bibi netanyahu is going to do just the opposite.e's going to go to the israeli people and say i'm all that stands between you and extremists, be it hamas or a front for hamas. so he's going to take joe biden on. because their fundamentally different places about the management of gaza and what comes after. i could see this framing an election sometime in 2024. and what is good about this for bibi netanyahu, it allows him to frame the election about the future. it is about him and the potential avoiding of a palestinian state, what have you, as opposed to the past, he is the person responsible for the tragic failures, intelligence of october 7th. so this is going to get really entering over the next six months. >> what about the politics here? what do you think -- how do you think you've heard people say that biden is going to lose a certain number of arab americans and lose young americans because of this unwavering support for israel that so far has been his policy? >> i think the substance is the issue here. ten months from now, i

they have been frustrated by the fact that bibi netanyahu has essentially pocketed all the support, but resisted all of the pressure, all the advice. what you are beginning to see is a public coming out of that disagreement. first you you a lloyd austin. then the secretary of state. >> now it's the president. >> biden himself, used the phrase indiscriminate bombing. now, in certain circumstances it's considered a war crime. for the president to say that, i think it's a big deal. will it ultimately mean they will move away? i don't know. what you are seeing is also very strong international pressure. the uae yesterday said at the u.n. we will not give up a penny for the reconstruction of gaza unless israel commits to a two-state solution and a path to get there. this as you know is something bibi has been opposed to torres entire life. >> he just reiterated it. >> the president said something else which was i think meant to be caught on mic but was caught on mic. he said -- i signed a photograph to bibi netanyahu 35 years ago in which i said i love you but i disagree with every word you

he also renewed his warnings to prime minister bibi netanyahu, not to make the same mistakes. the september 11th attacks. meanwhile, national security adviser, jake sullivan, traveled to israel in the occupied west bank this week to consult on a timeline for ending the war, which is really say could take months. i want to bring in our david horn, the former senior adviser to president obama's special envoy for middle east peace. he also served as the u.s. a.i. dean emission director to the west bank in gaza as well. david, thanks for joining us on this. appreciate it. i want to talk to your op-ed, i want to talk through some things you've been hearing out of israel as well. i want to start first with the message that is being heard and whether or not it actually resonating. the message by president biden in that they need to tamp down on this war and how aggressive and offensive there being now. the need to move to a new targeted phase, because of what the president has said has been seems indiscriminate killing. the thousand and thousands of deaths and innocent palestinian ci

howard: mollie, a lot of pundits questioning whether bibi netanyahu can survive at least after the warity because of this. >> well, rightly so. howard: yeah. >> this, ultimately, was his responsibility, whether or not he saw this. you're seeing that across the political spectrum, people are very concerned. they also understand this is probably not the time to change leadership while they are prosecuting this war against hamas. but i would be surprised if there weren't repercussions for him politically. howard: put diplomatically. and, no, it's not going to happen while the war's going on. the war may go on for months. mollie hemingway, kevin walling, thank you. >>> up next, a mideast ceasefire is over. has it given hamas a military advantage against israel? ♪ ♪ a digital money coach in the chase mobile® app. use it to set and track your goals, big and small... and see how changes you make today... could help put them within reach. from your first big move to retiring poolside - and the other goals along the way. wealth plan can help get you there. ♪ j.p. morgan wealth management. [city

and what is good about this for bibi netanyahu, it allows him to frame the election about the future.t is about him and the potential avoiding of a palestinian state, what have you, as opposed to the past, he is the person responsible for the intelligence of october 7th. so this is going to get really irning over the next six months. >> what about the politics here? what do you think -- how do you think you've heard people say that biden is going to lose a certain number of arab americans and lose young americans because of this unwavering support for israel. >> i think the substance is the issue here. ten months from now, it is hard to say, nine months from now, if people in america are going to be thinking about israel and thinking about gaza and the west bank. we'll see where the world is and where the conflict it. but it is an actual substantive issue, which is that biden tried to, one, reboot, the democratic party if nothing else, its relationship with israel. there what a period under the obama administration, where he tried to challenge on settlements. and obama backed down. so

this is totally, totally of a piece for bibi netanyahu. what he ignored, though, is one of the laws of the middle east, is that the enemy of your enemy can still be your enemy. israel is paying the price for his cynicism and his opposition to a palestinian state. that said, i actually think, despite what a lot of the pundits are saying, bibi netanyahu hangs on longer than he should. there's only two ways to get rid of him. one is do a parliamentary reshuffle. a lot of guys are in bed with him, agree with him. they don't want the reckoning the admiral is talking about. election? israel isn't going to have an election in the middle of a crisis. bibi netanyahu has every incentive to maintain an intense, large war. >> yes. >> basically, no one wants to change horses midstream. again, it comes back to the first story that mika ran, it's one of the reasons the administration has to understand, they are not dealing with someone who is acting in good faith with them. they have got to adjust their policy. >> i have not -- i want to ask admiral stav

we just learned the adviser to the prime minister bibi netanyahu will be meeting with tony blinken today. what is expected to come out of the meeting? >> this meeting is with ron durmer, who is a key ally and aide to netanyahu, and he's the former ambassador to the united states, and he's scheduled to meet with jake sullivan and antony blinken. we are told these will be face-to-face consultations to give an update about the situation with the war against hamas from israel's perspective, and what israel thinks is the path forward, and the question is going to be how strongly will the american advisers top cabinet officials press upon to durmer, and that the hostilities to be somewhat muted, and there's not necessarily been a forceful move in that direction to try and quell the violence that is happening right now. this will be a face-to-face opportunity for administration officials to make that case, and of course, it's important to keep in mind that the united states continues to be a key supplier to israel in terms of arms and weapons as it relates to the conflict happening right now in

bibi netanyahu, now we can say from here to eternity, that you didn't support it and didn't agree with but he was there and he didn't stop it. (siren blaring) >> narrator: netanyahu's close adviser at the time vehemently disagrees. >> the attempt to pin on him the murder of the prime minister (stammering): is a cheap political propaganda trick that was taken by his political opponents, mostly from the left, in order to delegitimize netanyahu as the political public and to delegitimize the positions of likud, uh... in the israeli open political debate. (man singing) >> your prime minister was a martyr for peace, but he was a victim of hate. >> narrator: after rabin's death, the peace process he had championed was in jeopardy. (speaking hebrew) his successor, shimon peres, would now try to win an election to keep it alive. that meant facing bibi netanyahu, whose standing in the polls had fallen in the wake of the assassination. >> people who spoke to him in those days have said that he thought that his career was over. >> narrator: then, as election day neared... (loud explosion) >> ten

but bibi netanyahu has been there for some 16 years. anything is possible. he's just holding out, hoping that he'll remain after the war, if there is an end to it. >> right. and i did want to move to the next stage of what the israelis hope to do in gaza. as you know, the bide administration has been stepping up some pressure on israel to minimize civilian casualties in gaza. i know you've probably seen some of these reports that leaflets are being dropped, they're trying to send out text messages and other messages to smartphones so people in harm's way can get out of harm's way. does all of that sound realistic to you? after all, palestinians were moved to move out of the northern part of gaza to get out of harm's way, down to the southern part of gaza, and now, the israelis plan to go into the southern part of gaza to some extent. what is -- what do you make of all that? >> well, i cited golda before, the israelis have a secret weapon, they have no place to go. well, gaza has no place to goal, and israel will keep pulverizing what they believe to be milit

>> well, look, in the short term bibi netanyahu has made it clear this is existential for israel. one, hamas has to be destroyed. gaza has to be de-militarized. a lot of questions who will occupy, how that will happen. three, the palestinian authority has to be deradicalized. obviously even bigger question marks there. i hope with hamas gone that the gulf allies in the region, the saudis and the emirates in particular will take a larger role, alongside what qatar has normally done. but again, bret, israel is just going to be mowing the grass in gaza. it's going to grow back. terrorism will come back as long as iran is flushed with cash. so the biggest thing the administration can do to help israel is do a 180, reverse course on its iran policy, go back the maximum pressure and dry up their coffers that are fuelling terrorism across the region. >> the last list you said, bibi netanyahu wanting to deradicalize gaza, deradicalize the palestinians. you were a green beret in afghanistan. it's pretty tough to do to deradicalize any population, especially engaged in fighting that is almo

we find out now that it was bibi netanyahu who was telling them to fund hamas. and a month before the attacks, netanyahu's people go to doha, and the qataris say, "do you want us to keep funding hamas?" netanyahu, "yeah, yeah, sure. yeah, keep funding hamas." now, he's playing great protector while doing extraordinary damage to israel's reputation, not region, not only across the world, but, importantly, across the united states, admiral. what does the biden administration need to do? >> well, you saw one manifestation of it, which is they are flooding the zone with interlocutors, people like lloyd austin, who we think of correctly as secretary of defense civilian. he's also general lloyd austin, a contemporary of mine. he's a seriously imposing figure who has also commanded all of our forces in the middle east, joe. he knows all the players intimately. sending him at this moment to make the point that it's not only morally the right thing to do but pragmatically. part of war is information control, the narrative. you've got to get a grip on that. i think that me

for their war crimes, will joe biden be punished, will tony blinken, will lloyd austin, will bibi netanyahu? no, no one will be punished. i think we have to accept the fact that uh, the united states has gotten through lot of unjustified wars ever since world war ii, and has killed millions of people, in countries that were no threat to the united states, where there was no... pas belly justifying what took place, but they've gotten away with it time and again, time and again, and they'll get away with it again, but what i would like to at least see is some kind of understanding on the part of the public or a part of the the public that is interested in what the united states does and how it does it, that this was this was awful, we've come to that understanding, about what we did to iraq, we've come to that understanding about what we did to afghanistan, you might throw libya into that pile and... "we're trying to do the same thing to syria, we've done awful things in these places, but you can read about it now, uh, people are looking back on it and saying, look, these things were wrong, a

how long that operation should last. >> president biden: while i have had conversations with bibi netanyahuwant to make sure that we don't forget what we are doing here. we have to support israel because they are an independent nation and it is being -- i mean, the brutality, the inhumanity, the way in which hamas treated the israelis, and i mean, raping and burning and beheading, just beyond comparison. beyond comparison. and to anything else that i have seen since i have been here, and i have been around for a long time. but i think we have made it clear to the israelis and are aware that the safety of innocent palestinians is still of great concern. and so the actions they are taking must be consistent with attempting to do everything possible to prevent innocent palestinian civilians from being hurt, murdered, killed, lost, et cetera. and look, it doesn't lessen the responsibility, going after hamas, to hurt innocent palestinians, and hamas. look, we have a responsibility to protect citizens and ensure they have access to humanitarian assistance. that is why i have worked so hard with o

howard: president biden is ratcheting up his criticism of bibi netanyahu's government saying world opinionts, quotes, indiscriminate bombing in gaza. >> the actions they're taking must be consistent with attempting to do everything possible to prevent innocent palestinian civilians from being hurt, murdered, killed, lost, etc. howard: joining us now from israel is fox news correspondent trey yingst. trey, president biden being increasingly public and critical of bibi netanyahu for doing little to nothing to lower the civilian casualties in gaza. the media say about half the bombs being dropped are unguided dumb bombs. isn't it dangerous for israel to be so pluckily at odds -- publicly at odds with its chief ally? >> reporter: yeah, howie, absolutely. when you look at the situation on the ground, or there is real distance between the americans and the israelis about how to conduct this operation inside if gaza. the israelis have faced pressure not just from the united states, but from the international community as a whole about their operation against hamas inside the strip. when you talk

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the folks i've been speaking to say there is this fracture that we're seeing between biden and bibi netanyahu speaking over the last 48 hours or so, we saw netanyahu on the battlefield as well. anybody else that can get to netanyahu about this expanding conflict and to tamp down on actions that he has pursued on the battlefield along with outside the borders of israel and gaza? >> well, the first group that can get to the israeli people, poll after poll, 70% negative ratings for the prime minister, and even the knesset where he was speaking yesterday, he was getting heckled by families of the israeli hostages, so, there is a lot of pressure on netanyahu from within. and that's crucial. i do think that clearly the united states and president biden is the primary voice for israel, has been. we have been for many years. but this president, in particular, carved out that space right now. and he's the one that can get into the prime minister's decision-making better than anybody else, but it is crucial to add this, israel does not want to lose regional arab allies, the uae and egypt in particular,

we'll talk to ambassador mark regev as well, senior adviser to prime minister bibi netanyahu about the latest strikes on gaza and why the military says it will not refrain from operating in safe zones. we're back in 60 seconds. e zone. we're back in 60 seconds taking. so every day, you can say, ♪ youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver. whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪♪ the first time you connected your godaddy website and your store was also the first time you realized... well, we can do anything. cheesecake cookies? the chookie! manage all your sales from one place with a partner that always puts you first. (we did it) start today at godaddy.com while i am a paid actor, and this is not a real company, there is no way to fake how upwork can help your business. upwork is half the cost of our old recruiter and they have top-tier talent and everything from pr to project management because this is how we

. >> i want to tell folks, bibi netanyahu, along with his cabinet, are currently holding a press conference. we are monitoring, that especially when it comes to questions they may take with regards to the three hostages. as soon as that gets up and going we are certainly going to be watching that. hala, with the assignment that you take, and so many other journalists take, comes risk. and we lost another journalist yesterday, killed in an israeli attack in southern gaza. also, his colleague as well, al jazeera bureau chief in gaza was wounded. he lost his family a few months ago. the committee to protect journalists report 64 journalist have been killed in gaza so far. how do we know about what happened and is israel addressing the protection of journalists in gaza right now? >> they have been asked this question repeatedly and they deny that they target journalists. but al jazeera issued a statement where they say they are holding israel directly responsible for the killing of their camera man. he was shot and his reporter, the correspondent, whose names you mentioned, their family members

israel, prime minister bibi netanyahu's government does not seem on board with that. do you foresee a transition to that thought within the israeli government? >> a lot of uncertainty obviously about what is going to happen at the day after and the day after the day after. i think you're right. if there is a fight in their intentions it going to come not in the midst of this conflict, but it will come relating to issues regarding should the palestinian authority weaken and can it be revitalized? can the israelis or anyone else trust mahmoud abbas or a future leader to deal with radical moments within the society and it is going to come for sure on the issue of two states. and the administration i think is determined to make sure gaza, first, is not gaza only. it is going to be tethered to the pursuit of two states. whether you have a negotiation or not anytime soon, i very much doubt. but there will be a battle over this and mr. netanyahu ever conscious of his political predicament on trial for fraud, breach of trust and bribery, in jerusalem district court, now three

there is nothing wrong with calling out bibi netanyahu or other elected officials in israel, but theremething profoundly wrong when in doing so you call for the genocide of a segment of a student body. let's be clear, freedom of speech is not the freedom to slander fellow students. freedom of expression is not freedom to incite violence against your classmates. and so freedom of speech, which is a value we should cherish, it ends when it involves harassing, victimizing, and calling for violence against other kids on campus. this really isn't hard. if you can't figure out how to protest, if you can't figure out how to plead for better policies without injuring or inciting violence against your peers, you need to literally learn the basics, 101, of interpersonal relations. host: really good to have you on bbc news today. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. host: the fight over aid to ukraine is building on capitol hill. republican senators blocked an emergency funding package that would've provided billions of dollars in new security assistance for ukraine in israel, in pa

that, but only having tears and destruction and hunger and disease, and that murderous regime of bibi netanyahu on you. i would like to add something if you don't mind, apac is very, yes, yes, very briefly, apac is the only foreign agent who is not a foreign, doesn't have to register as foreign agent in the united states and that tells a lot, there sure is and zamzam, i will ask you second question later, but since you're a climate activist, there's a real concern here about the landscape of gaza, the destruction of all the buildings, the carpet. um, the physical environment destroyed, the subterranean equiper endanger, white phosphorus, accusations of that having been used, other toxins as a result of the explosions, what is it going to look like post bombardment, how do you explain that in in environmental terms? yeah, mean if you look, if you if you look at the messaging that's been coming out of of of israel government and pink washing. white washing, green washing um completely um and actually if you look at what has happened withingra specifically, not even looking outside of it, but spec

that, but only having tears and destruction. and hunger and disease and that murderous regime of bibi netanyahu on you. i would like to add something, if you don't mind, apac is very, yes, yes, very briefly, apac is the only foreign agent who is not a foreign doesn't have to register as foreign agent in the united states, and that tells a lot. there sure is and zamzam, i will ask you second question later, but since you're a climate activist. there's a real concern here about the landscape of gaza, the destruction of all the buildings, the carpet bombing, um, the physical environment destroyed, the subterranean equiper in danger, um, white phosphorus, accusations of that having been used, other toxins as a result of the explosions, what is it going to look like post bombardment, how do you explain that in in environmental terms, yeah? mean if you look if you if you look at the messaging that's been coming out of of of israeli government and pink washing, white washing, green washing um completely um and actually if you look at what has happened within gazza specifically not even looking outside

but only having tears and destruction and hunger and disease, and that... murderous regime of bibi netanyahu on you. i would like to add something if you don't mind, apac is. yes, yes, very briefly. apac is the only foreign agent who is not a foreign doesn't have to register as foreign agent in the united states, and that tells a lot. there sure is and zamzam, i will ask you second question later, but since you're a climate activist, there's a real concern here about the landscape of god. "the destruction of all the buildings, the carpet bombing, um, the physical environment destroyed the subterranean aqueper in danger, um, white phosphorus, accusations of that having been used, other toxins as a result of the explosions, what is it going to look like post bombardment, how do you explain that in in environmental terms? yeah, i mean, if you look, if you if you look at the messaging..." has been coming out of of of of israeli government and pink washing, white washing, green washing um completely um and actually if you look at what has happened within gaz specifically, not even looking outside

minute, biden, who really governs, this is in our interests, in particular, the government of bibi netanyahuorror that is happening now , yes, but that’s not even the point, because besides this, the whole west harnessed itself to israel from the very beginning, initially they said, you are acting correctly when the bombings began on this very network x, which is blocked in the russian federation, he says we started, and there they simply ruined the image of the west for the whole world, so they did that there’s no further appeals from the west on any humanitarian international issue are no longer possible, and yet this is the american press writing, right? methods of containment, which means the era of universal competition is coming, indeed, finally, what we fought for, polycentricity there, but i don’t really like multipolarity, and most importantly, the grandstand has disappeared, that’s all, everyone seems to be for himself in this situation, and you i noticed today that a very important event happened, well, that’s all, well, the german press proudly wrote that pistorius, uh-huh, just

sustained us engagement, leadership, but also perhaps real muscles behind what we are telling bibi netanyahuk him unconditionally and give him a blank cheque, without any guarantees before we saw in the north will not happen in the south—west of experts warn that the us could see a rise in anti—semitic and anti—muslim hate crimes amid the ongoing conflict. a report from the anti—defamation league showed a nearly 400% increase in harassment, vandalism, and assault againstjewish people between october 7th and 23rd, compared to the same time period a year ago. i spoke to the ceo of the national council ofjewish women, sheila katz, about it a little earlier. sheila, we are seeing this sharp rise in anti—semitic incidents here in the us since the israel—hamas war began. can you tell us first of all whatjewish communities across the us are facing right now? thanks so much for having me here today. listen, jews are being attacked on the streets, on campus, in our homes and in our synagogues and nowhere feels safe right now — that's what i know for sure. everyjewish person i'm speaking with feels th

that quote sources say that diplomatic sources say that joe biden and antony blinken have given bibi netanyahu of the year to do whatever they will do in hamas, i think that is insane. that is absolute -- end of the year to annihilate hamas they will need a few more weeks, i know he has stood up, i know they stood up in urnu.n. but i will not give credit for poaching on what idf does best. >> like giving a timeline, get bin laden before the end of the year, take out al qaeda before the end of the year, this is a long slog in process it will take months. larry: mark system mone simone, 35 days on iowa caucus, don is crushing it. , donald trump is crushing it i can't read for enough. >> desantis campaign has been a dumpster fire. he has to drop out before florida. president trump has 40. led over him in florida, desantis put everything in iowa he will lose, it is time to get out. larry: that's all she wrote. what -- that arthritis? >> you like, that like arthritis, always comes back you can't get rid of it. larry: mark syste simone and joe concha and hillary clinton. >> coming up art laffer will

criticize israel, i will say, he and his boss barack obama in the obama administration were anti-bibi netanyahuee personal i ha i have i i ha vitalli i have the -- i have >> to me, i risk world war in the middle east. maybe -- i don't think there is a winner in the ukraine and russia battle, i think that is is a stalemate. but, i think that with respect to israel, and iran in the middle east, you have a serious problem. and biden is stepping right into this thing withoutn 'ti understanding it. >> he is encouraging forces of everybodyville. russians now think they will win in ukraine biden does not know how to make the case for it. in middle east middle east, israel is fighting for its very existence he is looking like he is reading hamas talking points, saying you are indiscriminately killing civilians, of israeli after october 7 they put their soldiers in jeopardy to minimize civilian casualties, in many ways hamas is worse than nazis, netanyahu has to see it through, he does have a coalition government after the war, he will have to resign. everyone knows that. larry: why -- >> during the war

number one is bibi netanyahu. s so unpopular in israel, i think there is widespread expectation that he will go once the fighting stops. but that also is an incentive for him to keep the fighting going so that he can hang on to power. >> you have said this active role in foreign policy is quite uncommon for vice presidents. why do you think this role is being handed over to vice president kamala harris right now? >> first of all, i don't think it's inconsistent with the role she has played. she's been very active in the ukraine issue. she's been very active in trying to create a counterbalance to china, both in southeast asia with india, in africa. she's been very active in u.s. issues having to do with central america and stopping the flow of migrants into the united states. but from the beginning of this crisis, from what i've heard within the administration, she said, look, we can't just be tactical. we have to be strategic. we can't just bewe have to lookg term goals. that means looking at the day after. she's

from officials at biden white house confirming details that president biden over week phoned bibi netanyahu imploring him to not order a military operation in gaza south. that looks like we saw in gaza north. when meeting resumes. >> we have been consistent and clear with our israeli counterparts that we do not support a move to the south. unless or until they have adequately accounted for the protection of innocent human life. reporter: netanyahu told biden according acti axios he is going to gaza south because that is where hamas is now, coming from america's top diplomat antony blinken in israel there urging leaders to not sink to hamas' level. >> i said, the way israel defends itself matters. it is imperative that israel act with humanitarian law and laws of war, even when confronting a terrorist group. reporter: as we watch a current secretary of state overseas advancings u.s. president's interest. president biden has nothing to say about the former secretary of state henry kissinger's passing late last night, we know that biden respected kissinger, a few weeks ago he said he knew as m

and arab-americans who do feel like the administration is leaning too far in the direction of bibi netanyahu. maybe there is a way to pull back from the israeli government clutch, the hug so much. and be able to sort of talk about the israeli pain of october 7th and also the gaza pain that happened since then. there are people who are worried about that. candidates should be concerned about running with anybody top of the ticket who is performing in terms of the polls the way they are now. every candidate should be. the problem is candidates always think the lesson of this is i need to find my own voice, be my own self, separate myself from the top of the ticket and 99% never works because the way politics works right now, it is, like, it is too big, the message is out of the white house is too strong. you got to figure out how to run with the candidate that you're running with, define yourself, of course, but you'll be running with that president, running against the president means the democratic party is shooting at each other and not running together on a ticket where everybody is making

remember bibi netanyahu's strategy was to build up hamas to bifurcate the palestinian movement to make it easy to say there's no juan to talk to and essentially push off the possibility of any palestinian political rights or state. that was a strategy not all israelis agreed with. that was a strategy very much part of a right-wing government. so to a certain extent some of those cracks and cleavages are beginning to emerge. and people are wondering is this the right strategy? are we moving in the right direction. >> fareed just now some of the families i mentioned the six hostages we understand will be released and now on the way to the hospital and will be reunited with their family momentarily. we did see a video of a teen hostage who was released, and she was released with her dog, and this caught a lot of people's attention because the dog was with her when she was taken hostage on october 7th. it's a dog. it captures our attention. and yet it touches on something perhaps bigger, something important. why do you think they let her keep her dog? what do you even make of this? >> i do

my question to you really is, how much of an impediment do you think bibi netanyahu is to a solution ike, first of all, thanks, guys, for having me back on. i think netanyahu is a huge impediment because if you just look at his political situation, he's really the actor who is benefitting the most on the israeli side from having an ongoing, full-scale, you know, hot war waging in gaza. if there is a ratcheting back and a more precise war and, not a cease-fire, but something, again, where tony blinken himself, the secretary has said it, where it is more precise and you're going after the leadership in the tunnels, but you can start rebuilding and people can start having some semblance of security and a chance for a life in gaza, then netanyahu has to face the israeli people. he has no political future once you head into a more peaceful scenario. i think he is a huge impediment. i agree with a lot of the comments max made. i think what max is trying to do is get us to think beyond this moment and understand what the challenge could be for the united states in other scenarios. i do think

for days, which are his disagreements with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on what happens after this war ends. he said that bibi'sot a tough decision to make this is the most conservative government in israel's history, they do not want a two-state solution and netanyahu has to strengthen and change the israeli government to find a longer term solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict. what makes this so interesting is the timing of it as well. just today we have also heard from prime minister netanyahu directly referencing the disagreements about what happens in his words on the day after hamas, he puts it. this is the central point of tension between the two countries. what you're seeing from the leadership level, president to prime minister, is probably the most daylight at least publicly since this war began. these are two countries that have shown each other incredible support, very close allies, the u.s. even in the face of international pressure has sided with israel on, for example, rejecting international calls for a cease-fire here. critical too, in the potential to negotiate a temporary truce. that'

weighs senior advisor to prime minister bibi netanyahu at the time. so this is the year 2010 to 2011 and he was our main interlock tear. he had a direct line to netanyahu. he was netanyahu's closest confidant and adept at the white house system, washington, d.c., circuit and we had a close relationship with him. when i heard that my thought was, wow, nostalgia. also, it's important because while they are probably talking to him daily as it is, not meetings to happen in person means these are going to be working meetings where they are going to sit down and strategize at the u.s. is going to press ron dermer very hard on what it sees as its national security interests. so transition to low intensity operations. expediting humanitarian said. making sure that the body that controls gaza after is the authority itself or the palestinian authority has a role and not some newly fabricated body. >> ron dermer, somebody who really knows washington, no knows how to operate, knows the players. to that point, everything you just listed off in terms of shifting the

. >> yes, fringe extremists are now very much in the government for bibi netanyahu's coalition. and i think that's my question here, if that's who he's playing to and that's who the prime minister believes is the necessity to keep in his tent in order to maintain his role, what is the u.s. going to do? there's a dozen tools in terms of conditioning aid, in terms of cutting off aid, in terms of what they can and can't do, and you haven't really seen much action from the u.s. side. >> i would bet these are conversations that are being had behind closed doors for sure. i think within the war cabinet. you are having members of the war cabinet speaking out publicly, benny gantz just a few days ago saying that netanyahu is trying to fabricate distance between these two countries where there really is none. it's getting rid of hamas. it's how much time the united states has given the political pressure globally on israel to limit, to change their tactics and the scale of this war. that's where you're seeing some differences. and obviously, the bigger frustration is what the day after i

scare every democrat that joe biden seems to have put his political fate in the hands of one bibi netanyahu autocrat want to be, who wrestled control of the supreme court in his country and passed antidemocratic laws in his country and seems quite clear that what he wants to do is mow gaza into the earth, and that is now the person upon whom joe biden's fate might rest with some young voters. >> yeah, look, i think joe biden has a lot of challenges ahead of him in terms of what issues he decides to strongly address, and run on. you could make the case, i believe, very credibly for the continuation of our democracy. of our democratic republic is actually the most important issue on the ballot. and it's not actually the number one issue with voters, if you really look at polling and examine what they're most concerned about. you can take this issue of israel and gaza and recognize that joe biden has significant challenges, but is that the number one issue that's informing voters? maybe for some younger voters, yes, but largely not for others. how do you package all of that together? i think t

vice president -- at this point, they are all asking, pleading with the idf, the prime minister bibi netanyahu restraint. the question is, are they doing that? if not, in your estimation, what more needs to be done at this point to make sure they do? >> yasmin, that's a very good question. what we can see is that, over the last three weeks with the kinds of pictures that you are showing now, the utter desolation of the damage that has been caused in gaza both in north and south gaza, it is difficult to calculate how and in what way steps have been taken to spare a high rate of civilian casualties. as a result, we are in a situation where we have to depend upon what we see more than what other people tell us they have done as to what is going on. this leaves, i think, the international community certainly pretty much in the situation of saying there do seem to still be higher rates of civil casualties in the region despite the explanations which have been offered. that is reinforced by the fact that president biden, john kirby, and others have been engaged in a reported effort with the israelis

his visit is coming as israeli prime bibi netanyahu has so far rebuffed u.s.orts to get israel to scale back its offensive. and as thousands of protesters march on tel aviv after the idf killed three hostages in gaza, questions are being raised over the military's strategy. we want to bring in nbc's erin gilchrist from the white house with more on this. aaron, good to talk to you. the defense secretary is set to discuss the wars next phase with israeli leaders. netanyahu said on friday he would not allow the palestinian authority to run gaza after the war. is that position something biden is willing to accept? >> i think no is the short answer on that. the president has said and his national security adviser and secretary of state have also said that the biden administration wants to see a palestinian authority in charge in gaza and the west bank when this war is over. president reiterated the point that they want to see a revitalized and revamped palestinian authority in charge in gaza. obviously, that is something these rallies have said is not going to be h

think the president's concerns doesn't resonate so far when you're supporting governments like bibi netanyahu, which has made a sort of rightward thrust and is alienating not just american jewish voters and center left voters in the united states that are turned off by the support, sort of unqualified support of israel, but people in israel, too, who are really annoyed and fed up with netanyahu's autocratic term. >> and, again, mark hannah, great to see you again. >>> staying in the middle east, the pentagon says an american warship was threatened and multiple commercial vessels were attacked yesterday in the red sea by arranian-backed houthi rebels. they detected a missile launched from a houthi territory targeting a commercial ship shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time. the missile did not make contact, but as the warship came toward the commercial ship, they were forced to shoot and they shot down two incoming drones. "the new york times" claim this latest episode in international waters lasted for multiple hours. two out of the three attacked commercial ships have told media outlets no one w

about the gaza operation, israel flooding hamas tunnels, and if you've had conversations with bibi netanyahu about how long that operation should last. >> well, i have had conversations, with -- and i want to make sure that we don't forget what we're doing here. we have to support israel, because they're an independent nation that's -- i mean, the brutality, the inhumanity, the way in which hamas treated the israelis, i mean -- raping and burning and beheading, i mean, it's just -- just beyond comparison, beyond comparison. and to anything else that i've seen since i've been here, i've been around for a long time. but i think that we have made it clear to the israelis and are aware that the safety of innocent palestinians is still of great concern. and so, the actions they're taking must be consistent with attempting to do everything possible to prevent innocent palestinian civilians from being hurt, murdered, killed, lost, et cetera. and, look, it doesn't lessen the responsibility going after hamas, to innocent palestinias and hamas. look, we have a responsibility to protect civilians and e

back we just learned the president spoke with israeli prime minister, bibi netanyahu, speaking since war began. netanyahu thank the president for u.s. support in the u.n., thisecury council proved a resolution for more humanitarian aid for gaza and the united states and russia abstained. the u.s. declined to vote in favor, even after successfully vetoing language that would have pushed for a full cease-fire. meanwhile, we learned about gadi hog eye, the first known american hostage believed to be killed by hamas. his wife still in captivity. we want to go to -- in tel aviv with more on this. jay, walk us through what we know about the death of the american hostage. his wife who is still in captivity. of course, the current israeli offensive we've been seeing over the last 24 hours or so. >> yes, just a horrible story and we are learning more about the death of the 73 year old gadi haggai. we know he was shot on october 7th during the attacks. his wife was also wounded. it's not clear at this point whether he was killed during that attack or later died in captivity in gaza. we know hi

more muscle behind -- we think -- we started to see some daylight between president biden and bibi netanyahuet more daylight? the u.s. does have influence. it's a question of whether or not it decides to use it. >> does the sending of lloyd austin there, as opposed to kirby, or someone else, does it indicate that that turn is being made? he is something that republicans don't like. he has too much confidence, he's too woke, et cetera. sending this guy into indicated change of strategy from the white house. >> it's such an interesting question. i don't think so because they are asking austin right now -- they are still doing -- you know, it's not a question of good cop bad cop at this point. they are asking austin to, sort of, reason with them, and say, this is still the -- look, listen to what we say, i have experience in this. i know what it's like. i fought i.s.i.s., i know how hard it is to do this. he is coming to them and saying, you know, listen to what i'm warning you. i am bringing you warnings at this point. he is not bringing -- this trip was not meant for him to be bringing the st

this hasn't said so publicly, public diplomatic sources joe biden and antony blinken have given bibi netanyahuthe year to do whatever they will do to hamas. i think that is insane. that is -- end of the year to annihilate hamas. they will need a few more weeks than just the end of the year. some are critical -- larry: i know he stood up in the u.n., good i will give credit where credit is due but i won't give credit on trying to poach what the idf does best. >> like giving a timeline, you have to get bin laden before the end of the year. you have to take out al qaeda before the end of the year. this is a long, long slog in process, it will take many years. larry: mark simone 35 days to the iowa caucus. donald trump is absolutely crushing. 51 trump, 19 desantis, 16% haley, i can't read far enough for ramaswamy. >> desantis entire campaign is a dumpster fire. a absolute embarassment. he has to bow out before florida. trump has 40 points over him in florida. he will lose there. it is time to get out. larry: all she wrote. arthritis? >> like arthritis, it always comes back. you can't get rid of it

we want to start this hour in the middle east, where prime minister bibi netanyahu is currently speaking, celebrating the release of hostages this week. even as the hype fighting picks back up in gaza. when you get right nbc news correspondent, david maria, go on the ground for us in tel aviv with more on this. david, good to talk to you. we have netanyahu speaking today. as we have these reports both from us at nbc news in from the new york times as well. that security officials raised alarm bells about this initial attack. what more can you tell us? >> yasmin, this is potentially very consequential reporting that has political reverberations inside israel. we have to consider the context of that, netanyahu himself is extremely unpopular within israel. a lot of people here, the way they talk about him, the sense is the only reason he still in power is because he's prosecuting this war. and they're kind of allowing him to stay in power until the war is over, at least progresses further. he's perpetually or risk of losing members of his coalition, which would force him to go to election.