Fired Up

" We continue to follow the story out of Pittsburgh where some protests at the G-20 summit are beginning to get a little chaotic. Some of the protesters are clashing with police report to tear gas. Being fired into the crowds and so we've got that little box on the right hand corner of your screen will keep it up there's you can see what's going on. More now -- on a story that we told you about at the beginning of the show is really prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu slamming the United Nations today for inviting Iranian President. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak up -- spoke. To the UN yesterday it was a speech full of anti Semitic remarks attacks on the United States attacks on Israel nothing new of course -- that a judge has said that he thinks the Holocaust is a myth. He has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Here's the Israeli prime minister's reaction a little while -- watch."

" Those who gave us holocaust and -- I'd say on behalf of my people the Jewish people. And decent people everywhere. Have you no shame. Have you no decency. A -- six decades after the Holocaust. You give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews. While promising to wipe out what the State of Israel the state of the Jews."

" Iran of course one of Israel's neighbors in the Middle East joining us now -- a former ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk he is the vice president director of foreign policy. At the brooks and Brookings Institution which is of course a nonprofit nonpartisan. Think -- mr. ambassador after a couple of days of wacky speeches at the United Nations finally I healthy dose of reality from the prime minister do you think."

" How insists of course -- Benjamin Netanyahu has been before that body before he was the deputy UN -- from Israel. And -- this time I think. Took the high ground in terms of trying to expose the double standards of this body in the way that -- can house the likes of -- not contingent. -- Hugo Chavez -- but in this particular case. He I think wanted to make the creative parallel -- Ahmadinejad and Hitler. -- sense of the gathering crowds of Iranian extremism. Fed by out of contention that combined -- Iran's bid for nuclear weapons. Warning the the this'll -- that. This is a real potent. Recipe for the kind of thing that happened to the home."

" So this August body that you referred to is full of countries. They don't like Israel. I'm sure a lot of people who like not within -- don't believe that the Holocaust took place I mean it is just unbelievable. -- we hear in this country not to play host to them. And listen to them rant and rave aware that they do what real quickly and we'll talk and an after the commercial break do you think that this message went down that it actually resonated with some of those people -- I think when he said shame on you. He he he touched -- I think it it it is very important that. Somebody stands to speaks truth -- and holds up this issue of double standard that the UN General Assembly. Operates. Martin Indyk is -- guess we'll have more with the former ambassador when we come right back. And we continue our conversation -- Martin Indyk who is a former ambassador to Israel. He is the vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution or institute rather which is a nonprofit. Nonpartisan think -- me ask you real quickly -- there are a lot of people out there. Here in the United States in Israel. Who don't believe that President Obama is really is committed to Israel. As some of his predecessors including your former boss President Clinton what do you think is he really all on board it -- it does he won a fundamentally change. The relationship between the US and the State of Israel."

" Now I don't think so I think he's kind of got a bum -- but it's probably because. He did such a good job in that -- speech. Of appealing to the Arab world and and to the Muslim world. And in that part of the world Middle East is he not a tends to be zero sum game. And what he managed to communicate I think inadvertently to Israelis is that he was distancing. The United States from Israel in order to curry favor in the Arab world in fact he said some things in the congress speech which -- welcomed including -- prime minister Netanyahu. But that's not the way -- have essentially because he then took a tough stand on the issue of settlement activity and so that combined. Created a situation where -- actually is down to something like 6%. Amongst Israeli public opinion. Even Jimmy -- wasn't that while you can now so there's some repair work to be done I think he understands very well because. He wants to make peace in the Middle East he can't make peace in the -- he brings Israeli public would. Martin Indyk always good to hear your thoughts on these things thank you so much for coming -- pleasure to see you again will."