The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUSo I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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I don’t want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven’t retracted my position; I haven’t changed it.
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.
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The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’
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I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington.
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Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.
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