I'm John Vatch Service, CBS Island in the world with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCalsons,

CBS News, U.S. Army retired artillery men, Dickinson College, visiting professor, diamond

six leadership and strategy to Gaza.

Jeff, we talk.

We talk to people from the region.

We talk to people who visited the region, especially watching Israel media,

the television channels. I'm told as of 24 hours ago the

Israeli public is supportive of the pending offensive into Rafa of the finishing of the job at Con Yunus, and there's a surprise.

Something must be done about Hezbollah, a much larger military force.

Do you hear any echoes of this as well Jeff?

Absolutely John. I was just in Europe talked to a whole bunch of people who have close

contacts with various organizations in Israel.

And they say, we Americans at a distance

that they can misinterpret how the Israeli population

is reactive.

We see demonstrations that are either against Prime Minister Netanyahu is whole who is by the way very unpopular

though we see demonstrations about the hostages we see Benny Gons coming over here who's his opponent, independent, speaking

with the Vice President and going to London. And we interpret those as indications

that the Israeli people seek peace, may be interested in a two-state solution, have some concerns about the plight

or the Palestinians.

What I'm being told is that's not true.

The rage that was ignited in the needed aftermath of the horrific attack on the 7th of October,

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