January 20, 2021 12:21 am
Now that the dust has mostly settled, here’s what I think happened January 6 in Washington, DC.
President Trump called for his supporters to rally (and did they ever! There were easily a Million people at the event and surroundings).
President Trump gave his rally speech at which he detailed all the inconsistencies, impossibilities, illegalities, and obvious and apparent fraud and cheating in the election. He then asked his supporters to march to the Capitol to 1) show the Congress people how many American citizens and voters had serious doubts about the integrity, security, legality and fairness of the election, and 2) to give Congress people the nerve, the backbone to contest the election in the swing states.
of the settlements in the center of this international dispute. reporter: we re in the israeli settlement that s one of the oldest settlements in the west bank. it started in 1977 with just 16 families. 6500 israelis live here now, and these are some of their homes, these red-roofed homes you can see just behind me. if you look across this road on the other side of the road are palestinian homes. that s the edge of ramala, where the palestinian authority is based. what separates them, a fence, guard gates, the israeli military, which has a small base at the entrance of this settlement. we talked to a man today that s lived here for 32 years, he s raised his seven children here, and we asked him why he came and why he stays. we believe that we have the rights and the historic and moral legal rights to live here,
where the palestinian authority is based. what separates them? a fence, guard gates, the israeli military, which has a small base at the entrance of this settlement. we talked to a man today who s lived here for 32 years. he s raised his seven children here. we asked him why he came and why he stays? we believe that we have the rights and the historic, the moral, the legal rights to live here. and we seek peace. we re not looking to expel them. we re not looking to oppress them. we want to live here in our homeland as peaceful citizens. and we are happy to have them live here also. reporter: and the views are just as entrenched on the other side of that fence. families, palestinian families, who say they ve lived on this land for generations and they have no intention of leaving.
a fence, guard gates, the israeli military, wch has a small base at the entrance of this settlement. we talked to a man today who has lived here for 32 years. he s raised his seven children here. and we asked him why he came and why he stays? we believe that we have the right and the historic, the moral, the legal rights to live here. and we seek peace. we re not looking to expel them. we re not looking to oppress them. we want to live here in our homeland as peaceful citizens, and we are happy to have them live here also. and the views are just as entrenched on the other side of the fence. families, palestinian families who say they have lived on this land for generations and they have no intention of leaving. nbc s kelly cobiella, thank you. now to an important nbc special
spoke to lives very close to rumala. this is a palestinian city in the west bank where the palestinian authority is based. he s lived there for 32 years. he s on an israeli settlement, he s raised his seven children there, and he says, look, i see this as israeli land, as jewish land, and he points back to a text in the old testament as proof. here s a little bit more of what he had to say to us earlier toy. we re in the israeli settlement of bait, it s one of the oldest settlements. it started in 1977 with just six families. 6500 israelis live here now and these are some of these homes, these red-roofed homes you can see just behind me. if you look across this road, on the other side of the road are palestinian homes. that s the edge of rumala where the palestinian authority is based. what separates em? a fence,uard gates, the