News tonight, the head of the United Nationscainfor Maxim Restraint as israel ways its response to an unprecedented attack by iran, the Israeli Defense forces says orawn launched some 350 rockets, missiles drones into it lets territory overnight, the vast majority of them shot down by israel and its partners. Before they could hit israeli territory. Tonight, the israeli war cabinet says, it is not yet reached a decision on the scale or timing of its response, but did it is determined to act with one cabinet Member Calling for israel to quote, exact a price on iran. President biden spoke with g7 leaders today hoping for a diplomatic path forward saying in a tweet just moments ago, we will continue to Work Together to stabilize the situation in the region and avoid further escalation. Students International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is in jerusalem. Nick, what do we know about israels current thinking in terms of a response youre hearing a lot of messages calling for restraint, inc
need to clarify that i was not kidding when i said that. the white house did put out that announcement. here is the daily guidance and press schedule that they sent out. quote, the president will greet the prime minister of normay. there is a lot of country in the world that has a lot of syllables or consonants that makes it hard for you to remember. normay? they never corrected it. that s still officially the president s press schedule for yesterday. this white house does stuff like that all the time. right before the president went to israel, the white house put out a statement saying the president is taking that trip to israel to quote, promote the possibility of lasting paeeach okay. when theresa may came to visit last year, they misspelled
netanyahu was kept waiting with his advisers. later in may the israeli prime minister canceled another planned visit to the white house. in may of this year the president called for israel to quote, act boldly to advance peace and said that the borders of the palestinian state should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed upon land swaps, something that got very negative reaction from israel. other presidential candidates also went off president obama on the topic of israel today. former governor mitt romney issuing a statement calling the situation at the u.n. a quote, unmitigated diplomatic disaster saying that the president is throwing israel under the bus. herman cain coming out with an editorial today saying americans need to understand what a threat this is to both american and israeli security. so just how serious is this? we ll have that debate in our next hour of america live.