Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday compared his controversial choice to militarily target Hamas leadership in Qatar to the United States’s decision to wage war on the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks.

“What did America do in the wake of Sept. 11?” Netanyahu asked in a video posted to social media on Wednesday. “It promised to hunt down the terrorists who committed this heinous crime, wherever they may be. And it also passed a resolution in the Security Council of the U.N., two weeks later, that said that governments cannot give harbor to terrorists.”