High gas prices could be a good thing for America.

That’s what one Middle East expert told me as he tried to explain that the high price of oil might force America to rethink its energy policy.

But is it possible to never pay for gas ever again?

Shai Agassi, ceo of Project Better Place, says, Yes.

He convinced the Israeli government that electric cars are the future. Israelis will get a significant tax break for buying electric. Renault-Nissan has agreed to build them. And the Israeli government has also approved building charging stations throughtout the country.

Agassi hopes that the U.S will follow.

harm el-Sheikh, Egypt— I was only two questions into the interview when an Egyptian cabinet minister, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, jumped out of his chair to stop our conversation.

Gamal looked at the minister and indicated he was determined to continue. His 26- year-old wife Khadiga walked closer to our interview with great interest.

I continued with my question…

“Rockets are still being smuggled into Gaza from Egypt. Why is that continuing?”

“I know this problem,” Mubarak told me. “It is a challenge. Some members of (U.S.) Congress have been raising this, and I met with a Congressional delegation. I said, nobody should think for a second that Egypt is turning a blind eye on the smuggling. The Israelis have to deal on their side too. No border, even the US-Mexican border is totally sealed. We’re doing our all and I have to assume the Israelis are doing their all too.”

If you don’t know Gamal Mubarak, chances are good in the coming years you’ll hear more from the 45-year-old Egyptian politician. Many Egyptians and Middle East analysts believe when his 80- year-old father is no longer president he’ll likely take over. When I asked him about inheriting power from his father he said,

“That’s just speculation.”

One senior western diplomat, who recently met with Gamal at the World Economic Forum in Sharm el- Sheikh, Egypt, told Fox News he’s impressed with him and how involved he is within the international political arena.

The diplomat said, “There’s no doubt Gamal represents a new generation of rising young leaders in the Middle East.”

But that hasn’t stopped the criticism directed at him and his father. Egyptian rights activists argue that a dynastic succession is undemocractic…and exactly the opposite of President George W. Bush’s vision for the Middle East.

My questions were tough. I wasn’t sure how he’d react. I wondered if former President Jimmy Carter would walk out of the interview.

He didn’t.

He answered every question and never seemed ruffled, even when I asked him if he’d be willing to meet with Al Qaeda.

The answer was an emphatic, “No.”

Everyone has an opinion regarding whether the former president should have met with Hamas leaders in Egypt and Syria. The U.S. and Israel didn’t want him to do it.

But in an interview with FOX News the former president said he was going to listen to the other side. He said he didn’t want authority or a mediating role. Secretary Rice said meeting with Hamas confuses the U.S. message that they wont deal with them.

On the other side….some Israelis were offended that senior Israeli leaders did not meet with the former president. It’s hard to deny President Carter’s influence in the Middle East. Twenty-nine years ago he negotiated Israel’s first peace with neighboring state Egypt. It’s a peace that has lasted decades later.

President Carter is the only remaining leader from the Israel-Egypt peace accords. Some how he managed to get Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to draft a peace accord in 1979. But critics say he was too optimistic and perhaps even unrealistic to expect a breakthrough with Hamas.

Carter also spoke to us about the campaign trail.

Last week as he left the American Colony hotel, I asked him if he supports Barak Obama. At that point a secret service agent gently picked me up around the waist and deposited me two steps over. He did it all without being untoward. Clearly I was too close to the former president.

This time when I asked the question secret service didn’t intervene,

“Everyone of my children, every one of my grandchildren, all of their spouses, the people of my hometown, and the people of my home state of Georgia, have all expressed their strong preference for Obama. I will wait and decide later when to announce my decision.”

With only my basic Arabic, I could tell we had a problem.

The Palestinian militant was telling my producer he didn’t think it was appropriate that he be filmed walking with me. He said religious men can’t be seen in the streets walking with women.

In the end, he accepted to walk but avoided looking at me.

(I didn’t take it personally.)

The militant, Abu Abeer, is a spokesman for Popular Resistance in Gaza. He told us he’s responsible for firing rockets from Gaza into Israel. When I asked him why he does it, he says the “Zionist occupation” has to end.

Popular Resistance was created at the beginning of the second Intifada (Palestinian Uprising) in September 2000 with former members of other Palestinian militant groups.

Fatah, the Palestinian group loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, claims Hamas uses this group for their dirty work. Fatah blames Popular Resistance for killing the cousin of the late Palestinian President Yasir Arafat. They’re also responsible for firing rockets. But when Hamas gives them the orders to stop … they listen.

The group says their political agenda is “to liberate Palestine from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan River.” Meaning, they believe, Israel has no right to exist and and the land belongs to the Palestinians only.

Popular Resistance doesn’t have the same discipline as Hamas. But they were one of three groups that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in June 2006. Hamas says Shalit is in their control and alive.

Abu Abeer is just one Rocketman in Gaza … but he’s nothing like the Rocketman Elton John sings about.

(captions from left - right)

1. Militants from “Popular Resistance” launch rockets from Gaza to Israel.
2. Rockets prepared for launching by militants from “Popular Resistance” in Gaza.
3. Reena Ninan in Gaza in front of the aftermath from an Israeli airstrike.

TOP PHOTO: Abu Abeer, Spokesman for militant group “Popular Resistance” in Gaza interviewed by Fox’s Reena Ninan.

Read my blog from Friday for more on the story!

We headed to Jerusalem’s Old City for what’s supposed to be the most somber day in the Christian calendar, where thousands of Christians from around the world are retracing Jesus’ footsteps. They walk what’s known as the Via Dolorosa ( the Way of Sorrow) which is the path Jesus walked carrying the cross on the way to being crucified. We spoke to a family from New Mexico who said they can’t even explain how incredible it is to be here for Easter weekend.

Some Christians fast on Good Friday. But we were so hungry after spending all morning in the heat. Cameraman Dudi suggested we head to “Ikermawi” for hummus.

If we wrote a travel guide for Jerusalem … Ikermawi would be listed under “Best Place for Hummus.” It’s right outside Damascus Gate in the Old City.

The owner, Muhammed, took over the store from his father years ago. A pint of hummus costs a little more than $3 (13 shakels). He says it’s the most expensive hummus in Jerusalem. But I say it’s worth it.

He brings me a small dish of hummus topped with chickpeas, foul (like refried beans), olive oil, lemon juice, parsley.

Muhammed says if you buy a pint, it’s only good for 24 hrs. Apparently the combination of lemon juice, parsley, and fresh garlic only keeps for one day.

His restaurant is the size of a walk-in closet. There are only 3 tables outside. Muhammed says you can see the world from the front of his store.

There are tourists, locals, police, he even says sometimes drug dealers do exchanges nearby … all of this taking place outside the historic Old City walls.