>> israel launched a ground offensive in gaza. you said israel is isolating itself from world opinion by failing to clinch a peace deal with the palestinians. this is a conflict that you weren't able to resolve when you were in office. what makes you think it's possible now? >> well, i think it's possible partly because at some point you get tired of doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same result. it's crazy. but i think that and i hope that this will lead to everybody doing soul searching and trying to get back to the baseline issue of a peace agreement. now, with hamas involved, it raises a different issue which is that there's no way the israelis are going to give up the west bank and agree to a state unless hamas agrees to give up violence and recogni