Anthony Weiner: “You know, some of us have turned on the television in recent days and seen that there has been a change in tactics on…”

“You know, some of us have turned on the television in recent days and seen that there has been a change in tactics on the part of the Israelis. They are no longer going over with planes or sending rockets themselves to try to hit these targets. But they have actually gone in with troops and are going almost literally home by home trying to find the last of these rockets. Well, when people say the Israelis should use restraint, I ask you, how many militaries would do that, because that is the ultimate sign of restraint. They are sending in their troops to do as surgical a job as possible to try to exact from the population whatever rockets are still there. They are in people's basements, they are in the back of schools, they are in supermarkets, and Israel more so than I think any nation maybe in the history of the planet, has always essentially taken one, two, three, 10 body blows before they react. They do something that I don't think that anyone would expect the United States would do, and I don't think they do anything that any country has ever done. Every single time that they are attacked, they wait, they calibrate. They very often consult with the United States and they try to figure out how do we prevent this from escalating. Whenever there is an opportunity to negotiate, it is the Israelis that say yes.”