quite soon, as i mentioned, perhaps as early as tonight. what would you say to president peres to discourage him from such a move? i think, first of all, this is something of the pinnacle of israeli double speak. they are pretending to take a defensive posture at the moment. but one cannot be issuing warnings while simultaneously provoking a population at the same time. it s just like they say they want peace while continue to build settlements in palestinian territory at the same time. words have to line up with actions, but unfortunately, the actions we have seen, particularly leading up to this period feature the collectionive punishment of hundreds and thousands of palestinians throughout the west bank, and also extra judicial assassinations in gaza. so the israelis, i think, before they start issuing warnings, need to recognize that their own actions play a very provocative role. and, you know, this is not limited to just the past few weeks, as we have seen things
being fired from gaza. let me ask you this, though. why? why does hamas continue to do this? continue to fire these rockets into israel, when their military value, as i mentioned, is very limited? they re essentially weapons of terror, meant to scare and disrupt the lives of israeli civilians,io civilians,ious self? i would ask the question coming from the other direction. but first, with all due respect, just answer that question. well, i m getting there. i think that you re right. there is limited military value to this. and the question is that we should be asking is, why are people driven to resort to means that have limited value? the reality is, there are multiple methods of palestinian resistance, including nonviolent resistance. we cannot only speak out in condemnation of violent palestinian resistance if we are silent in the face of the israeli repression of nonviolate palestinian descent. there are countless palestinians
protesting nonviolently at the borders, at the fence between gaza and israel, who are gunned down by the israelis. you have a navy parked outside of gaza on the coast that are firing on palestinian fishermen. you know, there is a consistent system of violence that is provoking this sort of reaction. the reality is, palestinians have legitimate grievances. and continuing to ignore them is only going to result in this kind of outcome, time and time again. getting back to your question about this sort of military utility of all of this. the reality is, the israelis went in massively in 2008-2009, killing 1,400 people, most of whom were civilians. again, a military operation in 2012. what is the military utility of these operations in gaza? there is no military solution for the israelis in the gaza strip, or with palestinians in general. the only solution is a just peace based on actually recognizing palestinian rights. you cannot bomb them into peace. it simply will not work.
meticulously planned. we watch, we wait for this toxicology result to come back on little cooper as well. jane velez-mitchell, thank you so much. we ll continue this conversation, unfortunately. coming up next, this house once belonged to a suspected serial killer, and the woman who happens to be renting, living inside, she saw this home, her home, on a tv show about murderers. and when she went to her landlord to tell what she saw, guess what? the landlord turned out to be the suspected serial killer s mother. and that s just the beginning of the story. you have to stick around for this. also, israel s leaders warning the operation attacking gaza will be expanding, saying the military is, quote, prepared for all possibilities, and palestinians call an emergency cabinet meeting today as israeli air strikes are targeting gaza. we have a live report on the he is isca lating tensions in the middle east. stay right here with me.