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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIsrael 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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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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The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel’s side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.
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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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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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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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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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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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I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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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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Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.
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If terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.
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If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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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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