1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organization or the p. L. O. Was founded. Made up of different factions the p. L. O. Has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. Setting up an independent Palestinian Organization was not easy. The 1st challenge the palestinians faced was to wrest control of their own destiny from the at abrasions. In early 1965 a series of attacks were carried out against israeli civilians and infrastructure. A previously unknown Palestinian Group calling itself a loss if i meaning the storm seen here in training claimed responsibility for the times. And also if i was started by a small group of palestinian activists in the diaspora they believed Armed Struggle was the only way to end back their last homeland. Breeze eames did not share this view they feared being drawn into a conflict with israel for which they did not feel prepared. Palestine had been an area of conf
Your interview with her. It will be fascinating to hear what she has to say. David theres a lot of talk already in washington about the next one, number four. How long before we see congress back together again to act on anything . Kevin i asked that to congressman french hill, and he gave me the timetable of 60 days. He said he wants to see in the conversations they want to see happen to see how this stimulus, which is 10 of gross domestic product, see how this stimulus impacts americans, and also to get an update on the Health Care Concerns of this, to see within the next two months whether america can get around this virus and be able to bring it into place. From his Vantage Point and other conversations that i had yesterday, sometime in the next two months, potentially some more wiggle room for financial institutions. That could be the next piece of this. But a bit too premature at this point to predict out. Guy fair enough. Thanks so much to kevin cirilli, our chief washington cor
Which are making their way into Media Coverage and in sport the English Premier League is suspended and may not be finished coronavirus. None of the star will see a meeting of Club Officials in london decided to call off all games incident least april before. Its just gone 1500 hours g. M. T. Which is 4 pm in madrid the developing news out of there is that spain has just declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic the Prime Minister says hell be mobilizing the military to contain new cases and that the number could surpass 10000 as early as next week also in europe ukraine barring all foreigners from entering the country as i mentioned as well the e. U. Setting up a 41000000000. 00 fund to help european economies we have correspondents all. All over the world with the latest updates we will start though with this which youre very familiar with the Johns Hopkins university virus tracker from the United States the headline number is these numbers have just been updated is
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