in part two of our conversation, we talk about u.s. support for israel, the boycott divestment and sanctions movement known as bds, and the blockade of gaza. >> israeli experts have calculated in detail exactly how dozenslories, literally, need to survive. if you look at the sanctions they imposed, i mean, even john kerry condemned them bitterly. their sadistic. just enough calories to survive. >> noam chomsky for the hour. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama warning of a lengthy bombing campaign in northern iraq as u.s. airstrikes enter a fifth day. over the weekend, u.s. warplanes and drones attack what the pentagon said were artillery positions in armored trucks along into the militant group islamic state near the kurdish regional capital. obama authorize the strike last week in what he called an effort to halt the militant advance on thel, where the u.s. has u.s. consulate and military personnel as well as to prevent a massacre of yazidis. on saturday, obama suggested u.s. bombing campaign could be linked to one. >> i don't think we will solve this problem in weeks, that is what you mean. targetings. trucks the islamic state from the air, kurdish forces were able to retake two towns in northern iraq on sunday. the u.s. has also dropped emergency relief supplies to tens of thousands to those ribbentrop without food or water. the kurdish official says up to 30,000 yazidis were able to cross over into syria before returning to northern iraq. in his comments on saturday, president obama emphasized his claim that the u.s. is launching airstrikes mainly to protect american personnel in erbil. >> wherever and whenever u.s. personnel and facilities are threatened, it is my obligation, my responsibility as commander-in-chief to make sure they are protected. and we're not moving our embassy any time soon. we're not moving our consulate any time soon. that means given the challenging security environment, we're going to maintain vigilance and ensure that our people are safe. >> president obama made no mention of the oil reserves in the kurdish area of northern iraq, which account for about one quarter of iraq's total and some of the largest in the world. exxon mobil and chevron are among several oil companies curly operating in iraqi kurdistan. in his comments, obama renewed u.s. combateturn forces to iraq. he also kept up his call for iraqi leaders in baghdad to adopt a more inclusive government. as obama called for an end to iraq's political deadlock, tensions in baghdad only grew. on sunday, iraqi prime minister said he would file a complaint against iraqi president fuad asum for failing to meet deadline to nominate a new prime minister, which maliki said should have come from his political bloc. maliki also hinted at a plan to run for third term, defying calls for him to step aside for new leader to repair iraq's sectarian divisions. he also reportedly deployed extra units of loyalist troops around key areas of baghdad, fueling speculation he is seeking to avert a potential coup. and what could be the clearest indication to date that the obama administration has broken with maliki, the state department issued a state department -- statement sunday saying it fully supports the iraqi president fuad masum. the statement continues -- as obama engages in new military action in iraq, his former secretary of state hillary clinton has publicly criticized him for not intervening in syria. in an interview, clinton called obama's lack of support for syrian opposition forces during the early days of the country civil war a "failure." a new 72 hour truce in gaza appears to be holding as talks to secure lasting don't resume in cairo. on sunday, nine palestinians died in israeli air strikes part of the start of the new cease-fire. one destroyed the home of the mayor of gaza city. approachingll is 2000, including at least 400 56 children. 420 5000has at least palestinians remain displaced, nearly one quarter of the population of gaza. about 12,000 homes have been destroyed or severely damaged. the un's has around half the population remains without or with very little running water. and residents in gaza continued to speak out about the israeli attacks that have killed family members and destroyed homes. 19-year-old girl and rafah survived an airstrike that killed 13 family members earlier this month. asleep.re some are watching television and others were asleep. when i woke up, i was in the ambulance and then they took me to the hospital. that is what i remember. forayed in the hospital four days. >> also in rafah, a resident whose home was destroyed in an airstrike this week and described fling just moments before the attack. when they said we have five minutes to leave, we ran away. they attacked two houses. mina my brothers houses were destroyed. we are residents. we work all our lives to make a house in them one minute, they destroy it. >> israel continues to carry out raids and attacks in the occupied west bank. on sunday, hundred and -- hundreds gathered for the funeral of a palestinian boy shot dead by forces near hebron. they said it was in response to rockthrowing protesters. protest continue against the assault on gaza around the world. tens of thousands of people took part in a global day of action saturday. an estimated 50,000 people in south africa gathered in cape town. police called it the city's largest rally since the fall of apartheid. in new york city, thousands of people marched in the united nations. ukrainian forces have wrapped up their offensive operation rebels in eastern city of donetsk. over the weekend, ukraine launched its heavy shelling of the city today after rejecting a humanitarian cease-fire proposed by the rebels. hundreds of thousands of people have fled. on sunday, the city's main hospital was hit by shells for the second time in less than a week. earlier today, rockets reportedly hit a prison in donetsk, taking up the alarm system and allowing more than 100 prisoners to flee. executive director human rights watch has been denied entry into egypt. kenneth roth was held for 12 hours at cairo's international airport along with human rights watch middle east director sarah leah whitson before being turned away. they had flown to egypt to mark the first anniversary of the mass shooting by state forces that killed hundreds of unarmed protesters opposing the overthrow president mohamed morsi. in a post on twitter, roth said -- protest have broken out near st. louis, missouri over a police shooting that killed an unarmed african-american teenager. 18-year-old michael brown was shot to death in ferguson on saturday afternoon after the conference of by police. the st. louis county police are claiming brown physically assaulted the officer involved and tried to reach for his weapon inside a police car. provided anesses sharply different account, with one saying brown was shot with his arms up as he tried to flee the officers fire. and heuad car pulled up said, get the f on the sidewalk. we told the officer we were not permitted and away from our destination and we would surely be out of the street. >> i witnessed the police chase after the guy. he was unarmed. he ran for his life. they shot him. he put his arms up to let them know he was compliant and he was unarmed. they shot him twice more and he fell to the ground and died. recently hadown graduated from high school and was due to begin college courses next week. at the shooting, brown's mother spoke about the loss of her son. from son just graduated high school. he didn't bother nobody. the unidentified police officer who shot michael brown has been put on ministry to believe. protest immediately erupted after the shooting, with demonstrators marching on the ferguson police station. house and crammed the sea -- thousands of people crammed the streets sunday night. at severalandalism local stores and on vehicles, smashing windows and stealing goods. the st. louis branch of the naacp is calling on the justice department to investigate the killing. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as the new 72 archers in gaza appears to be holding, we turn now to part two of our interview with noam chomsky and the world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author, has taught for more than 50 years. he is authored over 100 bucks including most recently, "gaza in crisis: reflections on israel's war against the palestinians." i spoke to noam chomsky on thursday. in the middle of the initial 72 hours cease-fire and i started by asking him about u.s. media coverage of the conflict by playing him a clip from a recent cbs "face the nation" show with bob schieffer. >> in the middle east, the palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a terrorist group that is embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause -- a strategy that might actually be working, at least in some quarters. last week i found a quote of many years ago by golda meir, one of israel's early leaders, which might have been said yesterday: "we can forgive the arabs for killing our children," she said, "but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children." >> that was cbs journalist bob schieffer. noam chomsky, can you respond? >> well, we don't really have to listen to cbs, because we can listen directly to the israeli propaganda agencies, which he's quoting. it's a shameful moment for u.s. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. as for the comment itself, the israel comment which he -- propaganda comment which he quoted, i guess maybe the best comment about that was made by the great israeli journalist amira hass, who just described it as "sadism masked as compassion." that's about the right characterization. >> i wanted to also ask you about the u.n.'s role and the u.s. -- vis-à-vis, as well, the united states. this is the u.n. high commissioner for human rights, navi pillay, criticizing the u.s. for its role in the israeli assault on gaza. >> they have not only provided the heavy weaponry, which is now being used by israel in gaza, but they've also provided almost $1 billion in providing the iron domes to protect israelis from the rocket attacks, but no such

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