dietrich bonhoeffer is a guy who stood up before anybody else would and said stop. don t you see what we are doing? the churches in germany, they would sing louder, as the trains of jews would go by. the churches would sing louder so they couldn t hear the cries of the jews. we have to take a stand now, before it becomes more difficult. so, the point of tonight s show is i would like to encourage you and america to take a stand and know what you really believe. i guess we should start at the beginning. first, so many americans don t even know history of israel. and boy, you can t really kind of a long history. kind of hard to do in two-and-a-half minutes, but that s why we did it in a short cartoon form. here it is. now, history of the middle east in a couple of minutes. chapter one.
p tripoli yoe tloefr, but if it drags on, there will be second thoughts because they can t be honest with their own people and i don t believe that arabs don t fight each other. the egyptians attacked libya at one time, iraq invaded kuwait, saudis were involved in the conflict last year. this is nonsensical, but they want to create the impression that there something holy abou arabs not engaging in something beyond criticism. so i think the commitment will hold because moammar gadhafi is universally reviled in the arab world and he created the kind of mess in africa and if arab countries that will last for a long time. his damage is beyond libyan border. and as you pointed out, he
we ll get more details in 30 minutes when the pentagon holds a briefing. right now joining me live from cairo is ron allen. what have you been hearing and seeing there? reporter: so far there have been no air strikes that we ve heard about. we heard what you were referring to, apparentry that s been happening near the gadhafi compound. the other thing we ve been trying to keep track of is the concerns expressed by the arabs. there are plans for more meetings. and that is a key element of the entire operation because without support from that operation, it s difficult to see how the operation gets support in the arab world.
prison, they want to throw out these guys. gadhafi seem to be one of the anchors of the old ora and they want him out. there will be costs and there are dangers particularly for the u.s. because the perceptions of the u.s. are complex and people are not particularly trusting of the intentions of the west. and there will be another day to judge that. but for now, they want gadhafi out and, therefore, they want the coalition to win. so net-net, will the perception will this be a win for president obama the way he s handled this? i think so. keep in mind that the united states is taking a back seat here. the arabs don t see the americans leading this charge. they see the british and french leading the charge. but of all of the western powers involved, they are winning brown any poinoig points with the ar people.
his fellow conspirators and plotters hijacked this country from a feeble and decent monarch in 1969. that s september 1. then there is a republic of february 17, which is the republic that has emerged out of the struggle against moammar gadhafi. the moral scandal of this fight, if you will, is that the people of libya, the people of february 17 are fighting and dying alone. when you realize, when you listen to the secretary-general of nato who says this is not a nato problem, and when you realize that the arabs are not going to ride to the rescue, it s very interesting. the africans intervened in african causes and saved their own people but the arabs don t. when you realize the eu is implicated in many of the crimes and thievery of moammar gadhafi, and then when you listen to american diplomacy and you realize we have written off this crisis, i feel this young woman who spoke to you knows so much about the world. and this is the humbling dimension of this story. every person you broug