premier league match. now on bbc news: dateline london. hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together british commentators, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline, london. this week, pulling israelis and palestinians back from the brink of war. and decision day looms for tokyo 2021 does japan want to host the pandemic games? joining us this week, jeffrey kofman, a canadian broadcaster and former us news anchor who s worked extensively in the middle east as a correspondent. and the british journalist jonathan sacerdoti provides comment and analysis about israel and its neighbours. jonathan also campaigns against anti semitism. with me in the studio is celia hatton. celia also hails from canada. she is the bbc s asia pacific editor. good to have you with us and good to see both of you there too, albeit remotely. good to have you on dateline. the exchange of rocket fire, the
a similar way that you see in the us, where you have this hard right that is intransigent, netanyahu, prime minister netanyahu, playing to that franchise, and so it really builds on this. i don t know if i agree withjonathan s perspective on this potential civil war let s not call it that, let s be careful not to overstate it but this internal clash is in many ways the crisis. the israeli.fight with hamas is something we ve seen before, in 2014. this new dimension of internal strife, while it may not reflect, asjonathan notes, the broader feelings ofjewish israelis and arab israelis, the kind of horrific violence we are seeing, person against person, within israel, has the ability to undo a lot that has been built over the last decades, in trying to make israel a multicultural state and to include arab israelis in part of the democracy. clearly not a complete project by any means, but this is a huge setback. and even netanyahu, who likes to pit one side against the other,
now on bbc news, dateline london. hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together british commentators, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, broadcast and blog for audiences back home from the dateline, london. this week, pulling israelis and palestinians back from the brink of war. and decision day looms for tokyo 2021 does japan want to host the pandemic games? joining us this week, jeffrey kofman, a canadian broadcaster and former us news anchor who s worked extensively in the middle east as a correspondent. and the british journalist jonathan sacerdoti provides comment and analysis about israel and its neighbours. jonathan also campaigns against anti semitism. with me in the studio is celia hatton. celia also hails from canada. she is the bbc s asia pacific editor. good to have you with us and good to see both of you there too, albeit remotely. good to have you on dateline. the exchange of rocket fire, the fear and fatalities be
for tokyo 2021 does japan want to host the pandemic games? joining us this week, jeffrey kofman, a canadian broadcaster and former us news anchor who s worked extensively in the middle east as a correspondent. and the british journalist jonathan sacerdoti provides comment and analysis about israel and its neighbours. jonathan also campaigns against anti semitism. with me in the studio is celia hatton. celia also hails from canada. she is the bbc s asia pacific editor. good to have you with us and good to see both of you there too, albeit remotely. good to have you on dateline. the exchange of rocket fire, the fear and fatalities between palestinians living in what much of the world calls the occupied territories and israelis is familiar, even if it hasn t been seen on this scale for seven years. what s shocked even the most battle hardened observers of this decades old conflict is the way violence has erupted on the streets of israel itself. it may be thejewish state, b
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