israeli troops preparing for a possible
ground invasion into gaza as the
violence threatens to escalate
into an all-out war fox's trey yingst is
reporting live from the israel gaza
border
trey to you
thinking good afternoon intense fighting
continues tonight and we know the
israeli air force
is striking the gaza strip as we speak
last night
israel's military launched both a ground
and air attack against
islamic jihad and hamas inside gaza
reports indicate it was
extremely successful and we have seen
less rocket fire today but still
there is expected to be days of fighting
taking place across the region
you can see in some of this video the
air strikes against the gaza strip have
been
intense both day and night hammering
gaza
the palestinian health toll death toll
is now more than 120 though that number
is expected to rise
on the israeli side artillery units
behind me were active earlier shelling
different positions along the gaza strip
sirens blaring throughout the morning as
incoming rocket fire was intercepted by
israel's missile defense system the iron
dome
we have seen a number of tanks and
armored personnel carriers trying to
prepare for the possibility of a ground
operation
i do want to show you what it looked
like earlier today in a field just next
to where we're standing
right now israel is slowly but surely
preparing for the possibility
of a ground operation into gaza the
israeli defense forces are moving
personnel
and equipment to the border as prime
minister benjamin netanyahu following a
security assessment today
said hamas will continue to pay a heavy
price for rocket fire into israel
there are major concerns that this
conflict is unraveling so quickly that
it will spread to other parts of the
region
today more than 10 people were killed in
the west bank during clashes between
palestinians and the israeli defense
forces deagon
trey thank you so much for that trey
yanks be safe
my friend be safe back home members of
the squad are under fire from both sides
of the aisle for recent remarks on the
intensifying violence there take a
listen
to read the statements from president
biden secretary blinken general austin
and leaders of both parties
you'd hardly know palestinians existed
at all many members of congress
have instead fallen back on a blanketed
statement
defending israel's airstrikes against
civilians
under the guise of self-defense the
president and many other figures this
week stated that israel has a right to
self-defense
but do palestinians have a right to
survive
here now david harsani national review
senior writer i read everything that you
write
david good to see you what is being said
by members of the squad uh particularly
elon omar and rashida talib
on twitter is even worse than what you
just heard
you wrote about it right i mean
the the worst part of it is the moral
equivalency
it's worse than that because they
actually don't believe israel does have
a right to defend itself they constantly
lie about the reasons that started you
heard one of them just say that
israelis are bombing civilians well
that's not true
israelis are bombing hamas who hide
behind civilians
one of these forces is protecting
civilians and the other
is attacking civilians and it's really
that simple morally the equation is
quite simple
so for them to defend terrorists in
essence is
on the floor of congress as they did
yesterday all of them is just
its odious it is odious because the the
the math that i do
is these women are anti-israel
and pro-hamas that makes them
anti-semitic and haters of the jewish
people
and this is not just this instance this
has been happening
over and over again you can go back to
2012
when when elon omar
wrote on her twitter account
israel has hypnotized the world may
allah awaken the people and help them
see the evil doings of
israel that's what she said and she's on
the house foreign affairs committee
david
right yeah you listen people can be
critical of israel it's another country
it makes mistakes it's imperfect
but when the only country that you ever
criticize almost is israel
and then and you don't even believe that
they deserve a homeland that your
argument is that
um that that all of israel is simply
occupied and all of
uh jews there are colonizers even though
they have a history going back to
at least a thousand bc and there's
something to be said about that
and it seems to me that you are peddling
functionally anti-semitism you don't
believe jews should be able to defend
themselves you don't believe jews should
be able to have their own homeland
and considering even recent history i
think that that says a lot about you
and we have at least four and probably
more like 10
democrats who essentially make that case
and
i don't know i mean i don't hear chuck
schumer or nancy pelosi or anyone
standing up to say this is wrong or
frankly most of the the media either and
i think that that is something that
should be paid attention to as well
why don't we hear that though i mean
given
modern history and and what happened
they they are welcome to talk to my
friends whose families were completely
wiped out during the holocaust
uh and you know one family member out of
dozens
managed to uh make it to the united
states but
the fact that this is what the
democratic party and let's rope
everybody in
that they're standing for this because
again silence is accepting the
unacceptable
what is where does that leave us well i
think
what there's little upside anymore for
them to say anything there's only
downside because the progressive wing is
growing the progressive wing is the
activist wing and they are
much more uh involved and louder and
more
aggressive so there's really no upside
because people
you know i think that israel has fallen
out of favor among many democrats
including frankly jewish american
democrats
so there's really no upside for them and
you have the republican party is
basically the only party that stands up
for israel these days
but i don't i based on the things that
have been said
recently and historically from some of
these uh left-wing democrats
this isn't just it doesn't sound like
it's just about israel
i mean i'll quote abigail schreier wrote
a
column for the wall street journal this
is a few years ago
and she said that ms omar's statements
require no sophisticated parsing nor a
deep understanding of historical
prejudice
real hatred rarely does
yeah i mean what what what she does and
what they do is blood libel they
they're they make it sound as if
israelis go around killing children
that they want to do it that the reason
they do it is you know to take more land
to steal more land they make it sound
aoc said this the other day that jews
are trying to attack
alaska mosque in jerusalem which was a
lie it was simply not true israel is
handed over
the um the administration of the mosque
to jordanian
you know muslim officials so they they
spread the rumors that hamas spreads
that hezbollah
spreads that the pa spreads and they
spread it here at home and i see it you
know on social media and obviously
that's not always the real world
but you see in increasing numbers you
know increasing numbers of people
um spread these rumors and talk about it
this way and they're leading that charge
and i think
you know if democrats don't speak up
it's going to be a cancer in their party
that takes over their party
as you as you wrote david and i'll
encourage people
to go and read read everything you write
but the recent piece
on the squad you said the fact is that
rashida talib wants what hamas wants an
arab state from the river to the sea
that's what she said she said that she
um
you know she had a map of israel in her
uh office and she put
palestine over it she says she calls it
the catastrophe as does hamas
when she talks about the catastrophe
she's not talking about occupied
territories from 1967
she's talking about 1948 in the creation
of the jewish state
so i mean i don't know how else how else
you can
translate what you say david great to
see you
david hersani thank you so much it was a
terrific review being on i hope you have
a great weekend
you too