point in the past few days, we ve seen five rockets fly from gaza, fired by militants into israel. the israeli military hasg responded by pounding som of those hamas stronghods within the gaza strip. of course, we saw this kind of violence before in the weeks leing up to the talks in washington that happened around the first of the month.as so far, hamas has promised mor of this kind of violence asai ty try to derail the peace talks. a bit of encouraging news, however, on this one point. that s both the palestinians and the israelie negotiating team seem to be dealing with thi issue of violence separately from the peace talks. today, at his cabinet meeting, prime minister tanyahu laid out what he says is going to be the israeli negotiating position and that s the palestinians must a jewish israel as state. so far, the palestinians have refuseto do that. both sides, however, have begun to play out their differences in thoe lcal press.