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deal with what's on his desk quickly approaches. but first, a horrific series of attacks prompts a declaration of war. israel lays siege to gaza in retaliation for a surprise attack by hamas militants. the region's fragile peace now shattered, raising fears of broader violence across the middle east. thanks for watching. getting answers. i'm kristen sze. israel is now increasing airstrikes on gaza and sealing it off from food, fuel and other supplies as the war's death toll rises to nearly 1800 on both sides. and hamas is also escalating, vowing to kill captured israelis if gaza civilians are targeted without warning as this is developing quickly. so we're going to try to break it all down for you. hamas,hich has ruled the gaza strip since 2007, launched an attack inside israel over the weekend, killing hundre and taking others hostage. so what is hamas what does hamas want

and why is this happening now? joining us live to try to explain all this is benjamin bloom, law professor and associate dean for global programs at uc law of san francisco, formerly known as uc hastings. professor bloom, thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >> i just want to be totally transparent with our viewers about your background. you were born in israel and are a dual citizen, right? >> that's correct, yes. >> all right. and we are going to approach this conversation, obviously, from an objective and academic angle, really to help people understand the history, because there's so much there. so explain to us who are the main actors in the current conflict. >> so as you pointed out, the main actors are israel and hamas. hamas is the governing authority in the gaza strip to be and to be distinguished from them, the governing of the west bank and hamas launched an attack on israel on saturday,

and israel now is retaliating and trying to lay siege on gaza and release the hostages that have been taken. there are around 150 hostages that are currently in hamas custody, and that is where those are the two main actors. and that's where things stand at the moment. >> right. but you know, palestine is a part of it as well. >> and i think people need to understand the relationship between palestine and palestinians and hamas. so if you can explain that, okay, so palestine is a collective name for both the west bank and gaza , but those two geographical regions are quite distinct in terms of the bodies governing them. >> so hamas is currently in control of gaza, but in the west bank, the palestinian authority is in charge. and the political orientation of the palestinian authority is slightly different. so palestine again, is a collective name for both the

west bank and gaza. but there are distinctions between the bodies governing them and the politics of both regions. >> so i'm sure different people will answer this differently. but what is it that hamas wants? why did it launch this attack? what is this ultimately a battle over land? >> so land and control and sovereignty are mostly what's at stake here. and this is a conflict that stretches back at least a century. it began, some would say, in 1882, but others would maybe pinpoint the aftermath of the first world war or and basically what the palestine authority and hamas in gaza would like is a sovereign palestinian state. and one that is recognized by the international community, one that has its own military and control over its foreign affairs . and israel is reluctant, want

to have such a such a neighbor at its borders. and so that's that's really what this war is about. so it is it is about land, but mostly about control and about sovereignty over the palestinian authority and over over the gaza strip. >> so what was the impact of british colonialism in that region on what's happening today ? >> so as i mentioned, in the aftermath of world war one, the british were given a mandate from the league of nations, which meant that they were supposed to prepare the region for self-governance and as part of the mandate that they were given, they were supposed to provide for a jewish national home in what was then the mandate of palestine. then very quickly it became evident that britain could not abide by its obligations towards the palestinian population. that was in what is now what is now israel and build a jewish national home. and so in 1947, the un had the partition

resolution that would that essentially decided to divide what is now israel into two states. one arab, one israeli, after the british left in 1948, a war erupted in which each of each of the factions, each of the factions managed to take over a certain amount of land. those borders were not defensible, and that led to the 1967 war. later, the 1973 war. and so this is a conflict that has been ongoing. but the legacy of british colonialism lives on in the middle east in terms of making commitments for other regions of the world and trying to partition and transfer populations as in artificial ways that only breed conflict. >> can i just ask you, watching this, why a music festival being worthy attack was centered? we just saw horrible images of young people being kidnaped,

kept elderly as well. all this bloodshed. i know you have seen we've all seen too many episodes of bloodshed in this ongoing conflict, which has complicated origins, like you said. but how does this particular one hit you ? >> well, why a music festival? i think we don't know all the details just yet. there was obviously a huge failure on the part of the israeli intelligence of not detecting this in advance . my reading of this is that a lot of these attacks and a lot of the hostage taking is purely opportunistic. the music festival was was there people were vulnerable and susceptible to being kidnaped. and so that's what that's who they kidnaped. same with children, elderly or killed or kidnaped simply because because they were there in terms of how this strikes me differently, and as you pointed out, i grew up in israel. i grew up in israel in the 1990s. and there were suicide bombings and urban busses then. i think the

difference here is that we've we haven't seen quite such a hostage situation in quite a while in situations where hostages have been taken. they have typically been israeli soldiers in the course of their duty. and those situations that prompted negotiation where israel had released hundreds, sometimes thousands of terrorists in return for a single or 2 or 3 israeli soldiers who had been kidnaped. but to have civilians kidnaped from their homes. and that is something that is unprecedent and is, i shouldn't say perhaps unprecedented. this is something that we saw in the 1960s and 70s in israel, where the plo went into into schools in israel and held hostages, airplanes. but this is something that hasn't happened in quite a while. >> look, this is one of those issues that is just so divisive. >> and you've seen protests even

here in the bay area. right. and on university campuses, some decry cry hamas brutality in attack. but but they some of them do point to israel's role in shaping the suffering of palestinians over the last few decades. i don't know if you saw harvard student groups issued a joint statement saying we, the undersigned student organizations, hold the israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence, end quote. i'm not asking you to you support or rebut that, but as an academic, can you explain to those who don't really understand this, why there are those who see it that way? >> so i think and this is a conflict where there are no heroes and no villains, there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides. um, those who i think the question here is where do you start this narrative and where do you start the story? do you start it on saturday or do you start it on the israeli with the israeli retaliation that came immediately afterwards? do you start this in 1918, 1922?

and there have been many missteps on both sides and both sides. the other quite a bit of suffering. and so i think a lot of this is purely a function of what one's political orientation is and which side they would like to take. i think in this particular conflict, the brutal attack on civilians is something that i definitely don't think that one could paint hamas to be the heroes in this story. >> professor bloom, that was really eye opening, i think thought provoking. it's kind of like where does the narrative, when does it begin? where do you want to start it? right. but now i'm going to ask you, where does it end? what are the ways that this could end? >> that's a great question. i think a lot of this will boil down to how much pressure and how much influence the international community can exert, particularly over the release of hostages. i think that one of israel's main objectives here is to release

the hostages. um, there is a broader context in israel itself around the netanyahu government and the divisiveness of that government in terms of some constituted amendments in israel . so netanyahu in this position is has quite a strong motivation to come down hard on hamas and we've heard him make statements that he'll reduce the gaza strip to rubble and cut it off from from all other supplies. a lot of this will have to do with the diplomacy and i think the united states has a very significant part in this significant role to play, as well as the united nations in trying to reduce the hostages and bring this to an end as quickly as possible with as little additional bloodshed as possible. >> yeah, associate dean of global programs at ucla of san francisco, binyamin blum, thank you so much. really appreciate your insight. >> thank you. kristin >> coming up next, the clock is

ticking for governor newsom to decide the fate of more than 700 bills still sitting on his desk. over the weekend, he went on a vetoing spree, striking down many to the surprise of many. we'll dive into that with

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and he exercised his veto power, striking down a slew of bills, surprising many allies in the process. so what is this about joining us live now to dive into what he signed, what he didn't sign and whether all that is a sign of future ambitions is abc seven news insider phil mateer. hey, phil, that's right. >> it's a sign of the times or it is right. >> but the sign is v for veto.

let's start there. right. tons of vetoes. which one surprised you as well? >> i can't say that there were many there that really surprised me. christian, given the tone of the state, given the tone of the budget, and given the fact that there is a national presidential election underway. and as we begin this campaign season, we're not only gavin newsom is in the spotlight as governor, but also the entire state. so, for example, his decision to veto the decriminalization portion of psychedelics and allow for their use magic mushrooms in the in the such. now, sure, it's been proven or it's been speculated that it could help with post traumatic stress disorders and other medical facts. but cases but and it's been done in oregon. but newsom felt that this particular version of the law left too many questions unanswered. no real controls, real questions about what kind of studies it would should be done and whether or not this was the right time. and

indeed, if you looked at the bill, there were some questions there. scott wiener, the state senator from san francisco that was proposing this, you know, they said, well, how about if we, you know, decriminalize it and we'll kind of put together the structure afterwards? newsom i don't think, wanted to be the guy that was signing that at this particular time. >> kind of related, what about vetoing amsterdam style cannabis cafes? >> you're kind of on the same theme right there. now, this was a thing that would have brought amsterdam, allowed people to sell pot in clubs, have entertainment there. so serve drinks. i'm not sure. i don't think it would be alcohol drinks and food. basically. like you said, an amsterdam style destination place where you could go get high and have a good time for the night. now, it was interesting how he his logic in vetoing it was he said that, well, actually, you know, you you smoke the pot and the smoke gets in the air and we have no smoking ordinances in the workplace. and so the people

that would work at these clubs would be exposed to pot smoke. and that that goes against the state's smoking ban. you want to buy it, you want to buy it. you don't. you don't i'm not sure how many votes he's going to lose as a result of vetoing it. but having signed it would have opened up the door to a lot of national and international attention on this issue. when i think he's got some other issues he'd like to be talking about. >> interesting. it sounds like he was looking for like very narrow reasons, right? not that i rejected morally or don't think the whole thing is a good idea, but on technical grounds because it doesn't mean that. so it does avoid that opening up that can of worms of being on the national stage and kind of being criticized by the right. >> it does. and it also listen, when you when you say no, you got to come up with a quick reason. it's like a cut. you don't want to sit there and be sawing with it a philosophically different. you just say, hey, nice idea. we don't have he did the same thing with condoms, distributing them free in high school said, you know, maybe, but you know, we're at a $30 billion deficit. you know, you're not saying that the local

schools would have to pick up the tab for this. we would. and he says, so we just don't have the money right now. now, in all these cases, you're finding a specific nail to hang that picture on the veto on and it's a it's a comfortable one because you can't argue with these. it takes it out of the realm of philosophy and puts it in the realm of practicality. and if you can score it that way, do it. >> i do believe i've seen some supreme court decisions written in that way. but, phil, let me ask you, when you take this as a whole, what is the i don't know, reading the tea leaves about his political ambitions as well? >> you know, if i took it as a whole, i would say that he's trying to weave his way down an increasingly crooked road on state and national politics. let's take a look at some of the things he did sign. for example, he signed a bill that requires large businesses to come clean with their climate green gas emission. that's something that will play on the national stage. and, you know, people would say that's a good thing to happen here in california. we'd have more accountability. he signed into a law creating a commission

to take a look at fast food and oversee fast food workers. long underpaid, under served. they're going to be getting a raise. and that's something that he can tout nationally. and so that's an interesting one that he signed. he signed one on on on actually one that was interesting. also was on medicine. if we can go to medicine just back for a second. this time i'm talking about insulin, where the state is going to go in the business of partnering up to produce more drugs like the insulin there. and there was a move to cap the copays for insulin at 30 or $35. and he said, we don't need that now because what we'd be doing is just subsidizing an industry. what we need to do is bring our own products on there that are cheaper. so that again is looking at a national model saying how do we make pharmaceuticals less expensive? we don't necessarily underwrite them and give the big pharma more money. we come up with our

own partnerships to build them and create them and manufacture them and sell them to ourselves cheaper. so on some ways, he's he's blazing into new ground, you know, nationally and in other ways he's he's sort of pulling back. so i see. i see him signing more of the practical things and getting away from sort of the things that california, quite honestly, is rather famous for. >> yeah, indeed. okay. what's left? i mean, he's got very little time left still. i think hundreds of bills. right. what else do you expect to pass that remains to be seen. >> i will say, because he has so many right now, i'm still going through, which ones he signed and which ones he's vetoed because he's been going on for a while. one of the ones i'm really interested in that has a direct effect on the bay area is whether or not he's going to greenlight light speed cameras for. >> oh yeah, that's still waiting tickets. yeah. okay >> because we've have a big problem with that. and there's been a back and forth on that and i haven't seen any, any, any no's there. it's interesting to note, however, and i think you appreciate this as well as the

timing of all this, he says it friday, saturday, sunday over the weekend. >> all right, phil, now you're turning into a pumpkin yourself because you're out of time. so thank you very much. we'll check in with you next time. >> take care. >> up next, making your list and checking it twice. the holiday shopping season is almost here. and if you're looking to save this year, we'll share some expert tips to avoid you can take on the mountains. or you can move them. with the power of up to 36,000 pounds of max available towing. and the confidence of an available 13.4-inch diagonal touch-screen. whatever your mountain, there's a silverado for you. get 0% financing plus make no monthly payments for 90 days on all 2023 silverado 1500 pickups.

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hey, nick, thanks for having me. >> all right. so this is interesting. a new cnet money survey found 69% of people that's almost seven out of ten say they'll likely overspend this holiday season. help us break it down. where exactly do

people think they'll overspend? >> people are really thinking they're going to overspend in areas like food and beverage. also specific with travel as people are traveling more. they're concerned about that. electronics and technology, toys and games, fashion and accessories, a lot of the usual suspects. but what was interesting about our cnet money survey was that people largely acknowledged that they're going to overspend at some point this holiday season and also the shopping season continues to be getting longer and longer. pretty much half of consumers have said that by the end of october, for they will likely already be shopping for the holiday season. and so i think that longer period is also just increasing the length of time that you have temptation in order to splurge or to overspend . right. >> keep in mind. right. but nick , so that gets me to this prime day is tomorrow. right? and like we said, is shopping earlier actually a good thing to get the deals so you save a little or is it a bad thing because it just makes you spend now and spend

again later, closer to christmas ? >> i think something good for consumers to keep in mind is to set some sort of boundaries or set some sort of budget regarding what you are going to splurge on, what you are particularly shopping for, rather than just window shopping for any particular deal. perhaps there is some sort of electronic gadget that you're you're really jonesing for this holiday season or, you know, that you want to flip out your fall or winter wardrobe, be a little bit more intentional in what you're looking for. and then as these retailer holidays continue to proliferate, you're not going to be as tempted to just go off the deep end. and trust me, it's q4. retailers are going to be bringing out all the heavy artillery with regard to advertising, to marketing and to really showing off the best deals and the best products to hook you. keep that in mind as you're shopping. okay. so what is the best way to comparison shop if you're shopping online, which is what most consumers are going to be doing, this year, really look into getting a free browser extension. this is a free extension that can go on

your browser. cnet shopping has one. there are many others. you install this on your browser and then when you're shopping online for a particular product, if that same product is available on a at a lower price from another retailer, you're going to be alerted in real time. and while it may just be 10 or $15, it is the gift buying season. so that really starts to add up and a shopping extension is free to install on your browser. so really something to consider. it's almost like digital couponing in a way that would be my number one tip. >> hey, you save five bucks here, five bucks there. you're right. it adds up. okay, so some people will try to save a little money buying electronics by getting refurbished, right? is that a good idea? >> well, if you're going to do a refurbished electronic as a gift, then there are a couple of things you want to keep in mind. number one is that you want to look for certified refurbished. this means that there have been repairs and testing to ensure that the product is in factory condition. this is different than an open box discount. look for something that says certified refurbish, but it's going to ensure that all the parts inside that device are going to be good to go and also

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football coverage begins at 5 p.m. right here on abc seven. the raiders host the packers in las vegas. and because of the game, wheel of fortune will air at 10 p.m. followed by jeopardy ! at 1030. and up next, world news tonight fm israel . i'll see you back here at. tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight" -- israel at war. triggered by the horrific terror attack from hamas, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now warning tonight israel's retaliation has only begun. and as israel pounds gaza, hamas now threatening to kill more than 100 hostages inside gaza. tonight, israel ordering the complete siege of gaza.