of rockets fired on its city. israel is no exception. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu announcing israel is stepping up its gaza offensive in response to a rain of rockets fired from the region by the terror group hamas. israeli warplanes this weekend, hundreds were suspected militant sites, the government authorized the callup of some 40,000 army reservists, mobilizing for a possible ground invasion of the territory it withdrew from in 2005. "wall street journal" affairs columnist brett stevens and matt cominski joins me now. their people are bearing the brunt of the retaliatory response from israel. >> they were strategically backfooted, both by the pressure on assad. they lost their patron in syria, and the fact that mohamed morsi, sympathetic to hamas, was