but we have to defend our people, charily. we can't just sit back, not take these actions and allow the equivalent of 200 million americans to sit in bomb shelters. >> rose: there are those that make this argument israeli see this as an opportunity to wipe out hamas. is that a goal to wipe out hamas. >> absolutely not. it flies in the face of just the fact. yet israel accepted a cease-fire, isreal's cabinet accepted a cease-fire. if it ended you wouldn't see any sort of widening of the operation. i will remind you charlie, a year and-a-half ago, november 2012, we had an eight-day confrontation with hamas. at the end of that israel ended a cease-fire and did not go in with a ground campaign. we have to take the action in order to defend the population. the prime minister was very clear, this is a sustained quiet for the people of israel. and we are doing everything we can to degrade hamas' offensive capabilities and to keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. we do not have a goal of reconquering gaza. we never had that go