The love of Zion didn't drive any single government in this region to make any kind of treaty or agreement with Israel.

It was about strategy. It was about Israeli power. It was about Israeli stability.

That has to be restored. That has to be seen to be restored and that's not something we can achieve in Gaza.

Gaza is a very high cost and low reward arena. In other words, the cost of civilians, the cost to Israel's image, the cost,

you know, in many, many ways potentially to Israeli soldiers' lives will be high. We have to go after Hamas and so we will, but that will be high and the

reward in terms of our deterrence is not that much even if we succeed spectacularly.

And so no, this is a larger, longer kind of war that Israel has now decided to join in a whole different way.

We're not where we were two weeks ago. It's Sunday October 29th at 10 PM here in New York City. It's 4 a.m. on Monday, October 30th in Israel.

From Cornell University here in New York to Russia there are anti-Semitic

mobs raging with images that are an echo of Crystal Knacht.

This week will be 85 years since Crystal Knocked,

the night of Crystal or Broken Glass,

which was the night one week in November, it was actually November 9th to 10th, 1938, when members of the

Nazi Party and other collaborators led a destructive campaign of violence against Jewish

people and their communities. You can look up more

on what happened in Crystal Nach. Many Jews were killed, tens of thousands were taken away

to concentration camps and tortured.

There's a lot of history to read about Crystal Nacht.

And it is a topic we'll be returning to tomorrow with Yossi Klein-Halevi

and the comparisons to events we are seeing all over the west these days from college

campuses to major cities. I also want to spend a moment talking about a different

subject which is international aid to Gaza. This has been in the news quite a bit in recent days and I was reading this one article from the Associated Press, which I want to quote from here.

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