And they are supporting terror. Which barrel has the shell? We'll tell you what he has to say. And do you want to create a Shiite theocracy in Iraq aligned with Iran? BLITZER: Would you like to be the leader of Iraq one day? We'll be right back. I can't understand Mr. Carter. If the U.S. stays for another year, let's say, and another 1,000 American troops are killed, 5,000 injured, $100 billion spent, is it going to really make a difference when all is said and done? He's a Shiite leader. Interview With Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim; Interview With Shimon Peres. Peres rejected Shamirs endorsement of settlements and, in 1990, sought to topple the government. HARMAN: Surely, he is. For all Peress Panglossian fantasies of a new Middle East the electorate narrowly yet decisively favoured Netanyahu that May. This agreement now on oil says that the central government will make sure it's divided based on population, not based on region. First, though, let's go to Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Center for a quick check of what's in the news right now. 06:39 ET (10:39 GMT) 25 abril, 2023. Shimon Prokupecz. We're prepared to put a lot of resources into it to get that. And there should have been a realization -- and this is one of the points of my book -- that there is a truth here on the ground that has not been absorbed in the strategy and the tactics. It doesn't set a firm timetable, except to say, in '08, they should be substantially out. I want to see timelines for them to have reconciliation on oil, on de-Baathification, on how we divide up the BLITZER: What is the timeline? The center aims to showcase Israels technology achievements and encourage entrepreneurs and start-ups. (modern). We don't need BLITZER: To break it up? BURNS: I don't think that they think they're going to get that kind of ultimatum. On ABC, the British prime minister, Tony Blair, worried about creating any timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. I don't think we should head in that direction. And I think that the study group pointed that out. BLITZER: So you would like the U.S. troops to leave? The Shia apparently not very happy as well, if you listen to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, that interview coming up here on "Late Edition." Less charitable souls felt that his overvaulting ambition had once again trumped his principles. BLITZER: Bob, I want to pick up on something that you spoke about, the new, incoming defense secretary, Robert Gates, to succeed Donald Rumsfeld, who made a surprise visit to Baghdad in Iraq this weekend. Justin Baragona. But some pieces may be wrong. President Bush is trying to do that. (END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: Finally, on NBC, The Washington Post's Pentagon reporter, Tom Ricks, the author of the important book, "Fiasco," gave a prediction on how much longer he thinks U.S. troops will be in Iraq. Elaborate on what you were writing. But that's about as unrealistic as anything that you're going to find, frankly, in the Baker-Hamilton report, insofar as it would be likely to bring an end to this conflict at this stage. CNN producer accused of child sex crimes once decried growing news Shimon Peres on Fareed Zakaria GPS - CNN But currently we are concentrating on Iraq and the Iraqi issue. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BAKER: I hope we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, I like this, but I don't like that; I like this, but I don't like that. We'll speak with one of Baghdad's most powerful politicians, the Shiite leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, in an exclusive Sunday interview. There is no provision in here for a blanket withdrawal. Now that they're going to share the oil equitably -- or that's what they said yesterday -- I think that's a very healthy sign that this may be their choice for how to move. But he's going to have pushback from a Pentagon that's going to have a very different view of this. BLITZER: Because you could imagine, with $100 billion over the next year, what you with could do domestically with that kind of money. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: I just want to repeat the news we've been reporting. They have a description of him. As late as November 2015, his health now failing, he insisted that Israel faced eternal war if there was no Palestinian state. She has filed a number of exclusive interviews for RT, including with Israeli president, Shimon Peres, Lebanese president Emile Lahoud, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniye and South African president Jacob Zuma. And I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer. PERES: This is a second step. I spoke with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, arguably the most influential Shiite political leader in Iraq right now. The report says we should embed troops and start moving our troops out. And this is good money after bad, and good lives after good lives. Here's what the president said on Thursday at his news conference with Tony Blair. In the event, Barak sabotaged his rivals virtual candidacy, only to lose at the polls himself. A timeline to motivate the Iraqis BLITZER: But should there be a surge of troops in the short period? That seems to be what the choice of the Iraqis is, and that should be what controls. So, at least Dhafir al-Ani not very happy about your recommendations either. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". Joining us here in Washington, Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. And I think that, if we start saying to the people that we're fighting in Iraq that we're ready to get out, irrespective of the success of the mission, I think that would be very serious. The report doesn't support that, and I think that's a flaw in the report. Our whole -- the premise of all of our policy in recent years has been a unified Iraq. In his inaugural presidential speech he bluntly stated that Israel had to get rid of the territories. We're going to pick up this conversation, Congressman. And the key is that she wasn't being partisan. BLITZER: We have to leave it right there. Peres chided Bibi for 111 days of verbiage, and held on as party chairman until Barak ousted him in 1997. Your prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said the other day -- he said this. Days later he found himself at the centre of an unseemly row with the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan at the Davos world economic summit as a result. It may be a great deal worse. With me now, two reporters who followed the war from the very beginning. We would like to negotiate some time, somehow. Then you would have a broader-based civil conflict, you'd have a region-wide war. SHAYS: Well, I want to see -- first off, I want to see the speed-up that we're now doing on transitioning Iraqi forces. HARMAN: I know he does. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Everyone who understands, it's his right to understand whatever. What do you think Shimon Peres' legacy will be? As mentioned earlier, Shimon tends to keep his personal information secret. Being a crime and justice reporter, Shimon mainly covers his news in the concerned sector. Obama, Bill Clinton to attend Peres funeral | CNN Actually, we have had a full agreement with the Syrians. Although many Israeli leftists felt outraged at his betrayal, experienced Peres-watchers knew that his personal friendship with Sharon counted for more than ideological congruence. Give us your sense of what, if anything, this Iraq Study Group is going to accomplish inside Iraq. And so, clearly, staying the course is wrong. I'm increasingly BLITZER: The Iraq Study Group rejected that notion. But that's been known. His New York-born cousin Betty Perske, one year his junior, went on to achieve fame as the actor Lauren Bacall. [1], Prokupecz immigrated from Russia as a child[2] and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1959 Peres was elected to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, for the ruling Mapai party (forerunner of Labour) and immediately became deputy defence minister. But the Syrians are connected with Hezbollah. Hamas is against anybody and everybody who is not religious in their sense, who is modern. I think Chris is right. BLITZER: So you don't want to answer that? I'll read it to you. BLITZER: Nic Robertson, we'll check back it you in Baghdad. SHAYS: Well, I mean, they can make that point, and it's fair, and they should. July 21, 2016 - Lays the cornerstone for the Israeli Innovation Center at the Peres Peace House in Tel Aviv, together with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Attending Shimon Peress funeral has brought heavy backlash to Mr. Abbas from within his own party, across social media and in the Palestinian streets. Their breakaway Rafi party proved unsuccessful, winning only 10 seats, and in 1968 Rafi rejoined Labour, as did Peres, who became its deputy general secretary. By 1953, aged 29, he was director of the entire defence ministry, an office he held until 1959. Former liberal allies were perplexed when, that May, he proclaimed newly elected Likud premier Netanyahu a peace pioneer an opinion he reversed in 2015 when he blamed Netanyahu (re-elected that year) for talking peace but doing nothing to implement it. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Currently I'm not thinking about anything except Iraq. And the last one is you need a diplomatic effort in the neighborhood. JAMES BAKER, IRAQ STUDY GROUP CHAIRMAN: Well, I think that's disappointing, if that's indeed what he said. I cannot judge all the documents, and I cannot judge whatever came into this report. Click To Know: Carlotta Walls LaNier: Youngest Member of Little Rock Nines net worth and personal life. Timeline:1934 - Family immigrates to Palestine. We've got to move these people toward the concept of a unified nation. I am a child of the generation that lost one world and went on to build another, Peres once wrote. Israel Mourns Political Giant Shimon Peres; Palestinians React to Death of Shimon Peres; One of Last Doctors in Aleppo on Life Under Siege; The Toy Smuggler of . Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Now, he knows Israel for apartheid -- can a Jewish person be for apartheid? But it is time to change our strategy. The report has a mentality that we are a colony where they impose their conditions and neglect our independence." In other words, the study group recommends a much more assertive U.S. involvement. That's all. HARMAN: I think we have to be very tough with both countries. President Carter is a man of fact. July 2009 - Meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo to discuss the Middle East peace process and the fate of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas since 2006. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. HARMAN: We don't need independent countries, I don't believe. And people say, "Oh, no, it can't be done." It leaves out energy independence. For the first time this day, there have been counter-protests in the North, in the important Sunni Muslim town of Tripoli. He wants to have, in the southern seven or nine provinces of Iraq, the same kind of autonomous area that the Kurds have in the North. They had many meetings about Iraq, and this is not the first time. PERES: Well, I'm not so sure, you know. BLITZER: That's what a lot of people are now concluding. But you need something that people will say, "Oh, this is a change, and this has a chance of working." One thing that's been sure here, from the very beginning, is that there are unexpected developments on the ground. And quite frankly, the whole future of Iraq depends upon whether or not the Iraqi government can effect a program of national reconciliation between Kurds, Shia and Sunni. At 15 Peres joined the Ben Shemen agricultural youth village, a crucible of future Israeli leaders. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Of course, this report represents the people who put it, and it's up to them. We want that aid to be given only if there is a response from the Iraqi government that shows performance. And in 2013 he delivered a video interview beamed from Jerusalem to a security summit in Abu Dhabi for 29 foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries. I think the timeline we need is to say, "If you don't do these things in reconciliation, we're going to leave." I mean, John Burns, kind of, suggested one. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". He took over as prime minister on a wave of sympathy. He certainly brought a touch of aesthetic philosophical discrimination to the world of politics. I put this issue to the former Israeli prime minister, the current vice premier, Shimon Peres, when we spoke here earlier. BLITZER: All right, guys. In our opinion, that approach is no longer viable. I insist that we change the strategy. All the story with the Syrians is spent (ph) with "no" and "no" and "no." And you're right, we didn't understand, we still don't understand, the size and scope of the insurgency. We're not going to be have unanimous support for any proposal in Iraq. SHAYS: In good conscience, I can, as long as it results in good results.