it's almost sunset. ambassador, i want to start with this. the rhetoric that is coming out of jerusalem from the netanyahu government and also the amount of force being used on the ground seems a few orders of magnitude greater than what we have seen in the past. do you get the feeling there that there is a resolve to end this and end the hamas rocket fire, not just put a pause to it? >> i believe the prime minister netanyahu has shown great restraint ten days before going into gaza. the u.s. wouldn't wait ten seconds if one rocket was fired from across the border. israel waited not ten seconds or ten hours, but ten days. now that we're in there, we have to finish the job and make sure that we dismantle hamas. you know, you've been covering extensively the horrific airline with ukraine. just imagine if hamas had ground-to-air missiles and we want to avoid that and we want