military assault on the country. it was retaliation for an israeli strike on april 1st on a building in syria which killed two of iran's top generals. but there's another key reason for netanyahu's singular focus on iran. it happens to take the attention and heat off of gaza. joining me now is the executive vice president of the quincy institute. the attack felt a little wag the doggish to me. these attacks don't seem designed to maybe spark a world war iii, but it definitely took attention away from gaza. what do you make of what israel is doing at the moment? >> well, certainly, this exchange between iran and israel since the israeli attack on the iranian consulate on april 1st has taken a tremendous amount of attention away from gaza. that definitely is a problem. i think, however, the scale of the attack against iran last