Happening and who been also calling on Prime Minister nicole. To resign or the other people who actually say well no this was the right call for the Prime Minister to do because we were on a lost on the ground militarily i was soldiers were dying and we were going to even lose more ground had to cease fire can come into action at this point bearing in mind that the azeri forces were within kilometers from carrot Prime Minister thats the message actually that the Prime Minister has been trying to give it to to have armenians accept he said it is a very painful moment but he had no other choice that the fate of those 7 regions that surround her about have always been a precondition for azerbaijan to start even any kind of talks over the future of the enclave itself he said he had no way out of it and he said that armenia was fighting against. Army in azerbaijan but also it was not us or by general alone it was turkey helping them mercenaries thats a message coming out from him but he is under a lot of pressure politically he has the support of the chief of staff of the military but they are also calls from opposition parties for him to leave to have another person get armenia out of this very difficult time to palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has died after Contracting Co that 19. As the chief negotiator in peace talks with israel for 2 and a half decades said in president Mahmoud Abbas has called the passing of a huge loss for palestine and its people. His military has captured and in her marriage as an area controlled by reason forces and is according to local media. Ordered the offensive in tikrit using needs as they are trying to break up the country and undermine his leadership. Form and Infinite Networks have been caught in the region to grow the region is surrounded and cut off from the rest of the country so its very difficult to ascertain the claims coming from both sides but what the government has said just this morning is that they have taken. That claimed yesterday that they have taken that town and this seems to be now a complete takeover this is the 4th own about the government has. Taken from militias or the forces from loyal to the Regional Administration that the Prime Minister treated that the operation is still on and is drawing closer to the aims and objectives for why it was launched which is to remove the Regional Administration and bring the leadership of the 2 people have to justice. And the fighting is taking place from at least 3 fronts that is. Border with our region and also the one with al for the region which is on the border with eritrea and djibouti and also from the sudan border side well. And weve been hearing of hundreds of people fleeing the fighting crossing into sudan. The u. S. Attorney general has also rise federal prosecutors to investigate allegations on fighting and regularities if there is strong evidence that campaign has filed lawsuits in battleground states alleging. That they know with all the headlines more news here on aljazeera correspondent. My name is Matthew Castle im a photographer and a journalist a group jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation. My support for palestinians has made me feel like an outsider in my own community and my family its made me question whether its possible to be both jewish and a critic of zionism. I was raised with the narrative of israel is a dream realized for the jewish people a safe haven after the horrors of the holocaust. But my world changed when i crossed my 1st israeli checkpoint i was 21 it was the 2nd intifada and id never seen war an occupation. That moment had a profound impact on me. Ive spent much of the last decade living and working in the middle east documenting the palestinian plight. My journey takes me home to the u. S. To explore with zionism means in America Today and the jewish communities relationship to israel. This is chicago my hometown where i grew up. My mom and dad spent several years traveling and teaching in afghanistan before coming back to raise my sister and me. They divorced when i was a kid and my mom left chicago but my dad so lives here. My dad is not Health Issues since i was a teenager but his biggest struggle was being uninsured. Watching him cope with his illness as an uninsured american was one of the things that drew me towards fighting for social change. He dance just to put it. As a skill to comfortable and. Secure from the ones i think are good you look a lot better than last time to go another few hard ground operations. Thousands of people die and all the time around here because they dont have insurance. You know and its not just the money but its the psychology you create you know just everything stacked against you. And the little guy gets screwed. Down easy country. So that. If you live and. Shit in our. Shit or. My mom raised me with a strong sense of social justice which for her stems from a jewish faith. She took me to Hebrew School and i was bar mitzvah at 13. These days identify secular but i took away from my religious upbringing was the importance of fighting against injustice and standing up for the oppressed. d years later i applied those lessons to israel and saw that palestinians were being denied their rights. To Israeli Palestinian conflict is a polarizing issue within the Jewish American community including within my own family when my mom saw me at a protest in chicago carrying a palestinian flag she told me i was no longer her son we stopped talking i was devastated to see the politics become this personal. I went to speak with ari hart who are grew up with in chicago ari is now a modern orthodox rabbi in new york and over the years we have been able to have an open dialogue about the conflict in israel palestine. Ari was preparing for to shop for a jewish holiday that commemorates the destruction of the 1st and 2nd temples in jerusalem over 2000 years ago i mean i think the idea that theres brokenness in the world and theres brokenness in israel that resonates very deeply with me and that the world is not perfected yet and that theres that theres profound alienation and this profound exile in the world and that we need to be working towards fixing that thats how i resonate with you. So this is the library yeah this is called the big need rush like madrasa actually like study house of study during the week its full of tables and about 40 people sit in this room and study these books out loud in like a very rewarding spectacular we can practice that you sit face to face with a study partner its kind of like you almost clash like youre supposed to argue as opposed to kind of getting to be like oh you think it means this what i think it means this is about ideas its a fight over ideas and its like a holy fight that kind of debate is all the thing theres a famous joke about. The mother sends her child off to shiva you know through the use of the Jewish School here and when the child comes home she doesnt ask you know did you get a good grade or did you give a good answer she asked oh did you ask a good question today asking good questions thats the heart of Jewish Education i think it comes from both the texts and also from the experience of being different in a lot of different you know societies throughout history i think what karl marx and freud and people who really thought about things in from a different perspective than the in the normal stream at the time i think that was part of their jewish experience you know its like an agitator a little bit just because youre kind of different so you identify as a supporter of israel as a zionist yeah ok how did you how did you come to that i believe in zionism because i believe that the jewish people is something unique to offer to the world in terms of ethical and spiritual moral teachings and i think that the state of israel is the. Best thing thats happened to jewish people in 2000 years is the greatest opportunity weve had to actualize our highest values i think is really interesting we were talking about how kind of you know questioning is the essence of judaism but that doesnt seem to be happening a lot these days within the Jewish Community there are some sectors of the Jewish Community that are more open to questions and some that are less open to those questions israel is like a dream and when the dream gets realised its complicated because almost in the dream its the reality i grew up with a similar narrative about this dream being realized in israel you know for the jewish people. But then when i went and actually saw what was going on there is one i saw the other side of it which is a nightmare to be quite frank for the palestinians on the other end and all of that just seemed the opposite of the lessons i had i had grown up with being raised jewish its hard to see the suffering of of someone who is was trying to harm you its also hard to hold 2 narratives its hard to hold the narrative of wow this was the best thing that happened to my people and this was like the worst thing that happened to that people and thats a very difficult place to be and feels like you have to choose you know and i personally believe its possible to hold both and i think there are jewish leaders and jews who do who are able to occupy both narratives but its not easy its very difficult. Hey they were yeah im still close with my sister lane shes a Community Organizer in the bronx i joined her for a protest she was helping to organize in new york so whats going on here today why are these people out here and these are the protesting the murder of trayvon right whats your role in all this and more a good thing with kind of people we had out here we had to put together the call for this night so i gave bottle weight and i looked the way did i just we did i thought he would just say it justice. Oh. About where i live in the south bronx its the poorest congressional districts in the United States you have kids getting harassed the stats are frustrated brutalized and in some cases even murdered by the police i wanted to talk to laney about what she recalled from our jewish upbringing and what she remembered about my mom disowning me youre think its always good to go. Where you are happening in 2006 when i had a falling out with with mom. Yes thats right can you talk about it because i. Can just talk about what happened. There that happens. So what was it like for jewish. Men a lot of bagels and bialys thats the only thing i dont. Know you took away from it is the beer it was the bagels part of it was that i never felt like every lead its a religion but especially as i grew up and started something more about the role of judaism specifically in the context of israel that i felt like it distanced me even further and i can see a lot of the people around me a lot of the jewish folk that i grew up with they started to have similar feelings some young jews of my generation like my sister have grown disenchanted with judaism in part because of its connection with israel. The Jewish American community is predominately progressive on social issues but its hard to find Common Ground on the issue of palestinian rights because many are unwilling to criticize israel. I went to the annual celebrate israel day parade in new york to gauge how strong support is for israel among some in the community. The mayor of new york and other politicians could be seen marching up for top and in. Fact. I was. Why you are here love is a wonderful country with very generous and Beautiful People the bad happy to hear that some people are critical of israel and its treatment towards palestinians and the occupation well they have to get better educated and they were there with years ago. They would you again they would they would not tell me the money. You might call the mayor said it best you know when the parents put down their weapons of the peace when its whats on their weapons and we know its there is a Palestinian People and they do deserve a state of their own but that has to be done in a way thats going to protect this. Hes hard every jew is designed everyone theres a lot of jews who dont want him. Hes part of hard line. So much time are there that his state of israel stockholm god will make all the other thats why im here to show my support there too as a source for you know the route there in support of directly by my living there i think its also israel survive a lot of times the kind of upon the support of other nations such as america what about the treatment towards the palestinians and the occupation. About it how do you describe whats happening in the west bank and the way i was raised by my appreciation for the fact of the that israel the entire land of israel is the home of the jewish people i do not view it as i do not view this occupation there is a necessity for a jewish home and there was a right look and if you look at if you look at history world historical rights because it was home but how do you justify the creation of a homeland for jewish people in israel and the loss of a homeland for another people the palestinians the homeland i was there really i was studying state of fresh my own history if there was there wasnt a palestinian state there was a people who were living there is that not right their health their policies they were after all jewish they will still be living and living in the biblical land of israel people understood the complexity of the region understood that it wasnt just primarily jews primarily arabs its what the u. N. Proposed they pose a partition is a partition plan theres a state for them that is there for that except. That youre going to fairly youre saying the pressure to sympathize or empathize with whats happening with the palestinians who are facing their own kind of oppression. Absolutely i know friends that are. Going to have a lot of guilt about the way they did and its not its our selves and situation why do you feel the guilt youre not israeli as. I think she was that recognizing that its my state really i got it like that and i. Got. It where were you born 10600. 30. 3. The constitution. And im. Just going through things i can imagine if youre here today that the jews are safe because of israel the federal government. Is not a government its going to be Something Like it is a 100 percent but it was the only people that i found critical of israel where a small ultraorthodox jewish group called military carter. They believe that the creation of the state of israel challenges Gods Authority we know the holocaust our feelings died its in our blood yet were not going to seek to god that were going to turn away few would say that we dont respect the believe in your protection im not but its a catastrophe the concept of oppressing the people stealing the land thats not the tickle to what judaism is certainly. The strongest political message of the day came after the parade when right wing american and israeli politicians took the stage the overwhelming majority of the American People will stand with israel whatever it takes. And people will laugh a little flavor no effect no bad though maybe that is buil than anything im going to put on the flame and i want to thank you for that and people dont think about making the fusion that were being given back to the 96 to 59 and telling you very straightforward go into well know it happened no matter who would be there was. Not the one being the you know. At the parade i saw many People United with fervor for israel and it seemed that their support for israel was strongly connected to their jewish identity i felt even more alienated from the Jewish American. The narrative of israel built on the memory of the holocaust doesnt leave much room for understanding the palestinian story i went to the museum of tolerance in new york part of the Simon Wiesenthal center a Jewish Human Rights Organization i wanted to hear their perspective on the conflict in israel palestine the holocaust happened but why did it happen having because hate speech happened because of bowling its because of bigotry having to all these terrible things so our job is to basically educate the next generation of people to not let that happen again. We have power of images these are you know images that were in advertisements around the u. S. Over the last you know 200 years. You know new kind of looking well how does that make people of different race or creed or colors feel yeah everybody find something offensive here you know at some point everyone that i was with the it was a funny advertisement oh it wasnt funny everyone. Knows what. This video poker says extremists of hamas even lets. Talk about a little bit what social justice means to the greater Jewish Community in the u. S. To go back to the Civil Rights Movement you know there were so many issues that were involved with the africanAmerican Community and i think social justice is always been something really really important and have you ever tried to take that lens of seeing oppression where it happens and look at it from the palestinian perspective yeah absolutely look you know i just i dont see it i dont see it quoted with most of the things you see around here you know you see rwanda here you see darfur you see mass killings i mean you see syria where over a 100000 people have been killed my civil war but you know a lot of people do equate it to lets say the Civil Rights Movement in this country where you have an oppressed minority that is struggling for equal rights in the same way that martin i i dont i dont see the comparison at all i just dont see it is that antisemitic to be anti scientists to be opposed to the idea of zionism you know i design is a bit is almost a difficult term in todays day and