leader mahmoud abbas working towards a peaceful resolution to the conflict was high on the agenda gideon levy again fears all the intricate diplomatic work may now have been in vain. you are so close to another deal and then israelis launching its secret the units in special units to a secret operation in gaza in this operation fails when israel knows that we are just about to get some kind of another deal to sign some kind of another deal which we'll go in to some kind of peaceful days or weeks or months or years and then it goes wrong and then israelis killing seven palestinian warriors and one israeli coronel is killed then we are again in this vicious circle and then the hamas reacts and proportionally and israel reexamined proportionally and this vicious circle repeats itself again into again and it will repeat itself again and again until the problem of gaza would be sold. the british prime minister says she wants better relations with moscow in the same speech though delivered in london to reason may describe russia as a global threat adding that any improvement in ties would be condit

snap election he's also keen to stop the right wing lieberman from benefiting from his resignation gideon levy is a columnist and editorial board member at haaretz he joins us now live from tel aviv good to have you with us gideon you wrote in on it yesterday that if there is an early election that it will lack any great significance in the fictitious right of israeli democracy what did you mean by that. look at this this for say this the phaser is a democracy where he tells it it's. a brutal tyrant a military occupation for so many years this is by the end of the day a mess carried but even concerning garcia israelis who are citizens of israel those elections are not going to mean much even if netanyahu government will fall because that thirty of is not very promising in terms of ending the occupation for example in terms of opening a new chapter with the palestinians which are really the core issues at the core challenges that stand in front of us so before we get into this dramatize if israelis changing direction don't have too many expectations you also wrote yesterday that we must not des

international gideon levy from the haaretz newspaper great to see you today thanks for coming on with us at r.t. israel says that or it was responding to hundreds of missiles launched from gaza do you think the response has been proportionate. nancy's proportionate but you have to start from the beginning in the beginning is that we were so close to another deal and then the israelis learned. secret you need special units to a secret operation in gaza operation feeds when israel knows that we are just about to get some kind of another to sign some kind of another deal which we guarantee some kind of peaceful days or weeks or months or years and then it goes wrong going then. israelis killing seven palestinian warriors and one israeli coronel is killed then we are again in this vicious circle and then the hamas reacts proportionately and israel reexamine proportionately this vicious circle repeats itself again and again and it will repeat itself again and again until the problem of gaza would be so well get in as we were putting what are those in gaza fired nearly four hundred missiles

to have to give some space for something like sition for the blockade on gideon levy as a heretic columnist he says the end of the blockade of gaza is key to preventing ongoing violence it might not necessarily lead to a war but it's really touch and go here again we are in this vicious circle of irresponsibility stevie's which brings other responsible reactions both parties i believe are not interested right now in a war and both parties are not doing good nuff to prevent the let's not break away from the main core issue and the core issue is the siege over gaza and ateneo has no intention to put an end to the siege so as long as the siege goes on we will be again and again put in this trip of vicious circle of one violent action which leads to another violent actions and still i believe. even now it's and you know we'll do anything possible to prevent a war because he knows as we all know that in the new war in gaza we lead to nowhere and by the end of the world war will stand exactly the same position that we are sending now only reason more killing and more destruction in vain for nothi

anything possible to prevent an unnecessary war and the war now is unnecessary almost criminal gideon levy we thank you very much for speaking to us. now britain's foreign minister says talks to end the war in yemen are more real discussions with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. jeremy hunt says riyadh confirmed its willingness to allow fifty wounded fighters to go to arm on for medical treatment at least one hundred fifty people have been killed since sunday as the saudi emirates a coalition tries to retake the port city of her data reports from djibouti. fierce fighting on one of the phone lines on the fringes of the port city of data this is one of the largest bottle so far in the war in yemen. hold the fighters who control the day the losing the strategic port is not an option and they are putting up a stiff resistance. we should have attempted another suicide attack but it failed we are advancing. despite earlier promises by the soda coalition and pro-government forces not to fight through bottles in some parts of the city the conflict has already and to that face in one presidential area

once again wife a thin and other party leaders within the coalition of pushing for an election or gideon levy is a columnist and member of the editorial board of ha'aretz he says israeli politics will remain dominated by right wing parties despite these developments. i think is seriously that in many times and we know it from history the unexpected this taking place nobody expected clark in south africa to become the messenger of equality and freedom for south africa and all of a sudden this great politician arrived from nowhere was out any expectation and he put then to a party together with nelson mandela this might happen also here that someone that we don't expect the theme to be courageous or moral more than the others might might surprise us right now i don't see anyone really anyone in israeli political life in the zone istic parties that might take this role but you know let's leave some some hope and some room for surprises is it seems right now if the map will look like it looks now it will be again a right wing government leader that by netanyahu but there are two are known facts t