Michael Oren: “If the United States gets behind this effort to stop both of these extremisms together with Israel, there are tremendous…”

I would like to see more aid personally, and I'm sure that this -- what has occurred, this tragedy will probably strengthen the president's hand and trying to persuade Israeli leaders to go against public opinion.

Nobody wants to harm civilians. It's just like we care deeply about the terrible agony that the parents and families of these hostages are going through.

Now it’s the first time that I’ve seen in history when we have the opportunity to make the strategy the strategy. It’s not a tactic.

What they're really saying is, either he should step down or he should say 'I will accept responsibility' which is code in Israel for, after this, I will step down.