Make vur your mute your television or radio when you call in so you wont feed back. Or you can send us a tweet. Same question, should the u. S. Invest more in africa . We will get to your comments and your posts in just a bit. E u. S. africa summit getting underway today in washington. It is a largely economic gathering. African leaders converge on the summit. They write it is a largest gathering of african government officials in washington in an effort to bolster the u. S. Relationship with one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies but preparations for the historic summit have been overshadowed by the march of the ebola virus in west africa, a crisis that has claimed more than 700 lives and has International Health officials scrambling for solutions. Here are some comments from the or as well. Ct some have cast africas otential in a new light. An unprecedented threeday conference between u. S. Officials and more than 40 african heads of state underscore the gains that have been mad
So a question about domestic issues in israel. What is israel doing to aid and assist its israeliarab citizens . To aid and assist. Well, israeliarab citizens are, i talked about being uniquely blessed. They are uniquely blessed as arabs in the middle east to live in a free country. Israeliarabs enjoy the rights that no other arabss in the region enjoy, and they can be full members of Israeli Society. And i think israel should not be embarrassed of what has happened in the last 65 years regarding israeliarabs. We should be proud. Because we have built a thriving democracy. It is not perfect. You always have room for improvement, and in all societies on earth you can always improve it. But israel understands something. I say, well, israel should not be judged by the standards of dictatorships. You are democracy, and you should be judged by the towards of democracy by the standards of democracy. Thats true. Judge israel by the standards of a democracy that is threatened. Israel is the mo
Disaster worldwide. So of course i do not call for any interference in iraq and reject it, even if it is the United States but friends also should provide advice and support and should play a role in order to bring the parties closer together. They should support their friend when they are in trouble. I mean we need weapons. We need political stand. We need an economic support and the United States need iraq to be a stable country to be secure, to be able to produce energy, to be democratic. All these are american and iraqi interests alike. Following the withdrawal of the American Forces we felt that iraq was left on its own while it was not stable yet or balanced enough and was not yet able to completely move towards a transition to a strong state. This is why at this point the center of power is balanced and situation that is something we need today. The United States politically withdrew in the last few years and they started moving or shifting their attention away from iraq but now