Welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States, and all around the world, we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. I am john vause. We continue with gruesome details about the attacks carried out by hamas over the weekend. The cruel acts of brutality of women, and children, are beyond abhorrent. The subject matter, and the video are graphic, and disturbing. The Israeli Government says that babies, and toddlers were found with heads decapitated in a kibbutz in southern israel. Hamas denies beheading children, calling the allegations fabricated, and baseless. In the meantime, israels military is stepping up its airstrikes on gaza, as forces massed near the border, ahead of a Ground Incursion. Palestinian officials says the only Power Station in gaza has stopped working. Hospitals, expected to run out of fuel for their generators in the coming day. The weekend Terror Attacks by hamas it is across israeli politics, and with the announcement of an Emergency Governmen
the new president of egypt seems to be supportive of the palestinians. not seems to be, it is. he s withdrawn the ambassador. he wants to push the issue into play at the u.n., he s summoned the arab league. morisi does not he ban to attach himself to hamas let alone to the jihaddist groups, smaller ones that are operating in gaza. he has a loan that they are negotiating, a billion-plus in military assistance from the united states. he s got multiple audiences on this. he s going to appear supportive. the question is can he bring his influence? remember, the muslim brotherhood is in fact the foundation stone from which hamas emerged. he does have influence with hamas. they share a common border. hamas has to give some credibility to what he wants and to what he said. the question is, how much time do we have before this escalates to a ground incursion?
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?
jon: the palestinians profess they want their own state. hard to argue that you deserve statehood when you re launching rockets at your neighbor. you have three states between the mediterranean and the jordan river. have you a weak and dysfunctional palestinian authority which controls 40% of the west bank. you have a highly centralized hamas which controls gaza and you have israel. before anybody can talk about negotiating for statehood you re going to have to have one unified palestinian national movement that has control over the guns and its own negotiating position. we are a long way away from that. jon: all right. aaron tkeufd miller it s always good to have you on. thanks for your expertise today. martha: certainly one of the biggest stories of the day as gaza militants fire rockets towards tel-aviv, israel s commercial hub. we wanted to give i context about the city and what it means to have rockets hit around there. tel-aviv is located 37 miles
to hit the accelerator towards these nuclear programs. and develop nuclear weapons. until you looked a lot into this, mark. we are getting that news while this conflict is playing out as well. how do you see this coming together? is this just a huge distraction? ict use that term because people are dying. but a distraction from the focus that should be a ron? [talking over each other] if you are an israeli military planner and you are planning a strike, you have to go in and clean out iranian support terrorists like hamas and hezbollah. in the broader context, the israeli military is trying to go in there and strike a blow at iranian terrorists in the city of gaza. they know that in a month or year or so, they may be hitting iran s facilities and they could be facing an onslaught sometime