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Everybody talks about the israeli security system. and it is great. they do a great job there, but you give up significant liberties in israel. you go to the mall, you get your trunk checked, car checked, you have to step outside. certain things that i'm not sure americans and the people in the u.k. will want to give up. >> i agree, definitely a change or a comfort zone that needs to be reached in order to be able to adapt to the types of liberties, if you will that you are giving up to be able to assimilate with the type of security that israel demands of its government. the first terror atta...

Strongest ally in the middle east is now in the cross hairs of isis? >> this is where and why we should be supporting the egyptian governments, president el sisi. what's happened is over the years, the egyptians have treated the sinai peninsula with benign neglect. the troops that are out there are not their top troops. a lot of them are operating with old russia equipment. it's a conscript army. their main troops are around the main population centers of egypt. you've got these troops that are out there in the desert. and the al qaeda group swore allegiance now to isis. and so you've got that...

There has been constant training -- you have to understand, the ukrainian military, the one in the soviet system there was a conscript on it. so many people were trained in the weapons system. and the sa-11 that was fired was a late-70s type of technology. soviet systems are notoriously not as technical as what we have seen because they were meant for the conscript army, as well as they're designed for the massive production techniques. >> so making this kind of error might make more sense if we're talking about that sort of weapon? >> well, i wouldn't call this -- >> i'm presuming that there ...

Service. the army now says it will send letters to eligible arab christian men encouraging them to join. what's the controversy? benh wideman explains. >> reporter: they're led on an exercise near the gaza border. he looks and sounds like any other israeli officer his age, but he's different. he's a volunteer in this conscript army from nazareth. >> when i was born and i grew up it was my dream to go into the israeli defense forces he tells me. muslims are exceempt from mility service. they said they would invite them to join. it's a controversial initiative that has raised the ire in the chri...

Say that this deal strengthens the hand of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who has been criticized for being intransigent when it comes to peace and it strengthens the hands of hamas, thetured gilad . it strengthens their hand, and some say this deal today pushes back the cause of peace. >> john, gilad shalit, he was the focus of a long-term conflict in the middle east and israel. >> that's right. this is a soldier whose plight has touched the heart of the nation in a very real way. remember israel has a conscript army, almost every family sends a son or daughter into the army. t...