Khalidi, former israeli soldier eran efrati, and israeli journalist alaqsa amira hass. Then to the keystone xl pipeline. Any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change a vote, if not on this road, the yeas are 5 the 60 vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. In a dramatic showdown tuesday, the senate rejected legislation that would have forced approval of the keystone xl pipeline. The measure fell one vote short of the 60 votes needed for passage. Now republicans are threatening to bring the bill back in january. We will speak with cyril scott from south dakota and guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate republicans have blocked a sweeping measure aimed at reining in the National Security agencys dragnet surveillance. The usa freedom act would have ended the bulk collection of telephone records by requiring the nsa to make specific requests to phone companies for a users data, rather than vacuuming up all the records at once. It would also create a panel to advocate for privacy rights before the secret foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. The measure was a direct consequence of the 2013 leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden exposing unchecked government surveillance and data collection. But on tuesday, republicans helped defeat the bill in a 58 to 42 vote, two shy of the 60 needed to advance. The republicancontrolled house passed a watereddown version earlier this year. The measure faces an uncertain fate next year when republicans take full control of Congress Ahead of a june deadline to reauthorize the phone records collection program. In another major vote the senate , has narrowly rejected a measure that would have approved construction of the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. Fourteen democrats supported the bill along with all 45 republicans. But with 59 in favor the measure , failed to pass by just one vote. After the tally was announced, a man reportedly with the lakota tribe of south dakota burst out in song. Sergeant at arms will restore order. Order in the gallery. Republicans have vowed to resurrect the bill in january, when they hold the senate majority. Speaking ahead of the vote, House Speaker john boehner said a potential veto from president obama would be tantamount to calling the American People stupid. Keystone pipeline veto would send the signal that this president has no interest in listening to the American People. A veto and at an overwhelmingly popular bill would be a clear indication that he doesnt care about the American Peoples priorities. It would be equivalent of calling the American People stupid. Well have more on the senates keystone xl vote later in the broadcast. The unrest that has gripped jerusalem has escalated after a deadly attack on five israeli civilians. The victims were killed when armed palestinians stormed a synagogue during morning prayers. It was the deadliest attack on israeli civilians in more than three years in the worst in jerusalem since 2008. The dead included three usborn rabbis, a britishborn rabbi, and a police officer. Seven worshipers were injured. The assailants were shot dead by police. The popular front for the liberation of palestine has claimed responsibility. The attack came after weeks of unrest fueled in part by a dispute over jerusalems holiest site known to muslims as the noble sanctuary and known to jews as the temple mount as well as the continued of expansion of settlements and news jerusalem. After the killings, Israeli Settlers launched reprisal attacks in the occupied west bank, targeting a school and palestinian motorists on a road near have breath. At least five palestinians were wounded after Israeli Forces fired rubber coated bullets. More on the attack in jerusalem after the headlines. A new United Nations report warns the militant Group Islamic state has enough of a weapons stockpile to continue its war for territory in iraq and syria for up to two years. Much of the isis arsenal was stolen from the u. S. Supplied iraqi army, which has been overrun by isis fighters throughout the year. Report recommends sanctions to cut off the groups access to money and weapons, including the seizing of its oil tankers. Briefing the security council, the u. S. High commissioner for u. N. Hights the commissioner for human rights said fighting isis on a political level may be more effective than u. S. Led airstrikes. I am poor the council to overturn isils ideology of violence and that for the sake of the rights of all in iraq. Whether men or women, old or young. Ultimately, support given to the ideological front may be more effective than airstrikes in bringing an end to the longstanding suffering of the people of iraq. Also addressing the council, emergency relief coordinator valerie amos said over 2 million iraqis living under isis control are in need of urgent aid. There are currently 3. 6 million iraqis living in areas under the control of isil and affiliated armed groups. 2. 2 million of them are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. And despite acute needs, including for shelter, health, and food, in areas most impacted by the conflict, only meager amounts of assistance have been delivered to areas under isil control to date. India and cuba have reported new cases of ebola in citizens who were in west africa. A cuban doctor will be treated in geneva after contracting the disease in sierra leone, where he was a member of cubas 165member medical team. Meanwhile, an indian man is being held in isolation at delhis airport after recovering from ebola in liberia. The Obama Administration has asked congress to approve 6. 2 billion in funding to help the International Ebola response. On tuesday, president obama urged lawmakers to approve the funding before the december recess. Although we should feel optimistic about our capacity to solve the ebola could crisis, we cannot be complacent simply because the news attention on it has waned. We have to stay with it. That is why im calling congress to make sure that it approves, before it leaves, the emergency funding request that we put forward to respond to ebola both domestically and internationally. The United Nations has approved a landmark measure to seek the potential prosecution of north korean officials for crimes against humanity. On tuesday, the United NationsGeneral Assembly voted to refer abuses by the north korean regime to the International Criminal court. It comes months after a un investigation found north korean leaders could be guilty of major crimes, including statesanctioned killings, starvation and torture. The final vote was 119 to 19, with 55 abstentions. Cuba was among the countries to oppose the measure, calling it a tool to sanction and condemn developing countries. Missouri governor jay nixon has appointed a commission to make recommendations for dealing with the social and Racial Justice issues raised by the killing of unarmed teenager michael brown. Nixon unveiled the 16 member panel tuesday. Divisions,eal the exposed by Michael Browns death, and use this defining moment as the moment we begin to walk a different path. While there are clearly a diverse group, they are united by the shared passion to promote understanding, to hasten healing, to ensure equal opportunities and education and employment, and to safeguard the civil rights of all of our citizens. The move comes just one day after Governor Nixon declared a state of emergency in missouri ahead of the grand jurys pending decision on whether to indict the officer who killed michael brown. Darren wilson. Local gun sellers are reporting a spike in weapons sales as a decision nears. One store says it sold two to three times more weapons than normal in recent weeks, never to 30 to 50 per day. Missouri has executed death row prisoner leon taylor after his lastminute appeals were denied. Taylor was convicted of the 1994 murder of a gas station attendant in kansas city. He had sought clemency from missouri governor jay nixon and a stay from the Supreme Court , but both efforts were rejected tuesday night. Taylor, who is africanamerican was initially sentenced to death , by a judge after the trial jury deadlocked. When the judges sentence was thrown out, an allwhite jury then sentenced taylor to death. Defense attorneys argued he was penalized for successfully appealing his first conviction. Lawyers also cited a history of child abuse beginning at the age of five. Taylors execution is the ninth in missouri this year. President obama has ordered a review of the nations hostage policy following the execution of americans kidnapped by the Islamic State. Family members of the hostages have criticized u. S. Government policy of refusing to engage with their captors, including the payment of ransom. Freed isis captives have said american and british hostages suffered the worst abuses, because of the militants political grievances and their governments refusal to buy their freedom. A number of european hostages were released after their governments paid a ransom. But the white house says its new review will not include the prohibition on ransom payments. Administration Officials Say not paying ransoms ultimately protects more americans by making them less valuable targets. And more than a dozen lgbt couples have tied the knot in kansas, days after the states Marriage Equality ban was overturned. The couples exchanged their vows in a mass ceremony. It means we have some equality it is a new start. It can only go up from here. That is what im very happy for us and for other couples. On tuesday, the kansas Supreme Court ruled marriage licenses can only be issued in johnson county, setting up a new potential court challenge. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We turn now to jerusalem where five israelis died tuesday when a pair of palestinians armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a synagogue during morning prayers. It was the deadliest attack on civilians in jerusalem since 2008. The dead included three u. S. Born rabbis, a britishborn rabbi and a druze police officer. One of the slain rabbis, mosheh twersky, was from two of the most prominent families in orthodox judaism. Seven worshippers were injured. The assailants were shot dead by police. The popular front for the liberation of palestine claimed responsibility for the attack which came after months of mounting tension in jerusalem. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu accused palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of inciting violence in the city and said the killings were part of a battle over jerusalem. As a nation, we will settle the score with every terrorist and their dispatchers, and we have proof we will do so. That no one must take the lawn their own hands. Even if spirits are riled and boiling. We are in a Long Campaign against terrorism. It accompanies us. We always overcame it and we will this time as well. There are some who want to uproot us from our state capital. They will not succeed. We are in the battle over jerusalem, our eternal capital. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, which came after weeks of unrest fuelled in part by a dispute over jerusalems holiest site, known to muslims as the noble sanctuary, containing the alaqsa mosque, the third holiest in islam, and to jews as the temple mount because the two biblical temples once stood there. Strongly condemn this incident and do not accept under any circumstances the attacks on civilians. At the same time, we condemn these actions and we also condemn the attacks on the alaqsa mosque. Israel,irector of domestics are cured Service Security service, dismissed that abbas is out of the attack. He said a number of to the massacre including the murder of a palestinian teenager who was found burned to death in jerusalem in july and the discussions in the prayer auditable mount. We go to jerusalem where were joined by amira hass is the haaretz correspondent for the occupied palestinian territories. She is the only israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from gaza and the west bank. Why. You lay out the scene for us in jerusalem right now. Hi, amy. This came from the neighborhood where the murder took place. Before that, i havent been able to go to the neighborhood where the two perpetrators lived, but i went to some other palestinian neighborhoods of jerusalem. Both palestinian and israeli neighborhoods seemed to be very, very reserved. It was fairly clear on the palestinian part. So many, many policeman, border police. I even saw them whenever withhing the big balloons a camera over the neighborhood. The streets were almost empty. While in the neighborhood and the jewish neighborhood, things were normal, but very reserved, very restrained. I could not enter inside the synagogue because im not allowed as a woman to be there. I did talk to some people. Men who did the killing used to work in the neighborhood in some shops. That is what i was told, though i did not verify it yet. I did speak to some palestinians in jerusalem. What was remarkable is that they , do notpprove of it approve of this murder, but they share with those who perpetrated they share the sense of despair and anger that palestinians live with all the time. All the time. People do not dare to condemn, even though some people feel uncomfortable about such a killing, such an operation. By the way, i dont think the popular front adopted it officially. People say the two youngsters are members or fans of the popular front. Are notssarily members necessarily that they got in order from the popular front, but this is still to be seen. Yes, it is very, very tense. I was making the comparison between the neighborhood where , veryived, the two men in the, no investment livelihood, and the welfare of the people. While this neighborhood is relatively a new neighborhood under lands of the village of the destroyed palestinian spacious, many new newcomers, immigrants from other countries. The two guys work there, i think they faced every morning they the facing every day israeli apartheid, very clearly. And there is no [indiscernible] leadership to offer them struggle with hope, a whichle that yields fruit gives hope for a change. Everything summit he told me also from the popular front, we are tried me, everything. We try negotiations, we try demonstrations, weve tried nice relations with jews weve tried so many things and nothing brings change and stops this reality of apartheid. , how would you describe the tension in recent weeks in jerusalem compared to previous years and the ongoing conflicts between twos and palestinians in jerusalem . Daily confrontations with the police. There is more police, there is more confrontations. There are many, many racist manifestations on the part of israeli jews in the streets of jerusalem against palestinians. So there is fear among palestinians to go and spend time in the west side of the city were most of the are many work as well as to or many of them more and more police. Especially the old city and entrance to alaqsa somebody told me it is like were going to a theater and we have to take a ticket from the police in order to enter alaqsa or even enter the old city. A guy who lives in the old city tommy, i cannot go to my own house. The police are there. There are checkpoints. They dont let me go from this place or go and people who do not live in the old city, you feel the israeli measures to remind palestinians in jerusalem that they are not natural residents of the place, natural natives of the place, but they are actually there on probation. They live in jerusalem on probation provided they behave nicely our behavior according to the israeli regulations. This is the sense you get. You get the sense more than ever as athey are hearing this gesture, not because it is their native right. In october, israel shut down the alaqsa compound in the old city of jerusalem are the first time in 14 years following the activist. F an Israeli Palestinian president abbas condemned it as a declaration of war on the palestinian people. The site known to jews a andable mount host them out the dome of the rock. A resident of jerusalem said he was turned away after arriving for his morning prayers. This is a collective punishment for something we had nothing to do with. Theres no fair government here. Justice should be the basis for governance, but there is no justice here. Allow jews to go to the root willing wall without harassment yet the every day a palestinian is killed. Why are we the ones being punished . That was jamal tawfiq, a resident of jerusalem. Five is really choose have been killed, three of them american citizens born of the United States. Where do you see this going from here . The most difficult question. The two sides are giving signs. Heyre ready for escalation the more israeli measures, the house of one of the perpetrators running over attack, his house was demolished at night. Probably the houses of the two nephews or cousins will be demolished also soon. Israeli claimed officially theyre going to use more collective measures against the entire palestinian population in jerusalem. Also they declared they planned some gesture in the west bank like opening roads that were closed down to palestinian traffic and now they decided not to have this gesture. So there is on this part, clearly in intention to escalate. As usual, in the past so many years, they do not listen to the message of the palestinians. Tools tomproves its repress those demonstration