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Are they worried about president trump and nikki haleys threats that the united states is taking names and might dock their paychecks? >> those who are receiving aid would be worried about every single dollar they receive from the united states and every sing -- there is a whole battle game. it seems to me the number of arab countries, they dont receive foreign aid from us. the saudis or uae. they want a different timing but theyll find a way to reconnect with the united states and have a peace ...

They are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if theres any attempt at rescue. >> the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the plfp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinated action. >> the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. its occupying arab land. and they dont believe that israel should be there. thats the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain our problem, the palestinian problem, and to justif...

Troubled areas of the world. >> even though western government loved the shah, they werent really paying attention to the fact on the ground. and there were many people who were discontented with the shah in part because of his extremely oppressive policies. >> iran was seen as important for its oil resources but also because the shah was an ally when it came to regional goals. this was a natural alliance of the united states. >> the president and the shah of iran spent a long time speaking abut...

Inr indigenous people of this country. and again, at standing rock, theyre not fighting for their water, theyre fighting for all of our water. now its our turn to finally fight for them. ♪ ♪ on this show, were talking about muslims and arabs. thats how i can tell im in the bay area. thats not -- yeah. thats not the reaction that i tend to get in other parts of this country. were talking about muslims and arabs. wham! [ laughter ] got to be honest, im super nervous about this episode becaus...

Gotta say this, not all arabs are muslims and not all muslims are arabs. and im not trying to be condescending when i say that. because i suffered from that when i was growing up. i had a friend who was palestinian. and she was like, im a christian. im like, youre an arab christian? what, did you convert? shes like my familys christian. im like, how did that happen? because jesus is from the middle east. oh, right, yeah, yeah. good point. he was, was he? my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i...

Spike lees movie, malcolm x with denzel, it popularized islam -- -- in the black community. >> we were rocking the malcolm x baseball cap. >> i had an x shirt. i think it was a bootlegged "x" shirt, sorry spike lee, got it from the street. >> that was some of our biggest pop culture icons of black america or muslims. theres more african-american muslims in america than others. but the majority of arab americans are christians. >> in fact, today, 63% of americas arab population is christian. with...

Nationalist s nationalists, and when you have the president behaving this way, its racism, nationalism run amuck. last time i checked haiti was not a hot bed of radical terrorism. nor was nigeria. so coming after them because they are black, right. this is not outside of the pattern of what we see here with this trump white house. and so for middle america, how does this impact us? well, you have america losing its leadership role across the globe because of this. you have the u.n. taking action...

Diplomatic initiatives, diplomatic leverage that the arab world, that most of the world wants to use in trying to find a peace settlement between the arabs and the israelis. >> and christopher, how would this kind of intimidation tactic effect efforts in getting help from the u.n. on iran and north korea? >> im not sure its going to have a huge effect on that. on iran, yes, it may have some impact there. the world is not on board toward u.s. policy with iran. i might say u.s./israeli policy towa...

Sunni arabs, the middle east peace process doesnt even rank in the top three, where it always used to be number one. it might not even read number four. why? they are dealing with iranian aggression. radical islamic terrorism exists in just about every one of their countries. two major civil war is taking in syria and in yemen that are catastrophic in terms of human beings. and the fourth thing is, they have internal issues that they must address, if theyre going to move their civil societies fo...

And pilgrims crossed here in southern france as early as the sixth century b.c. the hill was settled first by iberian celts then by the romans i women mosaic floor was recently discovered the place was already known as kaka so under the romans proving once again how far sighted they must have been wisely giving my name to the place centuries before i was even born. it was they who fortified the hill and pots of those who lives opposite of to this day. after the romans candidate is a goth and the...