Amid the current sabre-rattling over Iran's nuclear program, Robert Malley from the International Crisis Group tells Annette Young the chance of Israel taking military action against its conflict-ridden neighbour, Syria, over its chemical weapons stockpile, poses a far greater threat.
Annette Young meets Scott Hillier, Director of Photography, “Twin Towers”. He recalls the chaos of 9/11 in New York that day and tells us about “Twin Towers”, a 2003 Academy Award-winning documentary which focuses on two brothers - one a firefighter, one a police officer - who both lost their lives on 9/11.
Annette Young meets William Langewiesche, international correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of “American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center”. To write this book, he was allowed unrestricted access to Ground Zero during the post-9/11 cleanup and demolition process.
Annette Young meets Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem, who argues that Jerusalem must remain united and not become a shared capital between Israelis and Palestinians.
After Israeli commandos stormed a number of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, international attention has been focussing on Israel's blockade of goods to the Palestinian Territory. But now residents elsewhere in the Territories have started a new form of resistance by boycotting products made in Israel's controversial settlements in the West Bank.
A new battle for land has begun in East Jerusalem. Religious Jews are buying up land and houses from their Palestinian owners. Their aim: to make any future division of Jerusalem impossible. But for the families who give in to the temptation to sell, the reprisals can end in death. France 24 takes you behind the scenes to meet both sides of a highly controversial property war.
In 2005, Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip as part of a disengagement plan that left Israelis divided. Four years on, nothing has really changed or improved for former settlers in the region, some of whom consider themselves refugees.
