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Down by the israeli navy. [ speaking in foreign language ] israel says its forces fired from the sea as a team of commandos belonging to hamas stormed a beach north of the gaza strip. the jerusalem post is reporting that five of those commandos were killed and one israeli soldier wounded. israel said today it has warned the gaza palestinians either to halt their attacks against israel with those small, inaccurate rockets, or face a ground incursion by the mighty israeli military and soon. perhap...

Thank you both of you for being here. aaron, you have a fascinating piece on foreign policy where you say that the u.s. should stay out of this conflict, at least for now. you write, theres a real danger that u.s. credibility, already badly undermined by the failure of kerrys efforts so far, could be harmed even more by yet another failed attempt at making peace. >> first of all, this is going to be a cruel and unforgiving humanitarian situation, largely for palestinians. although if hamas does ...

This time, the operation lasted a week. no ground incursion. limited air strikes with a lot of civilian casualties on the palestinian side. the reality is there is no end game here. unless the israelis are prepared to reoccupy gaza, which theyre not, or to literally extrapate the government there, its just a question of how much destruction, how many people are going to die until the egyptians and/or the israelis perhaps aided by the u.s. as we did in november 2012, imposes, not imposes, negotia...

[ speaking in foreign language ] >> israel says its forces fired from the sea as this team of commandos belonging to hamas stormed a beach north of the gaza strip. the "jerusalem post" is reporting five of those commandos is killed and one israeli soldier wounded. israel said today it has warned the gaza palestinians either to halt their attacks against israel with the small, inaccurate rockets, or face a ground incursion by the mighty israeli military, and soon, perhaps tonight. the israelis sa...

Four years ago, now there are others more radical. >> i guess well see. i mean, the question is can hamas be deterred? one of the objections in this is not to just eradicate some of the hamas capabilities but to deter hamas from doing this again. were only in the second day. the pillar of deference went eight days. so i think its too soon to tell how hamas is going to react here. >> and that ground incursion in 2008, i think history reflects at the time it did not go well for israel. it went poo...

Across israel today air raid sire ens were blaring, sparking panic in the streets. at the american embassy in tel aviv tonight, people rushed to an underground shelter. israel says hamas militants fired 130 rockets at its citizens from gaza and israel has unleashed an air assault of its own into crippling the terror groups rocket-launching ability. ben, youre sitting there on that side of it where theyre afraid of those israeli strikes that are happening. how close is this to an all-out war? >> ...

Well talk about the difference between then when there was no ground incursion and now, because the differences are significant. michael singh joins us now. hes a former director at the national security council currently director of the national institute. i think its worth mentioning now, we first got word of the interceptions of the rocket within seconds of going on the air at 3:00 eastern time. thats 10:00 p.m. local time in israel. thats when the local news comes on. could that be happensta...

They have said that 40,000 reservists have been called up. of those, only 1,000 have actually been mobilized. so theres a message here for the israeli public to know that there could be a lengthy conflict at hand, but theres also a message here, shepard, for the leadership in gaza of hamas. the israeli government wants hamas to know that it is serious that the rocket attacks do not end, there will be a ground incursion. but that doesnt necessarily mean soon. and lastly and very quickly, let me r...

Ground incursion, which would have finished them off. the only reason we didnt do it was as a gesture to the united states, to president obama and to the egyptian president, to give peace a chance. we will give it a chance. but if the one rocket is fired at an israeli village or city, we will not stand still, i promise you. >> ambassador, where does israel stand? i heard what you just said. those are strong words. i think that everyone understands prime minister netanyahus stance there. but wher...

Responsibility for this blast. but the supporters of the organization rejoiced when they heard about the explosion. it could have caused the peace process to fail and to derail the truce. however, it did not become a casualty. trace? >> david lee, i know its early morning there now. but are things beginning to get back to normal? >> not just yet. not far from where im standing along the border, israeli reservist, tanks, troops, equipment is still in place. this was equipment that was originally ...