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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 as he got into power. he went to cairo in june of 19 -- of 2009, praised them to the

Tension there? because we keep hearing that the reason the media is being brutalized is because of fears there may be something appalling about to go down. >> reporter: we really don't know what could happen next. we don't really know why the government has cracked down so hard on the media, where you have reporters from egypt, sweden, america, turkey, russia, polish, canada, uk, other arab countries all have been either beaten or detained or had their equipment destroyed, as well. one of the reasons is perhaps the egyptian government is simply embarrassed of the coverage it's seen so far of t...

We're in the other side of this 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 m...

To come together and begin this process right now and, of course, president mubarak has to get out of the way and allow this process to take place so they can transition. >> omar suleiman said earlier today that he firmly blames the media including western media for inflaming the rioting that we've seen in egypt. seemed a pretty ridiculous statement to me. what was your take on that. >> well, i think it's not just a misreading of what happened on the ground but i think it indicates sometimes what happens to leaders when they're -- when they're not observing what is plainly evident. this was a ...

Prevent any kind of a secular reasonable opposition so that he can stay. if it's not for me we'll have chaos in egypt and at times american officials have kind of believed that, but in the last few days i think that has lost all credibility because we had a peaceful secular largely secular democracy movement that was actually quite well organized and certainly very peaceful and then kind of erupted in chaos in the last couple of days because the president has sent his thugs to try to crush that movement. >> it's 4 a.m. on friday morning in cairo. i wish i could show you live pictures from tahr...