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Hosni mubarak, he used to monitor this, but since he has been ousted, the flow has increased and israel is very worried about this. do you think that this war is benefiting israel and its ability to take out these types of weapons for any potential hit on the wrong? >> we have motivations on both sides. ethereal that israel started with, which the kernel accurately said that they didnt, that israel will continue this in order to eliminate some of the iranian elements. if we look at this as a pro...

Local employee of the embassy and as though you would go to any workplace and try to take out your anger there at the person who happened to be working there, thats what happened. it seems unrelated to anything having to do with the united states. the embassy a coincidence that the man was so angry with was a guard there. thankfully fort guard, there were other people who subdued the attacker. but totally unrelated to things going on here or for that matter, the u.s. embassy. >> steve: got you. ...

>> this is an area of the world you know very, very well. radical islamists you understand very well. we had the turkish prime minister saying israel is a terrorist straight. these are ec echoed by president morsi and by the prime minister who went to hang out with hamas, so the question is now israel is surrounded. theyve got hezbollah on the north, theyve got hamas, syria and egypt, and weve got a proxy war by iran. >> and great instability occurring in jordan. look. all of this goes back to t...

Object encased in lucite. what is that? >> its a twinkie. >> its an embalmed twinkie. louis gave it to me. >> you dont have to do that because theyre so preserved, you just leave it on your desk forever. >> you know what, heres another coincidence, when you drop it -- >> same deal. >> it makes the same bounce. >> the real ones bounce, dont they? >> occasionally. >> there is a reason that it possibly might be going out of business and im not trying to be mean because there are a lot of jobs at st...

They have mobilized 75,000 israeli reservists. wi have tanks and other military equipment. everything is prepositioned for the invasion. its not clear it will happen. the big issue here is iran. iranian missiles mostly that hamas and other terrorist are using to fire at israel. iran funds and encourages and supports hamas and the other terrorist groups. this is a proxy war.

Violence across the border in lebanon. president assad of syria has a number of reasons to want to do that, to distract attention from what he is doing to his own people inside syria. that is why the lebanese army was out in force in beirut and other lebanese cities today trying to keep calm. that is request u.s. officials are appealing to everyone in lebanon on every political side to work together. >> all of lebanons political leaders need to work together, need to address the concerns over th...

Exert control over that country. then, of course, you have the players, hezbollah and hamas, all those are in play in this particular case. lebanon becomes in essence the proxy war that could take place if were not careful. >> reporter: and nobody wants that proxy war, hence a call from u.s. state department officials for all sides in lebanon to exercise restraint to try to achieve calm. >> shep: history tells us that may be difficult. >> reporter: you look what arab spring has turned out to be ...

Being asked today. what question would they ask? im posing that to our foreign policy experts who are joining me now. "new york times" correspondent elizabeth bumiller. nbcs chief foreign correspondent, richard engel and bruce rydell, former long-time cia officer now with the brookings institution. welcome, all. first to you, bruce. what questions would you want asked? i suspect from what youve been writing about that it might be pakistan. >> absolutely. pakistans the most dangerous country in t...

Ballistic missiles into the cities? thats the choice they have to make. if they do, israel may in fact ask the united states for assistance because of the casualties in terms of feeding the missiles in the missile bases and the iranians will weigh the options in terms of the risk in terms of their response. >> and just to go back to the point you just made, for all their bluster, for all of their macho talk, the iranians do not want a military confrontation with the u.s.? >> no, absolutely not. ...

>> sadly this is not new. since 1980 when the islamic republic took hold their statest objective has always been the same. export the islamic revolution to the region and dominate that region. to achieve that objective they have two major goals. one is the destruction of the state of israel and drive the united states out of the region. that is why for over 30 years the iranians have been using their proxies to kill u.s. and israeli citizens during that entire span of time and theyre still at it...