trauma familiar sight palestinians from the west bank need a special permission from israel to visit jerusalem. bethlehem the birthplace of jesus is decked out for the. christmas holiday here too the mood is far from festive but locals and this is just try to make the best out of the situation. as well to sit looks like this christmas will be bad after what happened in the west bank following trump s decision so everyone here is against italy and tourism is down to what they re. like to come to bethlehem today to show the baby the atmosphere the city i love and the circumstances we are in is dishonest dress because of the occupation at the. back in beit jalla it s just third round of the big game everyone s enjoying the long evening and trying to forget the uncertainty casting a shadow over this christmas. is for it s now or the winter olympics are
strong but this year when it s been more somber in the meantime and say anything at all when a crisis situation this is about the future of to a city that s holy to us too it s about our homeland that we are losing. a message for surrounds be jollier and bethlehem cutting off the roads to jerusalem images of trauma familiar sight palestinians from the west bank need a special permission from israel to visit jerusalem. bethlehem the birthplace of jesus decked out for the. christmas holiday here too the mood is far from stiff but locals and this is just try to make the best out of the situation. looks like this christmas will be better after what happened in the west bank following trump s decision so everyone here is against terrorism is down to. we
jerusalem and recognize it i happen to know a number of other european countries have been in touch with israeli officials saying they are seriously considering doing the same the europeans are siding with the arab muslims because they were afraid of terrorism they think if they don t they ll get even more service and it s all about fear they know the truth jerusalem is always been the capital of the jewish people it has never been the council of muslim people. so i think in time there they ll become more comfortable to recognize publicly this truth i mean if its use was holy for them frankton why did no arab leader visit jerusalem really controlled it i mean this is really a myth that has then the way to get to peace is the arabs have to stop paying arabs to murder jews stop naming schools the streets if they are killers of job and stop inciting but we re going to have to live in peace thank you very much more inclined president of the zionist organization of america for sharing your
lead in the u.s. role when it comes to trying to negotiate a peace accord between the israelis and the palestinians. let me bring in the rest of the panel as well. david rhode, this is a moment that has not happened before. it is. it s historic and it s impressive that he s sort of making this gesture and it s being well handled i think by the israelis, the fact netanyahu is not there that he is not there. not there and that has a lot of political significance. correct. they don t want to make it appear the u.s. is choosing sides. a lot of the bra have va dough bravado calls he s moving it to jerusalem it reversed. he doesn t want to incite palestinian protests and trying to keep the situation calm. this is also a president whoo throughout his campaign pledged that the united states would be what he would call a better friend to israel, more
those huge pieces of jerusalem stone to insert into the wall. this is a solemn moment for a sitting u.s. president to honor the holiest site in the world for judaism, for jews. it is a fraught gesture, because while it s avery important for jews, it s also very important for israelis that the president is being seen at a site in a disputed part of jerusalem, right. the israelis believe this is part of israel. america, the u.s. government does not recognize east jerusalem as part of israel. and yet the president is affirming the jewish character of jerusalem and the jewish character of israel recognizing judaism s most holy site is there in jerusalem. it would be a final status issue for negotiation, but it is really in the heart of israel, and certainly for all jews.