. >> senior israeli naftali bennett. >>> dozens of houses were buried when a hillside collapsed after torrential rain. a short time ago, i spoke to a reporter from tokyo and he said we don't yet know the full extent of the devastation. >> i think we're still expecting the death toll to rise a bit further. the rescue services and soldiers are on the scene going through the smashed houses one by one. but obviously there is also a lot of mud, a lot of rock. there are at least ten of these mudslides that came down out of the mountains on the northern edge of hiroshima earlier this morning because of this absolutely enormous rainfall that they got overnight. and some of the houses, some of the roads, cars and so on are buried under very thick mud. so it will take a wile for them to go through all deviate bring and recover the bodies and perhaps still discover people trapped inside of houses. >> freak weather. why did it come as a surprise to most residents? >> well, in large part because the local government did not expect it. they didn't issue any warning. so, you know, japan is a country

naftali bennett gained a lot of popularity. there is that kind of argument. the second argument is to let hamas rearm and lift all restrictions and hope for the best. given the israelis' way they understand hamas, the chance of that happening is nil. the experience of this conflict, to the extent of the tunnel system, makes this much less likely. the third option is a very grim status quo. the reality where we see small things, supposedly inadvertently, causing this huge conflagration. netanyahu going in, he had no authority. they said go in all the way, take down hamas, this is the chance to do it. the foreign minister is competing with the leader of the right. another minister to look for is the education minister in the likud who also broke to the right. most people in the small security cabinet, which is legally commander in chief of the idf. the prime minister, the minister of defense is very hawkish on peace issues. and tzipi livni, who is very dovish compared to this government on peace issues. their position was on the one hand, a very heavy-handed on