During an interview aired on Thursday's broadcast of CNN International's "Amanpour," U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel acknowledged that Israel's military has "done other things that have been, in the sense of the safety and sanctity of human life, conducted things that other countries, ourselves included, have not done when it comes to urban warfare." But "I grew up in a period of time where the IDF was respected, not only for their capabilities, but for the ethics in which they conducted. That hasn't been at all the case here," and Israel is "more isolated because of the length of this war and the conduct of it."