of israel even have taken out. israeli citizenship can vote in our elections if you choose not to take out israeli citizenship then you can vote in our elections that's clear i think that's the a lot of them just have permanent residency and have had a permanent residency for decades but as permanent resident of those they cannot vote in the national election. actions and the truth is because of threats by the extremist groups unfortunately most of them still do not do so and i think one should ask the extremist about extremist why do you prevent encourage intimidate palestinian arab residents of jerusalem not to vote in elections why do you stop why do you stop people coming into the country who belong to the boycott divestment and sanctions movement who recommend economic boycott of israel why are you stopping them coming into the country every democracy on the planet has the right and happens in this country as happens in the united states as happens in other european countries has the right to prevent people fr

nations voted to reject donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move his embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem israel called those countries' puppets and said its capital would always be jerusalem this week my guest is mark reg f. the former israeli government spokesman now his country's ambassador here in london over the many years since israel annexed east jerusalem what kind of city has it become. welcomes concords of thanks for having one hundred twenty eight countries rejected the u.s. decision to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem your ambassador at the united nations labeled those under twenty eight countries puppets and your government called the un the house of lies what benefit do these insults bring you the truth is the un has a pattern of historic bias against my country and it's not unusual that you get these massive. majorities against israel has been so great you recently insulting comments what i think the u.n. deserves to be criticized for its treatment of israel but countries like china russia india for great britain voted the w

donald trump's jerusalem is the capital of israel and belize really m.p.'s have passed a new law making it harder for any future government to compromise with the palestinians or hopes that for a two state solution this is inside story. the and. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan in the words of one israeli opposition m.p. when jerusalem burns everything burns naaman shive fears a newly passed law in the knesset could lead to more unrest in the middle east the israeli law makes it harder to divide the contested capital of jerusalem in any future deal with the palestinians and it reduces the palestinian population of the city by one third new borders have been drawn up so that several arab neighborhoods are now outside jerusalem it could all have a dramatic impact on any peace deal between israel and palestine with some saying it's yet another fatal blow to the two state solution we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first mohammed jan jhoom reports from west jerusalem. at its core this new law would require that eighty of one hundred tw

recognized israel. at the signing of the ostler accord israel never reciprocated that recognition the borders and the territory occupied by israel has been defined by international law it's not up to israel to define it negotiations are supposed to be about how to fine tune the details and how to implement an end to the israeli occupation but nobody ever. gave israel the right to have a veto power over whether palestinians can exercise their right to self-determination and freedom despite all perhaps the misunderstandings of a very faulty process to begin with these are tenants of the law and understanding that the palestinian leadership and people have and they're not going to change at this point the israeli government the current coalition in power in israel does not have a single party that actually has the two state solution as part of its platform that includes the likud had by that then you know so until israel is actually ready to accept the concept of having two states in this piece of land unt

to take away that embassies from israel to the two to disconnect all diplomatic relationships with israel if they exist and to participate in the come been for a book at the vestment on sanctions against israel to destroy in its policies against our jerusalem and items location and the system of apartheid we know that we cannot ask i've got a bottom is to come and fight israel but at least there has to be a complete boycott that would help us in our struggle to achieve freedom ok sunny i mean this paper article suggests that egypt is very far from a complete boycott and what mr offer is asking and in relation to support from the palestinians that publicly they may be saying one thing but behind closed doors saying something totally different i think i respect the diplomatic. model that people like you have to. go and i feel that actions speak louder than words and i don't think this article really brings anything that we know let's take for example that under the mubarak regime barak at. the time oh by which the smuggling networks were taking place but. you see on your behalf going to. be

of israel and to no longer with the u.s. as a partner for peace we'll discuss the implications with our guests and a moment but first the ports from the occupied west bank. late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconciliation the statement comes from the central council of the p.l.o. after two days of meetings it will be discussed further by the p.l.o. executive committee and it's up to that committee to implement the most policy at some point in the future. the statement also said that the u.s. is no longer a partner for peace and that the palestinians want international involvement but given that the us is perhaps the only country that can put pressure on israel will this work. we have to utilize different forms of accountability it has to know that this occupation this form of brutal col

congress or presenting israel or interests of israel? what i see the damage that has -- done to -- [indiscernible] >> do you represent the u.s. ongress? [indiscernible] >> just one question. >> you have had your say. so that's enough. he mentioned my background. i'm a military veteran and sworn an oath to the constitution and i represent my constituents and america's interest. it's in america's interest to have a good relationship with countries that share our interests from a security perspective and that share our values. and israel does both of those. there are other countries this the region that share our interests and may not share our values and if you listen to what i said, i said you should be working with people like sisi and saudi arabia to fight iranian influence. if we share neither interests nor values, it's very difficult to have any type of relationship with those countries. it's all from the perspective of the united states and i think your question was somewhat ridiculous. >> we have one final from the lady. >> i want t

it's the biggest construction project in israel. and one that its supporters claim is necessary to ensure israel's security. dishpans is for security reason this fence is only for blocking the way of suicide bombers into israel. and yet plans for the division of israel and palestine predate the relatively modern phenomenon of suicide attacks the plans were decades in the making. of the wall really follows of israeli policies for the last hundred years even before there was an israel essentially the problem is that zionism has claimed this country from the mediterranean to the jordan river exclusively for the jews there is no other people here for the for the israeli jews there is no it palestinians there is no other collectivity with other. rights to this country this is our country exclusively period. the names of professor saw for the next prime minister sharon come up repeatedly in any discussion of the war. is the ideologues who first drew the maps for a construction of a war in the one nine hundred eighty s. but it was the poli

because the secular view was perhaps the view of israel's forefathers when israel risk created it was created to secure the jewish nation and that the religious beliefs perhaps weren't as prominent as they are now. there is definitely there is a place for that and you can say thing these were only politics but we here we see the day in the public eye and the people including the eventually start merican a low be together with the israeli right when has a common interest and when the common interest is coming together so you took away all day things that are divided in these camps and eventually you can see this connection this monday in between the israeli right when that is also some of it major part of it is thank you but they are cooperating with these they ventured avenger least a question people you know because they have a joint interest against the palestinians against the world how ever ever when surely when we talk about politics we talk about interest and when the israeli public will know that this is a cancer so the interests of israel too with the only writing in conflict

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

you might say, well, that is because israel has sophisticated civil defense system or israel has the iron dome. i won't go into that. i don't have time now. there's a simple test. the test is, what did the israeli combatants themselves see? what did they themselves say? we have the documentation, report put out by the israeli excerpt is -- x combatant organization breaking the silence. it is about 110 pages. you could not believe it. i will tell you, amy, i still remember when i was reading it. i was in turkey. i was going to a book festival. i was sitting in the back of a car in reading these descriptions of what the soldiers did. my skin was crawling. i was like shaking. soldier after soldier after soldier. bear in mind, you want to say they are partisan, the soldiers? read the testimonies. they are not contrite. a are not remorseful. whatare just describing happened. there's no contrition. these are not supporters of bds. what do they describe? one after another after another says "our orders were shoot to kill anything that moves and anything that doesn't move." one after another

with israel and her people as allies. [applause] so we will pray for the peace of jerusalem that those who love you be secure that there be peace within your walls and security and we will work and strive for that brighter future where everyone who calls this ancient land their home shall sit under their fine entry and none shall make them afraid. with an unshakable bond between our people, and our shared commitment to freedom, i say from my heart may god bless the jewish people, may god bless the state of israel and all who call these lands their home, and may god continue to bless the united states of america. [applause] for a vice president joe biden discusses u.s. russian relations at the council on foreign relations in washington. we will have remarks starting at 12:30 eastern on c-span. the cia director speaks at the american enterprise institute about the intelligence and national security as well as global threats the agency works to address. watch live coverage beginning at 11 a.m. eastern on c-span2. we recently

this is the language of israel. we are not terrorists and we are not launching rockets against israel randomly. we are defending ourselves against the fifth, the phantom 35, the most sophisticated weapons belonging to the israelis destroyed our infrastructure bases, destroyed our people. personally, i was a target many times by israel. they killed two sons of mine. one of them was getting a masters degree from salford university, manchester. so you are not speaking about the crimes of israel against our people about the sanctions, about destroying our infrastructure basis and you are insisting to describe... hang on... let me continue my answer. you are speaking as though we are launching rockets against israel as terrorists. we are not terrorists, we are freedom fighters. we are occupied by foreigners, dismissed all through your history. you as european people, and the americans, particularly european people, are responsible about the disaster of jews, when you 100 times destroyed the existence of the jews in your

and israel is. refusing to see the population of all the israel. there's nothing new about so-called protective walls most ancient cities have them the ones we see today around jerusalem date from the sixteenth century. but the twenty first century wars not only look different they serve a different purpose. the war is just over seven hundred kilometers long so far it's costing two million dollars every kilometer. it began in two thousand and two and it goes deep into palestinian territory in the west bank and jerusalem splitting neighbors and in circling villages. it's the biggest construction project in israel. and one that its supporters claim is necessary to ensure israel's security. this fans is for security reason this fence is only for blocking the way of suicide bombers into israel. and yet plans for the division of israel and palestine predate the relatively modern phenomenon of suicide attacks. for decades in the making. of the wall really follows. out of israeli policies for the last hundred years even before there was an israel essentia

usual pretense is because you can hear respectable people in israel openly questioning the palestinians people ask nikko region over that ride to state and if you take these far right israeli vision to its logical and i wonder how does it here resolution what is the advantage of that strategy and quite frankly i don't know because i know that in israel we define ourselves as the democratic nation state of the jewish people yet for fifty years already we have a bi national one state reality where israel controls basically everything between the jordan river and the mediterranean sea in this territory between the jordan river in the mediterranean sea about fifty percent of the people living there are a palestinian arabs most of their muslims so they're not part of the israeli democracy nor are they part of the jewish nation state so we are facing in my mind for israel internally regardless of what the world says an existential question of who we are as a nation and i think this puts to us as the israeli people the need to make a decision of whether or not we want to buy national state whe

president donald trump had recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. well it was certainly the american decision is certainly an important factor but but it basically only gave a tailwind to these kinds of efforts which are proceeding on a track in a sense independent of the trump administration's prior preferences we have again the consequence of the failure of a consensual framework for diplomatic engagement and an israeli effort particularly one mounted by israel's right wing to create an agenda that everyone will have to conform or accommodate themselves to so trump was certainly not playing chess with himself when he made his historic declaration but these these efforts are have been underway for quite some time there's a history on djourou jerusalem excuse me going back to nine hundred eighty if not earlier so trump was important in crystallizing these kinds of concerns and aspirations on the part of israel's right wing they were critical to it really sable in jerusalem this legislation also the stablish is a new local council for the palestinian

as israel's capital. trump hasresident directed the state department to immediately begin preparations to move the united states embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. [applause] in the weeks ahead, our administration will advance the plan to open united dates embassy in jerusalem. and that united states embassy will open before the end of next year. [applause] vice pres. pence: our president , and hisdecision words, in the best interest of the united dates. thate also made it clear we believe his decision is in the best interest of peace. by finally recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital, the united states has chosen fact over fiction. and fact is the only foundation for a just and lasting peace. under president trump, the united states of america remains fully committed to achieve a lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. in announcing his decision on jerusalem, the president also called, in his words, on all parties to maintain the status sites.jerusalem's holy and he made it clear that we are

israel is a country like every other so it's a country which makes mistakes maybe the. commits crimes. and these can be criticized the thing is there's a there's a word in germany called is fair critique one word right which means criticism of israel is not no such thing as how we say critic or friend if it's only aim at the jewish state and a state which declares itself jewish and if you ask where does it shade over there's a very clear definition which has been accepted by the european committee european community and by the german government and this is it's the three d's demonization deal at your demise ation and double standards if you hold israel to a higher standard than you would another country in that critical c. security situation if you demonize israel as being some kind of apartheid state if you dida just a miser by saying you know we're going to boycott academics from your country which you don't do with regard to china or russia or other countries this is where israel could take becomes anti semitism obviously. criticism of israel was much in evidence at

i think it is a good proposal for israel. it covers a lot of the things that were over the years discussed and agreed on. the fact is -- i think you know this better than anybody -- there were never any deals i came close because jerusalem -- you could never get passengers on. i didn't set it back. i held it by taking it off the table. that was the best decision. look, israel, something is going to happen. they will do something that will be a very good thing. they want to make peace and i hope the palestinians want to make these. and if they do, everybody will be very happy in the end. we will see what happens. >> any comments about [indiscernible] no, i'm probably better off not seeing the remarks. hopefully, they will make these for their people. you know what? it's many years of killing people. it's many years of killing each other. they have to be tired and discussed it of it. so let's see what happens -- disgusted of it. so let's see what happens. greater minds will prevail. we can make peace between israel and the pale

this technology produced in israel. israel is not only an i.t. power, it's a waterpower. not only that. we recycle almost 90% of our waste water. the runner up is spain with 20%, just to understand. if you're a country that needs water and you can recycle your waste water, you come to israel. this is a revolution. israel, we're working to build up the life of the jewish estate and afford the future of prosperity and progress and peace. >> next week on "gps" don't miss my interview with king abdullah ii. here in davos. mark your calendars. >>> next up, many years ago the political scientists coined the term davos man to describe the average attendee but is davos man making way for davos woman? this year the seven co-chairs of the meeting were all women. was it just window dressing? when we come back. your heart doesn't only belong ♪to you. bye grandpa. and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. in the largest heart failure study ever, en

israel. >> i chose that from an interview in 1976, shortly after the un had passed its design is an and racism resolution, which it did not resend, by the way, until 1991. i wanted to show you that golda was a person of her own time and also a person of our time. that issue with the un and israel's attitude to the un is when that its president-- prejudice against israel. the word design is a are still used together for the state of israel turk golda would not have objected to criticisms of israel, no what i, but those words that were said then and we still here today so she was in some way very much part of our own time. of course, she was also part of her own time. her story has been told before in a summer books, and film, and television in a play on broadway last year, but i felt that she was not given her do and we need to examine her and her time in the depth and breadth so that with the perspective of time we should take another look at golda meir. you know it her own day she was one of

congress or presenting israel, interests of israel? what i see the damage that israel has been done to all of this -- >> the question is i think do you represent the u.s. congress or the caness the. >> created against the u.s. in the war is because. >> time. we're running short. just one question. >> no, no, you've had your say. that's enough. >> thank you. >> so he mentioned my background. so i'm a military veteran. obviously swear an oath to the constitution. of course, i represent my constituents and america's interests. i happen to think it's in america's interests to have a good relationship with countries that share our interests from a security perspective and that share our values. and israel does both of those. there's other countries in region which share our interests. may not necessarily share our values. if you listen to what i said, i said there's times you should be working with people like see see and saudi arabia to fight iranian influence. if we share neither interest nor values like with iran, it's very difficult to

. >> two things, israel and intelligence. for example, keeping planes from blowing up in the sky. that's not a problem for who suffers that but civil aviation. israel has been the leading force to protect the lives and the credit of many, many states. that's the first thing everybody wants. the sparks of radical islam are flying into every continent and country. the second thing they want is the future. that's not only to push back the bad it's to seize the good. we're in a world of tremendous change. artificial intelligence and connectivity changing industries. israel has a car industry within a matter of years. we make 85% of the value of a car will be software, the body, the chassis is minimal. po most cars are technology on wheels. my office has been sold to intel for 15 billion for vehicle technology. israel is not only an i.t. power, it's a waterpower. we recycle almost 90% of our waste water. the runner up is spain with 20%, just to understand. if you're a country that needs water and you can recycle your waste water,

that happened with israel. integration was so successful. the average level of life for those newcomers is little bit higher than in israel and all the hospitals and academies and everything. one of the reasons was very quickly, we understood you must hold political power in order to be equal. seven newcomers became members of the parliament, and then many deputy mayors of the city became people who did not speak hebrew well. that accelerated the process of integration. you have to make decisions and compromises with all of your partners. the prime minister helped with his advice to my wife. on the other hand, i felt we had to go straight and we were zigzagging. i have to say, politics is not a comfortable place for dissidents. if your strategy is not to compromise, better not to go into politics. i felt that my main reason for reaching into politics was very successful. i don't think it is for me. my position of close connections between the peace process and human rights is not something that is understood. arafatit is good yasser is witho

not using the israeli issue id cards in the birth certificates and death certificates israel will no longer have control over our lives and we're willing to pay the price for our dependence independence doesn't come cost free and require struggle i plead with the palestinians it gets in a nonviolent struggle because if you use violence you will never get the support of the israelis or the world if you use nonviolence you will get the support of everyone but then mr barr busking to be fair i think the palestinians have already paid huge cost for their independence struggle and they're continuing to pay this huge post every day what i think you're essentially calling for is an anti thought and it's a regional meaning shaking things by civil disobedience by planned coordinated action rather than let's say the sporadic violence attacks on knives attacks but do you think the palestinians i feel capable off channeling that anger channeling their sense of indignity into strategy rather than those outbursts random outbursts of violence again this requires leadership and it requires leadershi

off the map deciding that it won't cooperate with israel anymore doesn't hurt israel in any way it only hurts its own people do you think there are going to be any repercussions for the israeli government to toll in the light of these decisions or will they just take this in stride as they normally do. look the israeli government is being welcomed all around the world right now and it's now isn't india has been six continents and attempt to isolate israel has failed pathetically and when we need to now goes around and meets with these world leaders they only bring up the palestinians for about thirty seconds and then change the subject to things that they care about more so i think the palestinians need to not be running away from the table they need to be running to the table to help their own people i see how not a shroud we who's been a palestinian leader for decades in europe port where is the palestinian state she called for the 1980's she's the one who failed to bring it about she should be running home in shame about how pathetic she's been in preventing her own people from getti

aber party which used to traditionally rule israel until the rise of likud is more concerned about israel's image internationally and about currying favor with you know the liberal democracies of western europe and the united states but we've seen through the kind of trump netanyahu axis that israel no longer feels like it even needs to be concerned about its image among you know jewish liberals and you know the mainstream american media it's going for an entirely different constituency internationally christian zionists and the european far right and so this policy really is of no concern to the leaders of israel how you or the other question every viewer you hear about the beauty yes movement things like that it has of been successful enough to warrant this kind of response i mean really really think about because you see a lot of people you know hey they forgive a lot of people just go to israel they don't protect you know they don't participate in the movement as the movement as big of a threat to justify this kind of reaction yeah i think obviously it has and you know there's a psychol

russia will not be the first power to do that and that's precisely because of what's happening across israel's border in syria because for russia the greatest stakes are there and risking the relationship they have at the moment of prime minister netanyahu hole for nor clear benefit the geopolitical benefit our geopolitical certainty at this point of time i think russia would deem that as extremely risky that's why i'm asking actually about the european union because the european union is not involved in syria or in libya to such an extent so perhaps they have some leverage with all parties that they could employ deploy rather it's too difficult for the european union representing so many countries to be able to make a decision which is so controversial so i think that we will see european policymakers encouraging individual countries to take steps that empower the palestinian authority that recognizes perhaps the state of palestine to talk about i know the czech republic prime minister had said that in the future in the framework of a peace agreement the czech republic would be happy to recog

in israel this news aroused deep rooted fears in kibbutz state but can't bring time into home of israel's founding prime minister david banker. and. then gorean all the time feared that one day a new kemal ataturk would rise in the arab world and would unite the power of world against israel. and that fear of that prevention was enhanced when nasa took power ninety fifth. and february one thousand nine hundred fifty five ben-gurion returned to political life. this time as defense minister. just a week after bangor ian took up the post one hundred fifty israeli paratroop as led by major ariel sharon. was sent to attack an egyptian army base near the city of gaza but. forty egyptian soldiers were killed. and many more injured. when bigger came back decided immediately to show that israel is not going to give in. this time a from the egyptian border the provocations and the attacks by inch of traders who are on the rise. but a year or two of the need for a way in matters of some your comes off from seem was the mob a kid in medina or was. what. and that has. what has alerted would be more of

president donald trump made the declaration in december of israel recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the decision to. the american embassy and israel from hell of being to traverse them pens delayed his tour of the middle east that was to take place in december until now this is his third stop on the tour he's already been to egypt and met with president adam fatha alfy see second stop was jordan where he met with king abdullah and of course that very controversial decision. of recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital was brought up between both leaders he has received a very well from unsurprisingly israel and as we can see he is about to address harmony to address the israeli knesset. because one correspondent terry will such as we wait for the wait for the vice president's address so as we're seeing harry he has been welcomed very warmly and israel. what did to him and prime minister netanyahu talk about. well they. did it for their discussions before he came here and as you heard in that clip he was very clear to say that the united states recognizes jerusalem as the cap

goodnk it's a very proposal for israel. of -- coversa lot a lot of the things that were, over the years, discussed and agreed upon. and i think you know this better than anybody, there were never any deals that close, because jerusalem -- you could never get past jerusalem. so when people said i set it back, i didn't. i helped it. and israel will pay for that. something is going to happen. they'll do something that's going to be a very good thing. make peace ando i hope the palestinians want to make peace. and if they do, everybody is be very happy in the end. we'll see what happens, steve. we'll see what happens. >> mr. president, any comments about the remark that -- [inaudible] really read his remarks personally. i think i'm probably better off not seeing them. a lot for them. and hopefully they're going to make peace for their people. what?ow it's many years of killing people. it's many years of killing each other. they have to be tired and disgusted of it. so let's see what happens. think eventually, very sound i hope

now we have to ask how that makes israel look at they start doing this regularly. to jewish based jewish member based organizations it means they're seeking to define judaism along the lines of support for israel's project of apartheid and that is going to deep in the international crisis that israel has as it attempts to define itself as a jewish state while it finds itself in conflict with growing numbers unprecedented numbers of left wing liberal and humanitarian minded jews that's really i think a fight that israel has never wanted to have and that's what they face now is incredible do you think we're going to see this reverse to resist the kind of. you know because i'm also thinking what becomes mine too is the amount of surveillance it's going to take you know to you know emir mineiro and keep all these people from across the border that's a lot of surveillance and that's a styles are relevant here we're going to look at your place but media post got a look at those what organizations do you belong to you know do you support this did you ever do you know some

israel has the right to build a. green line within its own territory there will be about fifty thousand palestinians on the israeli side of the wall when it's complete and this undermines the security argument. argues that the revulsion expressed by many around the world is sheer hypocrisy. we don't know if your in even your of the create the affected wars they don't tell you but go for. the. million in morocco what they'll do in the blood there will be in the bidding wars. and yet it is not just the international community that has condemned the war even within israel there are many who believe that it isn't serving any useful purpose it was minister difference ya'll diane is deputy mayor of tel aviv but probably better known for being the daughter of moshe dyan the hero of the one nine hundred sixty seven war in which israel alec's the west bank this current war she argues is not the answer. it's not effective. because instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in the sense that

jurisdiction at yale and rutgers at places like that going after their social media postings so israel has a very wide net and the fact that they can implement a policy like this suggests that they're confident that they can surveil people on a grand scale that that's another extremely troubling aspect here as apologists most definitely is going to want to get through to is let's talk about the u.s. where your action to remove you know you're going to be talking about you mentioned you could be talking about you know american jews going over there and suddenly being detained by a foreign country or you know flown out of a foreign country if they're already there you know how do you expect the state department to react to you know you don't even can even be a legitimate advocate for effective americans considering the relationship between trump and you know who oppose point what i think a dog of a reporter might go to one of the state department briefings and ask that very question it's an excellent question the state department has in the past did refused almost across the board to pro