today as a plea to end all the fighting in syria. activists are saying more than 40,000 people in syria have been killed. so many of them innocent civilians, all since the start of last year s uprising against the government and just yesterday an international peace envoy for the country sat down with syrian president bashar al-assad in a fresh bid to try to end the violence but will that be enough? did it even work? walid phares, fox muse middle east and terrorism analyst and author of, the coming revolution, the struggle for freedom in the middle east. walid, good to see you. thanks so much for joining us today. thank you. jamie: we worry every day about the people in syria and we sent a special envoy and we don t seem to be making any progress, what do you could be done, do you think. we have to understand the assad reg gile will not reg gile will not go before someone make them quit. past year, 2011, we, united states and allies were in
continue in egypt across the country there, more than 70% killed in a riot at a soccer game about a week ago and now the u.s. is threatening to cut off more than a billion dollars in aid, bringing us information and his expertise on that region, dr. walid phares, fox news middle east and terrorism analyst and author of the struggle for freedom in the middle east thank you for being here. thank you, harris. harris: and the men in egypt. what did they do wrong? harris, this is a very troubling story, talking about an event that never happened 30 years ago, for 30 years, some of the ngo he is, national republican institute and democratic national snult and human rights, international based have been operating in egypt for years, and iri basically led by mr. lahood was founded in 2005
in unity as the nation focuses on rebuilding. rick: from the withdrawal of the last american troops from iraq to the death of the world s most wanted mass murderer, osama bin laden, 2011 has been a pretty monumental year in the war on terror. what can we expect to see as we head into 2012? joining us now is fox news middle east and terrorism analyst, wally per i the author of the coming revolution, the struggle for freedom in the middle east. nice to see you. nice to sigh. rick: bin laden gone. al-awlaki government the propagandaist gone. pretty big gets in 2011, right? absolutely. in terms of al-qaeda, what s happening is that on the virtual level we see all the bosses going down. but what s happening on the horizontal level is that we see more franchise opening in yemen, somalia, jihad. in nigeria, africa, come back in
consider hamas as a terrorist organization and we are seeing a much weaker palestinian authority. all that indicates that next year we re going to see more influence to the islamist fundamentalists in gaza and less influence to the secular elements among the palestinians. rick: when we talk about israel and its relations to other regional countries, most notably iran, do you foresee any conflict as does israel trio do anything to stop iran in their nuclear ambitions? israel has two clocks. one that goes with us. they will coordinate with us any issue with regard to iran. but it has another clock and that one is its own national security. if they see and are sure that the iranians have the bomb and have the missile which they do have, then the israelis may on their own do an action against the iranians. that s something very risky and they know it. rick: we covered a lot of ground. the book is the coming revolution, the struggle for freedom in the middle east.
move forward with enrichment and with weaponization, then that is possible. he was very clear, though, that we don t know if that decision has been made inside the iranian regime. we certainly hope that they don t make that decision. heather: so what does that mean for the threat from iran? dr. walid phares is fox news middle east and terrorism analyst and author of the coming revolution: the struggle for freedom in the middle east, and he joins us now. thanks for joining u. sure. heather: when we hear pentagon press secretary george little saying but based on the best information available to officials, we don t know whether iran s regime has made one of the decisions that would be necessary to put its arms program on a fast track, that s concerning to say the very least. so i ask you, how great is this threat? well, the threat is real, it s strategic, it has been expressed by the iranian regime. unfortunately, in washington what we re dealing with are two messages coming from t