certainly it is still too soon to say what will happen over more on this story now do i live by gideon levy who's a columnist with the newspaper thanks for being with us mr levy how do you see the situation developing how determined is israel to launch a new offensive on gaza. hopefully you know there is no real reason for him launching another. but the rhetorical sin is in the last days he's becoming more and more harsh and you know rhetorically can lead to change you really to your to take for his word there's no reason whatsoever to launch another tick and there are always so new political conditions now there is a new egypt or old and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent to visa v. another brutal attack of israel and gaza so are you that israel might be fraid of any kind of repercussions because three years ago we saw an offensive that killed some fifteen hundred palestinians thirteen israelis yet no one was held responsible has that given israel a carte blanche to do what it wants without fear of repercussion or are you saying that the situation has now changed them to actua

but gideon levy who is a columnist with one of brazil's biggest newspaper says his country will face difficulties ever decides to wait another war on gaza. three years ago israel had the card blunter not only carte blanche the west had their plow that is and didn't say a word against the city but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in a most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intention about a serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but nothing more than the send the p.a. the palestinian authority had just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the preconditions of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. condition and they had suggested just symbolic release of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back t

that it will get to any kind of actions against israel all right speaking to us live from tel aviv gideon levy a columnist with haaretz newspaper thank you for your time. well the arab league monitoring mission in syria is now heading to the city of hamas' focal point of the sound off between protesters and the army reports have emerged that on wednesday six people were killed there in a fresh outbreak of violence and this comes after observers said they found the situation in the flashpoint city of holmes reassuring author and middle east expert to reka lee who's in london doubts if the observer mission will bring any possible results. obviously the syrians left in the monitors to show that they're not going to hide it thinking they'd find nothing but really arab league has been one of the most fair to call them a solution simply arab world for a long long time doing nothing on palestine doing nothing to prevent the war on iraq and now it's being used as a name field by the west so i don't take the arab league as such too seriously so we shall see what happens. marty spoke exclusively to russ