it still isn't acknowledged the problem for the arab regimes is that they want to consolidate their relations with the united states they mostly want to normalize relations with israel if they thought they could get away with it so the question is who else might move into this breach in that moment and the question then becomes which of the major powers it could be russia in the sense that russia has played a more active role in the middle east not always a good one it could be the the european union as a whole which has enormous economic pressure it could bring to bear on israel because of massive trade relations it could be the united nations will be

a dangerous violation of international law that's how the arab league is describing u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital now its president trump to reverse the decision and says it will seek a u.n. security council resolution to reject the move and he has tied up. at an emergency session of the arab league a show of unity and anger the twenty two nations that make up the organization gathered in cairo to forcefully reject u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. this decision threatens jury summons legal status and affects all the arab muslims and christians and the islamic world all together we would like here to be frank and call things by their real name the decision taken by the american administration to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to move the american embassy to jerusalem is unacceptable and very dangerous. the arab league has long been involved in the palestinian struggle first by denouncing the creation of israel and through its involvement in the one nine hundred forty eight arab israeli war.

those were allocated were jews in the majority allocated to the arab state were arabs. israel is accepted it, the palestinians joined by every other arab nation engaged in a genocidal war. there were refugees on both sides. approximately 750,000 jews were forced out of countries they lived in for 3000 years. iraq.ylon, called in persia called iran, in a , aleppo where jews have lived for thousands of years. there was an exchange of population. jews left and a move to israel 750,000 where they were immediately accepted and became part of the population. approximately the same number of palestinians left for they were not. there were put in refugee camps and made to have festering hatred. then the israelis, once again, offered a two state solution. they offered it in 1967 after they won a defensive war. they said land for peace and the arab countriesd no.ed their famous no negotiation, no peace, no recognition. in 2000 and 2001, president clinton offered the palestinians 100% of the gaza, capital in jerusalem and 4000 people were killed. in 2005, the prime minister of isr

meanwhile arab league foreign ministers meeting in cairo say the u.s. decision is unacceptable and dangerous and they said it was a violation of international law but stopped short of putting forward any measures against the united states. and iraq's prime minister has declared its war against eisel is over he says troops from the remaining fighters from the iraqis syrian border are now in control of the area i still advanced across iraq three years ago around the third of the country. now on sunday the nobel peace prize will be handed to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons at a ceremony in the campaign as fought for a global treaty banning nuclear weapons which now has more than fifty countries signatories diplomatic editor james bays reports. in the grounds of united nations headquarters a statue showing a georgian the dragon the vanquished beast made out of decommissioned nuclear missiles the u.n. was founded in the same moment in history as the only actual use of nuclear weapons in fact president harry truman signed the charter of

well short leave the arab league which is an umbrella organization of twenty two arab states will be holding an emergency meeting in cairo to discuss donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital i'm joined now by ruth michelson she's a journalist in cairo ruth thanks for joining us so i just want is the arab league hoping to achieve at this emergency session. what seems most likely to happen in the emergency session that we will see this evening here in cairo. is some debate about the effects of donald trump's decision and it seems that the likeliest outcome is a statement of condemnation now how severe that kind of nation is and who it targets is what will also be very much on the table. you know statements criticizing israel coming out of the arab league on a lot of hurdles but a state in criticizing the united states and its foreign policy would be something of a perk for norms that we've seen from. all right so if they do come up with a joint statement of condemnation and assuming that the united states is the target of this statement what kind of an impact will it

who another problem with this is that in the minds of the palestinians and the arabs the u.s. was never really an objective broker in the first place they were always suspected of being very much on the israeli side and this announcement by president trump has confirmed that now in their minds all right we're also hearing that the arab league is due to hold a meeting to discuss this very issue sometime today what can we expect from them. that is a question is what can they possibly do what way do they have over this situation now i mean the u.s. says that they're going to move the embassy and they can move their embassy no matter what statement the arab league puts out and the other problem here is the palestinian cause used to be a uniting cause among the arab nations that used to be the thing that they all fought for together and now a lot of arab nations are dealing with wars such in syria yemen isis economic stagnation there's a whole host of other problems in the palestinian issue and the issue of jerusalem specifically very much fallen down that list so we'll have to see

the arab publics are clearly outraged as the massive demonstrations in cities across the arab world showed but you have a latina most of these regimes saudi arabia but her in egypt and jordan of course a very close to israel they either have all ties or tacit ties and so they will they will do nothing in practice issue statements. palestinian president mahmoud abbas will not hold a planned meeting with u.s. vice president mike pence later this month in protest at america's controversial policy shift on jerusalem and the leader of egypt's coptic church has also declined to meet president trance deputy in response to wednesday's announcement in a statement he says trump's decision did not take into account the feelings of millions of people. on to other news now iraq's prime minister has declared the end of the war against eisel in iraq hi there are about he has been congratulating iraqi troops he said they are now in complete control of the iraqi syria border it follows an iraqi forces operation to push the last ice of fighters out of the area and out what marks the end of the three

arab and muslim countries to start. to stand firm for the sake of the law and for the sake of journalism that is that has been liberated by the khalifa almost of the qatar liberated by someone had deed. the companions of the prophets and then will jack the deeds and the leaders like out of the cauldron so you need all have gone through the process of protecting the resolution of the martyrs and the leaders of our people go oh yeah what. to stop. that come from that taken place in the region what so ever the reasons are today we are not. to blame. and we have no frontin strategic challenge that threatens our existence and our pristine as a. when you're watching al-jazeera and speaking of your screen is the head of hamas the political group that controls garzon but now is in a unity government with the fattest part of the palestinian authority reacting to president donald trump's decision to officially announce that jerusalem is the capital of israel of course that news breaking over the last twelve hours let's just bring

gotta say this, not all arabs are muslims and not all muslims are arabs. and i'm not trying to be condescending when i say that. because i suffered from that when i was growing up. i had a friend who was palestinian. and she was like, i'm a christian. i'm like, you're an arab christian? what, did you convert? she's like my family's christian. i'm like, how did that happen? because jesus is from the middle east. oh, right, yeah, yeah. good point. he was, was he? my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i found a living making humor in parts of america i don't understand and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." whether america as a whole wants to talk about it or not, america has always had heros who are muslims. muhammad ali, kareem abdul-jabbar, and malcolm x are examples of the best of us. they've been held up as quintessential americans. how quintessential? muhammad ali was an olympic hero twice. malc

of wisdom so i think the whole arab world actually is seems seems to me in chaos so and. people actually they have so many to deal with right now a despotic little moment but that doesn't mean in my opinion that the arab world doesn't care about just to them i still think that palestine is still the only issue that unites all together amongst all this division on so many issues that we talk about turkey we certainly talk about palestinian territory ginger in iraq or another players in all of this what role can they play in erupt in particular could they could they intervene will they document well i think the iraqi right now i mean the position of iraq and other countries i'm not really different because as i said the decision of president saddam was like was like a blow a blow for all governments in this case it was it was a blow to the peace process which most governments in the region are hoping that it will yield something by this administration especially especially the so-called moderate arab states i'm talking about egypt saudi arabia and others and other gulf coun

arab league foreign ministers have demanded the u.s. reverse president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital meeting in cairo this something would also call on the united nations to condemn the decision trump said he was only recognizing reality despite warnings the move could jeopardize the middle east peace process the decision was met with days of violent protests. israeli police patrol over streets taking no chances hundreds of protesters turned out on this certain day of rage but numbers were said to be down on previous days. the focus is now shifting to the diplomatic stage the leaders from the region headed to cairo for an emergency summit of the arab league delegates there called the u.s. move a dangerous violation of international law. but in the selim we call on all of the world's peace loving nations to raise their voices clearly and to reject the u.s. president's illegal decision. we call on the world to recognize the state of palestine with east jerusalem as its capital shockley. andra president decisi

hundred thousand israeli arabs that live in complete freedom freer than in any arab country in the middle east you'll understand why you have that freedom caught comms and the cost to your neighbors dough and do you feel also look at the way the israeli made of the military treats the palestinian civilian flag me tell you this is not a pretty picture and i compromise country that has a long tradition of state violence but even four hours this is a lot when the you have when you see these really soldiers kicking children when you see them hitting women that's not a pretty picture of jews democracy. you're drinking the kool-aid you're drinking the kool-aid i know exactly referring to you're referring to the propaganda pictures that come out of the palestinian ma on a news agency listen i have children in the as you know in the israeli army and our army is the most moral army in the world bar none and it's recognized in the west as being one of them probably an army that is limited constrained by international law through self constraint more than any other army in the world and in just that

the daily newspaper belts and he says peace begins with recognition of reality and to this day most arab states don't recognize the existence of the jewish state so how can they then talk about peace and it's a pleasure to welcome baker he's a middle east analyst of palestinian origin and he worked as a campaign consultant for barack obama he calls trump's decision an active diplomatic arson and says trump is willing to sacrifice not only the palestinians but also whatever remnants of credibility the u.s. government had as an even handed arbiter. so susan we know that president trump often sees foreign and domestic policy as one america first but he's faced pretty scathing criticism from many many people at home in the u.s. including as you pointed out in your opening statement many jewish groups reform association of reform jews the largest jewish group in the u.s. so who does like this decision whom is it aimed at that's a great question melinda because most people don't know this and if i didn't i would suspect the lie that you know basically comes from the protocols of the elders of

countries by the arab league to be a joint house by the arab league. and this is very important. limits it will be preceded by a follow up committed to the arab peace initiative and what some decisions will be produced that's related to this. how we think that the most important motsa in this regard is what we have started yesterday at the security council we discussed the complaint submitted by the sets of palestine from regarding the trumpet decision on moving his embassy for them to live a have to do resident a well this has been the starting point that would be followed by other procedures the need to go of the ministers the arab group and the united nations in new york with prepare for a draft and this is a killer to council according to the. number six. that. stresses and asks the security council. to reject. that american request and to urge the back of the station not to do that according to the article level six hundred seventy we need. live aid to be used in this regard this is a very important point that we need to see and this is a killer t

from the arab side, the palestinian side, it isa arab side, the palestinian side, it is a dynamo. for the israelis, they say it respects the status quo because we have our government here. —— dire move. because we have our government here. -- dire move. the jerusalem post does not shy away from the story. the explanation as to where we are, there is little indication of tangible progress. they are not taking a view that this is the first big step towards some sort of wonderful overall universal settlement. no. is totally unacceptable settlement. no. is totally u na cce pta ble to settlement. no. is totally unacceptable to one side, don't expect them to come to the table —— if something is. that is why, vice president and is going to the region soon, and he will probably not be met. italians are being put out on patrol and what have you. -- battalions. the middle east is already inflamed enough. you keep using words that move us onto the tory. wildfires getting all the way to los angeles. i have to show you the picture on the independent. it isa the picture on the independe

think because it doesn't matter what the arabs think because the arabs or the arab leaders in particular don't really care about palestine or if they did they would they don't really care about palestine as much as they care about their own survival and about their american support for them and their relations with washington and i think today we probably see that more than before that we see is certainly the ships set a new leadership on the scene in the arab and muslim world that believe its relation with washington trumps everything else including the long held beliefs that there is such a thing as on earth as dignity as national sovereignty as i cause as justice all of these things are gone to the from the out a block sic on some media reports in the last few hours marwan has said that perhaps interim speech could be something for the palestinians that trump could be a pet prepared to support the idea of a two state solution that he would mention if any speech today do you think that could soften the blow. well certainly the speech will probably try to you know come up with some carr

pact does the arab league really have on something like this. i mean the other because been dysfunctional for a for a while spring game or just. there's something usually funny when when the other big form a committee it's always about the news it's not going to take taken a decision so this committee may have to hit with the sign that they are not ready to take that big decision not tonight or they are not privy to a skill it is that you know we're sure so they're hoping busy to to have something but the u.s. is not giving there anything they give gifts for history or the dress amounts that this year with the giving anything to the other side of the spinning so that if you know we care and our allies but they don't have their interests so a very big interest at that has an interest with the u.s. egypt and jordan perhaps jordan the most difficult position because it's close to home the jerusalem issue so they have not much and not much option or less you seem a lot of more of public anger on the streets that are some of the others then maybe the

the gulf war and a perceived divide between anglo and arab astray or looms over an arab astray in family festival in south west sydney the fight between two young women escalates and the conflict intensifies further as more police respond it's just highlighted how distance as a community was from xenu cells was police and how ignored it. police officers at that time way they could have defused the situation fairly easily but. having this attitude in your face and. things escalated. local dr jamal rifi is at the festival with his family. i. was i believe if not it. would be a different story none of this would have been. released dr used to own the bomb would be a rich tempting that. many in the arab community believe the violence ignites because the police have no respect for them. i mean is because where four people would be sitting in a car and for no apparent reason other than we looked lebanese or middle east then the pulled over and stretched out of the full cost of the law on the road. and it happened quite a quite a fair bit. after leaving punchbowl boys high sal al qaeda is at un