You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWhile Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines…
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To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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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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The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, “Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let ‘s just sit down and begin to talk peace.”
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I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
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The Palestinian society is split into two – those who are openly calling for Israel’s destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel’s destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that’s the Palestinian authority.
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I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.
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A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
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I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
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We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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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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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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