Happened for decades. Lucy williamson sent this report. It was a message of force, delivered quietly at first. Israeli soldiers seeking their targets, Street By Palestinian street. By morning, hundreds of troops backed by Armoured Bulldozers had arrived in the Refugee Camps of tulkarem, nablus, tubas, jenin. Home to armed palestinian groups and unarmed civilians. At least ten palestinians have been killed. Hamas says six of them were its fighters. Masoud najjar said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. Translation we felt like something came down on us from the sky and there was an explosion. I was unaware of what was going on. When i put my hand on my chest, it was all shrapnel and blood. Injenin, Army Vehicles surrounded the citys two main hospitals. Ambulances stopped and checked by militaryjeeps. Israels Foreign Minister has urged his government to use gaza as a model for dealing wth armed groups, here saying that iran was backing them
well, not necessarily. my guest is the renowned colombian novelistjuan gabriel vasquez, who weaves powerful stories out of fact and fiction. is there anything magical about colombia s current reality? juan gabriel vasquez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now you inhabit two different intellectual worlds. you are a political commentator. it is yourjob to have instant, strong opinions for newspapers. on the other hand, you re also a novelist who writes complex, nuanced novels that are sort of riddled with doubt and uncertainty. which of these two mental attitudes comes more naturally to you? well, i m first and foremost a novelist. iwas. i began writing fiction at a very young age, and it was always my ideal to write the kind of novels that i had grown up with. but in south america, a novelist is also a citizen. and so you develop very quickly the need, the compulsion sometimes, the feeling of obligation to comment on the political rea
it s going to resonate for a really long time. john jeb bush, who is sort of widely seen as the sort of quote unquote most moderate on immigration, although that term can be very hard to pin down. he put on a cinco de mayo announcement today in his pretty good spanish. jeb bush is caught between understanding what the general electorate wants, what the primary electorate wants and it seems to me he s going to try to get over with some ambiguity and his personal story of being married to a mexican immigrant. it s very interesting, chris, one week from tomorrow jeb bush will be in nevada. why will he be there? he s giving a speech to the clark county republican dinner. that is dominated by the people who called for reince priebus
that he founded an organization and a lot of these supremacist groups are armed and training. the reality with him, is he was last involved with that paramilitary training with others 20 years ago. i mean, the last 15 years or so, he was really ostracized from the white supremacist movement in part because they viewed him as a snitch. so he didn t have the ability to lead groups of people in the last 15 years. he still tried to put out his hatred and anti-semitism through the internet, but he didn t have the audience he once had. so he s very similar to james von brun, the guy who shot up the holocaust memorial five years ago. guys that are past their prime, their don t necessarily have a group they re with, but still cling on to this hatred that made them what they were in their sort of quote unquote glory days. what s interesting about cross s history of hate, it s really peculiar.