Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWhat were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
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Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They’re branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head.
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If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They’re trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it.
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If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
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I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’
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We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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So 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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