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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUYou 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.
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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI’m not consumed with political machinations.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI’m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that – in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That’s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn’t trying to suppress a vote.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI 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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIsrael has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUDonald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There’s no question about that.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe 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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThey deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI don’t know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUTo defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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