If europeans Prime Minister has defended his operation less saying the actions of to grand forces cannot be ignored. The reason is massacure perpetrate the last week against all the men and women in uniform over the Northern Command was carried out while they were at their most vulnerable in their pajamas. And among those it towards where did this search at the designers acts. Live us not of but to mobilize our Law Enforcement and defense machinery in an operation intended to end the prevailing lawlessness in the region. A senior official from south africas ruling party is in court on corruption charges. A smuggler surely is the secretary general of the a. N. C. He is accused of taking millions of dollars that were meant to fund the removal of us best of us from more than 400000 homes. He denies the charges. Supporters of protested outside the court 7. Others have also been charged, but our correspondent from even miller is also outside that courthouse and drove them today. In this case, gays back will at least be a need in every contract. Olvera millions of brands. Hundreds of millions of brands goes back about 5 years through a trade venture at homes that had as Business Briefing were meant to be identified, that roofing removed because its been causing people to become ill. But it appears nothing was done. And instead money was retreads through a number of other companies and subcontractors over a period of time. Its alleged that some of these instructions came from a smuggler, surely who was pretty x. At the time of this contract. Since then, the fiesta mini has been given at a inquiry into whats been called state capture against south africa, which basically deals with allegations of corruption and fraud. And this is where a smuggler surely was bigger. Theres potentially having been involved in this particular issue of corruption. Now we understand that one of the charges against the former premier was not only cover a friend, told him that he as a high ranking official word of it was happening in this province and did nothing to stop it. And for that, he may be held responsible, while in libya says increased hope for a permanent ceasefire plan. After talks were held there between rival factions in the city of sirte, the u. S. Led military discussions follow an agreement between the 2 sides in geneva last month. The arrangements include preparing foreign fighters for leaving the country and a reopening of a highway to guarantee the safety of civilians. Americas government has launched a military offensive in Western Sahara against Pro Independence groups. The policy area front is accused of attacking trucks and extorting people travelling through the area. But Pro Independence activists deny the claims saying they were peacefully protesting. France says its troops have killed the military commander of an Al Qaeda Linked group in mali. Mali has been fighting against a rebel insurgency since 2012. Thousands of french soldiers are deployed that to support that operation. And now china has finally congratulated joe biden on securing the win for the white house. It comes after President Donald Trump banned americans from doing business with companies owned or controlled by the chinese military. That will take effect on january 11th. That would be days before trump is due to step down. Well, those are the headlines. Ill have more news for you here. To aljazeera correspondent my name is not here castle. Im a photographer and a journalist. I grew up jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation. Support resigns, and israel is strong in the Jewish American community. And my support for palestinians has caused a rift in my family. After traveling in america to better understand u. S. Support for israel. Im now headed to the middle east to trace my own story and see the conflict through the eyes of those who live in many ways the story of modern zionism starts in europe with Great Britain playing a prominent role after world war one and the breakup of the ottoman empire, britain took control of the land of palestine. During 28 years of the british mandate, thousands of jews fled antisemitic attacks in europe and emigrated to palestine with the hopes of the stablish in the homeland. In 1948, british rule came to an end in palestine, and the state of israel was declared on may 14th, londons east, and has hosted immigrants from around the world most recently from the indian subcontinent. But at the turn of the 20th century, this district largely consisted of jewish immigrants who had fled antisemitic attacks in eastern europe. You go to them, are you not . I was curious if it used to be a synagogue or through that well, yeah. Jewish synagogue. Yeah, i dont think that most people know about how you specific that you know, no one knows the history. Ok, all right, thank you. Very good. Set up. In 1906 theodore heard so a jewish writer from austria, hungary addressed a large rally in the east and calling for the return of the jewish people to college time. He would later be considered by many to be the founder of modern zionism and the major catalyst for the creation of israel. I was in london to promote a book that i coedited, written by arab writers whose countries were swept up in the wave of arab uprisings in 2011. The Frontline Club hosted a Panel Discussion with the editors and authors of this matter. Some people are very optimistic, some people are hopeful, some evil person is good. But you know, theres a, theres a process that happened. The uprising i havent got any sense of regret from people who are to me was didnt know what the freedom means. You know, i dont know what you want not to see a president or a Prime Minister the people of us. But what they see and we need to change is that society itself. Its a great pleasure to be here with these 4 individuals tonight. Thank you all. Coming and contributing. Journalist rachel shah became to moderate the discussion. She comes from an arab jewish families who left their native iraq after israels creation. We met up the next day at edgware road, which is long, been a hub for arab culture in london. And theyd see this was the place where you go to feel like youre in the middle east and environment and you can see all they are being used. Maybe theres a in her writing, rachel argues the Jewish Nationalism. And the creation of israel in 1948, forced arab jewish communities to abandon the countries theyve been living in for centuries. A Iraqi Jewish Community was 2000 years old. It was big, it was vibrant at one point. It was a quarter of a population of it. Why did they leave . Did they want to really live the life she came untenable in the middle east . So it rooted communities of jews, the how to longstanding deep how very integrated relationships in the middle east. They had to hide his identity, arab jews that became extinct because of signers. And you know, there are 2 different diamond trickly oppose movement seeking. You will see in seeking your alleged allegiance. So which one of the sign is an israel to say you are jewish, you know, we have the answer to you, youll, youll, identity questions. Ill sit here. Why cant they be arab jewish and part of israel at the same time because that wasnt the identity. Israel wanted over itself, i mean, israel sees itself as a european country that somehow took the wrong turn and ended up in the middle east. So how do you identify well, im a hybrid suv, you know, identifying myself as british. But i do have a jewish iraqi her until i also struggle with the question of my identity because israel claims to be the home for jewish people, many in the arab world come from judaism with israel. So its not always easy to discuss my jewish background in the middle east. I spent more than 4 years living in beirut from 2007 until 2011. Although i love chicago and the people there, theres a certain indescribable warmth in the middle east that i feel many people have always offered me as a foreigner. I am one of the is one of my closest friends who i met when i 1st came to live in on living together since 2007. So ive seen the ups and downs of the know what being in beirut. Im going to do when you feel was it was the i was a journalist and still lives in the apartment. We used to share guests loudly guest. Just see if you like people with you in the same balcony. So this apartment has always felt like home to me and i was happy when i saw that many of the photos id taken of palestinian life in refugee camps. Were still hanging on the walls. How did we meet . You said that you were looking for them and i was looking for a place to stay. Yeah. But then you said the place needs a lot of work. And i said, ill take about the ask. I jus never did. I painted the whole of the whole place, the place was it was even more of a mass back then. Still was, it was more of a mask, but the 6 years later, i remember just before we met, i met our friend rima, and i asked her, i think its like my 1st or 2nd day in lebanon, and i asked her, you know, like so which religion do you belong to . And she almost smack me and i remember why is that such a sensitive issue . You ask people about, i remember that, yeah, you 2 asked me and i was like, why this guys asking me, what is my sag . This is, this is a crucial issue for me. I dont want to be part of the group or the tribe. I want to be part of the collective. I dont see what difference it makes if one that judaism is recognized as one of them is judaism. As another see, the thing is that there was never think sentiments towards the jews in here as there was anti semitism in europe and the spanish inquisition times they were not perceived as an outside element. They were perceived as everyone else in the country. Things started going bad after 48. 00 after 48 actually after there has been some of the rumors or news against the jews in lebanon, and the other boys as being collaborators to the, to this new jewish state. Just got to be built in the middle of the middle east. Obviously i wasnt going around telling people you know that my background is jewish. That would have been to are weird. How do you think people would have reacted would react to this and certain places . It could have been dangerous for you in places of the most is a clothing designer from london, and like rachel, she comes from an arab jewish background. Her family fled lebanon during the civil war. My father was born here, but you dont live here. You have never came here, but did you, did you grow up identifying with lebanese . Yes, and now like a community, you dont really ever identify yourself as anything. I mean, i had 5 myself as a but my definitely felt more from my father and from the rest of my family more than i did you. Youre not going explain that. I said i was not saying that and if thats true, its kind of all mixed into one. Renee feel is hard to separate the jewishness from the lebanese ness of my family. I feel that both is what i dont even know until i was probably too old that there wasnt such thing as jewish arabs in the us. You know like being jewish kind of is almost synonymous with being a supporter of israel. Yeah. Did you ever feel similarly . I dont think so because i think like i was quite ignorant and it was never taught by my family. So you never felt any connection, no tool. And i think in europe its different in america like being an anonymous with being an israeli, or whatever being zionist, when you like in lebanon, youre going to do you feel comfortable talking about your jewish background . Yeah, definitely. I mean, i would be very picky about who i tell those kind of things to. I mean, i mean people think that the jews equals israelis and obviously this country is at war with israel. And people have a very kind of difficult history here in this country. I suppose you have blamed them. I mean, obviously that makes sense that they, if theyve been educated in israeli and jewish different things, then you can understand that reaction today. I mean, of course, its not like i would hold against them. We decided to get mad, a civil marriage based on our own beliefs that we are both none the religious nonsectarian people had to go through the mud, which is the north of the office. And he pulled out a book, an ancient book, really big block of this. He went through the names until he got to your last name. He stopped at it and like, gave me a look and said, now jews, you know that i was like, oh, i dont, you have to find school, larry fine. Lets not stop at it to heaven. If you want to warn you, it took him an extra 2 minutes to digest that thought. According to most estimates, there are only a few dozen jews remaining in lebanon. All thats left of this once vibrant community is whispers, a synagogue, a jewish cemetery. The head of the Jewish Community in lebanon was afraid to speak to us because of the increasing sectarian tensions in the country. I came to lebanon because i wanted to understand the situation for Palestinian Refugees in this country. And when i came, it was in the middle of a battle in the, not a bit refugee camp in northern lebanon between the Lebanese Army and militants, from a group called the army, went into the care to try to root out 150 fighters or so they ended up destroying entire camp of 3040000, people leveling it to the ground, forcing the inhabitants from that care to leave the camp with nothing but the clothes on their back. After the fighting ended, i was documenting their kind of struggle to return to their refugee camp and not it. This isnt the 1st time that they have been made refugees. In 1948, the creation of the state of israel forced more than 700000 palestinians to flee their homes into neighboring countries like lebanon. Palestinians refer to this period as and which is arabic for the catastrophe. Its Palestinian Refugees comprise about half of the worlds palestinian population. There numbering in some 6000000. 00. And a lot of them are living in refugee camps without rights, without the ability to work without the ability to own and pass on land to their family members. And yet somehow they know so much about their homeland and they know so much that they want to return to it. During the time i spent at the camp, i became close to ziad, a showery, who i went back to visit. It had been over a year since we last saw each other. I should not only mean i should try to block you. Despite our closeness, i never told ziad that i had a jewish background. I was afraid of how we would react. I wanted to tell him, during my visit, just answered not have it refugee camp, and we have someone from the Army Intelligence whos discordia, us into the camp. This is actually how it started in 1948, with palestinians, but they had these little homes or little tents in many cases, and they basically just kept building on them. And thats what youll see with these benteke side, these prefabricated homes, they were given when they returned to not a bed in a few years ago. I arrived home made from temporary shipping containers provided by the u. N. I know that if you just want to live in our shoes for they come to us down the some other means if i shouted out, i dont matter if youre in jail, you know, i need somebody thats a bit of the stuff. Other people are going to have to even think, you know, and i think its like many refugees in lebanon, who are prevented by law from working in over 70 professions. Ziad is a laborer finding work wherever he can, but in the camps he has known 1st as a poet. His poems reflect Palestinian Refugees deep love for their homeland, an intense desire to return but that never was ok, but there was much too. One might need to keep. I view myself that i took that picture because it certainly cant. Thats my stuff at like 6 am still christian and thats him fishing on the spear in the field. You know philistine marshfield, full bodied nuns in a pool. Go since he couldnt seem to the man who out of being one who shouldve shopped for the steve. Oh shit. I did do a mean headed know what i would do in the studio in washington. Because a lot of the what does it do with it is just put us now on the street to get a chemist record dear john, for the science of how that ended a little bit. But i do want to be going to 15 down there. Yeah, ive got up to 40 would i love to do office to know what i thought was a single call for help that was best for you. I got off this next up, we assess how do i meet a site and i bust the door. May i leave, and if and when, and if i let all those yards parents fled their home in 1948, some of his family remains, including an arrant who stayed with her husband. Theyve only been able to correspond through letters and u. K. General phone call. But in the summer of 2000, both sides of the family travelled to the border. Were her brief moment, they were able to see each other again only for the 1st in 53 years. Shes facing a lot of truthful. Telling that if i think i will move on, let me tell you what it means when there was a difference, it was for the montreaux to jani can do more. He and job to job that on their own has of the thought that they thought they would do. I want to use our new people in the of that would model of the School District to say would what doing on the has an issue for you to not have but fuckin most 50 of them with something of a fan wanted a mild shock. You know, they meant to put a lot of thats up to him. I will add more now on for the stop on up on fed him a little see why you would have never seen a boy about how leave with milk and wish and will not be civil about how lived in the last year and walked on that road to the fullest while deanie kept lebanon, will have no idea of the why the photo would be building. Why the are there you can wonder how they fuck it in the now as i dont, how can i when i would get lost from the, from the still there no matter how those the d. A. s office thing is i missed all those years. And as you did about the thrills, i was showing no moon did it all solve it all though one what this what here it was hard to talk openly was yad, particularly about my jewish background because i felt uncomfortable being followed by the 2 army minders who took notes on everything. We said it breaks my heart to see this man whos been like a father to me, yearn for a place that he may never see. I see, i had to meet me again the next day. This time by the sea where we could talk more freely. Hes an avid fisherman, so i stopped by a store to buy him a pole so that when you go fis