have a great week, and we'll see you back here tomorrow. >> good evening to you, and welcome to aljazeera america. i'm morgan bradford, live in new york city. the cycle of violence. israel and hamas trade rockets and airstrikes as the crisis heats up. and crisis at home, president obama asking for billions of dollars to clampdown at the border. and russia's president swipes credit cards numbers, but his government cries foul. and on demand, not enough to

go around. we begin tonight in the middle east. and the cycle of violence that is escalating between israelis and palestinians. today, a near constant barrage of airstrikes in israel from gaza kill dozens of people. and meanwhile, they strike on the israeli communities, and israel called up another 40,000 reserves citing that things could get worse. >> reporter: rockets from fired from gaza in the direction of both tel aviv and jerusalem. this is a worry for the israel government and the army. according to the israeli

authorities in tel aviv, the iron dome defense system panged to intercept one of the rockets, and the system works basically when it predicts the root of the rocket and predicts that it's going to land in a populated area. now, tel aviv right now is operating under emergency procedures, and they have been instructed to prepare public bomb shelters, and the army has ked that a rocket has indeed hit an area in jerusalem, and there were no casualties or injuries or damage, and they have been instructed to start preparing bomb shelters. we heard of an incident here in jerusalem, when this happened near the old city. there was a concert in a theater where 6,000 people were evacuated when they felt and heard the impact of this rocket. now, this is happening while

there's a sharp escalation of violence in the last 24 hours, and we also heard about an incident from the israeli army regarding four fighters inphilostrating from gaza through israeli through the sakim beach, and there they clashed with israeli soldiers in a cubuts, and one was injured. and all of the fighters were killed. this is happening while we're seeing a change in the approach or the attitude of the line by the israeli government. and in recent days and last week. if we're hearing him in the last 24 hours, ordering the army to prepare for a possible ground invasion if that is needed, and the army getting approval to call up 14,00 14,000 reservistsd

this is a change in the line of the government. and we know because there's a lot of pressure on the prime minister, we have heard statements from the israeli public, especially from communities in israel's south that are close to the border with gaza, saying that netanyahu isn't dealing firmly enough with the fire coming from gaza, and they live in the communities that are suffering the most from these rocket attacks. >> now, there's much more on the israeli-palestinian conflict coming up at the half hour. we'll go in depth in our special report, cycle of violence. president obama has called the flood of unaccompanied children crossing the border into the united states a humanitarian crisis, and now he's asking congress for $3.7 billion to deal with it. libby casey is in washington, and good evening to you. originally, the president was set to ask for $2 billion.

and now it's almost 4. >> reporter: half of that whether go to just dealing with the children, their basic medical needs to sheltering them, and we see $9 million going to detention, and prosecuting adults coming across the border illegally, and hundreds of millions going to the state department. and we see $300 million more that would alone go to border patrol, paying overtime and staffing for people working at the border. a big chunk of money. >> libby, give us a gut check, how likely is congress to approve this thing? >> the democrats are ready to go in the senate. and they want to expedite this, but the republicans, no surprise, are giving a lot of pushback and it's coming along a couple of lines. one, they want to see where the money is going, they're concerned about accountability. and two, they're questioning whether or not enough is being spent on the border, as we often here from republicans.

here is john corner from texas. >> apparently the president has ditch given up on any kind of reforms that he knows and the administration to prevent the surge of unaccompanied children, and getting even worse. there's money spent everywhere, but where we're looking at, where it can be placed to the greatest effect. >> we expect to see a fight on capitol hill over this money, but everyone on capitol hill agrees that this is a humanitarian crisis. the obama administration is looking back to the history of the legislation, and we are going to see the fight play out over the next few weeks. >> what can you tell us about the president's coming visit to

texas? i know rick perry slammed him for not visiting the border centers, and is there anything given on that? >> it's originally a fundraising trip, and that's what it's designed to be, but the president will hold a roundtable in texas where he'll meet with the leaders working on the crisis at the border, and he's going to meet with the republican governor, rick perry. originally, it was going to be a photo on, but the president declined. -- rick perry declined. and the president said they have making a deal with the specific issues, and the republicans giving him a lot of flack for not making that trip south. >> libby t. thank you for being with us this evening, and meanwhile, a 2008 law is often overlooked in the conversation, designed to prevent young migrants from being deported back to even more dangerous swayings. >> well, you just heard libby mention the history of the

legislation that a lot of people are talking about now, and the white house is taking a lot of blame for the surge in the illegal crossings, but the fact is that the people are getting into the u.s. and staying here through a legal loophole, opened up by a law that was passed even before president obama took office. it's called the william wilberforce trafficking and reauthorization act of 2008, signed into law by president george w. bush a month before he left office. named for the 19th century abolitionist, it was for young migrants. with strong backing from evangelical groups, the house and the senate passed it unanimously. it said only children from mexico or canada can legally be turned around and sent home. the rest, coming from south america, get it tell an

immigration judge whether they're victims of abuse or crime. if possible, they are reunited with a family member. the white house and it's allies say this law, combined with soaring crime and violence in central america, are the roots of the problem. it has tied their hands when it comes to dealing with the current wave of children. take a look at this. according to government records published in the los angeles times. deportation of mines or peaked in 2008 and declined after that. and then it really took off in 2008. and the bottom line, most children coming from central america will end up staying in the u.s. for years while their cabses make their way through the legal system. so regardless of whether its true, it's this lacking time that's helping to fuel the rumors of permits for children to stay in the u.s. just listen to what these hon

honduran migrants told us. >> we were given the permission to stay there. and if a parent arrived with a child, they were given permission to go into the u.s. >> we were told that they would give us a permit. >> even the child we have officials 24 in honduras aren't sure of what the policy is. >> seeing all of these people make this kind of decision, i thought it might be true, who knows, but i'm learning it's a big lie. >> some of the sponsors of the 2008 law are calling for it to be revived. but with the gridlock with the unintended consequences like this, it's hard to imagine republicans and democrats coming together to fix this problem. >> you mentioned gridlock, but

backlog is a problem. >> the average wait time right now, 578 days, and there are 3,000 cases in the backlog, and the system would have to more than double in size to handle it. so trying to get that fixed right now seems almost unimaginable. this problem is not going away. >> forgotten vials of one of human kind's deadliest diseases turned up in a place that it should not have been. the centers for disease control said that scientists found vials of install pox vaccine last week in bethesda, maryland. they had been there for decades. there were only two places they're allowed to be stored by sign resists. one in russia and one at the ddc in atlanta. a man is accused of stealing 1,000 credit card numbers from americans.

>> moscow is absolutely livid. it's calling this arrest an abduction, a kidnapping, and says that yes again, washington has chosen to ignore a treaty on mutual legal assistance, signed by the two countries in 1999. what this treaty does is provide a legal framework for cooperation on legal matters between the two countries if they choose to do so. if they think that's in their best interest. and clearly, in this case, washington decided that it wasn't. there might be many reasons for that. and for one, roman was not in russia when he was arrested. and secondly, the united states obviously feels that it has enough evidence to try him without russian influence. seleznev is the son of a parliamenttarian, and russian and u.s. relations are so bad that the united states is

choosing to avoid cooperation whenever it can, so the russian foreign ministry is choosing to repeat a warning it put out last year, for any of its citizens that might feel they're thed in the united states, might think carefully about any source of international travel. >> and today, al-shabaab attacked the presidential palace for the second time this year. it started with a car bomb in mowinga dishu. and then the minister said that five members were killed. >> john kerry will travel and they said that the election was rigged. >> several thousand of abdellah abdellah supporters came to

protest against the preliminary election results. we tore down the photo of karzai and replaced it with abdulla, calling him the elected president. they said that he showed disrespect for the presidency. the confidence that he will soon hold. >> we have won the vote of the people of afghanistan. that is over. god willing, that story will not be changed. there's no correction of that. >> the crowd wanted him to declare a parallel government. abdulla asked for a if you more days. he's expecting a visit from john kerry on friday. kerry and the u.s. president spoke to abdull a >> it would be on the gains of the last 13 years, and what we

can do to facilitate these gains, and what can we do to dress the fraud? >> abdullah wants the ball on ththe ballotboxes reexamined. about half of them. >> we are asking except our recommendation, of any election in the world. >> ashrav gani said that there's review. >> staying in the middle east, iraq's parliament is bending to global pressure to pick a new government very quickly. after announcing a five week break, the leaders say this they will reconvene on friday. and many don't think that it will help to form a new

government. more from baghdad. >> the political stalemate continues here in iraq, and the parliamentary schedule didn't happen. they rescheduled for the 13th, and all they have to do is a simple technical procedure and choose a speaker for the house then. the constitutional process in the last 45 days, and before that, the election of a new prime minister. it's politically charged. and nobody can agree on who the prime minister should be, or the president should be, or indeed the speaker of the house. and this is until the 13th. back door, lots of negotiations and talking, but it seems that the division is not political, but it's almost sectarian. the shiite parties say that maliki is the one to lead iraq after the crisis, and the sunnies say he's the one that didn't reach out to the sunnies in the first place. and that's what made them angry

and that has led to the current impasse we face in iraq. and the kurds say pretty much the same thing, but now they're talking about independence, and they say that we can't be part of an iraqi state that a doesn't respect our rights, and b has a stranglehold over us. so it looks likely that when the parliamentary session meets on the 13th, that they won't get another agreement. and it will be postponed yet again. nobody in iraq is hopeful that they will come to any kind of agreement, much less shoes a speaker of the house. >> a powerful typhoon hit japan today, knocking out power for thousands of people. in okinawa, people were hurt and some are missing. the u.s. air base is stationed there in okinawa. into. >> still ahead, recreational marijuana goes on sale in washington state.

but there's not enough to go around. and at the bottom of the hour, an aljazeera america special report. we take you live to the violence in gaza and israel. what's behind it, and what can be done to stop the cycle 6 violence?

marijuana is legally on sale in washington state. and so far colorado is the only other state to allow pot for recreational use. but supplies are limited. only a few stores have licenses and most of them won't open for days. live in seattle tonight, can you give us a sense of these first day sales? >> yeah, it has been crazy, it has been fun, continue bu canni, which is the only store open right now, it has been busy all day, and they opened just after noon, and a line out of the door all day. they figured they would serve 500 people by now. people waiting two or three hours in line, and everybody happy with the wait and don't seem to mind at all. >> you know, it's an historic

moment. and a lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time. and that simply is what brought me out here. >> i figured there would be a lot of people coming out here to buy their first legal bag of weed. and i know i'm here to support not only in marijuana legalization, but also supporting a small business. >> so 500 or so served here, and i just talked to the owner of the store in spokane, and he described a very similar story. four to 500 people so far. and i talked to another owner in bellingham near the canadian border. and he says that he has been open since 8:00 this morning. it's hard to get a grip on how the sales are going right now, and 700 or 800 pounds marijuana sold today. >> it might not be enough to go

around and what's going on? >> well, there's definitely going to be some interruptions in the line of supply for marijuana products. frailfirst of all only 6 or 7 ss are hope open in the state. and that's the choke point. a lot of the growers and processers don't have their first crop matured and processed yet and that's going to be slow to get out to the retailers, and the retailers, with the growers and processers to supply them so they can sell stuff to people at the storefront. if you have a store and sell stuff, you need to have the store. and that's going to be a scramble for a while in the state of washington. >> they're lining up around the block. allen thank you for being with us this evening. the criminal justice director for the aclu of

washington, and she is the prime negotiator to legalize pot in washington state. and allison, thank you for joining us. first off, this is a major milestone for you, and how does it feel? did you think that the day would come in it. >> it is a little bit unreal. we thought of this all through the drafting of the initiative and the campaign, but there's nothing like the reality of seeing the store open and people lining up to buy marijuana that's mile finally legal. >> speaking of lining up, you are not exactly a typical marijuana consumer, you're an attorney and the mother of a four-year-old and is this going to serve people like you? >> i suspect that it will. what we have learned about how many people use marijuana on occasion, and there are probably a fair amount of people that look a lot like me, and come from a similar background, and enjoy a little bit of marijuana every now and then like a glass of red wine after work.

>> what about the health effects? would would it benefit somebody? >> that's a good question, and a good reason to legalize and regulate is so we're putting in place controls over customer safety. and community safety and the quality of the product that people are purchasing. people already buying and using marijuana and having it regulated ensures that there's a little bit of control over what they're using. >> you mentioned what you can control. and what about those you can't? what about those who argue that marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs? >> it's more about the social norms around marijuana and the fact that it's illegal and people that choose to purchase marijuana in an illegal environment are exposed to other drugs as well. they're engaging in criminal activities, and the people offering them that marijuana may be offering them harder drugs. in terms of the actual chemical and biological properties of

marijuana, that's not what is pushing people to try other things. >> what about the kids? are you worried that pot will be more easily accessible to minors? >> to children, that's one of the concerns that we had with the draft initiative 502. we put in protections for youth to not gain access to marijuana and at the same time, taking a piece of the revenues and putting them in strategies that are more effective with kids than arresting adults and locking them up. >> do you think that the federal government will lift the ban on marijuana in our lifetime? >> i'm very hopeful about that, and at the same time, i'm a real lift and a pragmatist. and it's going to take more states to move in this direction until we convince the people in congress that it's time to make a change at the national level. >> allison, i have to ask before

you go, are you buying anything today. >> well, i had the opportunity to go into the store earlier today, i did make my own purchase of 2 grams of og pearl from 9 point gross industries. it's my birthday in two days, and i figure on a day like today, and with a reason to celebrate coming up, it didn't make sense not to purchase something. >> happy birthday to you, and it has been a pleasure. all right, let's head to washington d.c. where joie chen is standing by t to tell us whas coming up tonight on america tonight. >> a look at the program, post-traumatic stress syndrome, half of the troops fac ptsd andy

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>> israeli teenagers murdered. a palestinian teen burned to death. hundreds of rocket attacks from one side. and hundreds of strikes from the other. and now an army mobilizing. tonight, an aljazeera special

report. israel and palestinians cycle of violence. >> thank you for joining us, a cycle of violence escalating between israelis and palestinians. and today, a near constant barrage of airstrikes from israel hit gaza, killing dozens of people. and meanwhile, gaza continued their attacks on israeli communities, reportingly aiming as far away as tel aviv. calling up reserve troops, saying that things could get worse. john, what's been happening for the last few hours? >> good evening, morgan, what's happening right now as we speak, there are booms in the background, overnight, we have seen plumes all along the skyline at one point or another. and this has been going on for days, but over the last 24 hours, it has been the most

concentrated series of strikes on both sides that have occurred so far. we're hearing the morning call to wake up. it's 3:30 in the morning here, and during ramadan, people fast. and as the call came up, so did a bunch of explosions. israel said it would escalate this campaign, and hamas said that it would range its strikes against israel. both sides have kept their word. we have had over 1700 rocket strikes, and 273 israeli strikes from air, sea and land. and they have taken their toll. 29 people have been killed. and more than 100 have been injured. one of them was hafas hamad, from the islamic military wing, and he was in a house, and that's one of the thing that they're doing, hitting houses

there, and that has had a terrifying effect on the population. it's insanie loud when one of these things goes off near you. that has had an effect on people all around. 50 pete away, one of these israeli airstrikes came down, and it has everybody quite hunkered down, and the fear is that there would be more to come. and you have israeli troops around the border, and you have reservists, and the fear is that there will be a ground strike after all of the airstrikes. >> john, you mentioned the troops on the border and 373 israeli airstrikes, and how are the people coping with all of this? >> people are scared. yesterday everyone was out in the street. and all of the shops were open. at the hotels, the people had dinner, breaking their fast. and hundreds of people normally

come to the hotels along the gaza seashore, and they celebrate with big buffets, and none of that happened in the past night. people are not out in shops. they're hunkered down in homes, and they're not driving around in the streets, and that's because throughout the day, wherever you stood in gaza city, you could hear pops and booms, and in some cases two or three blocks away from where we were at the time. and it's terrifying when those sounds go off. that's keeping them inside and fearing for the future. >> john, thank you. and meanwhile in israel, some communities are preparing bomb shelters as the rocket fire from gaz app intensifies. nick schiffrin, what's it like on the ground tonight? >> morgan, good evening, and we spent the afternoon in a small community here in gaza, and it's the example of the kind of

hatred and fear that is spreading throughout israel. though he's half a mile from the gaza war, lieberman feels at home. for 25 years, he lived in this collective farm, it feeds 250 people. >> i like this place, it's nice and quiet. >> he lives here with his wife and 13-year-old daughter. they both love it here, but for amit. it's time to go. it's the kibuts where i grew up, but if the situation remains this way, i'll move to another kibuts or to another area. watch her face, that sound wasn't thunder. it's a rocket landing a few feet away. they have not killed anyone, but they spread fear, and they sear

images into every member of this community. ovra rushes to the site. and the community expects these kinds of attacks. >> we just heard another boom. and you flinched a little bit. are you used to this? >> no. no. >> this is the spot where the rocket hit. you can see the black soot on the ground. and they have dug up the missile, which landed here only about 20 minutes ago, and you can still smell the black soot in the air, and the fire that came from the rocket spread all the way up the hill. the tension here is spreading. ovra was told that two palestinian fighters almost got inside of the neighboring community. >> they tried to get inside of the kibbutz, and it looks like they shot. >> it's that kind of attack that has led him to lose his understanding and sympathy. he used to have gaza friends, and today he curbses them with a

smile. >> if that's what they do, i don't understand nothing. >> at the kibbutz's edge, a hill provides best views of gaza, and as israel bombards the strip, some residents seem so see this as a spectator sport. >> i wanted, he says, to see how to strike back. >> today's attack wounded no one, and caused no damage, but the fear sparks a need. >> do you support this operation? >> if they will -- if they shot one, we have to show them who is the psycho in the neighborhood. >> tonight, they're praying that israel strikes even harder.

despite the fact that his daughter wants to go, he's not going anywhere. >> that's nick schifrin, joining us live from israel. and thank you for being with us. in the past few days, hundreds of rockets were fired into israel. many were intercepted and israel launched it's own over the border. they are more and more capable of inflicting great damage. >> morgan, consider this. in recent years, gaza's rockets are a lot more powerful and they can fly a lot farther. for years, the cass am, it's maul and low tech, and it's range is 6 miles. they were since fired in 2001, but thousands have been launched especially since israel pulled out of the gaza strip in 2005. the qassam came out the next year, it can fly further, up to 25 miles, and more than

1 million people are in its reach. and then the rocket. it deeply worries israelis. because for the first time hamas could reach tel aviv and jerusalem, and they can now reach as far north as haifa. and that would be a first. all in all, they have fired 10,000 rockets, most of them within gaza, and some of them are smuggled from iraq through tunnels cross the border through egypt. they have a sophisticated anti-missile system, including the iron dome, and that's only recent, since 2011. israel said it could shoot up to 90 rockets, but obviously some get through. and israel uses f-16 war planes to bomb gaza. it has unleashed waves of aerosols on the strip. but so far the only casualties have been inside of gaza. but certainly the fear is on

both sides, and if this continues to escalate, morgan, millions of people are at risk. >> palestinian-american human rights attorney, nura, joins me from washington and you have friends on the ground. what are their biggest concerns. >> the biggest concern is what israel will do next. because anybody who looks at a map and knows anything about the region knows that israel is the sole governing authority between the mediterranean sea and the jordan river, so though hamas is within the gaza strip and within the west bank, israel controls the entire region. so the fear is, what is the next step? there's a lot to be fearful about in terms of the actually kinetic violence that we're seeing, but what viewers don't know, four weeks before the kidnapping of the israeli settlers, the violence was a

structural violence. for example, israel broke the 2012 ceasefire with hamas by slinking the nautical miles that the gaza fishermen are allowed to go out in hoard to fish for their families. this is an attack on livelihood and this starves families. >> but what you're talking about is structural violence. >> that's the violence we should be focusing on. [ talking at the same time ] >> nura, we're talking about the structural violence, and what exactly are the palestinian people wanting at this point and seeing israel coming next? >> the only thing that the palestinians have wanted and clearly demanded is the end of military occupation and an apartheid regime and equality. they have not asked for israelis to leave, but to stop taking

them from their homes. this structural violence that you rightly know is the violence that we're not focused on, but instead we focus every few years, unfortunately, on kinetic violence that becomes a spectator sport that your other commentator mentioned. >> i want to the talk about that because the truth is this is war, and gaza's launch of rockets into israel, is that a smart response or leading to more violence? >> if you're asking me, as somebody living comfortably in the united states, i don't think it's a smart response at all. unfortunately, in 2012, in response to hamas' response of using rockets, israel give a response that was never agreed to. and it shows the violence that hamas was able to demonstrate in the span of a few weeks was more

fruitful on paper anyway than 20 years, and a false peace process that has led them nowhere. that's not the issue. i agree that this is not where -- if i was an adviser, i would tell them to stop immediately. they don't care what i think. but i'm explaining to the audience that the structural violence is the root cause, and if we were only interested in watching the spectator sport of rocket fire, we're missing the real issues. >> okay, but if we're missing the issues, and looking for a viable solution, who is responsible? and how should they be held accountable? >> well, israel is the sole authority. >> you don't think that the palestinians have any responsibility in that? >> i think that everybody bears responsibility. but if i were to say who bears the ultimate responsibility as a

state, israel does. it receives $3.1 billion from the united states annually, and therefore all american citizens are complicent in what's going on, and are therefore responsible and should be saying something about how that money is used. it should be used in order to actually end the occupation, rather than entrench settler clonism. and the flames of racist hate that has been demonstrated in the last week. 25 palestinians have been killed in the past two days alone. 37 have been killed since june 12th, and yet what we're paying attention to is what this looks like in terms of air sirens, and not paying attention to all of the palestinians that are not able to go to university, the palestinians not able to travel, the palestinians not able to feed their families, and palestinian's homes demolished. >> still a lot from both sides. nura, thank you for being with

us. >> thank you for having me. >> and right now, rabbi david, the most influential rabbi in the united states, and rabbi, good evening, and let's jump into it. dozens killed in gaza today in airstrikes, is the response appropriate? >> well, i think what we have to consider is the larger context of what's going on here. i mean, remember when those children were kidnapped from israel. it wasn't just that it was an escalation. it was within gaza, there were celebrations, candy was given, and there was a 3 figured salute to note the three children kidnapped and there was a comment that there would be more kidnaps, and when they talk about racism and violence, they are depicted as pigs and monkeys, and the racism has been in one direction. and if they were a function of

israel's ruling. >> people in the streets, the reality is that palestinian children have also been killed for years and years. >> of course. >> so those saying look, this is also a response to what israel has done to the palestinians. >> i would say exactly what i was saying before. it's not just in response to israel's occupation of other people's territory as is sometimes portrayed. because remember, the first awards against israel in '48 and '67 were before israel controlled the west bank and gaza. so there's a larger and deeper hostility here, is and the hamas charter still calls for the destruction of israel. it's not as though what you have on your border is a potentially peaceful partner but you're treating them bad and they're angry. i want to ask all of your viewers the following question. imagine for a moment that the military situation were

reversed, and hamas had the military firepower of israel. and israel had the military firepower of hamas. how many jews do you believe would be alive in israel if a week? honestly? the solution is for the culture of both the west bank and gaza, politically eventually to evolve. but one thing that worries us, when we look around the arab world, in syria, in iraq, and also in iran, where the nuclear centrifuges are spinning faster and faster, which is the greatest threat to the middle east, when those things are happening, if you're an israeli, you have to wonder, being in this neighborhood, what do i have to do in order to have people on my border who really would accept and embrace me. >> rabbi, i want to go back to the united states for a minute. president obama calling for a

deescalation of the violence, and what's next in the role for the united states in the days ahead? >> it's terrifying. innocents are dying, and industrials by the millions are in bomb shelters, and i think that perhaps the united states can broker a ceasefire, which is something that we all wish for, and i don't think at this point that any side wants to escalate this conflict. but also, i think that people in the united states should just imagine what it is to live with a hostile state on your border that wishes to destroy you. if hamas took over texas and kipped children, do you think that we would send in a diplomatic corp? >> that's a question that will be unanswered. but rabbi, you traveled to the region extensively, and what concerns you most about the mindset of people on both sides now. >> what concerns me the most is the poet yates said too long of

a sacrifice makes a stone of the heart. and what happens generally, hate reds harden, and with each successive conflict, we're not getting closer. one, the only ray of beautiful light was almost 400 israelis went to the home of the palestinian child who was killed by some radical israelis and expressed, as thousands did in the street, their hope that there would be some kind of healing. my hope is on both sides, those people who have lost and suffer and see the possibility of peace, that their voices will be louder than those who see only revenge and hatred and destruction. >> rabbi david wolpe, thank you so much for joining us. and right now, we want to step back and look at how the crisis has escalated over the past month. it started on june 12th, when

three young israeli settlers were kidnapped as they were hiking in occupied west bank, and john, since then, tensions have only been rising. tell us about that. >> morgan, good evening, and after this news broke, israelis launch aid massive search operation, hundreds of palestinians were arrested and at least six were killed in the aftermath. and of course the tensions rose higher once the terrestrials were found to be dead. it was june 30th, the bodies of the three young men turned up in hebron, not far from where they went missing. protests took place across israeli, with many calling finish revenge. on the 7th of july, he was found kidnapped and found murdered and there was an autopsy report that candia was burned alive. several suspects were arrested if the teen's murder. and some of them have since confessed. then at the start of this week,

in exchange of fire from the air, palestinian rockets hit israel on monday. and israel launched it's own airstrikes. this video of that airplane offense in gaza. and those attacks continue. israel's cabinet calling up 45,000 reserve troops, escalating the tension on the ground. they say this will be a long-term, drawn out affair. >> up next, what went wrong? why the u.s.-led peace negotiations between israel and palestinians went nowhere.

>> the white house pushed for renewed peace talks between

israelis and palestinians earlier this year, and they fell apart in april, but today the white house stuck to its hope for a diplomatic solution. >> it's not in the interest of either side for this violence to continue and even escalate. but we're hopeful that even as israel exercises their right to self defense, that they will leave open a channel for diplomacy to prevail and a ceasefire, or a deescalation in the violence. >> president obama said that peace is possible in the violence, and he wrote, peace is necessary because it's the only way to ensure a secure and democratic future for the jewish state of israel. reaching a peace agreement for the palestinians would help to turn the tide of international sentiment. the current crisis is calling into question about peace between the israelis and the palestinians can really ever be achieved. jonathan betz joins us with

that. >> well, morgan, it was three months ago that both sides were discussing a peace deal. and that has completely fallen apart. it was met to last nine months, israel agreed to release hundreds of prisoners, and palestinians agreed to not join any international organizations and both fell short of that promise. the palestinians were angry that israel continued to build settlements. and they wanted to recognize israel as a jewish state. but in the end, neither side could come to agreement. juan, he's aljazeera's middle east contributor, and thank you for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> so the big picture, if you had one reason why the negotiations clashed what would it be? >> the israelis are insis enton continuing to send settlers into the palestinian west bank, and to take territory away from to the palestinians, and that's not

acceptable to the palestinian side. and as long as the israelis are embarked on the course of sending squatters in, there's going to be conflict. >> that's the thought of other things that we heard. secretary kerry mentioned the same theory, and is that fair? do the palestinians not shoulder some of the blame here? >> i don't think it's useful to talk about blame. in any violent situation, there's plenty of blame to go around. and we can get caught up in a guilt game. the question is, what's the structure of things? if you take a place like gaza, 70% were chased from their homes without compensation, and many of them are still in refugee camps, desperately poor, and in

the last seven years, the israelis have put a blockade on them, and not allowing them to export anything that they make, and that's not a recipe for peace. >> but they said that they must secure this for israelis, and check peace in gaza. >> you can imagine a policy of enports into gaza on security grounds, and you can't imagine any security grounds for preventing the people of gaza for exporting the things that they make. >> what's happening now? a lot of people coming to the united states, hoping that the united states can broker a ceasefire, but how much credit does the united states have with israelis and palestinians ? palestinians? you have a far right government that's committed to settling the

west bank, and it has blown off the united states, with mr. kerry. members of the israeli cabinet insulted him, saying that he had a messiah complex, and would he leave them alone, and they were clear that they weren't interested in the negotiations. but if the united states can do one thing, if they can stop vetoing the security council negotiations with international law, and if the united states would back off, israel would be sanctioned. >> it makes you wonder if the focus should be on other international act,. saudi arabia, and turkey and maybe they can step forward and put leverage on two sides. >> oh, no. all of those countries you just mentioned i have to say are worse than the united states in having their own dogs in the fight. >> okay, juan, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> and morgan, back to you. >> thank you, jonathan.

we end tonight, two images that really caught our eye. tonight's freeze frame comes from the conflict in the middle east, where a surge of attacks took place between the israelis and the palestinians. sirens blazed all day, warning of incoming attacks from the gaza strip. and people used the pipes as makeshift bomb shelters. meanwhile, people are picking up the pieces as airstrikes rained down from israeli forces. stay tuned, "america tonight" is coming up next. @

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