interaction with the israelelis as possibible. >> many israelis don't wwant t know abobout paltinians. they don't't want to rreach ou they don't want to cross into streets anand neighborhohoods the palelestinians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish

opposition to the state of israel could soon be two now elsewhere in europe twelve m.p.'s resigned from their parties in the u.k. nine labor three conservatives citing the failure to deal with anti semitism as one of the reasons and the use says hate speech and harassment are becoming the new norm so is anti semitism a growing problem in europe and are jewish people being singled out we'll discuss that with our guests shortly but first david chaytor with more from paris. the french president emmanuel macron was saying that anti semitism has now reached its worst levels since the second world war figures published for last year show the number of anti-semitic attacks and risen by seventy four percent now france has the biggest jewish community in europe of course and he was speaking to community leaders at an annual dinner he promised a new legislation to ban hate speech on the internet he also asked his interior minister to take action to ban extreme right wing groups who are promoting and fueling violence and discrimination but perhaps the most significant thing is that he said that he

initiative in israel palestine to be supported by the arab world guess what there isn't much left in the arab world most of it is either in conflict or a tore two of it jordan and egypt already have peace agreements with israel and three or four of them will never have agreements with israel at this point in time like syria lebanon iraq and so on so forth so the only things left is the gulf countries so the gulf countries are not only standing and healthy they're also wealthy and i think that in company wants to use the gulf countries as as cow cash or cash cow if you will in order to finance their new economics of peace and there's a much talked about donald trump's grand plan for peace in our time in the middle east but are they likely to reveal any details about this plan no it doesn't seem like most of the background reports are there they're not in fact the last two years we've been teased about it nonstop but it's been going on for two years two years trickle trickle trickle but nothing serious and now we're told not and not until after the israeli actions meaning until may of this

boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david levitz in a minute but first the new song. being messy basim business on the basis of a most of the most about the business i mean just from a lot. of other means like our i so i take the obstacles in my life i think the obstacles of this year and i faced them. with with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like all right. next his distinctive style and music have entered both fans and critics the song baba is about tackling challenges head on since she won last year's your vision song contest in lisbon. so. you. have a victory with this song toit changed her life. quite a hundred eighty degrees different i was a blues artist singing and basements and i did my looper stuff at home who ever have who i wouldn't have imagined in in twelve months to become that. when israel the right to host the sea is you envision for the first time in twenty years the grand finale will be hosted in tel aviv instead of the internationally contested city of jerusalem but that

deviate from normal politics. i took a tour of the border between lebanon and israel misses after the dmz in korea the most militarily sensitive so i drove several miles right along the border to be separating cattle somewhere in california even though they were as far from me as the two of us it was technology so the idea we do not need a 12th century solution for a 21st century problem. [applause] and more than that i believe we should have borders but every single morning we should wake up here in california and count our blessings. i will tell you why if you don't agree with me if you are israel south korea kim jong-il and is your neighbor and lithuania putin is your neighbor. 90million are hundred million people only to participate in the american dream all ancestors wanted to art on - - participate as well. and then to have a more regular system to keep criminal gangs out remember the blessing were some are more dangerous than canada. [laughter] >> i understand your views. >> that my views on kavanaugh and what it came to with roe v wade. i am pro-choice for the record. [applaus

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the tug birthright israel program do you have questions or comments about the trip or even gone on it yourself tell us about it in the chat and we'll do our best to include your comments in the conversation. since one thousand nine hundred ninety israel has enabled thousands of young jewish people around the well to visit israel the nonprofit program takes participants on an all expenses paid journey through the country but palestinian rights activists say the trip whitewashes the israel palestine conflict effectively ignoring the occupation critics have also questioned the ethics of the program noting the inability of palestinians in the diaspora to return to their ancestral home that in july twenty eight thousand a small group of birthright israel participants from the activist group if not now walked off the trip protesting what they called the year a share of the palestinian experience supporters of the program have accused demonstrators of using a free trip to make a political statement at the expense of people who might not otherwise be able to afford it but groups like jewish v

boycott this year's competition big held in home country of israel. when you write from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum a lebanese movie about a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty is hot favorite for the foreign language. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition like seeing celebrating leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli sing and that's one of the euro vision song called shared with an anthem female empowerment cold toys now she's got a brand new single and she's been speaking out about this year's competition to be held in tel aviv in may speaking out because some office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the new song. being messy basim business savvy business of a must have a muslim about the business everybody from a lot. of other means like all right so i take the obstacles in my life i think the obstacles of this year and i faced them with with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like ri

break is world stories and we go to israel and look at a program linking young germans with holocaust survivors i mean i haven't seen thanks for watching. me take a good personally i'd rather with a little wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true fans blah blah blah. blah take on more than football long line. of obscene wealth. roger allow fleeting glimpses of. the subcontinent economics has made them billionaires. balanced their reveling in her misfortune. how to use them which moves. the edges of video stores for your advantage on w. the flog. welcome to world stories. guinea fighting female genital mutilation. ukraine a parting of the ways. but we begin this week in israel since one nine hundred fifty eight an organization designed to promote peace has been working hard to bring together young germans and survivors of the holocaust. mariana government was born ninety eight years ago in berlin once a week she's visited. the young german is doing a volunteer year in israel and. the organization action be conservation service for peace has been bringing

fighting female genital mutilation. ukraine a parting of the ways. but we begin this week in israel since one nine hundred fifty eight an organization designed to promote peace has been working hard to bring together young germans and survivors of the holocaust. movie yet. born ninety eight years ago in berlin once a week she's visited by. the young german is doing a voluntary year in israel and. the organization action the conservation service for peace has been bringing together young germans and holocaust survivors for years the conversations are the most important part of the and counter yelling kalman witnessed the rise of the nazis in berlin in the one nine hundred thirty s. when she was a teenager. is informed it didn't happen all at once but from month to month there were new things that jews were no longer allowed to do is the force of people would ask themselves that things were really that bad that they should leave and they decided to stay a bit longer and my family was one of those which stayed up until one nine hundred thirty nine still believing that things can get th

as. no longer feel safe in their country part of his family already left for israel now dinny is wondering if he should follow in their footsteps. in this neighborhood north of paris where many jews lived in need local mall makes his home. he has a company that appraises real estate here his children grew up here. but he says it's just a matter of time before he emigrated to israel he's one of many observant jews concerned about the rise of anti-semitism in france he's already sent three of his children to school in israel. there's a school just opposite so it was stupid to send our children to a private school a long way away. but we made this choice because we didn't want to send them to a state school where they would have been the targets of mockery and stigmatization . best case scenario. within our social circle to have been some cases of violence it was just too difficult. to multi ethnic district of bellville in paris its residents include jews muslims and people of other religions last year the jewish pensioner sara halimi was murdered on a side street an immigrant from

office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the new song. being messy basim business savvy business of obama must have been mostly about the business i mean buses from a lot. of other means like i so i take the obstacles in my life i think the obstacles of this year and i faced them with some with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like how i. met his distinctive style and music have into both founds and critics and the song . is about tackling challenges head on since she one nasty is your vision song contest in lisbon you. get. a victory with this song toy change tone i think. one hundred eighty degrees different i was a bruise artist singing and basements and i did my duper stuff at home. whoever. who i wouldn't have been mentioned in in twelve months. to become that. know when and israel the right to host the sea as you envision for the first time in twenty years the grand finale will be hosted in tel aviv instead of the interna

actors and artists like using fear to as a tool to break down barriers in israel and the occupied palestinian territories have questions be sure to leave them in the chat and we will do our best to get them into the conversation. and people come in the room last night so. we. don't have. course you're going to sell their seats in the house around this is all you know with comments about if you want a blistering documentary from today. that was the trailer for the documentary play shame two point zero written by israeli playwright a not wise man and palestinian son in it they explore the difficulties of producing politically driven theater and the challenges they have faced because of their activism. and morag share their narratives in individual monologues recounting the hurdles they had to overcome to advance their respective careers and the contentious political climate in each performance the actors are periodically interrupted by news footage of israeli culture minister mary rego whose efforts to pull government funding from organizations or bent disloyal to the state has been

world stories today we need holocaust survivors in israel a young woman fighting female genital mutilation in guinea and discover how a dispute and ukraine's church is dividing the country's faithful there's more news at the top of the hour in the meantime there's always our web site at e.w. dot com thanks so much. it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the lowdown on all the stars movies and gossip. the burning of a twenty one thousand every day on the the. world of obscene wealth. india's new mother roger allow fleeting glimpses of it. to some continents of economics has made them billionaires. their reveling in their new misfortune to. come to news and rich move. rojos of video stores february eighteenth hong t.w. . welcome to world stories. guinea fighting female genital mutilation. ukraine a parting of the ways. but we begin this week in israel since one nine hundred fifty eight an organization designed to promote peace has been working hard to bring together young germans and survivors of the holocaust. mariana come on board ninety eight years ago in be

to calls to boycott this year's competition big held in the country of israel. when you boycott plight from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum lebanese movie about a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty his home favorite for the foreign language. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition in leipzig set of raising leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli singh and that have won the euro vision song called test last year with an anthem of female empowerment cold toy now she's got a brand new single and she's been speaking out about this year's competition to be held in tel aviv in may speaking out because some office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the new song. about the business i mean doesn't.

in order. israel is gearing up to host the sea as euro vision song contest the event is still a few months away but already it's surrounded by controversy israel move the location from the contested city of jerusalem to tel aviv to defuse the outcry but the criticism hasn't stopped what was meant to be a celebration of music being nations together threatens to become the opposite did obvious tahlia trailer has this report. from that israel's eurovision song contest winner last year in lisburn she was the public's favorite with an unusual outfit and distinctive song toy it changed her life as musician. one hundred eighty degrees different i was a blues artist singing and basements and i did my looper stuff at home whoever. i wouldn't have imagined in in twelve months. to become that perfect everyone is read the right to host this year's contest for the first time in twenty years. in may funds from all over the world expected to come here to tel aviv but the song contest is being held but despite the enthusiasts and they have been cause to boycott the event hosting the grand finale in

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against the legislation because of a provision opposing those to seek to sanction israel also known as the bds movement. they oppose boycotting israel. now that bill go to the house of representatives fishers in what has historically been the democratic party's for the jewish state. >> in just one month in office the first muslim women to ever serve in the house they have become lightning rods over israel. statements criticizing the jewish state but also revealing new internal divides in the democratic party. to protect israel forgot what country they represent. a comment critics said revealed the age old attack on jews as having loyalty forcing her the clarify her remarks. she compared israel to iran and tweeted about the evil doings of israel saying it has hypnotized the world, comments she recently disavowed. both are among the only lawmakers to in sanction movement or bds which seeks to impose. diverging widely from gop support of israel. speaking today an immigrant that came 23 years ago said all faiths should be respected. >> i know how it feels to be hated because of my religiou

during the war. when he first came to israel, these things were not viewed with much sympathy. they did not want him to be a victim. they wanted him to be tough, strong, heroic, just like they were. they wanted him to forget his past, to erase it and build a new life on its ruins. they made him change his name. he changed his name to a nice hebrew name. they stopped him from speaking german or ukrainian or russian, all of the languages that had helped him to survive in europe and made him speak hebrew instead. he tried his best to forget his past and to move on. the nightmares just kept coming. "all my experience in europe became like a dark cellar buried deep inside me." you do not need to be freud to understand such a seller -- cellar is such a a dangerous thing. what saved him, he told me, was learning how to write fiction. other people just went crazy. but i was lucky. i was a writer. if you ever read any of his novels, and i sincerely recommend them, by the way, you will find them peppered with stories about prostitutes and orphans and gangs of thieves, all of whom are based upon t

be mission n and carries e equipmeo measure the lunar field.. it is -- israel is set to become onlyly the fourth countrr and hs real -- in israel to land on the moon. >> israel is a rising global power. rising, rising, riiing to the moon. this is a great achievement and it shows what we are capable of. >> israel's attempt comes 50 years after the first american astronaut set foot on the lunarr surface. arth satellite could become a new status symbol for emerginn superpowers. after china last month and now israel, india and japan have announced plans to become the fifth and sixth countriries to land on the moon. >> now for ome good news on the environnental front and a rare giant tortoise thought to be extinct has been found on the galapagos islands. the last living example was --orted ast -- in there aae hopes there may be more living on t the island. heron't be offended if social s skills seem a bit rust. this giant tortoise hasn't seen anyone for 100 years. she was found under a bush off the coast of ecuador. >> it is perhaps the most important discovery in years. considerede

-- so finally, the first one looks at him and says, i thought we agreed not to talk about israel. so i am here to talk about israel and to talk about human rights. it is a controversial conjunction of topics and topics that generate a lot of debate inside the jewish world and more broadly about the nature of human rights, international human rights of the united nations. about the question of human rights in the israeli- palestinian conflict. it is also issues that we confront directly today that have to do with keywords that have now become very hot words, such as nationalism, globalism, right? and the goal of this talk is to share some work connected to the research in this book and to try to explain in a certain sense the history we don't know and it might help us unpack some of what we've arrived at and i think the story and it may inform the way we think about the possible future going forward. now, to be more specific, this is an anniversary year, for the reasons you heard, as well as for the fact that 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of two monumental occasions. the universal dec

cultural shifts in saudi arabia. the impact of israel's upcoming election and the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. from the washington institute for near east policy, this is just under an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, and welcome to the washington institute. i'm rob satlof, the director of the institute. this is our first major policy forum of the year and i'm delighted to welcome and you delighted to welcome people around the world watching on c-span and on live stream and on all the various ways in which one can watch washington institute events. thank you for joining us. if i could ask you to please make sure your phones are on mute, feel free to tweet as much as you like. but make no noise about it. i'm delighted that we can meet at a time when the federal government is now open. there is so much on the middle east agenda in 2019. it's good to have a government that's focused on that. i'm delighted to be joined on this panel, to be introducing a panel of three of my colleagues, two of whom have made journeys around the world in recent days, coming bac

netanyahu could become israel's longest sitting prime minister if he wins the upcoming parliamentary election but he's facing increasing challenges from within his own party he still has to battle courts over three corruption cases in this area force of reports from western. there's a new political contender to google me to do. the real benjamin netanyahu tells the media magnate i just want real coverage of the israeli prime minister's public battle with the media he says of peddling fake news and cheerleading a witch hunt has led here to the launch of likud t.v. a campaign tool of his political party dressed up as a news channel nine yos relationship with the media is at the heart of two the three corruption cases dogging his election campaign allegations he traded illicit favors for better coverage the third surrounds expensive gifts from wealthy friends he denies the charges but an indictment decision is expected this month we're going to blockbuster decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's

-- several weeks abroad in israel with other travels around the region. and at the far end of the table, i'm thrilled to be able to welcome for her first policy forum presentation here at the washington institute, my newest colleague, dana strul. dana joins the institute after service on capitol hill where she was the senior professional staff member on the senate foreign relations committee on the democratic side. previously she had as much as in the pentagon. and so knows both ends of the executive and legislative branches. and i'm thrilled that she is with us offering special insight not just on the traditional policy matters that our staff focuses on but also making sure that we fully understand and appreciate the complexities of capitol hill. so with that, i'll turn the floor over to barbara. barbara? >> thanks very much, rob. good afternoon, everyone. well, i might take issue with one of the things that you asked us to think about. but i'll wait until the end of my nine minutes to do so. i came back a week or so ago from 10 days in saudi arabia. and i wanted to give you just a sense of

omar correct apac and israel lobby have full control over congress people by wielding money aka benjamin's these recordings were captured for a documentary by al-jazeera called the israel lobby but then when they were pressured by a way for it the israeli lobby is they ultimately shelved the documentary they did not air it they were also threatened with being labeled foreign agents were already so. luckily the documentary leaked out of few months ago in this first clip you'll hear the voice of david pogue founder of of an organization that pays to send people to the apac conference. now that's a pro israel group admitting they manipulate congress with money but that's an anti-semitic trump. just because something is a troll doesn't mean it's always being talked about in that way as i don't like the hate crime like you like it may be an anti white people trope that white dude. but i doesn't mean you can't ever mention the word minutes without being racist. if i say john bolton is on how much of a. that's just factually accurate and later you know whether it's a trophy or not it's

israel's attorney general says he plans to. describe. the program cut short. saying sometimes. we decided to walk. the program israel's attorney general says he plans to indict the prime minister benjamin netanyahu on corruption charges first time mr netanyahu will have a chance to speak against the charges at a procedural hearing the decision follows more than two years of investigations into allegations of bribery fraud and breach of trust it would be the first time in history a sitting israeli prime minister has been charged with a crime this move could mr netanyahu political career is almost certain to shake up the countries of forthcoming parliamentary elections benyamin netanyahu denies any wrongdoing. and straight to that. credit joins us from jerusalem welcome target what sort of reaction has there been to this announcement. well no he real surprises here i mean most of his allies within the right wing talk have have strongly criticized this decision by the attorney general of the likud his party a put out a statement saying calling it a political persecution there all see

his economic policies within israel and outside the country but this very vocal and very unapologetic backing by the americans really frames the conversation from the substance of his economic policies into who has the right of appointing a leader in venezuela and when israel has a very very proud population they're very proud of their independence and this backing of quiet door i think does a major disservice to go i go himself because he's now a c. is seen not as a legitimate grassroots figure out position figure but as a figurehead for the american administration they're always third and fourth and fifth options and you know just today from my program i interviewed. rafael remarries who is who used to be. chavez right hand man and he is also sometimes referred to as the new zealous former oils are because he ran the oil industry for many many years and he's extremely extremely critical of madura he believes that they were betrayed the legacy of who could chavez and and did pretty much all the chairman's of his government but he is just as harshly critical of who i ador

mouth or i criticize israel's prime minister i might be. accused of being aggy sematic because at this sort of point you can use these blanket definitions over everything so how do you think that should be finessed if i can say that would. i actually support some of these legends that are intended to ban hate speech or or public expression of hate for it and that in several cases it really works now when it comes to anti-semitism there has been something to time for example a polish government tried to ban criticism of poland recently the famous holocaust low which led to the to the pressure to suppress some forms of open expression of it's a criticism about the behavior of ulster in the past towards us and so so you know there are some nuances here of course but what i really think is really crucial is the role of the leaders and the role of political leaders after the attack on the french philosopher i don't think a quote. amount of micro expressed very openly that there is no place for anti-semitism in france no i didn't have not hear such strong statements from the leaders of