james zogby? >> i have no idea.ve called the senator and did not get a call back and left a couple of messages, text messages, did not hear back. i am disappointed. frankly, confounded. i don't understand the thinking here. one could easily take the sentence he spoke about you don't have a cease-fire with a group like hamas blah blah blah and stick in the net how -- netanyahu government for the most extremist that are today while under the cover of gaza, taking armed settlers to evacuate palestinian villages and force people to leave their lands, leave their orchards, and their homes. this is a crazy extremist government. yes, hamas is a group that has done and is people things just like the netanyahu government does evil things. that is why you need a cease-fire. this a we cannot have peace with them, it is what the palestinians i we cannot have peace with the netanyahu government. the problem is the united states has to act like the adults in the room and we have not. we have been a cheerleader for the coke holder

let's discuss more now with james zogby, the president and founder of the arab-american institute and author of "our voice: what they are saying to us and why it matters." he joins me from washington. it's good toe see you, jim. secretary of state blinken, he met with the palestinian authority leader mahmoud abbas on sunday. by all accounts it didn't go well. he had that almost awkward gap saturday between blinken and one example the jordanian foreign minister. how angry are arab governments with the u.s. and its unwillingness to support a cease-fire? >> well, there is a lot of anger there. and there is even more anger in arab public opinion. we've been doing some polling in the region, and frankly, the bottom has fallen out in terms of attitudes towards the u.s. and attitudes towards israel, countries that had made peace with israel, like jordan, like egypt, like others are today furious because they feel betrayed. and their voices don't matter either to israel obviously or to the united states. and they think that's what's most concerning here. >> and to that point, blinken can't ev