Netanyahu compares Israel to UK in WWII

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond of another instance where a country is “rocketed with these projectiles of death” and that is Britain in World War II.

It’s “more difficult for us to fight this criminality because as I’ve told you the terrorists are firing rockets from mosques and schools and hospitals.”

The prime minister decries the use of human shields as “extraordinarily cynical” and “grotesque.”

He says the UN Human Rights Council decision to condemn Israel and launch a war crimes probe is a “travesty of justice,” and says it won’t stop the country from doing what’s necessary “to protect our people” against rocket attacks and the “vast network” of terror tunnels.

Netanyahu thanks Britain for its support — and British Airways for continuing to fly to Tel Aviv — and says its “moral focus and moral clarity will be needed in the days ahead.”