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Everybody talks about the israeli security system. and it is great. they do a great job there, but you give up significant liberties in israel. you go to the mall, you get your trunk checked, car checked, you have to step outside. certain things that im not sure americans and the people in the u.k. will want to give up. >> i agree, definitely a change or a comfort zone that needs to be reached in order to be able to adapt to the types of liberties, if you will that you are giving up to be able t...

Strongest ally in the middle east is now in the cross hairs of isis? >> this is where and why we should be supporting the egyptian governments, president el sisi. whats happened is over the years, the egyptians have treated the sinai peninsula with benign neglect. the troops that are out there are not their top troops. a lot of them are operating with old russia equipment. its a conscript army. their main troops are around the main population centers of egypt. youve got these troops that are out...

There has been constant training -- you have to understand, the ukrainian military, the one in the soviet system there was a conscript on it. so many people were trained in the weapons system. and the sa-11 that was fired was a late-70s type of technology. soviet systems are notoriously not as technical as what we have seen because they were meant for the conscript army, as well as theyre designed for the massive production techniques. >> so making this kind of error might make more sense if wer...

Service. the army now says it will send letters to eligible arab christian men encouraging them to join. whats the controversy? benh wideman explains. >> reporter: theyre led on an exercise near the gaza border. he looks and sounds like any other israeli officer his age, but hes different. hes a volunteer in this conscript army from nazareth. >> when i was born and i grew up it was my dream to go into the israeli defense forces he tells me. muslims are exceempt from mility service. they said the...

Say that this deal strengthens the hand of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who has been criticized for being intransigent when it comes to peace and it strengthens the hands of hamas, thetured gilad . it strengthens their hand, and some say this deal today pushes back the cause of peace. >> john, gilad shalit, he was the focus of a long-term conflict in the middle east and israel. >> thats right. this is a soldier whose plight has touched the heart of the nation in a very real way....

palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergean...

The enforcer of a revolutionary ideology. its very different. certainly egypt, which is a conscript army, and therefore an army of the people. thats not the case here. this is an army which has been the principal strict for carrying out the revolution. and so its a -- its a system which is much harder to dislodge than the case of any of these other countries youve seen. certainly then compared to egypt where theres a big difference between where the state is a kind of separate entity. here there...

Situations a lot of dynamic elements. the protesters we spoke to last night were incensed by what they viewed as a violent action against them. here is the action that they follow through with, actions that led to the death and injuries of others. so thats made them angry, and last night they said theyll continue but the government appears to have a very strong hand to play here. it is a relatively small island, a relatively small population. they have a military and police force thats prepared ...

Unpredictable. everybody agreed when the shah of iran left, most iranians were happy about that. it is what followed where the problems arose. the french revolution getting rid of louis xiv was something a lot of people could agree on, getting rid of the czars in the 1917 revolution in russia. so the point is what follows that kind of moment when everybody agrees on getting rid of the hated monarch or dictator. we just simply have no idea. the fact that the army is a sort of conscript army means...

Coup. what they said, we are meeting to consider and study the situation in order to protect the higher interests of the egyptian people. no mention in that communique of the president. and in the presidents speech, there was no mention of the army. so there seems to be something of a split. not on the surface, necessarily. but certainly, the rhetoric would indicate that. >> all right. ben, thank you so much. were now going to be join by a blog here has been at the protests virtually all week. s...