Prime Minister Netanyahu claims: “We didn’t want this war.” Ofer Cassif, an Israeli Jewish Knesset member with the Hadash-Ta’al coalition, charged that with the Netanyahu government: “Israel wanted this violence.”

Daniel Levy, president of the U.S. Middle East Project and former Israeli negotiator and adviser to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, said on Al Jazeera English: “One trembles at what is happening in Gaza. …. This is precisely what got us here. … History didn’t begin three days ago. … Who are these 2.2 million inhabitants of Gaza? Why are 70 percent of them refugees?” [See Al Jazeera livestreams in Arabic and English.]