Netanyahu: ‘We don’t obliterate them’

Netanyahu says that Israel doesn’t ‘obliterate’ Palestinian civilians and has no battle with anyone other than Hamas, but that the brutality results from Hamas’ tendency to place rocket launchers near civilian targets – a tactic which he says is intentional.

People would say in the United States, as they’re telling me, obliterate the people.  We don’t obliterate them.  We don’t want to – we don’t have any battle with the Palestinians in Gaza.

He adds that having the right to self-defense also means being able to use it:

I appreciate the support we have received from President Obama and many world leaders for Israel’s right to self-defense. But others are saying, yes, you have the right of self-defense, as long as you don’t exercise it.  What can a country do?  What would you do?  What would the people of the United States do if – if your cities were rocketed now, 2,000 rockets falling in American cities?