west bank closer to lebanon is the space we re talking about right now. we look at netanyahu specifically. having put together a coalition government, why might this make sense for him as the leader right now in israel? well, what he s trying to do is he s received a lot of pressure from the israeli civilians. the violence has gone up in israel as a result of the cross border so to speak attacks from hamas and the palestinians. and the israeli populous, they re tired of the violence. so they have called on netanyahu to do something about this and as a result, this operation has occurred here and we ll see what the results will be here. of course, proportionalty needs to be the thing that occurs
weapons. what do you do then about the speech itself, congressman? are you going to go? do you want your democratic colleagues to go? i m going to go. let s be honest about this. the u.s./israel relationship always enjoyed broad bipartisan support. that s still the case. the majority of democrats and republicans are going to attend the speech to hear what the prime minister has to say. and the fact is prime minister is a close ally. whether or not this has any impact on elections in israel. we would all be wise to recognize israeli populous is very sophisticated and they ll make their own decisions about that. about whether it s wise for him to be here giving the speech or not. from my perspective, i m going to go and listen to what he has to say and we ll put all of that into the broader context of the iran negotiations and ensure that we re taking all of the necessary steps to prevent the world s leading state sponsor of terror from acquiring the
spying on us. this is a very big deal, your meeting yesterday. i want to ask you about israel and how sustainable israel s policy, they say it s self-defense. john kerry today in beijing supported their right to self-defense. but they are firing rockets into gaza. and as i was saying to israel s ambassador, a key ally of the united states yesterday, it is asymmetric. they have iron domes. they are going into shelters. it s a terrible strain on the israeli populous. but the people in gaza are getting hit because hamas is reportedly hiding weapons manufacture in civilian dense civilian areas. and they are taking terrible casualties. well, look. the loss of civilian lives on either side is a horrible reality. but by the same token, andrea, if hundreds of missiles were being fired by a neighboring part of the world, into the