World view

Today's topics include Israeli settlement policy and the US political scene in the primaries leading to November's presidential elections. Liberation and civil rights movements in Palestine and in the United States are forming important ties as they confront concerted opposition by the political establishments in Israel and the US.  The United Nations Human Rights Council sparks anger from the Israeli foreign ministry when it agrees to compile a database of the businesses operating in the illegal settlements of the occupied territories.  Potential US presidential candidates seek the favor of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (the lobby group known as AIPAC) burying the peace process under beligerent rhetoric.