for him to withdraw from the race for the new york times, the leading newspaper in the city he s visiting today, ironically, calling forjoe biden to withdraw from the race saying it would be a reckless gamble as a editorial put it were he to stay as a candidate for the and urging him to move aside to make way for somebody younger who could really take on donald trump. those sentiments have been echoed in the last few hours by another leading newspaper the chicago tribune. you mentioned joe biden is robust performance in north carolina yesterday for that you re absolutely right, he bounced back quite spectacularly for the taking to the stage seeming energised, everything but the shambling old man we saw on thursday night to tell his loyal supporters that yes, he wasn t drunk as he once was, he wasn t a great a debater as you d once been but he was in honest man and he told the truth. well, whether that goes down well with the very anxious candidates will have to wait and see.
and hamas refused. haumgs has continuously rejected the ceasefire proposals. the spokesman for the israeli government joining me from jerusalem thank you very much. the palestinians say there is an imbalance in this fighting. the casualties alone prove that israel s use of force is unwarranted. 560 palestinians killed. versus 25 israelis killed. and all these rockets did not kill anybody. i don t want any israeli or palestinian to be killed. but this must be stopped. war is not a solution. aggression is not a solution. that was palestinian partialment member speaking to us earlier. stay tuned to cnn as we cover this all day. we ll have more of the
america has stood by israel. president obama, secretary kerry yesterday. let s be clear. there s a wall to wall condemnation of hamas shooting rockets at our people, on hamas for rejecting ceasefire proposals and wall to wall support for israel s right to defend ourselves against these attacks. a lot of condemnation coming from various human rights groups, some countries saying that you re going too far. i would ask those countries, what would you do if your civilian population was on the receiving end of 2,000 rockets launched by terrorists on the other side of the frontier. if people ask that question, they would be more understanding of israel s predicament. you heard the open mic exchange that john kerry had, doing all five sunday talk shows. in between one he was overheard speaking to one of his aides on a cell phone. he sounded sarcastic when he spoke about israel s supposedly
our goal is there shouldn t rockets fired on our citizens and we shouldn t see terrorists trying to infiltrate through the tunnels as we saw this morning. i guess the question is can you accept the ceasefire before you destroy those tunnels going from gaza into israel? at the moment we don t have to answer that question because hamas says no. hamas keeps shooting rockets into israel and keeps trying to launch terror attacks against our people. just this morning there were two squads of hamas terrorist whose came through tunnels, entered israel in the south, tried to attack two different areas where civilians, farmers are trying to conduct their daily lives. it shows who hamas is. hamas is an extremist deadly terror organization. the worst of all is people of gaza are suffering because of hamas. they didn t want this war, wolf. is there good cooperation between the new government in egypt and your government? many governments in the arab world including egypt see ham 345s for
our strategy is ultimately defensive. to bring about a sustained period of peace and quiet for the people of israel and to end that rocket fire. that s why we accepted the egyptian ceasefire proposals. let s be clear here. last night at about 10:00 local time here the egyptians went public with their proposals. both sides were given ample time until 9:00 a.m. local time this morning to prepare for the ceasefire. israel, we called a special meeting of the security cabinet deciding to agree to the egyptian proposals. the arab league not known for being particularly friendly to israel but the arab league endorsed the egyptian initiative and we ceased all military operations against terrorist targets in gaza as of 9:00 a.m. and held that ceasefire for more than six hours. and during that period, hamas both verbally said, no, we don t want the ceasefire and indeed they fired more than 50 rockets