was it the u.s. military threat that did that? >> i think the american military threat was so credible that it certainly brought the russians around. and convinced them to cooperate. >> so, give us the israeli government's reaction to what's happening in syria. you're right next door, so you have a lot at stake. what do you think the u.s., the international community should be doing? 100,000 people have been killed over the past two years. >> we're not going to get dragged into the syrian civil war. clearly, bashar al assad has killed over 100,000 of his own citizens. he's provided tens of thousands of rockets to his people in lebanon. he tried to make a nuclear facility a few years back. it doesn't exist anymore. the world would be a better place without him. we're not going to be dragged into that internal civil war, but we want to see the chemical weapons to be removed and