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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world as we continue our coverage of israel at war. im paula newton. and we begin with despair, outrage and arguments over a deadly airstrike on a densely packed refugee camp in gaza. and now a huge cloud of smoke can be seen from across the border in israel. israeli military has claimed responsibility for the attack saying that it was aiming for a top hamas commander and infect succeeded in killin...

This threat has not gone away. what does this tell us about the ease with which this could happen, online radicalization and a plan comes together quickly or an intent to act. >> jim, what this reminds us of is that you can make incredible progress overseas defeating a particular terrorist enemy, but its almost impossible to defeat an ideology. even one as toxic and violent as radical islamic extremism. we know whether its the context of the taliban, al qaeda or isis, its the same sort of thing,...

U.s. troops to abandon them in syria, kurdish forces are reportedly, again, side by side with americans taking on a common terrorist enemy. and urgent right now, word of many bomb blasts rocking baghdad. we are learning there are fatalities. what is behind the sudden surge in violence is next. from all the journalists of fox news, this is fox news reporting. ♪ as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual custo...

after al qaeda terrorists killed 3,000 americans we made complete changes into the nature of the american state and how we live our lives. 18 years after a guy tried to light his shoe on fire, right? we still take our shoes off at the airport. unless youre smart enough to get that tsa. but the comparison to jihadi terrorism makes sense, right? it also is kind of weird when you think about it for this reason. you dont actually have to look abroad to some foreign analog, some terrorist enemy li...

Ice snis. >> we understand the threat from isil and the fact of the matter is when we launched our air campaign the president was very clear that this would be a long-term effort and this is a different type of terrorist enemy that aims to hold territory and that is drawing thousands of recruits and thats why weve been in this effort launching thousands of air strikes targeting isil leadership including jihadi john in syria and were in this for the long haul and we are very clear about the threa...

Paris. >> what is it that you guys have gotten wrong in underestimating isis? >> well, chuck, i think we very clearly understand the threat from isil, and the fact of the matter is when we launched our air campaign, the president was very clear that this would be a long-term effort. this is a different type of terrorist enemy that aims to hold territory, that is drawing thousands of recruits and thats why weve been in this effort launching again thousands of air strikes. recently targeting isil ...

And control type terrorist enemy. and that meant they had discipline and it meant they could take on big things like 9/11 but it also meant that when we started to go after them they are vulnerable to attacks on the command-and-control structure and on their logistic structure. isils more resilient because it is more decentralized and informal in that sense. takes a different kind of campaign. were highly awareof that asis law enforcement, by the way. >> and president obama also talked about lon...

Near the end of it. can you give us an assessment of that? >> well, whether were at the beginning of the end or end of the beginning, im not going to tell you right now, because we face a very brutal terrorist enemy. i mean, heres the difference between us. we are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and theyre using their civilians to protect their missiles. thats basically the difference. theyre embedding these rockets that theyre firing wholesale into our cities, terrorist rockets,...

Can you assess that? >> whether we are at the end of the going or the beginning of the under i will not tell you because we face a very, very brutal terrorist enemy. here is the difference: we are using missile dense to protect our civilians and they are using their civilians to protect their missiles. that is the difference. they are embedding the rockets, terrorist rockets, trying to kill as many as they can and they are not succeeding because of two reasons: one we have developed an incredibl...

The group, and it reads like a corporate annual report on all of the military activities in iraq since 2012. it breaks down iraq into seven areas of responsibility. the terror group looks like it has learned how to clear, hold and build a key doctrine of the u.s. insurgency, and jessica lewis has looked at it for the institute of war. >> these are planned and coordinated offenses that are extremely well executed and we have to think of more in terms of how the disrupt the strategy as if they wer...