Following the expulsion from jordan p. L. O. Leader Yasser Arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. There were hopeful signs of the early seventys but the optimism was all to come crashing down. To the people here at. The last summit say. It will feel. Just good model not only a new idea. But the last model are not only new ideas about just what it was but i mean a. Little small following a day in november 974 yes a lot of hearts received a standing ovation at the General Assembly you know. He had spoken over a peaceful solution for christ in the months. For the guerrilla leader standing among statesman it was a crown bitch. Out of touch journey to the un had begun several years earlier. Following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause. Are you saying the same time that there will be an increase in terrorism. No i am saying there will be an increase in people who are here
Architecture hases been in their interests and has been good for the region. This is one of the big dangers architecture,es that you see those interests, those disparate interests of each country playing outk in different and dangerous and destabilizing ways, and thats one thing the United States needs to keep in mind. Once we retreat other things with try to fill that vacuum which are not our interests. Just again, on the topic of u. S. Iran cooperation, even if you posited that maybe im wrong and maybe there are these common interests, would we still want to see u. S. Iran cooperation . I think the answer is, no. First, lets think about the efficacy of iranian involvement in iraq. Its not clear from irans experience in syria which i believe the ambassador will address iran has the able to defeat a group like eye is . In isis in away that stabilize the country. They havent been able to do that in syria. In syria, you seal the Assad Government has managed to avoid collapse, managed to
Host the Bloodiest Day was yesterday so far in the tensions between the israeli army and hamas forces. Later today, were focusing on Foreign Policy with an event we are covering at 2 00 eastern time, the middle east policies of, and next, our focus is a rock. We are going to take it to the atlantic counselor for live coverage. On the threatsg between iraq and syria, also known as isis, and it will analyze u. S. Policy in the middle east. This figures will include the iraqi master to the u. S. And the Deputy Defense department secretary. Life coverage here on cspan with the Atlantic Council. Thanks for joining us on this monday. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Again, we are live this morning as the Atlantic Council here in washington, d. C. , is hosting a discussion on the escalating violence in iraq and the threat of the Islamic State of iraq and syria, known as isis. Analysts will look at u. S. Policy in the middle east. Among the speakers, we expect to hear from the iraqi ambass
Opposition to terrorism as a tool and tactic and to those groups who use that tool. Theres obviously a lot of reasons for that. I do not see that same interest flowing out of iran. One other reason that the United States opposes isis is because we support the sovereignty and stability of iraq. This is the other offsite a common interest between the u. S. And iran in iraq, the stability of iraq. Again, ask yourself is top interest in iraq . Remember, countries have hierarchies of interest. I do nothing we have seen iran behave in a way that suggests that the stability of iraq is iran a possible stop interest or even necessarily one of its top interests. When the u. S. Was involved in any work in trying to help iraqis build a stable and sovereign democracy, iran was completely unhelpful. Iran was the chief agent for promoting instability in iraq in an effort to drive u. S. Forces out of iraq, which was an interest of irans which shrank any assurance about the stability of iraq, even when
So the Iraqi Government no longer controls all of its territory, and the conflict is taking on new dimensions with the kurdish government in the north and announcing a referendum to pursue independence and it has deployed its own forces to secure two large oilfields in kirkuk. The startling advance of isis across iraq has prompted many regional and Global Players to reassess their policies in the middle east, so this is a big time of flux among the outside players, as well, and that is why we wanted to have this very discussion. Certainly, the United States, key gulf states, iran, syria share certain selected interest in defeating isis in the overall stability of iraq, but it is quite clear, too, that this commonality will have very significant limits, and we will see if it can even enable selected collaboration on very discrete tasks associated with this great challenge. We heard u. S. And iranian officials recently signaling a guarded willingness to cooperate to avoid an intensificat