We're going to take a deeper look now at the policy and political divides over the Israel-Hamas war.

On that and more, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Kapart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post.

Good to see both as always.

So the Biden administration continues to push for a humanitarian pause in Gaza, but Israel has said that they will not stop.

It strikes on Hamas.

Jonathan, what's your assessment of the Biden administration calling for this pause

to allow aid in and hostages out and

Netanyahu's response.

Well, one, and it's the right thing for the president to do.

I mean, he's been clear from the very beginning that the United States stands squarely behind Israel, that Israel has a right to defend itself, and especially after such an horrific attack as was committed by Hamas.

But at the same time, the president also has sent the message

said privately and publicly to the Israeli government.

But remember, you are a democratic nation and therefore you must abide by the rules of war

over the past has been two weeks now or three weeks over the last three weeks the humanitarian portion of that of that

conversation has gotten louder as we have seen the death toll in Gaza

rise.

There was a story last week about how the administration privately was urging the

Prime Minister to be more surgical.

Don't do the ground invasion. And as we've seen today, the Prime Minister Netanyahu

is saying no to your, no to the ceasefire. And I'm not sure what more the President and the United States can do to impress upon the Israeli

Prime Minister that the road they're going down is not sustainable.

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