israel s military offensive could last what the calls a long time. tory is a policy adviser and is live with us hire on the fox news deck this afternoon. nice to see you. good to be here. i m hearing pundits say it looks like this is going to be quick, not last too long, with the game of getting the rockets out, and i don t know how they re able to say this with 40,000 troops on the border. the point is not to look at an event like this with a stop watch but to look at a mission. the mission is to bring to hand end this constant rocket fire on israel. people of israel are resilient and are supporting the government, supporting their army, because they want this to come to an end so therefore whatever is required, and how much ever time is required, i think the prime minister and his government will receive support. there s no way you want to send troops over the border. starting to look like that s not going to be necessary? i wouldn t want to start guessing and monday-morn
carriers into position to fire on the gaza strip is still yet to be determined. the israelis say they don t want to launch a ground offensive but just in the past couple of hours the egyptian prime minister went inside the gaza strip to try and negotiate some type of cease-fire. that so far has not happened. tonight, jon air strikes are continuing to pound away at gaza strip a at the same time the gaza militants are continuing to launch rockets out. back to you. jon: a very tense time there. leland vittert covering it all. thank you. can a full-blown war are avoided and what test the escalating violence does to america. the israeli tanks are massing. it appears they are poised for an invasion of gaza, that doesn t necessarily mean it will take place. what is the next step here?