the civilians who find themselves stuck in the middle of this. it s not as if people with flee to anywhere else. they re stuck where they are. it s incredibly urbanized, incredibly built up. so this makes it extremely difficult. the other thing is does, it creates a sense of incredible frustration. there is a reason why hamas is the most powerful political entity in gaza. it s not just an organization that carries out attacks. it s not just a political party. but it s also a social services agency and provides health care and education and food and money to people. right. that s part of how they are therefore, empowered, pretty consistently, the language about u.s. policy towards these questions does sort of emerge only in the context of this kind of violence that we ve been seeing over the past couple days. not in terms of these long-term durable realities. when you think about the
forces launched operation pillar of defense which a strike that killed the head of the hamas military wing. that was the idfs answer after months of attacks on israeli soldiers and cities. hundreds of rockets have been launched into southern israel this year to the point of being nearly commonplace. but on thursday, warning sirens went off in tel aviv for the first time since 1991 s gulf war. israel, for its part, has been carrying out hundreds of air strikes in gaza and the current death toll from the latest escalation includes at least 49 palestinians half civilians and at least three israeli civilians. hamas militants have continued with rocket attacks and israel lined up thousands of troops on the gaza border while more reservist. general ban ki-moon is set to head to the region next week and
even if you kill 8,000, 10,000, they will get out winners. they re the only ones trying to get a reaction out of israel. it s a bad reaction. first of all x i m not speaking for the israeli government, but we have to acknowledge that they unilate l unilaterally withdrew if you are a fisherman in gaza, they control electricity, water, the space. they control everything. you know, you have tunnels that goes to egypt, hundreds of miles, go all the way to egypt and smuggle all kinds of things. these missiles, they were smuggled in the tunnels together and other things. let me let chris when you have one government doing everything you want and you ignore them and one is in prison. you have to have a leader. the leader is there. there s two things. there s essentially a right wing challenge to hamas in gaza from
self-restraint while defending our citizens against terrorism. i am going to get both of your responses to that. i think it s really important to distinguish the west bank and gaza. i think many american jews, many israelis believe there should be a two-state solution and one of the biggest stumbling blocks to that is increased settlement. that s true. it s a lot more difficult to see the future in gaza when you re dealing with hamas, which has sworn continually to never recognize israel ordeal with it. our news editor went to cairo in april. amazing interview. everyone should read this interview. thank you, chris. was able to interview abu march zuk which was extraordinary. we have to say that on the one hand fact that he sat down with the editor of a jewish newspaper was amazing. however, his position didn t
netanyahu doesn t want any political settlement with the palestinians and he will try to throw this under train whatever it will take. he s trying to take the public opinion empowering hamas. releasing 1,000 prisoners a year ago, you actually handed hamas publicity that will never end. we re going to stay on this and we re going to talk about the president s chile relationship with netanyahu may impact what s happening here. we ll stay on this topic when we come back. you, too! oh, cloudy glasses. you didn t have to come over! actually, honey, i think i did. oh? you did? whoa, ladies, easy. hi. cascade kitchen counselor. we can help avoid this with cascade complete pacs. over time, the other premium pac can leave cloudy, hard water deposits, but cascade complete pacs help leave glasses sparkling. shiny! too bad it doesn t work on windows. okay, i m outta here. more dishwasher brands in north america recommend cascade.