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Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
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Country Purpose States
90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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Block Cluster Country Percent
Populism is dangerous.
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Country Dangerous Populism
Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy.
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Country Defend Fighting Together Weapon
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
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Jewish Life Simple States
I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There’s a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel’s law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.
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Commitment Country Law
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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Chance Military Threat
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
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Independent Order People
The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football
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Country Football Political
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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Battle War Weapon Winning
I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.
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Country Strong Support Thinking
I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
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Country Moving Thinking
The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
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Border Real Reason
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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Acquisition Imagine Nuclear Weapon
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
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Country Place Thank You
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.
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Abandon Democracy Destroy Enemy Ideas

Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

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