Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became combative on CNN Tuesday when host Dana Bash put him on the spot about the “suffering" in Gaza.
Towards the end of the nearly 30-minute interview, the CNN host admonished him by saying there were two sides in the conflict that have put Israel in the spotlight of becoming a pariah nation.
“Mr. Prime Minister, I think all things can be true, all things can be true,” she pointed out before noting, “But are you saying that Israel and you personally bear no responsibility?”
“Let's just talk about Gaza for one minute,” she proposed. “Currently, Hamas is continuing to refuse to disarm. The IDF is also carrying out nearly daily airstrikes in Gaza. You've taken over more territory there, and the Palestinian people are continuing to suffer; still displaced and dealing with intense heat, limited care, limited resources. Will you do more to help those suffering in Gaza? And will you concede that the images that people are seeing on their phones as part of social media is very much contributing to the, um, the turnaround and the diminishment of support of Israel and of you?”
“Yeah. Look, I think that what you're raising is how do you fight a war in the digital age when, uh, you know, when you have terrorists that embed themselves in civilian populations in schools and civilian neighborhoods and apartment blocks in mosques and so on, how do you fight them?” he shot back.
"They send rockets to indiscriminately kill our people, while they hide behind their own,“ he argued while talking over her. “They're targeting our civilians while hiding behind their own civilians. So what are you going to do? What do you think would happen if this happened to New York City from New Jersey? You think if they rocketed you with the, you know, with this firepower and murdered about 10,000 of your people, murdered, raped, maimed, disemboweled 10,000 Americans? What do you think the response of the United States to you about it? Would it be a lot stronger than ours?”
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