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is a response to that comment which he and others found deeply offensive. >> well it's not just him speaking here that is destructive to the fabric of the relationship. it's the policies that he represents right? it's the policies that he represents in -- in the occupied palestinian territories where he runs a regime that's denying the basic human rights of palestinians. the expansion of israeli settlements against international law and stated u.s. policy and the hasty move towards confrontation with iran despite the fact that america is working with its allies around the world to try to avoid that. these are the things that are putting mr. netanyahu in direct confrontation not just with the white house, but with an american people who is tired of this approach and is growing concerned about what is happening to palestinians at the hands of this israeli -- >> let me bring in the rabbi, but your response to yousef. >> you know in 1938
he was serious about that. he was in the beginning of a negotiating process that in rabin stayed in power would have moved us in that direction. even ariel sharon was closer than benjamin netanyahu is. there's a larger gulf between president obama and benjamin netanyahu. plus benjamin netanyahu has been playing some pretty strident politics with the republican party. in 2012 when he invited mitt romney to come speak in israel. so there is a partisan gulf here that you see between a democratic president and a likud liko prime minister that you didn't see with sharon or itzhak rabin. >> thanks for joining me tonight. quick break. we're back in a moment.
to say in his speech to apac, the pro-israel lobby on monday at their big conference. i think he'll try to mend fences a bit and say he understands that israel needs to be a bipartisan issue and always has been and always should be. >> we'll be watching. elise labott our global affairs correspondent, thank you very much for the insight. no doubt you've been up for many hours on that plane, that long trip over here to washington. thank you, elise, very much. to russia now, vladimir putin's critic boris nemtsov was supposed to lead a rally protesting russia's involvement in ukraine and he was murdered less than 48 hours ago and today's rally in many ways turned into as you see, a huge tribute to him. tens of thousands of demonstrators marching throughout moscow and left leaving flowers at the shooting scene and his assassination taking place yards away from the
that you have a government threatening a second holocaust of the jews 6 million jews who live in israel and we are not going to be silent. we were silent in the 1930s and '40s and that resulted in 10,000 people being gassed in auschwitz. jews do not walk into gas chambers and we will rattle the cage and we're vocal and we deserve to live and we are tired of being shot in copenhagen brussels and france and we are going to be vocal and if it makes people uncomfortable, we're sorry. >> thank you very much. we have to get a quick break in. i'm back in a moment. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions from a trusted it partner. including cloud and hosting services - all backed by an industry leading broadband network and people committed to helping you grow your business. you get a company that's more than just the sum of it's parts. centurylink. your link to what's next.
constructive. >> susan rice was on charlie rose and the prime minister speaking out to oppose a deal that would leave iran within 12 months of a breakout to a nuclear weapon could destroy the fabric of the america-israel relationship that has to be responded to. if the national security adviser of the united states of america has an issue with the leader of a nation with genocide sifrmly lysichl -- we all have a -- like schreb neebinga and kos -- and iran is threaten the annihilation of the jewish people. it is perverse that these negotiations are taking place without a demand that iran first totally renounce their genocidal intent against the jews. >> the american jewish committee called this revolting. the anti-defamation league called it perverse. the jewish federation of north america called it outrageous.
and justifiable on israeli security grounds. barack obama going back to when he ran for president starting in 2000 has always been very very uncomfortable with that as israelis are and netanyahu is not and they come from a different political difference and now you see this playing itself out in iran. >> i want you to listen to this sound this morning from senator dianne feinstein. she's going to hear the address and she's not a supporter of the timing of it. she is an american jew, and here's what she said. >> he doesn't at all -- >> does that bother you when he says he speaks for all jews. >> yeah. i think it's a rather arrogant statement. i think the jewish community is like any other community. there are different points of view. so i -- i think that arrogance does not befit israel. >> peter, what do you make of those comments? >> i think she was referring to benjamin benjamin netanyahu's claim that
all right. before the break we were talking about this ad. let's pull it up for you. it was in "the new york times" this week and it's an image of susan rice paired alongside the phrase susan rice has a blind spot genocide. let me bring back the rabbi whose organization put out the ad. executive director of the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation. thank you, gentlemen, for both being with me as well. let me get yousef in here rabbi and i'll get back to you, as well. what is your take on this ad? what do you make of this ad. >> i think it's unfortunately, part of an effort to attack an administration that is attempting to act in the american national interest to resolve an issue of international concern with its partners on trying to make sure that iran is in line with its obligations under the non-proliferation treaty and what we've seen instead is this effort by folks like the rabbi and by benjamin netanyahu to
he speaks for the jewish people. he doesn't. he was elected by israelis inside original israel and outside of the green line most people don't have the right to vote but he was never elected by american jews or french jews or australian jews so no we may be interested in what he says. many jews like me feel a very strong connection to the state of israel but there's been a longstanding principle going back to the creation of the state of israel that israeli leaders do not have the right to speak for diasporate jews. he's not our president and not our prime minister. >> and what is the difference between the president now benjamin netanyahu and itzhak rabin and sharon. do you think at the end of the president's term we can get to that place or should we expect it? >> no. because are because itzhak rabin, like bill clinton, wanted the creation of a palestinian state.
you place with susan rice next to skulls and susan rice has the blind spot genocide. what is the action that you would like to see taken immediately in response to this because you even -- you even had madeleine albright coming out and speaking about this is aing anyone watching history can see ambassador rice is a patriotic public servant, conscientious voice versus genocide and staunch ally of israel. what do you want to see happen sir? >> we want the american public to stand up to our government and be a democrat or republican and demand that we use american power to protect innocents that are being slaughtered in places like the central african republic darfur and against israel. how can madeleine albright say that when the immediate successor to susan rice ambassador samantha power quotes susan rice as saying in a national security meeting in 1994 that wbr id="wbr11350"/> we cannot label rwanda a genocide because it will affect democrats in the midterm /b>
on tuesday morning. president obama, though not consulted about this invite. the president will not be meeting with the prime minister. the white house really saying they wished that they were consulted. let's talk about this with atlantic media editor peter bynart. thank you for being with me. >> my pleasure. >> i read what you've been writing about this and i would like you to address it. you wrote that you believe that the president, president obama understands israel through the lens of liberalism while netanyahu understands it through the prism of security and strength. do you believe that that is fundamental to the difference and the divide between these two men right now? >> to some degree. i mean benjamin netanyahu comes from a political tradition in which israeli permanent control over millions of millions of palestinians who lack citizenship, the right to vote in the country that controls their lives in the west bank who live under military law is considered normal and acceptable