what does michael rubin think it will accomplish?ere's going to be a lot of hot air that will conservative greenhouse gases, but the united nations has been relatively unsuccessful in the region. the only time there's really been a major peace treaty in the region between egypt and israel can not just because an war about one of peace, but tried or first 1973 and failed as relief. alternately, if you try to move the sites away from each other, that will not bring peace. one side needs to be defeated. >> michael rubin, thank you. within the conversation, i thought of president sadat yesterday. you wonder where the sadat of 2014 is? >> and who can play the peace broker? >> is this a failure, anders corr, of egypt? have the "failed"? trying to egypt is put pressure on hamas, which is a good thing. we do what hamas to stop sending missiles across the border. it is destroying the palestinian people. it is a tragedy for the palestinian people that hamas is doing that. the question is, why is hamas doing this? what pressures are they gettin

let's bring in the resident scholar michael rubin. you for joining us, especially on short notice. where does this go? >> ultimately the israelis would like to do everybody possible to avoid a ground offense in the gaza strip. while it's easy to get in, the question is how do they get back out? the biggest variable which has changed in recent months, of course, is that in egypt, there's no longer a sympathetic government in egypt for hamas to fall back upon. so hamas may have tweaked the bear in a way it doesn't want to. >> i believe that a spokesman for prime minister netanyahu said israeli forces are currently acting to put an end to this once and for all. do you think it will be once and for all, or will it create a tit for tat situation? >> ultimately what we obvious have happening is israelis respond and inflict a great deal of pain. ultimately you're going to have the international community or perhaps the united states get involved diplomatically in order to make it quiet. there comes a quiet for a few weeks or few months, but