Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi tomorrow. I want to bring in cnns wolf blitzer, who is live for us in jerusalem tonight, and Anderson Cooper and ben wedeman, both in gaza city. Wolf, let me start with you if i may. A very tense day with claim and counterclaim coming almost on an hourly basis. There was going to be a ceasefire, then no ceasefire. Both sides trading sort of insults and then offering fig leaves. What do you make of it all . As we talk now in the middle of a night there, what do you make of where we really are with this . Well, throughout most of the day, i thought they were very close to reaching a ceasefire agreement. All the signs looked rather positive. Then all of a sudden, on this day, it was getting increasingly more tense in the southern part of israel and what weve been seeing in gaza, very, very bloody as well. You wouldnt know that they are apparently rather close to some sort of a deal, that the egyptian government, the new president , Mohammed Morsi, seemed
Secretary clinton sits down with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and with egyptian president Mohammed Morsi tomorrow. I want to bring in cnns wolf blitzer, who is live for us in jerusalem tonight, and Anderson Cooper and ben wedeman, both in gaza city. Wolf, let me start with you if i may. A very tense day with claim and counterclaim coming almost on an hourly basis. There was going to be a ceasefire, then no ceasefire. Both sides trading sort of insults and then offering fig leaves. What do you make of it all . As we talk now in the middle of a night there, what do you make of where we really are with this . Well, throughout most of the day, i thought they were very close to reaching a ceasefire agreement. All the signs looked rather positive. Then all of a sudden, on this day, it was getting increasingly more tense in the southern part of israel and what weve been seeing in gaza, very, very bloody as well. You wouldnt know that they are apparently rather close to some s
Europe. A lone gunman puts the world on high alert. Moft and google join forces to make it harded to find child abuse information online. Frances president has spoken in the last hour before the israeli knesset. He has yet to raise his opposition, saying his country will not allow teheran to arm armively of in nuclear weapons. Translator france wont allow iran to get hold of a nuclear weapon. We have nothing against iran which has a real history, nothing against its history to get reasonable energy. But neucialg energy is a danger to the but Nuclear Energy is a danger to the entire world as well. Hollande was given a warm welcome in the knesset. What else did he have to say . Music to israeli ears, since the french president has arrived here he has been fated by the israeli leaders as a man who is standing up to the threat as israel sees it from iran, that burst of applause there you heard in the knesset or parliament was repeated many times. There was a more muted response when once s
Ariel sharon died today at the age of 85. The former Prime Minister of israel discussed his autobiography, warrior on booknotes in 1989. Warrior chronicles mr. Sharons life from his childhood as the son of parents who worked on a collective farm to his enlistment at age 14 in the underground military organization to mr. Sharons resignation as minister of defense following a government commissions conclusion that he was indirectly responsible for the september 1982 massacre of palestinians at refugee camps. This is about an hour. Cspan general ariel sharon you have a book called warrior. Why did you write the book . Guest i thought it would be important to tell the story of the history of the state of israel. It struggles, its happiness, its agonies, its victories and defeats. It was a long story, a long struggle. I felt that looking forward one should emphasize some of the for the jewish people in the future in order to develop and continue. Cspan one of the most interesting things i l
Argues that u. S. Pursuit of a two state solution has failed miserably and is based on claims to land that are unfounded. This is just over an hour. Its my pleasure today to introduce a friend Mark Applebaum and thats where tim and extraordinary book that the only viable way to resolve the conflict is a one state solution. Im going to let her explain why. But in order to understand the magnitude of the task and the difficulties that her solutions will encounter, you have to remind yourself first of the nature. We are not emerged from the cold wacoldwar that began when they w Eastern Europe in the state and when they undertook enough pressure over enough time to bankrupt the system and forced to withdraw from the occupation. The successor swallowed one of its treasures in Eastern Europe and the response of our commander in chief has been to lecture that the times have actually passed and we are all people now living in the 21st century and we just dont do things that way. Not surprising