convinced bashar al assad to, a, acknowledge he does have chemical weapons, b, to promise he would detail where they are, how much he has and eventually destroy them? was it the u.s. military threat that did that? >> i think the israeli -- the american military threat was so credible that it certainly brought the russians around. and convinced them to cooperate. >> so what is the israeli government's reaction to what's happening in syria? you're right next door so you obviously 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 is a man who killed over 100,000 of his own citizens. he has provided tens of thousands of rockets to hezbollah and lebanon that are aimed at our homes. he himself tried to make a secret military nuclear facility several years back, you remember. >> which israel destroyed. >> it doesn't exist anymore, put it that way. thank god it doesn't exist anymore. the world would certainly be a