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I had a british friend who turned a blind eye. it was important for us to provide population with bread but we also took the opportunity to help them out a little with guns in. the north slope of. the jewish defenses were proving ineffective money arab attacks intensifies. the problem was that the by april april and early me one thousand nine hundred forty eight the jewish side it wasnt winning the war at by the beginning of april and it knew that the arab states intended to send their armies in...

In my house in my country i work im fine im getting my rights hes not getting us rights cannot protect him if he dies there hell die in a foreign country it would be bad but everybody. the foreign country on the other side of the border enemy territory. lebanon expelled the jewish population from the country after nine hundred forty eight as did many other arab countries. most of the eight hundred fifty thousand jewish refugees became israelis. they live in a country crisscrossed by fences and i...

Did or didnt send to russia and iran as well. what do you think? >> well, i think the strike was proportionate. there was a real concern from secretary mattis that we risked an escalation with russians. i also share senator grahams concern in that i would have liked to have seen more in terms of taking out the syrian air force and their ability to deliver these chemical weapons in the future. and it would neuter the assad regime and its big advantage against some of our allies in the region, the...

>> he is worried about the message it did or didnt send to russia and it ran? what do you think? >> the strike was proportionate. there was a real concern from sec. mattis that we risk escalation with the russians but i also share sen. grahams concern in that i would like to have seen more in terms of taking out the syrian air force and their ability to deliver chemical weapons in the future and also neuter the bashar al-assad regime and its big advantage against some of our allies in the region...

That is theyre trying to defeat isis in the eastern part of the city. they dont support regime change. whether or not assad stays in power, theyre technically agnostic on. they believe theyve sent a clear message that use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated. now the ambiguity there is what qualified for chemical weapons. is it sarin or chlorine or a combination of the two? officially the posture remains the same. now in response to those strikes on friday night, they did change the force p...

Mostly, military-led regimes who have been in rule for 50, 60 years, like egypt, now like syria and other places. that is the fundamental weakness of the modern arab state system, why it is dilapidated now. >> in egypt, we saw -- >> i should add, if i can add one thing, ali, these governments have been heavily and consistently supported by both the former soviet union, russia today, and the united states and britain and france. theres a lot of blame to go around. its not just the arabs fault or ...

Attacks on pilots. not only is it out of sync with what history has been, especially for the second world war for u.s. government, but also it provides the example for others to mimic what the u.s. has been saying and doing. >> youve also been tough on arab countries. have you gotten -- have you been chastised by the government of jordan? are you finding -- i think people have always assumed these human rights commissioners. you dont criticize your own. do arabs regard this as a betrayal? everyt...

We are not telling them what to do. most importantly we are not cutting off the tie between iran and syria. and telling the arabs come help us. we need to begin here. have a plan then go see the allies. we were successful in having french and british with this. at least in the operation against the chemicals of mr. assad. we can do better. >> thank you, of course the president and administration, they will continue and press again if indeed chemical weapons are used. thank you. >> thank you. >> ...

Against chemical weapons. theyre not very effective against prepared, trained u.s. military forces, against defenseless civilians, theyre horrific. we cant allow that to be normalized behavior. as you look at the ground, we have russian and iranian revolutionary guards and hezbollah forces and turkish units inside syria. very careful to not have this turn into a wider regional war. >> if you were advising the president what would you suggest he do? >> i think where we are now, we need to write d...

Decide, we dont know -- have you spoken to him, by the way, since the chemical attack? >> i havent. the last time i talked to him, it was about withdrawing our forces, we have 2,000 people working with the syrian democratic forces to hold the territory we liberated from isis. if we dont keep that force in place, i think isis will come back. i think europens should be on the ground with us helping train syrian democratic forces. i think arabs should pay for the cost of reconstructing syria. i thi...