we programmed over ten institutions in the city of san francisco including the air film festival the arab culture and committee center but also with the tamp pais public library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of san francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. (applause). . thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant,

the arab regimes were sick and tired of the arab-israel conflict. let's give it back to the palestinians. let the palestinians fight their own fight from now. that's when you have arafat emerging. then you had the physical reality. it was different. israel had more than tripled its size in six days. extraordinary. and israel had the means now to bargain for peace. november 1967, a few months after the end of the war, the u.n. passes resolution 242 which implies a deal of territory for peace which remains the basis for all middle east mediation to this very day. that was the document. this is the founding document. and israel was later to get a peace treaty with egypt by giving back the sinai. if israel is to have a peace treaty with syria, it is because israel conquered the golan heights in 1967. even if there is to be a peace between israel and the palestinians, it will be a basis of a territorial deal that arose as direct result of the 1967 war. >> you are still in the reserves and you have a son how old? >> 19. >> active duty? >> very active duty

growing up in california i didn't know much about the arab world. then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. i worked as an english teacher in morocco two years and quickly grew to love this part of the world. since joining the service i spent almost my entire career in middle east and africa. one of the things that impressed me were people old enough to have lived and traveled in the united states when we had closer relations. those days are back. we had 1,700 libyans apply for fullbright grants to study in the united states this year, more than any other country in the world. we know that libya is still recovering from an intense period of conflict. there are many courageous libyans who bear the scars of that battle. we are happy we have been able to treat some of your war wounded at u.s. hospitals. we look forward to building partnerships between american and libyan hospitals to help return libya's healthcare system to the extraordinary standards of excellence it once e

like other arabs they don't like the arab americans who are not mainly from the gulf go for emigrate there are no saudi americans to speak of there are no pottery americans to speak of their no amorality americans to speak of when they come to study the states and then go back on the study and they maybe have a vacation home and they enjoy the united states as a visitor but they don't. emigrate to europe cracked with throwing in two thousand and nine and not taking a position you know i don't know i'm i didn't want to go back into the government i had given thirty years of my life to public service i thought that was plenty i was very reluctant to do that job and when i was publicly attacked in the way i was it became apparent that i couldn't do the job so the decision to withdraw it was simply a matter of logic and i don't regret it at all i have a good life a better life than i would if i were doing that i think i wouldn't consider taking another position in the government in the future no no i think i'd let somebody younger have a chance but. no i can't think of any position i wou

when the israelis declared their state in 1948, the arabs attacked them from all states. as arms and volunteers flooded in, the israelis discovered a sering truth; that war delivers tangible gains for a victor. a jewish army for the first time in 20 centuries had fought and won, delivering statehood that was immediately recognized by the united states and the soviet union. ben-gurion was not happy with the boundaries seized in the first round of war, and that's what he called it, and he referred to the second round and the third round that was inevitable in his view. but they were boundaries that he had not imagined during all those years prior to '8 when he and -- '48 when he and the leaders of the zionist movement crisscrossed europe in search for support for a homeland. diane, who became ben-gurion's favorite officer, had grown up in poverty, he had fought the arabs in the region of the sea of galilee and the valley where they used stones, clubs and knives in adolescent combat. diane in his lifetime came to read the bible incessantly, especially the old testament. beca

serving under our mayor lee who i would like to make a invite to make a few remarks in honor or of arab heritage month here in san francisco. >> thank you, thank you joaquin, thank you, welcome to our orange city hall. i want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and it's my pleasure to join us here and many of us know that we are such a lucky city, and we are lucky because people around their world make their way to fraction, find hopey until the city they know that we celebrate our diversity and find strength in the different cultures that pretend together and now, i ask you also to bring me talent from the arab america communities to make me and help me lune run the city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's

like other arabs they don't like the arab americans who are not mainly from the gulf gulf arabs don't emigrate there are no saudi americans to speak of there are no tottery americans to speak of there no amorality americans to speak of well they come to study the states and then go back and study and they maybe have a vacation home and they enjoy the united states as a visitor but they don't emigrate tearing crack or throwing in two thousand and nine and not taking a position not to oh i'm i didn't want to go back into the government i had given thirty years of my life to public service i thought that was plenty i was very reluctant to do that job and when i was publicly attacked in the way i was it became apparent that i couldn't do the job so the decision to withdraw was. simply a matter of logic and i don't regret it at all i have a good life a better life than i would if i were doing that i think i wouldn't consider taking another position in the government in the future no no i think i'd let somebody younger have a chance but. no i can't think of any position i would really like

the fruit of the arab spring which kicked off two years ago has left many vying for democratic change feeling bitter thousands of egyptians a march on the presidential palace and current protests the islamist leaning constitutional draft which they view as undermining basic freedoms it comes after the country's justice ministry ordered an investigation into alleged polling violations in the first stage of the constitutional referendum early results show the islamic leaning draft was backed by fifty six percent of voters a slim majority ofter a very low turnout and another group of judges refused to oversee the next stage of the referendum on saturday while the top prosecutor resigned under pressure from. the vote well let's discuss the events in cairo and the impact of the arab spring so far in the wider region with the shabby political analyst based in beirut there a clear indication suggesting this referendum in cairo is illegitimate and it's obvious a very large part of the nation doesn't want it so why are the authorities pushing so hard for it. well you see president morsi came t

community because all of us whether we are chinese americas hal teen know arabs is a starts for us to make our life a little more pleasant and own our business and is make sure that our kids get the best education possible and this is a story about immigrants in our great city. and so why not you have the first chinese mayor inviting immigrant community to really identify the talent in our community and allow me to give them appointments in the various moo commission and the city and i want to announce my newest point to the aging commission because per not getting younger i want you to know doctor sham meret tan knee has been selected to be on our commission on aging and yes, he is going to help us because there is a lot of you that want to be in our city and you want to make sure that healthy nutritional unusuallile programs and housing are constructing wisely and so i have asked him to step forward and i have asked john paul s ema h a who has been on our treasure island and watch what he is going to do because that is a new part of our city and it's one where if he conducts all of

like other arabs they don't like the arab americans who are not mainly from the gulf go for emigrate there are no saudi americans to speak of there are no tottery americans to speak of the no amorality americans to speak up while they come to study in the states and then go and study and they maybe have a vacation home and they enjoy the united states as a visitor but they don't. emigrate to your a crack with throwing in two thousand and nine and not taking a position. i didn't want to go back into the government i had given thirty years of my life to public service i thought that was plenty i was very reluctant to do that job and when i was publicly attacked in the way i was it became apparent that i couldn't do the job so the decision to withdraw it was so simply a matter of logic and i don't regret it at all i have a good life a better life than i would if i were doing that i think i wouldn't consider taking out a position in the government in the future no no i think i'd let somebody younger have a chance but. no i can't think of any position i would really like to do at this sta

in troy arabic to find out more because it's arabic. now in h.d. this is r.t. can you live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day the news continues now and the white house says president obama wants to reinstate an assault weapons ban more than one hundred fifty thousand americans have already signed a petition asking the white house to limit access to firearms the newtown elementary school tragedy has sparked a long running debate over gun control in the country well live now to merida porton she joins me live now from our new york studio marina this looks like a brave stance for obama to take on an issue as divisive as this. it sure is but when you consider the tragic events that unfolded at an elementary school last week in the us it is not surprising that finally u.s. president barack obama is taking a position as you mentioned the president said that he's willing to throw his support behind legislation that would reinstate a ban on assault weapons in america not the last federal assault weapons ban which expired in two thousand and four for him that

in troy arabic to find out more visit arabic don't teach dog called. deadly rivals for decades. if you had fifteen thousand. people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators of. self-imposed costs from society i will attack myself chemical attack my brother understand my contacts. going to be basically attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. that. well into the. truth of the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model kill or be killed with the colors matching the national flag. but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the violence they all made in america on the ati. to build a. mission to teach. only. since childhood america has always stood out from his peers he hates losing and has never missed a single training session he came first in everything swimming ballroom dancing or chess at the age of sixteen started to lift weights four years later he took on the bronze medal in weightlifting from the london paralympics. coming in third place at the olympic games was his first serious d

welcome across the computor a house divided against itself the sunni shia conflict rages across the arab middle east and beyond is this sectarian division being used to topple regimes and redraw the map of the region and is the sunni shia conflict politicized by outside powers . and. cross-talk the sunni shia divide i'm joined by joshua landis and norman he is director of the center for middle east studies and associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma in dubai we have moved to jabber he is an expert with the center for middle east studies and public relations and in washington we cross to our resident nader he is a senior international policy analyst at the rand corporation right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want josh if i can go to you but the security and difference here between the sunni and the shia have been around as long as islam itself virtually but how is it different in the arab spring and what events being played out in the region and we can't forget about iran. well it's become very politicized e

arabic correspondent thank you for joining us. well it's hard to say i'm sorry even when the guilt rests firmly on your shoulders but the british bank h.s.b.c. has gotten pretty good at it lately after a string of money laundering allegations turned out to be true the bank a global financial leader has a rap sheet that would send any average american to life behind bars without the possibility of parole just in the past couple of years h.s.b.c. has been working hand in hand with mexican drug cartels accepting and exchanging billions of dollars of blood drenched money and has conducted business with iran over truth the twenty five thousand transactions and counting that we know of and has also handled the finances for cuba syria libya and several other nations despite international sanctions against the countries what's more for years after the nine eleven terror attacks that took the lives of thousands including sixty seven brits h.s.b.c. had a partnership with the all raji bank it's a saudi bank that has ties to al qaeda and his

part of the arab world of the gulf potteries to the u.s. and so far the u.s. thinks that by keeping silent maybe or not by or not accusing. the regime of what they're doing exactly they're basically helping through the stability in that region in that part of the world so i mean one thing that we have seen going against the syrian government we have had the strong us talk against bashar al assad we have seen them try to impose sanctions try to to to limit the violence to the country and to limit the power that bashar al assad has what are we seeing with bahrain is anything happening at this point of that and why other than talk. i mean there are people with the audio that there may be some some who are trying to silence the human rights organizations who are trying to speak out against what's going on in bahrain no sanctions no talk of maybe sales of weapons through the beheading energy and then of that and actually the coals that the people are making. the cries that the people are making are not getting to any here in the u.s. or in any other foreign country

arabic correspondent thank you for joining us. well it's hard to say i'm sorry even when the guilt rests firmly on your shoulders but the british bank h.s.b.c. has gotten pretty good at it lately after a string of money laundering allegations that turned out to be true the bank a global financial leader has a rap sheet that would send any of rich american to life behind bars without the possibility of parole just in the past couple of years h.s.b.c. has been working hard hand in hand with the mexican drug cartels accepting and exchanging billions of dollars in blood drenched money it has conducted business with iran over to twenty five thousand transactions that we know of and has also handled finances for cuba syria libya and several other nations despite international sanctions against the country what's more four years after the nine eleven terror attacks that took the lives of thousands including sixty seven brits h.s.b.c. had a partnership with the all rajiv bank the saudi bank that has ties to al qaeda and is part of osama b

make a invite to make a few remarks in honor or of arab heritage month here in san francisco. >> thank you, thank you joaquin, thank you, welcome to our orange city hall. i want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and it's my pleasure to join us here and many of us know that we are such a lucky city, and we are lucky because people around their world make their way to fraction, find hopey until the city they know that we celebrate our diversity and find strength in the different cultures that pretend together and now, i ask you also to bring me talent from the arab america communities to make me and help me lune run the city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's fleet week, whether it's the 49ers playing or t

programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy yard interviews intriguing story for you. then try. to find out more visit. if you. thanks for joining us here in our suits and i'm real research you show gary it has invited us to permanently stationed military forces on its territory saying that it will increase security in the region and assist with the training of its soldiers well that apparently came out of a trip by paul gary's defense minister to the pentagon. now he reportedly discussed the opening of a u.s. military base in the country's east and one local newspaper says that washington has already pumped around sixty million dollars into its reconstruction and american military presence in bulgaria has been allowed since two thousand and six antiwar activist brian becker says this is just the us trying to extend its influence in that there is a strong motive force to maintain the cold war even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe

the new changes in the arab or the democracies that is emerging in the arab world will have a tremendous challenges and. in order to maintain. law and order to establish a real democracy the need need some time but television fears that in the time it takes for that democracy to really take root and for the arab public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing despair many israelis feel of the growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood here r.t. tel aviv. thousands have demonstrated in madrid against austerity policies with much to the anti government anger based on the broken promise to raise pensions in line with inflation pensioners and the elderly made up a large section of the crowd in the ronnie organized by spanish labor unions the protest comes a day after medical workers marched through the campus so enraged by the government's plan to privatize

over its expansion policy the arab spring means it's increasingly isolated in its own neighborhood of the turmoil has seen it become the target of more attacks militant rockets and even stray shells from across the border with syria this report to r.t. is fall asleep. there's a storm brewing in the middle east and it's leaving a chill in the hearts of most israelis say what you might about the arab spring it poses an obvious problem for tel aviv they mean and so we've seen just a few weeks ago. plenty of missiles falling on israel form a radical. i dream and we see. already the beginning of maybe a attrition war in the golan heights we see plenty of the angels in the mediterranean sea israel's backyard has become a lot more dangerous in the last two years weapons from libya are leaking across borders and landing in the hands of unknown militant groups the trouble ahead is symbolized by the muslim brotherhood sweep to power in egypt from this rally in june and ominous promised by the movement to make sure resulin and not kind of the capital at a minimum what we'll see is the free flow

like other arabs they don't like the arab americans who are not mainly from the gulf. emigrate there are no saudi americans to speak of there are no pottery americans to speak of there are no amorality americans to speak up while they come to study in the states and then go back and study and they maybe have a vacation home and they enjoy the united states as a visitor but they don't. emigrate to europe cracked with throwing in two thousand and nine and not taking a position you know i don't know how i'm i didn't want to go back into the government i had given thirty years of my life to public service i thought that was plenty i was very reluctant to do that job and when i was publicly attacked in the way i was it became apparent that i couldn't do the job so the decision to withdraw was so simply a matter of logic and i don't regret it at all i have a good life a better life than i would if i were doing that i think i wouldn't consider taking another position in the government in the future no no i think i'd let somebody younger have a chance but. now i can't think of

home programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots seventy yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you. when trying. to find out more visit or a big t.v. dog called. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome aarti live here in moscow the news continues now thousands of people have hit spain's streets to protest against the government's ever growing a sturdy people are outraged by cuts to the health care education and pensions with anger also directed at changes to labor laws the protests across fifty five spanish cities were called by unions and social groups the prime minister defended the tough measures saying twenty twelve will be remembered as the year in which the foundations for the country's recovery will eight hundred keeps insisting it doesn't need a sovereign bailout despite its deep recession but economist says the mistakes made by the country's government could ultimately cost part of its territory. i. like the one you like the one i love which is. germany. but it will take a lot

what we see now is not so much an arab spring but rather an arab fall which may turn into the arab winter. the majority of the arab street which is really now the driving force of change or legitimization regime in egypt is. a slab asst of a muslim brotherhood it is more islamist we would expect there also. aligning themselves with the salafi parties and movements which are the second largest and they form a ruling bloc which is not for democracy. there is a paradox of democracy in which was no one even to plateau. majority can elect a dictator and there were many instances in history when the majority elected dictators . the kind of the constitutional regime where they are getting now is far from being liberal it is democratic in the sense that it reflected the will of the people but the will of the people is not a liberal democracy it is a talk rissi of the sheria law and strict government control this is disliked by the revolution or all revolutionaries but if you need to choose if you are for democracy then you for the will of the people and the will of the people is not liberal. cert

they sided with the shiites thinking that they would be more arab than shiite but today by putting the shiites in the top and in iraq iraq has moved on the side of iran creating the shiite crescent iran iraq the syrian government under side which is shaky and hezbollah in lebanon and that a lion's is the united states is hoping to bring it down and wants regime change in syria and iran and wants to get rid of his mullah so it has politicized to a large extent a sunni shiite struggle with saudi arabia and turkey being the two pillars that increasingly egypt the pillars of a sunni arab world against against increasingly iran and iraq move it what do you think about that and is it a good strategy is it going to work. well no it's not going to work because by alienating iran from this equation they're making a lot of problems for themselves precisely in iraq because as renal. previously was much more willing to compromise with the americans than he is now so no this strategy by the you was continuing to alienate the shiites in the middle east which was one of the main policies of the of th

public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing to space many israelis feel of the growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood policy r.t. tel aviv. well that's the way it is the moment here on our table but with a news team with more news for in about ten thirty five minutes from now in the meantime join us for a trip to the russian city of sochi as it prepares to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics that's coming. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pace and. layout to become the first. force call in the. world for. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is

public perhaps one day to accept a jewish state relations with its arab neighbors will get far worse before they get better the challenge now for israeli leadership is twofold to avoid inflaming arab public opinion while protecting israel and also to counter the growing to speak many israelis feel of a growing isolation in an increasingly volatile neighborhood near r.t. tel of of. and of people in spain are saying that their dignity is at stake just a bit later in the program we report on how pensioners students and doctors in their thousands are protesting against government austerity over the country. and time but action americans signed gun control petitions as a message to the white house after the latest tragedy in a us elementary school those details and more after a quick. week speak your language. or music programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. breaking news a little tonnage of angola's stories. you hear. that all teach spanish. visit. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see

she learned arabic simply to be able to comfort the patience. they have family dialysis unit in the country for a while, and they drove a shuttle, pick the people up for free and brought them in and they were treated. the whole atmosphere was to make everyone not only comfortable but able to observe their religious obligations. so, the ultra-orthodox remaking sure that there was ramadan food at a certain time and everyone everyone -- but it was the effort they went to an effort she went to end her concern that she could sit and talk to people and comfort them and encourage them if they were be safe. that is really typical and in fact there are many stories of people who come in for treatment and have had their minds changed by the way they were treated in an israeli hospital. not only medically treated the treated as human beings with the same courtesy that any jew or anyone else would have. those stories abound. and a ugandan passenger had quite a horror story. he's a convert from islam to christianity. he became quite an outspoken evangelist f

been trying arabic to find out more visit arabic don't all teeth dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. russia has been heavily criticized in the west for blocking their time so the united states and its allies to get things right in syria do you think that if russia has handled it differently from the very beginning let's say a year ago convinced ourselves to step down then thinks would be different in syria we're not in the business of regime change and some of the. regional players were suggesting to us why don't you tell president to leave we will arrange for some. safe haven for him my answer is very simple if indeed those who suggest that the stores have this in mind they should take a directly to president that's why show the use us as postman. when the crisis started two thousand the level in august few months after the crisis