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Reach out in agreement. can we do that? it takes two to tango. >> what do you make of the way the prime minister handled it? you are in opposition to the prime minister. he may be ousted to power if a coalition is formed. what do you think of the way he handled the conflict? what do you think of the policies he has taken contributed to the escalation that we are seeing? >> i'm one of the few in israel politics which has never joined netanyahu in any kind of form or any one of his coalitions. when my party went in with netanyahu, i stayed out. yes, i think netanyahu is very, very wrong. not onl...

Instead of strengthening the moderate ones among palestinians to work with israel. as difficult as the relationship is and as i said, majority of israelis really want to reach some kind of peace. the thing is we have had so many failures in the past, it is hard for people to believe we can achieve that. especially when they see hamas targeting us over and over again. as far as israelis are concerned, we really did leave gaza. we need to work out some kind of way out here. maybe with the fifth election coming up in israel. hopefully we can replace netanyahu before these elections. if not, hopef...

Hamas has been a winner out of this so far as far as i can tell today talking to people. >> erin, i know jerusalem was a hot spot today. obviously everyone is watching what happened. you were near the scene when the police clashed with people at the mosque. how is the cease-fire holding up? what do you know what led to the events today after the friday prayers? >> reporter: it was just in jerusalem where the situation had returned to calm. hours earlier, it had been anything but according to eyewitnesss shortly after prayers at the compound known as the temple mount, there was a gathering. tho...

More than is 150 buildings destroyed. many people out sweeping up. it is a city still functioning. the infrastructure has been set back a very long way. this was a they will need to do a lot of rebuilding here. that's the physical damage. on the political or emotional side, spirits are pretty good. this is not a city that feels demoralized. many here claim victory. they think they showed a lot of strength. they are largely supportive of what hamas was doing and hamas is enjoying a boost in popularity here because hamas was able to keep firing rockets. rockets that fell indiscriminately on isra...

East. here to discuss it is richard engel and from tel aviv, erin mclaughlin. in the united states, nbc news white house reporter shannon pettypiece. i know the area has been closed off. what have you been hearing and seeing? >> reporter: well, we he came through this morning. it had been closed. we had been coming down every single day hoping there would be an opening and the israelis who control the border between israel and gaza would open it up. they did. you go through the israeli side and then the hamas side. there were procedures. we got through and then we were driving through and walk...