WarSclerotic

July 22, 2014
By Matthew Burke

A Man’s Gotta Do, What a Man’s Gotta Do

Of course, Mr. Obama would never understand. – LS

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, was interviewed by NBC News’ Brian Williams, explaining that while he’s extremely saddened by reports of rising civilian casualties, he affirmed that Israel must defend itself from relentless bombs from Hamas terrorists.

Netanyahu explained to Williams that at some point, if it’s your country getting bombed, you’d say to your leader, “A man’s gotta do, what a man’s gotta do,” quoting the old American idiom.

“But, you know, at a certain point you say what choice have you got? What would you do?” Netanyahu asked Williams. “What would you do if American cities, where you’re sitting now, Brian, would be rocketed, would absorb hundreds of rockets?” he asked.

Hearing no answer from Williams, Netanyahu answered his own question, predicting what any citizen would tell their leader under similar circumstances.

“You know what you’d say? You’d say to your leader, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and a country’s gotta do what a country’s gotta do.”

Netanyahu reiterated that the country can’t sit idly by while getting pummeled by Hamas rockets, telling Williams, “We have to defend ourselves. We try to do it with the minimum amount of force, with targeting military targets the best as we can, but we’ll act to defend ourselves. No country can live like this.”

“It’s very saddening to see any of these civilian deaths. It’s terribly saddening,” Netahyahu said to Williams who had asked him how he viewed the reports of increased casualities from a father’s point of view. “We regret every one of them, and we don’t seek to have even one civilian death. We’re targeting Hamas terrorists,” Netanyahu answered.

Netayahu said that the Hamas terrorists have broken “every norm in the book,” and are purposely placing civilians in harm’s way, even refusing them from being treated at a hospital Israel opened in Gaza.

“I can tell you that we opened up a humanitarian field hospital on the edge of Gaza , and Hamas doesn’t let the people come there. They’re hiding rockets in hospitals. They’re hiding arms in hospitals. They’re shooting from hospitals. They just don’t care. They break every norm in the book, every rule in the book. I mean, committing triple war crimes–targeting civilians, hiding behind civilians, piling civilians in places where they’ll be placed in harm’s way.”

“I think to the extent there’s any blame, it should be laid squarely at Hamas’s door because these are not symmetrical conditions,” he continued.

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