c-span. watch on demand at c-span.org. listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. next a discussion from the arab center on the implications of the u.s. drone strike that killed iranian general qassem soleimani. other topics addressed include the trump administration s policy toward iran and the impact of u.s./iran tensions on security in iraq. good afternoon. my name is tamara kharroub, i m the assistant executive director and senior fellow at the arab center in washington, d.c. thank you for joining us for this important and timely discussion focusing on the implications, regionally and internationally, of the recent developments between and escalations between iran and the united states and the killing of qassem soleimani. as you know, on january 3rd, an american airstrike ordered by u.s. president donald trump killed the top iranian military commander qassem soleimani. iran responded by attacking two military bases in iraq that host american forces. the last weeks
And even if they caught them, only 15 of them will be brought to justice and will be persecuted. So basically you have secular gangs are attacking palestinia palestinians, and only the first week of this month 30 such attacks took place against the palestinian population were civilians of the west bank. 142 so far this year, so attacks against palestinians. What do you expect the palestinians to do . If people under occupation, whose human rights have been denied, an occupation that is the longest in recent history, approaching their 50 year mark in two years, a government that is not committed to peace does not have an agenda for peace, for what they did since they took over in 2009, increase settlement activity by 20 , and all what we are seeing on the ground is a consolidation of the occupation. More settlements. And didnt expect us to honor the agreements. While they themselves are not abiding by agreements that they signed. This current Prime Minister of israel signed the memorand
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The next challenge into the same trouble that we were just, or we are coming out of. And that is the important. Iraq does not and should not take this task alone. I do not believe that we do have an iraq in the expertise to do this. Iraqis as a government, as a Political Class need to be humble a little bit and look at what other countries have done the postconflict situations, learn from their own history and the history of others come and seek as much expertise rather than invent the wheel or get the task to again similar to the system of politics in iraq and end up not doing the job right and having to redo it time and again. So that is the other issue. And the third is reconciliation. And the last to reconstruction and reconciliation should be hand in hand. They dont have to be one after the other because i said already it is to come first before anything else. What is reconciliation . A couple of days ago Daniel Serwer and myself on the conference and it was a talk about the confl
Because im on the fence as to whether theres doctrinally an issue. There might be an issue. So, i think thats why. I think a ban is necessary for normative reasons. However, however, the examples we give as to the harm that derives from bulk collection, especially 215 bulk collection, is a result of the use of the data. Again, i think thats i distinguish collection and use. Can we saw recently the Obama Administration had considered ending bulk collection before the snowden revelations. Would a ban on bulk collection harm Law Enforcement and be a bad idea . Why arent you answering that one . Yeah, why . Why arent you . Really subtle moderation here. Look im not sure those accounts about how it was considered whether or not to end the bulk metaData Collection under 215. Im not surprised it was being considered. I think those programs should always be subject to a cause benefit analysis. But ill be interested to hear the followon reports as people reaction to that initial report about ho