On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state for the first time — but with tough conditions and a refusal to stop building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, a top Iranian nuclear official dismissed concerns over his country’s nuclear program as “politically motivated gestures by some countries.” But the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran needs to do much more to prove to the world that it is not developing a nuclear arsenal.
That possibility — a potential military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program — greatly worries Israel, which has hinted that it might attack Iran to disable its nuclear capabilities.
Daniel Levy, the co-director of the Middle East task force at the New America Foundation and a former adviser to the Israeli government, joins Martin Savidge to discuss Israel’s reaction to the Iranian election, Netanyahu’s endorsement of a Palestinian state and hopes for progress in the peace process.
06/24/2009 :: 07:23:56 PM
Son of Jerusalem Says:
Boris: You have been using your cause as a refugee for 3000 years and you claim that you have the right to return to what is not yours. The Palestinians have documnets to show that they were there and left because of your brutality and the use of force. You have been looking into finding any link between you and Palestine, but you have falied all the time. What is the link netween the Jews and Palestine? I have not seen any so far