coming up in 45 minutes, the latest developments in iraq and gaza with mark and spurred, ceo -- mark ginsberg. a.m., a conversation publicniele brian on confidence in the so-called good government bills enacted by congress after watergate. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. president obama announcing yesterday that military operations interact could last for months. calling for a rack to create a -- coalition government --: calling for iraq to create a new coalition government. in a new nbc news wall street journal poll out

host: our guest is mark duesberg -- marc ginsberg. our next caller is from england. matthew, go ahead. i would like to ask about the israeli conflict and issue. anti-semitic, i would like to put that out there. with israel, americans tend to be very pro israeli. i know a lot of that has to do with holocaust and the way the jewish people were treated during that. however, they were not the only victims of holocaust. there were six point 9 million [indiscernible] 2.7 million with gypsy people killed. i'm wondering if you are more willing to deal with israelis in a more evenhanded way, including illegal settlement building and things like that, if we stop treating jewish people as victims and treat them on evenhanded perspective. host: marc ginsberg, your response? guest: i'm not going to humor anyone who would suggest the holocaust that resulted in the murder of 6 million jews somehow should be diminished in relationship to what has happened. in world war ii, we know the nazis and others committed huge atrocities, including stalin, by the way. the fact of the matter is

host: our guest is mark duesberg -- marc ginsberg. our next caller is from england.atthew, go ahead. i would like to ask about the israeli conflict and issue. anti-semitic, i would like to put that out there. with israel, americans tend to be very pro israeli. i know a lot of that has to do with holocaust and the way the jewish people were treated during that. however, they were not the only victims of holocaust. there were six point 9 million [indiscernible] 2.7 million with gypsy people killed. i'm wondering if you are more willing to deal with israelis in a more evenhanded way, including illegal settlement building and things like that, if we stop treating jewish people as victims and treat them on evenhanded perspective. host: marc ginsberg, your response? guest: i'm not going to humor anyone who would suggest the holocaust that resulted in the murder of 6 million jews somehow should be diminished in relationship to what has happened. in world war ii, we know the nazis and others committed huge atrocities, including stalin, by the way. the fact of the matter is y

mark, come on up. let's give him a big round of applause. (applause) >> how about a huge round of applause for the best recreation and park general manager in our country today, mr. phil ginsberg. (applause) >> i don't think we appreciate how amazing phil is and how lucky we are as a city to have him. but today how lucky are we to be san franciscans standing here today? (applause) >> you know, today i have a number of thank yous i want to go through. but first i really want to comment about our parks and our support for our parks not only in city hall, but with the voters of san francisco. you know, we fight that battle every year in city hall with our budget and we're going through it right now to make sure we prioritize our parks for our families, for our children, for our seniors, for everyone. and the voters of san francisco have done it year in and year out. and parks are for everyone. they're for young people and old people. they're for large people and small people. they're for dogs, they're for everyone that we care about here in san francisco. i see a number of seniors here today. i know one month old emma is here today. this is for everybody and my three children are