curiously, and david morris and i were just talking about this.uriously i find that now having written a memoir as close to the facts as i understand them as i possibly can, i am freed of the facts and now i am writing a play in changing characters and purposes in place and i feel quite free to use the emotions that are still in me in this very different way. >> thank u. >> thank you jenna. along with the country lionizing veterans we have a pa system with serious shortcomings. the va backlog is already a joke on comedy central. it's well-known that the battle for benefits goes on year after year. i am curious how you three would respond to the seeming contradiction between the fact that we lionize our best anti-access david morris writes, the shortcomings in the va system seemed to show as a society we don't feel much responsibility for what happens to them when they return. >> i think if you go -- i wish next time we held a vote to declare war -- not the va hospital. i still go to the va hospital sometimes which has the largest concentration of

to his right is david morris, david is a former marine infantry officer, the author of storm on the horizon he covered the wars in iraq and afghanistan for slate, salon and the "virginia quarterly review." his first dispatch for the "virginia quarterly review" from iraq titled the big stock notes from the jar head underground was included in the best american nonrequired reading 2007. his work has appeared in "the new yorker," foreign policy, and the surfer's journal. in january 2015, he will release his book "the evil hours: a biography of post-traumatic stress disorder." and to my left is janet burroway, the author of eight novels including the pulitzer nominated the buzzard. or textbook writing fiction is the most widely used creative writing textbook in america. her children's book, a giant jam sandwich has been translated into 20 like which is. her poems, stories and essays appear in atlantic monthly, mademoiselle, new statesman, our den, and other publications. her memoir, "losing tim," which is about her son, will come out in april 2014. please welcome our guests applau.[applause] >>

curiously, and david morris and i were just talking about this.riously i find that now having written a memoir as close to the facts as i understand them as i possibly can, i am freed of the facts and now i am writing a play in changing characters and purposes in place and i feel quite free to use the emotions that are still in me in this very different way. >> thank u. >> thank you jenna. along with the country lionizing veterans we have a pa system with serious shortcomings. the va backlog is already a joke on comedy central. it's well-known that the battle for benefits goes on year after year. i am curious how you three would respond to the seeming contradiction between the fact that we lionize our best anti-access david morris writes, the shortcomings in the va system seemed to show as a society we don't feel much responsibility for what happens to them when they return. >> i think if you go -- i wish next time we held a vote to declare war -- not the va hospital. i still go to the va hospital sometimes which has the largest concentration of i

morris is are there. the message from netanyahu is clear enough. this could go on a long time and could intensify? >> yeah, it could david. to the israeli border with gaza. let me show you of where we are to get a bit of geography. we've heard constant explosions since we arrived here. you can probably see the wall that marks the border between israel and gaza. those are israeli houses. we've seen armored vehicles moving in that area in the last half hour. if you come over my other shoulder, that's gaza, palestinian towns, areas we know the israeli defense forces have been operating on the ground since that ground incursion began. palestinian officials say more than 20 palestinians have been killed. last night, one israeli soldier also died in the northern gaza strip. >> chris, i'm struck by what the u.s. secretary of state john kerry said. he said that he told mr. netanyahu there was a need to avoid further escalation and restore the 2012 cease fire as soon as possible. i wonder if that's seen by israel as the green light to get on and do what it needs to do? >> i think the trouble for israel is what does it need to do?

david crane professor at law at syracuse university law school. he is joining us via skype from north carolina. also joining us is john quigley professor emeritus of law at ohio state university morris college of law. gentlemen, good to have you with us. >> pleasure to be here. >> thank you. >> mr. crane, thanks to you your thoughts on this newly-formed commission? >> well, again, any time you have allegations that there may be war crimes it's certainly appropriate to get the true facts out so that the international community can assess whether there is there has been violations of international law to include war crimes so any time you have an independent, unbiased investigation that will look at these facts, that will be helpful. the challenge is, is that we want to make sure that it will be fair, and unbiased so that the true facts can come out and then a judgment can be had as to whether there has been war crimes. >> they are facing a number of challenge, mr. quigley what do you make of the allegation that his this may amount to war crimes. >> i think there is a very good possibilities that there are war crimes that have been committed over the last few days, if you just look at

friend of mine, the john morris about professor of peace and development at the university of maryland. senior fellow. in our moderator, as mentioned, the ubiquitous and david miller and former senior negotiator for six secretaries of state. >> thank you very much. i would also like to a knowledge three people who are not here. maybe watching. and the wonderful. [inaudible] to i think was having cataract surgery today. the invitation for this event read something like syria and iraq would be dominating headlines. the issue remains volatile and unpredictable. no idea that we would become the tragic beneficiaries of what has occurred over the last week for so. none would reject the idea that violence and terrorism are a handmaiden of this process for over a century. but what we are witnessing mayor may not be new but is a constant reminder of the implications of no resolution of conflict. since 1967i would argue you had a different generation, a perverse dance with his own perverse intimacy between israel is the occupier and the palestinians are the occupied. they took the conflict to a different level. israelis wielded power, formidable and its own right. te