Anthony Weiner: “One of the things, Congresswoman Berkley, that people have said is, well, maybe if Israel takes a deep breath and they…”

“One of the things, Congresswoman Berkley, that people have said is, well, maybe if Israel takes a deep breath and they pull back and maybe stop the assault against these terrorists, maybe that would be the correct approach. Well, you know that from June until I guess it was the 19th of December, the Israelis did just that. They observed essentially a cease-fire with Hamas. And what happened? Well, they noticed something unusual. They knew that weapons like this, Qassams and Katyusha rockets, which have a range of about 12 to 13 to 15 miles, during the course of that cease-fire, Hamas was getting a new type of weapon. They were getting it from Iran, the Grad missile, which is more like 20 miles. Now, it's a little hard for us to get into context here in a tiny country the size of Israel. You're talking about your enemy having a reach of about a quarter to about a third of your whole country, maybe even more than that. And it's worth noting that you concluded on an appropriate point to talk about what is it that we can do to truly be helpful to the Palestinians here? No one, I think, can reasonably argue that Gaza's being under control of Hamas has been a good thing for the Palestinians.”