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President has fired his defense secretary donald trump said marcus would be replaced by the head of the countrys Counterterrorism Center but Christopher Millers only set to be in place for just over 70 days before joe biden is inaugurated as commander in chief will be trumps 5th secretary of defense. Yes nick armenian government in nagornokarabakh has confirmed that as a very forces have taken a key city they had initially denied that hsu sure on the road to the regional capital had been captured thousands of armenians are fleeing as area forces close in on static out what ive been hunted has more from 7 in armenia. This statement of the spokesperson of nagornokarabakh which was posted on facebook would actually be deferred admission from the armenian side that things did not go so well in shushi over the past 24 hours ever since president. In baquba said that. She was now under the control of the forces or what we heard on this side were deny both the ministry of defense in your event and the authorities in the going or care about saying that the fight was ongoing this morning actually saying that they were managing to put up a strong resistance and had managed to push back the their way forces from this south of shushi now now over here is the opposite from the spokesperson of nagornokarabakh he actually also added that the is very forces were within reach of state by the kurds that would be. Another huge blow for armenia and over the past 48 hours weve actually seen civilians fleeing in large numbers as they plan occurred i spoke to some of them who described really very frightening situation from their point of view constant fighting calls that shelling and they said that life was it was not possible anymore in that town foreign journalists were also allowed asked to evacuate as the panic and over the past 48 i was a new round of talks aiming to bring an end to libyas conflict is getting underway in the capital 75. 00 libyan representatives have been invited symbolizing the 75th anniversary of the United Nations which is leading the discussions last month the countrys 2 rival administrations announced a permanent cease fire which has largely held the talks are intended as a way to set up the groundwork for possible elections. Those the top stories do stay with us as their correspondent is up next of it with more news after that thanks for watching. My name is Matthew Cassel im a photographer and a journalist a group jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation. My support for palestinians has made me feel like an outsider in my own community and my family its made me question whether its possible to be both jewish and a critic of zionism. I was raised with the narrative of israel is a dream realized for the jewish people a safe haven after the horrors of the holocaust. But my world changed when i crossed my 1st israeli checkpoint i was 21 it was the 2nd intifada and id never seen war an occupation. That moment had a profound impact on me. Ive spent much of the last decade living and working in the middle east documenting the palestinian plight. My journey takes me home to the u. S. To explore with zionism means in America Today and the jewish communities relationship to israel. I. This is chicago my hometown where i grew up my mom and dad spent several years traveling and teaching in afghanistan before coming back to raise my sister and me. They divorced when i was a kid and my mom left chicago but my dad so lives here. My dad is not Health Issues since i was a teenager but his biggest struggle was being uninsured. Watching him cope with his illness as an uninsured american was one of the things that drew me towards fighting for social change. He dance just to put in. As a skill and im going to comfortable and. Safe. From the lines i think are good you look a lot better than last time to go another few hard ground operation. Thousands of people die and all the time and you know because they dont have insurance. You know and its not its the money but its the psychology you create you know just everything stacked against you. And the little guy gets screwed. Down easy country. So that. If you live in a. Shit in our. Shit or. My mom raised me with a strong sense of social justice which for her stems from a jewish faith. She took me to Hebrew School and i was bar mitzvah that at 13. These days identify as secular but what i took away from my religious upbringing was the importance of fighting against injustice and standing up for the oppressed. d years later i applied those lessons to israel and saw that palestinians were being denied their rights. The Israeli Palestinian conflict is a polarizing issue within the Jewish American community including within my own family when my mom saw me at a protest in chicago carrying a palestinian flag she told me i was no longer her son we stopped talking i was devastated to see the politics become this personal. I went to speak with ari hart who are grew up with in chicago ari is now a modern orthodox rabbi in new york and over the years we have been able to have an open dialogue about the conflict in israel palestine. Ari was preparing for to shop for a jewish holiday that commemorates the destruction of the 1st and 2nd temples in jerusalem over 2000 years ago i mean i think the idea that theres brokenness in the world and that theres brokenness in israel that resonates very deeply with me and that the world is not perfected yet and that theres that theres profound alienation and this profound exile in the world and that we need to be working towards fixing that thats how i resonate with you. So this is the library yeah this is called the bait me drosh like madrasa actually you know like study house of study during the week its full of tables and about 40 people sit in this room and study these books out loud in like a very literal heartening specker we can practice that you sit face to face with a study partner its kind of like you almost clash like youre supposed to argue supposed to kind of get interview like oh you think it means this what i think it means this is about ideas its a fight over ideas and its like a holy fight that kind of debate is all the thing theres a famous joke about. The mother censor child off to you shiva you know through the use of the Jewish School here and when the child comes home she doesnt ask you know did you get a good grade or did you give a good answer she asked oh did you ask a good question today asking good questions thats the heart of Jewish Education i think it comes from both the texts and also from the experience of being different in a lot of different you know societies throughout history i think what karl marx and freud and people who really thought about things in from a different perspective than the than the normal stream at the time i think that was part of their jewish experience you know its your that can agitator a little bit just because youre kind of different so you identify as a supporter of israel as a zionist yeah ok how did you how did you come to that i believe in zionism because i believe that the jewish people is something unique to offer to the world in terms of ethical and spiritual moral teachings and i think that the state of israel is the the. Best thing thats happened to jewish people in 2000 years is the greatest opportunity weve had to actualize our highest values i think is really interesting we were talking about how kind of you know questioning is the essence of judaism but that doesnt seem to be happening a lot these days within the Jewish Community there are some sectors of the Jewish Community that are more open to questions and some that are less open to those questions israel is like a dream and when the dream gets realised its complicated because almost in the dream its the reality i grew up with a similar narrative about this dream being realized in israel you know for the jewish people. But then when i went and actually saw what was going on there is one i saw the other side of it which is a nightmare to be quite frank for the palestinians on the other end and all of that just seemed the opposite of the lessons i had i had grown up with being raised jewish its hard to see the suffering of of someone who is was trying to harm you its also hard to hold 2 narratives its hard to hold the narrative of wow this was the best thing that happened to my people and this was like the worst thing that happened to that people and thats a very difficult place to be and feels like you have to choose you know and i personally believe its possible to hold both and i think there are jewish leaders and jews who do who are able to occupy both narrative side its not easy its very difficult. Hey they were yeah im still close with my sister lane shes a Community Organizer in the bronx i joined her for a protest she was helping to organize in new york so whats going on here today why are these people out here and these are the protesting the murder of trayvon right whats your role in all this and more good thing with the kind of people we had out here we had to put together the call for this night like a profile body weight and i looked away did i just we did not so you know i just see justice. Oh my god or i live in the south bronx its the poorest congressional districts in the United States you have kids getting harassed the stats are frustrated brutalized some cases even murdered by the police i wanted to talk to laney about what she recalled from our jewish upbringing and what she remembered about my mom disowning me youre right its a very good. Where you are happening in 2006 when i had a falling out with with mom. Yes thats right can you talk about it because i. Can just talk about what happened i think i. Understand what happens. So what was it like for jewish. Men a lot of bagels and bialys thats the only thing thats going to. Take away from it is the beer it was the bagels part of it was that i never felt like every lead its a religion but especially as i grew up and started somewhere and more about the role of judaism specifically in the context of israel that i felt like it distanced me even further and i can see a lot of the people around me a lot of the jewish folk that i grew up with they started to have similar feelings some young jews of my generation like my sister have grown disenchanted with judaism in part because of its connection with israel. The Jewish American community is predominately progressive on social issues but its hard to find Common Ground on the issue of palestinian rights because many are unwilling to criticize israel. I went to the annual celebrate israel day parade in new york to gauge how strong support for israel among some in the community. The mayor of new york and other politicians could be seen marching up for top and in. Fact. I was. Why you are here i love this is wonderful country with very generous and Beautiful People that happy to hear that some people are critical of israel and its treatment towards palestinians in the occupation they have to get better educated and they were there with you. They would you again they would reduce they would not only the one in. The city might go the mayor said it best you know when the parents put down their weapons of the peace when its whats on their weapons and we know its there is a Palestinian People and they deserve a state of their own but that has to be done in a way thats going to protect this. Hes hard every jew is designed everyone is going to do is youre going to. Be these are not hard lines. So much time are there that his state of israel stockholm god will make all the other thats why im here to show my support there too is a source for you know the route there in support of directly by my living there i think its also israel survive a lot of times the kind of upon the support of other nations such as america what about the treatment towards the palestinians and the occupation. What about it how do you describe whats happening in the west bank and the way i was raised my appreciation for the fact of the that israel the entire land of israel is the home of the jewish people i dont know if you guys i do not view this occupation there is a necessity for a jewish home when there was a right look and if you look at if you look at history world historical right to me it was home but how do you justify the creation of a homeland for jewish people in israel and the loss of a homeland for another people the palestinians the homeland i think there really is now studying state of fresh my own history if there was there wasnt a palestinian state there was a people who were living there is that not right their health their policies they were after all jewish they will still be living and living in the biblical land of israel people understand the complexity of the region understood that it wasnt just primarily jews primarily arabs its what the u. N. Proposed a post a partition is a partition plan theres a state for them that is there for us but except. Here we can all my earlier understand the pressure to sympathize or empathize with whats happening with the palestinians who are facing their own kind of oppression. So do i my own friends that i have and i have a lot of guilt about the way theyve been and its not its ourselves that situation why do you feel the guilt youre not israeli as. I think she was that recognizing that its my state now really i got it like i. Got. It where were you born 10600. 30. 3. The constitution. Theyre still going through things i can imagine if youre here today that the jews are safe yes because of israel the federal government. Is not a government. I think its a 100 percent but it was the only people that i found critical of israel where a small ultraorthodox jewish group called military carter. They believe that the creation of the state of israel challenges Gods Authority we know the holocaust our feelings died its in our blood yet were not going to speak to god that were going to turn away from you would say that we dont respect the believe in your protection im not but its a catastrophe the concept of oppressing the people stealing the land thats not the tickle to what it truly is and is certainly d. The strongest political message of the day came after the parade when rightwing american and israeli politicians took the stage overwhelming majority of the American People will stand with israel whatever it takes. And people will laugh a little flavor no effect no bad though maybe that is buil than anything im going to put on the flame and i want to thank you for that and people dont think about making the fusion that were being given back to the 96 to 59 and telling you how you feel every 3 to 4 will you 2 will know it to happen no matter who will be there was. Not the one being thing you. At the parade i saw many People United with fervor for israel and it seemed that their support for israel was strongly connected to their jewish identity i felt even more alienated from the Jewish American. The narrative of israel built on the memory of the holocaust doesnt leave much room for understanding the palestinian story i went to the museum of tolerance in new york part of the Simon Wiesenthal center a Jewish Human Rights Organization i wanted to hear their perspective on the conflict in israel palestine the holocaust happened but why did it happen will happen because hate speech happened because of bowling its because of bigotry having to all these terrible things so our job is to basically educate the next generation of people to not let that happen again. 3 a pair of images these are you know images that were in advertisements around the u. S. Over the last you know 200 years. You know new kind of looking well how does that make people of different race or creed or colors feel yeah everybody find something offensive here you know at some point everyone there was video is a funny advertisement oh it wasnt funny and everyone. Knows that what. This video shows extremists of i must. Talk about a little bit what social justice means to the greater Jewish Community in the u. S. To go back to Civil Rights Movement you know there were so many issues that were involved with the africanAmerican Community and i think social justice has always been something really really important and have you ever tried to take that lens of seeing oppression where it happens and look at it from the palestinian perspective yeah absolutely look you know i just i dont see it i dont see it quoted with most of the things you see around here you know you see rwanda here you see darfur you see mass killings i mean you see syria where over a 100000 people have been killed my civil war but you know a lot of people do equate it to lets say the Civil Rights Movement in this country where you have an oppressed minority that is struggling for equal rights in the same way that martin i i dont i dont see the comparison at all i just dont see it is that antisemitic to be anti scientists to be opposed to the idea of zionism you know i des