American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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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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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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I’m not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we’ll stop it.
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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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Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.
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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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In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.
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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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I’m a proud member of the rabble.
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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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Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
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Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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The 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.
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If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
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I’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.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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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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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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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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What 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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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.
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I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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Populism is dangerous.
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The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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