Joe biden is putting himself front and center. This was an event to discuss the Affordable Care act. But the president elect questions on other topics and he had a message to the man he will replace. And his refusal to accept the result. I just think its an embarrassment. Great, frankly. The only thing that how can we save this tax and i think it will not help the president s legacy. I think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful that the United StatesDemocratic Institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure. And, but i think at the end of the day, you know, its all going to come to fruition in january 20th. All foreign leaders calling joe biden to congratulate him. Trump, secretary of state americas top diplomat, has called the result into question. It will be a smooth transition to a 2nd term administration. Hey, were ready. The world is watching whats taking place that were going to count all the votes. When the process is complete, the electors selected, theres a process, the constitution lays it out pretty clearly. Various Government Agencies and departments its been reported have been ordered by the white house not to help with the president ial transition because in its view, the result is still in doubt. That hasnt stopped joe biden, pushing ahead with planning for day one, even without the immediate assistance of the chump administration. And the leader of the republicans in the senate says the dilly, want to create problems. I dont think anything thats occurred so far in iraqs an ordinary process of moving through the various steps that i indicated and allowing if there is a new administration to work through the transition, all of these steps will be taken at the appropriate time. This election has already seen a lot of legal challenges there might be another one coming as the Biden Campaign considers going to court to force Donald Trumps team to start planning for the handover of power. Alan fischer. Aljazeera washington. Meanwhile, the u. S. Supreme court has begun hearing arguments in a case which could strip 20000000 people of medical insurance justices have already signaled that theyre unlikely to strike down all of the Affordable Care act. A key piece of president obamas legacy thats known as obamacare. President trump and other republicans want. The law struck down the hearing comes as a 1000000. People have been infected with coronavirus across the u. S. In just 10 days. Russian peacekeeping troops are being deployed in a corner. Kyra back following a deal to end 6 weeks of fighting. The disputed region is internationally recognized as part of us survive, john, but is controlled by Ethnic Armenians as areas of spend the day celebrating, whats been seen as a win delivering swathes of territory to their country. But in neighboring armenia, it sparked public outrage. Mass protests have been taking place across peru after marte of his car was removed as president. Protesters fought with Police Outside congress in the capital, lima. His car remains very popular despite the accusations of corruption that led to his impeachment. Manuel medina was sworn in as perus new president on tuesday. Ethiopias Central Government has vowed to continue a military operation in the Northern Tier gray region until a number of conditions are met. They want the regions leaders to face trial and a new administration to be set or planned for all of their missiles to be destroyed. Prime minister of the ahmed ordered the offensive into grey almost a week ago. Those were the headlines close with all of those stories on a website at aljazeera dot called next on aljazeera. Its aljazeera correspondent, also with more news. My name is matthew cassel. Im a photographer and a journalist. I grew up 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 what design is and means in america today, and the jewish communities relationship to israel. I 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 and only too comfortable except for some problems in my lungs. I feel pretty good. Now he looks a lot better than last time to go another few hard ground operation, thousands of people die and all the time. And you know, because they dont have insurance, you know, and its not just the money, but its the psychology its 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. Ready years later, i applied those lessons to israel and saw that palestinians were being denied their rights. 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 bait me drosh like my dress 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, i mean 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 censor child off to you 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 your that can 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 feel 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 like a profile body weight. And i looked away, did i just we did, i thought it would just say it justice. Oh, how 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, your. 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. I think i understand what happens. So what was it like growing up jewish and a lot of bagels and bialys. Thats the only thing thats going to take 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 somewhere and 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 that 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 god. And in fact was why you are here. I love this wonderful country with very generous and Beautiful People that happy to hear that some people are critical of israel and its treatment towards palestinians in the occupation while they have to get better educated. And they were there with years ago. They would you, again, if they were serious, they would not tell me the money the city might call, the mayor said it best, you know, when the parents put down their weapons of the peace, when its whats on the weapons that we know is there is a Palestinian People and they 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 is going to do is youre going to these are not hard lines. 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 my appreciation for the fact of the that israel, the entire land of israel is the home of the jewish people. I dont know if you guys, 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 mean 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 think there really is now 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 understand the complexity of the region, understood that it wasnt just primarily jews, primarily arabs. Its what the u. N. Proposed a post a partition is a partition plan. Theres a state for them that is there for us. But except here we can all my earlier understand the pressure to sympathize or empathize with whats happening with the palestinians who are facing their own kind of oppression. And so do i my own friends that i have and i have a lot of guilt about the way theyve been that way. That its ourselves, that situation. Why do you feel the guilt if youre not israeli . Its i think she was that recognizing that its my state now really i got it. Like i got it. Where were you born 10633 the constitution and theyre still going through things. I cant imagine if youre here today that the jews are safe yet because of israel, the federal government is not a government. Its going to be sort of like it is a 100 percent. But it was the only people that i found critical of israel, where a small Ultra Orthodox 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 from. You would say that we dont respect the believe in your protection. Im not, but its a catastrophe. The concept of oppressing a people stealing the land. Thats not the ticket to what really is in the us or at least the strongest political message of the day came after the parade. When rightwing, 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 967 line. And telling you fairy 3, you 2 will know it to happen, the minute they would be there was not the one being being 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 bullying, 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 at, well, how does that make people of different race or creed or colors feel . Yeah, everybody finds something offensive here. You know, at some point everyone there was video is 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 Civil Rights Movement. You know, there were so many issues that were involved in 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 pales