Let s get back to our top story, the breaking news. israel and gaza right now on the brink of war. israel is warning it will intensify its air strikes until palestinian rockets stop falling. a ground israeli military offensive could, in fact, be imminent. joining me now is mark regev, he s the spokesman for benjamin netanyahu. thanks very much for joining us. the president of israel. good to be with you. shimon peres spoke with becky anderson and said a ground offensive in gaza, in his word, may happen quite soon. what would trigger that? how close is your prime minister to authorizing a military ground offensive into gaza? wolf, we ll do what needs to be done to protect our people, and we ve had over the last few weeks literally hundreds of missiles and rockets fired from the gaza strip on our cities and our townships and on our rural communities and it has to stop. if it can stop without a ground offensive, that will be nice,