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Secretary clinton spoke to vice president suleiman yesterday. vice president biden spoke to him today. they are clearly, piers, not getting what they want on the other end of the phone conversations. >> john, secretary of state hillary clinton held a press conference earlier today. let's see a little bit of what she had to say. >> we condemn in the strongest terms attacks on reporters covering the ongoing situation in egypt. this is a violation of international norms that guarantee freedom of the press, and it is unacceptable under any circumstances. we also condemn in the strongest terms atta...

Wire fence lies the sinai peninsula. behind me you can see the egyptian military watch tower. 26 miles in that direction lies gaza. 85% of this desert is used by the israeli military for training purposes. and when the uprising began in egypt just over a week ago, the concern on both countries' parts was there might be potential instability on the sinai peninsula. >> violent protests in egypt, tunisia and yemen and the unrest appears to be spreading. what does this mean for israel? here now is mort zuckerman and martin perrette of "the new republic." mort, you met president mubarak. you know h...

Radical. >> peter, if there is a situation, as we see in egypt right now, which is a kind of political void where no one is quite sure what's happening, isn't that exactly the kind of situation that al qaeda would want to get involved with, so even though there's no link at the moment, is there not an increasing danger that there might be? >> well, i think, piers, part of the -- why i think that's quite unlikely is these egyptian militant groups that killed more than a thousand egyptians in the '90s and culminating with a horrific massacre in luxor in '97 where a group of militants went huntin...

Hold. what we have seen already is ominous enough, and is maybe a precursor of what we're going to see ahead. i don't know. you know, i fear -- i mean i think nick makes incredibly important points that, you know, let's not have the story, you know, even though unfortunately journalists become part of the story because of this systemic cane toing it them let's never forget that the people in that square in liberation square as nick said do not have, you know, the capabilities and the possibility of, you know, getting on an airplane if one is able to get to the airport, you know, they believe t...

We have to make sure if we can -- we don't always control it. we don't get a repetition of a place where we make it possible for the radicalists to take power. that would be a disaster for every interest the united states has. >> i want to go to marty in israel. let me ask you straightaway, what is the mood like in israel about what's going on in egypt? >> the mood is very sober, very skeptical, skeptical of and skeptical of the united states' power in this situation. the -- obama actually in my view has really very little standing in the arab world, and it's because he cosseted them as soon a...