Christiane looks into why tornadoes repeatedly hit this particular region of the United States
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By Samuel Burke, CNN
Six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secretive internal security service, have spoken out as a group for the first time and are making stunning revelations.
The men who were responsible for keeping Israel safe from terrorists now say they are afraid for Israel’s future as a democratic and Jewish state.
Israeli film director Dror Moreh managed to get them all to sit down for his new documentary: “The Gatekeepers.” It is the story of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, as told by the people at the crossroads of some of the most crucial moments in the security history of the country.
“If there is someone who understands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s those guys,” the director told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. ((CLICK HERE TO READ FULL POST))
By Samuel Burke, CNN
If the West doesn’t arm the Free Syrian Army, extremist groups will take hold of the war-torn country. That’s the assessment of Syrian opposition leader Ghassan Hitto, who in past weeks, went from being a Texas-based I.T. executive to prime minister of the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s government in exile.
“Do we wait until thousands and thousands more of Hezbollah fighters continue to pour into Syria? Do we wait for more Iranian soldiers and Iranian influence in the region?” Hitto said to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Hitto is a Syrian-American who's just been appointed the first interim prime minister of the Syrian opposition. He has temporary headquarters in Istanbul, but told Amanpour he'll soon name his government and move into Syria.
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By Samuel Burke, CNN
Doing nothing about alleged chemical weapons use is the wrong message to send to Syria’s leader, General Gabi Ashkenazi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exuclsive interview that aired Tuesday.
“Lethal assistance,” is one of the options the West could consider, Ashkenazi suggested. “Weapons, in order to help them to topple Assad, to take him down. [And] maybe impose a no-fly zone in, at least, part of Syria.”
Ashkenazi led the Israel Defense Forces during four crucial years from 2007 to 2011 and granted Amanpour a rare interview – his first-ever on-camera outside of Israel.
That country has been keeping a keen eye on what's happening in neighboring Syria, though Ashkenazi said that if President Assad falls it would present a “mixed picture for” the Jewish state. FULL POST
CNN's Christiane Amanpour talks to hip-hop group DAM and author Robin Wright about hip-hop in the Arab world.
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are completely stalled.
Parties from both sides have called for America to renew its efforts, but one person is not.
Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi argues that America's role in that peace process is actually hindering the situation, not helping it, in his new book called "Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.
Khalidi believes that a trip like the one President Barack Obama just made to the region has more do with the U.S. relationship with Israel than it does with the Palestinians.
In his book, Khalidi goes as far to argue that the U.S. is largely complicit, whether deliberately or not, in the reality that there's been no peace between these two places. FULL POST
Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon discusses the importance of Obama's trip to Israel with CNN's Hala Gorani.
Israel's top investigative reporter, Ilana Dayan, and American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg examine Israeli citizens' feeling toward President Obama.
By Meredith Milstein & Samuel Burke, CNN
When a Palestinian farmer named Emad Burnat bought a home video camera to record the birth of his youngest son, he didn't realize he would end up capturing the birth of a movement.
Burnat became the unofficial cameraman for his village of Bil'in in the occupied West Bank, and documented five years of local resistance against the encroaching Israeli settlements and the separation wall snaking through his and his neighbors' lands.
The home movies have now been transformed into the Oscar-nominated documentary, "5 Broken Cameras." FULL POST
Six former heads of Israel's internal security service speak out about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Six former heads of Israel's internal security service speak out about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secretive internal security service, have spoken out as a group for the first time and are making stunning revelations.
The men who were responsible for keeping Israel safe from terrorists now say they are afraid for Israel’s future as a democratic and Jewish state.
Israeli film director Dror Moreh managed to get them all to sit down for his new documentary: “The Gatekeepers.” It is the story of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, as told by the people at the crossroads of some of the most crucial moments in the security history of the country.
“If there is someone who understands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s those guys,” the director told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Against the backdrop of the currently frozen peace process, all six argue – to varying degrees – that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is bad for the state of Israel. FULL POST
By Samuel Burke & Mick Krever, CNN
Exit polls in Tuesday’s Israeli election have delivered a dramatic surprise.
The second-place finisher, behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, was Yesh Atid, or “There is a Future,” the center-left party whose founder campaigned for eliminating the exemption for ultra-religious Jews to avoid military service.
As expected, Netanyahu’s Likud won first place, with 31 seats out of 120 in the Knesset. It was a comfortable plurality, but far below the commanding result that would have given him broad leeway to form a coalition – negotiations to build that coalition will presumably begin immediately.
Yesh Atid is projected to win 19 seats, and Labor is projected to come in third with 17.
The far-right party, Habayit Hayehudit, or “The Jewish Home,” is projected to take fourth. Its fourth-place finish, though somewhat weaker than had been expected, represents a shift toward the far right in Israel.
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, discussed the exit polls with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and what they could mean for the future of Israeli politics – which you can watch in the video above.
In a recent New Yorker article, Remnick examined the seeming shift to the right in Israeli politics and the rise of parties clearly opposed to a state for the Palestinians.
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