defend the territory against what they are claiming is the worst possible situation which is one that is effectively not coming to fruition it's not reasonable they decided that you know shooting on civilians and killing children is actually a worthwhile price to pay this is something that by and large we would think that it's not acceptable but design acceptable and getting the facts about the story verifying them you know as you heard from ana they were the jerusalem post it is in credibly difficult to do that and that brings me to the point that we're dealing with is how are the media covering this we've got two clips i want to show you tonight i believe speak to the ethical dilemma here the first clip is from a u.s. state department briefing reporters wanting clarity on the role of hamas in the killings on monday take a look. well they have legitimate concerns about their security and people trying to send. weapons and other things through through the various checkpoints so that's