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Netanyahu: ‘A Man’s Gotta Do,
What A Man’s Gotta Do’
What A Man’s Gotta Do’
Lead Story by Matthew Burke, Tea Party News Network (TPNN) —
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,” Netanyahu said to Williams who had asked him how he viewed the reports of increased causalities 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.
Netanyahu 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.
Netanyahu On Gaza
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WND —
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Alex Jones’ Infowars —
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Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show —
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CNS News —
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Truth Revolt —
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The Sydney Morning Herald —
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WDRB.com —
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Bloomberg —
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i24News —
Toronto, Caracas, Paris, London, Norway, Peru, Turkey. Processions and demonstrations against Israel and its operation in Gaza, of varying degrees of violence, are being held all over the world. Protesters call upon us to "end the siege", "end the horrors", "end the operation", "end the occupation."The protesters are a mixed bunch. Some are Arabs, some radical leftists. The Arabs’ interest is obvious: they want to destroy us because we are not Muslims. The current operation in Gaza, which will postpone the current attempt to destroy the Zionist entity, disrupts the master plan of a heretic-free zone. Any hit sustained by the terror organizations which are trying to murder us, kidnap us and frighten us is a setback to their dream. They know, as does any other Muslim on the face of the planet, that it is not about human rights; that this is only an excuse. The true goal is jihad, and any method on the way to that victory - military, political, democratic or terrorist - is legitimate [...]
Demonstrations around the world, if things were seen as they really are, would turn against Hamas, which is the real and absolute villain in this story...
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. ~ Psalm 83:1-5—Daily Cartoon—
Flights To Israel Canceled
» Cartoonist: Jimmy Margulies is an editorial cartoonist in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City. He is the past winner of both the National Headliner Award and The Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.
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